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posted by n1 on Tuesday November 18 2014, @06:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the danger-of-broken-promises dept.

The developers behind the sequel to legendary videogame Elite have, to the anger and dismay of fans, announced they've dropped the promised offline singleplayer mode. The game is due to be released in under a month. With the title having raised about $1.5 million from Kickstarter, and millions more in subsequent campaigns that advertised the feature, many of those following the project are livid. A complaints thread on the official Elite forums has swelled to over 450 pages in merely three days, with backers demanding refunds. It is down to the discretion of Frontier, the game's developer, whether to process refund requests of original backers.

 
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by PizzaRollPlinkett on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:40PM

    by PizzaRollPlinkett (4512) on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:40PM (#117387)

    Isn't "the anger and dismay of fans" a good way to get headlines for a game no one has ever heard of?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @08:44PM (#117389)

    "no one has ever heard of"

    Hi, welcome to the internet! You should probably stay off of message boards until you are over the age of 14.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:32PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 18 2014, @11:32PM (#117443)

      It works both ways. Some of us were on these fancy computers and computer networks doing all sorts of cool shit to have noticed some home pc game when it came out. You might want to refrain from comments until you are over the age of 45.