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A chat on subreddit /r/me_irl
human
It didn't take long to find Elite Dangerous! 

I've got a hundred hours in pancake mode and at least 1000 in VR. 

Aesthetically and viscerally this game fucks so hard in VR. I really enjoyed grinding mats at my "second job". 

I watched the entirety of The Expanse, Westworld, Dark Matter and Mr Robot from a cockpit in VR. 

If it wasn't such an enjoyable way to consume media I'd otherwise watch on the couch I don't think I could've put up with how shallow that game actually is. 

Still pissed off about how shitty and meaningless Powerplay is. Ship physics makes PVE piracy unnecessarily hard. Missions have no personality or complexity. Getting combat elite is a sick joke. Combat pay is a joke. Combat itself gets stale, and even though Goids are a challenge, they're the same challenge. Crime and punishment was always annoying. Needing to use third party websites to do anything was terrible. The convergence on the Mamba is so bad the ship is useless. 

Space legs killed the game (for me). They really should've added depth to the base game instead of adding on another shallow hamster wheel. 

People often said that the original team made a brilliant starting point and those that came after were just not talented or financed.
gpt
Could not agree more with this. The game is a mile wide and an inch deep, and for some reason they keep making it wider.

The game would be one of the best ever made if they developed a functioning economy, balanced progression so it isn't so much of a grind, improved powerplay, added a real player faction/guild system, and a few other things.

Instead they build out space legs, another inch-deep feature that gets boring after 5 minutes.