It was no different with the additions and changes made this past year, which fall under Elite’s Beyond season of content (the last part of the update, Chapter Four, came out on December 11). “The players are in there and seeing - they take what we give them and create these incredible little gameplay loops and lore and role-play that we then have to look at and make sure we don’t cause too much disruption when we want to add something like exploration in.”

It’s this massive simulated galaxy of its own creation,” said Woods. While appeasing a diverse community like that can be tricky, Frontier has always taken a holistic approach to its expansions, making sure that specific improvements to a certain class or play style can benefit other areas of the game, too. But anything seems possible when you have a playground filled with 400-billion-star systems.

In the beginning of the game, players have the freedom to define their role: They can be a space pirate who preys on unsuspecting ships, a miner who makes money by stripping minerals from an asteroid belt, a peaceful explorer who just wants to map the galaxy, and much more - some of which the developers could never have predicted.

Updating Elite: Dangerous, which prioritizes player choice above all else, is a monumental task. MetaBeat will bring together thought leaders to give guidance on how metaverse technology will transform the way all industries communicate and do business on October 4 in San Francisco, CA.

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