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Personally having put in several hundred hours with Elite Dangerous (pre-landings, even), I'm glad to read this comment of yours. I don't disagree about the game loop comparison, and yet I was hoping that Starfield would succeed where ED stayed limp all these years: quadrant-spanning politics, faction progress, living economies and similar. Hell, after knocking out my Merchant elite rank, I just focused on baggin' griefers until Combat ranked up as well, but... menu scrolling for hours to tick that last box? I just couldn't find the time. Especially when planets had no atmosphere, outposts were a joke, and even artifact sites were a half-baked afterthought by an obviously overdrawn team. ๐ ๐ฅน๐คท๐ผโโ๏ธ
Just... Dammit. Why.