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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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Anger as Elite:Dangerous Drops Offline Singleplayer
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(Score: 2) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday November 19 2014, @08:25AM
Frontier never originally promised an offline single-player,
Then someone was impersonating the game's creator on Reddit:
http://www.geek.com/games/elite-dangerous-drops-offline-mode-angry-backers-demand-refunds-1609609/ [geek.com] (see image 2/3rds down).
(Score: 1) by boristhespider on Wednesday November 19 2014, @07:23PM
You may have missed the word "originally". They *did* promise it in a revision to the original Kickstarter, and maintained that promise afterwards, which is why I'm saying that the question of whether they've acted ethically or not is a different one -- all I was meaning is that it's not really a bait-and-switch.