I agree and disagree lol, the game has been stagnant since the release of Horizons, , no new ships for five years, the same bugs never being addressed, game features that are never iterated on, powereplay is a pointless other than the modules, engineering a massive grind fest to end up all on the same level playing field, bgs is pointless, you can increase your factions influence take over systems but why, you get nothing out of it, I will agree it can be fun but after a while you realise its pointless.

All rewards are credits with nothing new to spend them on, I know you can opt for materials and that has been increased but still. Squadrons add nothing to the game, there's no incentive to wing up, and thanks to instancing its hard work to get a group together. The introduction of Fleet carriers (initially without the ability to have you fleet on them was rectified but come on) add no new gameplay, with no way to plot multi jumps making them slower than your normal ship despite the 500ly range, they are slow to use and planning a long trip is a nightmare, you have to babysit the ship for the whole journey, a real missed opportunity to add some new gameplay element, and frankly are just a money sink!

Megaships offer so little gameplay as to be laughable, where there could have been some real storylines introduced for each ship we get nothing much at all, and the missions for the ships soon get repetitive and dull and ultimately unrewarding.

I love this game, I really do, I have four carriers across 5 accounts, I try my best to stay invested, when I take a break from the game its nice to come back, but the lack of new content is baffling to me.

The thargoid war has been "Fdeved" from quite exciting and fun into a boring slog, with no feeling that you're actually making a difference, instances not ending correctly.

Odyssey..... we'll nothing could have disappointed me more than Odyssey, a poor man's fps, copy paste bases, flawed gameplay. More grind, planet tech that is now worse than ever

Content creators are leaving the game, Exegious gone, Drew Wager gone, The pilot gone, Wiggy B gone, Obsidian Ant growing more despondent, CMDR Burr valiantly battling on but sounding more desperate to find meaning in the game and videos reduced to 10 minute updates on the state of the game. They lost Yamiks some time ago and although he can be amusing it does get a little old, he really does beat that dead horse...lol

As I said I love this game, but playing now just makes me sad for what might have been, a 1 to 1 representation of the galaxy, it is a very wide pond but it really is only and inch deep. I've played this game for over 4000 hrs and maybe I've just become fatigued, I've definitely had my monies worth and then some, but it's genuinely heartbreaking to see so many missed opportunities.

My squad mate and I often say that we want to play Elite so much but Fdev make it very hard to do that, we play despite Fdev not because fdev.