I’d happily pay for continued VR Development.

FatzDomingo

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I’ve progressed from an elderly i5 Processor and Oculus Rift - man was it fun flying in my own little Universe, Frontier you had me hooked, to a £4K AMD 5950X and a 3090 Card for my Vive Headset.

Now I missed out on lifetime upgrade deal, being in hospital for an extended time kind of takes one out of the loop, but never mind that.

Since Frontier are in the business to make money maybe they need incentive to really develop VR, so I’m going to take the heretical view, in order to save the game I love am I prepared to pay for my hobby?
Yes! Of course I am. If Frontier moved to a Game as a Service Model I’d still play and pay. I already do so with ESO and my XBox Ultimate Subscriptions. Another £10 per month wouldn’t kill me and it would mean my “Elite Dangerous” doesn’t get mothballed.

My enjoyment for the time I’ve got left, I’m an old sod on the wrong side of Pension Age, is worth that to me.
The ONLY question is…..is it worth that to the rest of you?

This would be a New Deal, sign on, save the game, get VR because it’s financially viable for FD to do so.

No brainier for me.
 

willisit

willisit
I have mixed feelings here; I'm certainly on board with better VR (or at the very least, a basic legs implementation) but I think most would agree that FDev need to fix the base game before they deserve any more money at this point. There are so many basic things that no longer work - especially in VR - like the SRV having a shadow, that I'm not sure I'd be able to articulate how a live service subscription would pay out without some hard and fast deliveries that we couldn't hope to hold them to.

I'll continue to support the game via whatever means makes sense, but looking at games like NMS, or the somewhat opposite SC, show that a small team can make wonders happen, and a game with now over $500million in investment can't even get to a solid Beta... well, we've had a good 8 years with Elite, so I'd want a whole new game at this point if we're changing how we're paying for it (see: Cities Skylines 2).
 

VR andysonofbob

VR andysonofbob
I don't have a powerful enough PC for EDO the way it runs at the moment.

It would be a waste of money for me - unless performance was brought in line. Something that looks like EDO should not perform significantly worse than a heavily modded Skyrim VR IMO.
 

nigeljk

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The game was developed off the back of Crowd funding, why not do that again?
Nit picking over what I'd describe as 'non-gameplay' e.g. shadows for SRV, is what is driving the dev effort ATM. The game play is what sold the game originally, with wireframes, and is still the thing that keeps people playing. EDO added nothing for me (yet) as it's not gameplay I enjoy.
 

Ettanin

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Monthly subscriptions tentatively under the following conditions:
  • TURN servers for everyone who is behind CGNAT or doesn't have proper port forwards. Not just for wings and multicrew. Make instancing great for everyone.
    • Dedicated servers would be even better but I doubt it would happen.
  • GREATLY improved performance. No one should need a 3080, 3090 or better to play the game properly.
  • Bugfixes in a timely manner. Remove or at least greatly reduce the popularity contest.
  • Fix the terrain, both from orbit AND on the ground. No more terrain mesh stamping. No Man's Sky et al. got it working, so you can, too.
  • Listen to criticism and the community.
  • Rebalance all career branches and activities so they are all equally viable.
  • Absolutely reduced grind. 250-500 hours for BiS is fine, 5k+ hours is not. Remove artificial barriers and walls. Especially so if stuff obsoletes way too fast.
  • Remove FOMO. Release ALL CG rewards 2 weeks after they were granted initially. It may involve grind, but not excessively so.
  • NO pay to win, NOT EVEN pay for convenience (which would be pay to win here because this game is more of a simulation than an arcade type of game). Pay to skin in the form of season passes f.ex. is fine.
 
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Northpin

Northpin
FatzDomingo said:
I’ve progressed from an elderly i5 Processor and Oculus Rift - man was it fun flying in my own little Universe, Frontier you had me hooked, to a £4K AMD 5950X and a 3090 Card for my Vive Headset.

Now I missed out on lifetime upgrade deal, being in hospital for an extended time kind of takes one out of the loop, but never mind that.

Since Frontier are in the business to make money maybe they need incentive to really develop VR, so I’m going to take the heretical view, in order to save the game I love am I prepared to pay for my hobby?
Yes! Of course I am. If Frontier moved to a Game as a Service Model I’d still play and pay. I already do so with ESO and my XBox Ultimate Subscriptions. Another £10 per month wouldn’t kill me and it would mean my “Elite Dangerous” doesn’t get mothballed.

My enjoyment for the time I’ve got left, I’m an old sod on the wrong side of Pension Age, is worth that to me.
The ONLY question is…..is it worth that to the rest of you?

This would be a New Deal, sign on, save the game, get VR because it’s financially viable for FD to do so.

No brainier for me.
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You and what army?

I mean, £10 per month form you woudnt help much, unless there are 50000 more like you.
And there aren't

Apparently during the kickstarter phase the idea of a monthly subscription was shut down quite fast
 

VR Dextrovix

VR Dextrovix
The topic of better VR has been thoroughly debated on here, and FD are simply not interested, sadly. Even if it were paid for. They can't render any new content added since Horizons in stereoscopic with their bolted-on additions, and certainly not at the framerates needed for VR with the poor optimisation Oddity still has. Dead game, at least on VR.
 

FatzDomingo

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Northpin said:
You and what army?

I mean, £10 per month form you woudnt help much, unless there are 50000 more like you.
And there aren't

Apparently during the kickstarter phase the idea of a monthly subscription was shut down quite fast
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That’s the point…and the question.
How many would be prepared to fork out?
 

Tetra Trash

Tetra Trash
In general I would, but after Odyssey, I wouldn't pay in advance. I'd pay monthly if either there was a central server that significantly improved instancing, or they made significant improvements in the VR experience. I'd need to see them and that they work before I'd buy in. In my mind this isn't happening no matter what but I'd be thrilled if it did!
 

jojon

J
I would definitely fork out ('may have made a few intimations in that direction a of few previous occasions), but didn't respond to this thread before, because I seem to recall the forum rules has it in for anything that gives off the slightest hint of a whiff of polls or petitions.
 

Schmack

Schmack
Happily paying for VR development is really happily paying a small user fee. If you want to pay Frontier's entire bill for VR development I'm sure they'd take you up on it.
 
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