What moved us to add an AR door finder on the HUD? Isn't finding a door for the first time on unfamiliar ships part of the exploration of the game?
TL;DRThe AR door finder is aimed at new players, who can find ship doors confusing, and veterans can turn it off; the speakers see making the game more accessible as a long-term benefit.
It could be viewed that way. But really, this was for the new players. Obviously, the veterans can turn it off. But for people that aren't super hardcore, obviously with cars, you're kind of trained, hey, this is where a door is at, and this is where the handle is. And for the most part, they're always in the same spots on cars, versus on our ships, they're in all different unique locations.
If I suffered having to find the Cutlass door latch, everybody should have to suffer to find the Cutlass door latch, Todd.
And a lot of people do. And just even Aaron or Brian playing the game for the first time, trying to get into a Carrack, I think they wasted 30 minutes trying to get into a Carrack. So this is our way of allowing new players that are not maybe as hardcore as our current fans to be able to access the game as well.
And to be honest, it's something that we really should be pushing for and celebrating, because if you look at space games in general across the games industry, the learning curve to get into those games is steep. I remember when I started EVE a long time ago, somebody sent me a 180-page Word document, trying to figure out how to just get into this. It's just the starter guide. And it feels like a full-time job. But the more people that we can bring into the Star Citizen community and have a better experience, for example the Free Fly events, when people come in and they're able to have more accessible gameplay experiences, that will only benefit the whole community, because if there's more people there, if there's more noobs in the sky, there's more people to shoot, right? So it's only a long-term benefit from an accessibility point of view.