Why Elite Dangerous offline mode was fired into the Sun
The news is that the planned offline single-player mode for Elite: Dangerous has been stabilized, leading to a typical mix of platform aggression, demands, and simple requests for clarification. To clarify things, David Braben went into more detail on what he described as a difficult decision in an interview with Eurogamer but acknowledged that things could have been handled better. "During Kickstarter, our vision of creating an unprecedented new sequel to Elite in the online world was clear which we believe we will be delivering soon," Braben explained. "At the time we were confident that we could also offer a good best joystick for single-player experience and that was based solely on the offline-acceptable experience. As it evolved it became clear that this deadline did not exist." Some thought that killing offline single-player mode would also mean the complete end of story mode, but that is not the case, it will always be online. "Any offline experience w