Kahani said:
If I wanted multiplayer Elite, I'd start playing Eve again. That would be the Eve in which being instantly killed and becoming a target for all other players in the game isn't enough to stop everyone from randomly killing each other just for the hell of it. That said, if there really are 300 billion systems, maybe it won't be too hard to just pretend it's a single player game anyway.
The other big concern is just how incredibly bad its history has been. It's actually worse than Duke Nukem Forever's development. It's been in development for at least 14 years now, it's been an MMO or not, it's been dropped and picked back up again repeatedly, it's been based on technology from another game (The Outsider) that is also vapourware, and particularly importantly was also a David Braben project. Then suddenly Star Citizen does well at raising funds and up pops Elite 4 once again. So we have a developer who has repeatedly failed to actually deliver games, and who has been sued in the past for exactly that, advertising exactly the same vapourware he's been promising for well over a decade. It's possible there will be a good game at the end of all this, but it would be incredibly... optimistic to actually pay anything before you've seen the final product.
It's be suggested by the developer that the plan is that extremely anti social players will be placed in their own group and will only ever be able to play with players in the game group. That way they will just grief each other to death
There is a different between griefing and pirating though, you can play a pirate as a legit role.
Alternatively there are multiple options on how to play the game, every one is catered for -
Single player offline, singe player online (play this if you want single player unless you've no connection), Multiplayer against everyone, multiplayer in private groups, multiplayer with filters on certain types of play style and for the sadists a seperate Iron man universe where death is death.
You'll find me in the multiplayer all group with the manly men
Playing the Beta right now so hard to say it's vapourware.
Cracking game, don't be a hipster hater, there's a reason this is an Escapist's best of E3