Any date on when thr Mandalay goes on sale for in game credits?

[GroG79]

I have another reason..

I already own the ship, My Alt however wants to fly it too but it got no arx. There is a expedition up coming that my Alt want to join. So I would like to know if the ship will be available for this up-coming expedition. Perhaps my Alt needs to take one of its current ships.

 

[thistle]

I really like the consumer pushback on the self checkouts in my area. The other day at my local grocery store all of the open tills had lineups and the entire self checkout area was completely free and completely empty.

Probably everyone assuming they were broken.

Self checkouts are great.

 

[metatheurgist]

I think if supermarkets want me to work for them they should take the pro-rata cost of my rate off the final bill though. I'm constantly amazed by the ways companies find to profit off us and convince us it's our benefit.

 

[Rat Catcher]

Isn't queuing a British national sport? I wouldn't be surprised if you folks had a national cup for this as well.

Nah, most of us are as impatient as everyone else in the world nowadays. (apart from Buddhist Monks, of course)

 

[aRJay]

Nah, most of us are as impatient as everyone else in the world nowadays. (apart from Buddhist Monks, of course)

Yeah nobody is as impatient as those monks.

 

[CMDR Jayce MacLeod]

My only reason why I am asking for the Mandalay credit sale date is because I have already purchased the early access Mandalay for ARX on my main account and want to buy one the "normal" way with my new, alternate account.

So, it's been about 3 months since the early access launch of the Mandalay, any updates on a purchase for credits?

 

[Bigmaec]

My only reason why I am asking for the Mandalay credit sale date is because I have already purchased the early access Mandalay for ARX on my main account and want to buy one the "normal" way with my new, alternate account.

So, it's been about 3 months since the early access launch of the Mandalay, any updates on a purchase for credits?

From a marketing point-of-view it would be unwise to give an update on the ingame credit arrival, because from that point on sales will become significantly less to nil.


Having said that... @FD, when will we get the Mandy? I want to buy one with ingame credits

 

[Elpapo]

Since mandy was relased in 31th of october, it means there is like... 3 days left for that "3-month" early ARX thing.
Other "new" ships so far had not any delays in thier "debut" for in-game credits, so why there would be any diffrent this time?

Since its not BGS, its rather doubtfull that it requires "Thursday" ticks or anything like that, to be added, so in very next friday since time of this post, the Mandy should be in-game for credits, as since its already in-game, it does not require any updates either.

I did indeed skiped buying this one for ARX, same as with C5... as I am in opinion that 3 months of early access aint worth it for price (to be paying more than once for such), and only early access I did was for P2, due of my "profession" in-game.. and that should be enough from Myself, for any extra "support" for Frontier, that I already did in last 10 years.

 

[Montague]

Indirectly, the mid-year investor presentation - if you compare the main ED revenue line in the graph on page 5 with the PDLC (ARX purchase+Odyssey) graph on page 13, you can see that the big spikes in PDLC income for the Mandalay and Type-8 releases basically don't touch the slope of the main revenue line at all, which means that even the bigger boost in November/December can't be causing most of the actual uptick in the main line either.
(Also, if the numbers on the graph on page 13 were impressive in an absolute sense, they might have put a scale on the Y-axis)

It's not nothing, but comparing the two graphs it's very unlikely to be over 10% of their ED income in most months. And that includes Odyssey sales, which are the cheaper way to get the ships if you're not in a hurry.


I certainly agree they're experimenting with more in that area - encouraging superfans who already have too many alt accounts to spend money on something is certainly part of their plan - but because the baseline was so low even the large relative improvement doesn't really make much difference to the overall figures, and it seems highly implausible they could get another doubling or tripling over and above what they've already done and sustain it as a new permanent baseline.

The new ARX ships have likely been a big success in terms of "enough people bought them to fund the development of the ships themselves, and leave a profit". And in terms of getting a few new ships released every year, that's all they needed to do. I can certainly see more experiments with easily packageable things like that where the cost of development is low enough that it can directly pay for itself.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Those graphs seem rather vague but, as noted previously, I'm not all that adept at reading corporate reports.

I am heartened by the reported correlation between the addition of new features/narrative with an increase in player numbers and game sales. And at least they found ship sales worthy of mention.

It'll be interesting to see what they do this year. I hope they have more than colonization in the pipeline, because I doubt it will capture player interest as much as the thargoid war did.

 

[Zalia]

Other "new" ships so far had not any delays in thier "debut" for in-game credits, so why there would be any diffrent this time?

We only had two. The Python was 3 months, while the Type 8 was almost 4 months (114 days).
So my bet would be for the Mandalay to become available after februarys live stream.

 

[aRJay]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction.

Those graphs seem rather vague but, as noted previously, I'm not all that adept at reading corporate reports.

I am heartened by the reported correlation between the addition of new features/narrative with an increase in player numbers and game sales. And at least they found ship sales worthy of mention.

It'll be interesting to see what they do this year. I hope they have more than colonization in the pipeline, because I doubt it will capture player interest as much as the thargoid war did.

It might well capture interest from amongst all those players that weren’t interested in the war, obviously it is unlikely to get much interest from those who thought the war was the only thing in the game. It all depends on how much fun it is.

 

[Elpapo]

We only had two. The Python was 3 months, while the Type 8 was almost 4 months (114 days).
So my bet would be for the Mandalay to become available after februarys live stream.

114 days for T8?? Wow.

I certianly did not waited for T8, but if this ship did had such delay, then yeah, mandy might share similar fate, since Frontier kinda went quiet since new year.

 

[Robert Maynard]

If the Mandalay becomes available for credits when the Trailblazers update is released then that would result in an Arx4Access interval of 118 days, only 4 more than for the Type-8 (the interval for which was 23 days more than that of the Python Mk II).

 

[amigacooke]

If the Mandalay becomes available for credits when the Trailblazers update is released then that would result in an Arx4Access interval of 118 days, only 4 more than for the Type-8 (the interval for which was 23 days more than that of the Python Mk II).

So roughly, 3 months has become four months. Unless the late access period drops for the Cobra V.

 

[Robert Maynard]

So roughly, 3 months has become four months. Unless the late access period drops for the Cobra V.

Looks like it, noting that the three month interval for the Python Mk II was a datapoint, not a pledge.

 

[amigacooke]

Looks like it, noting that the three month interval for the Python Mk II was a datapoint, not a pledge.

Also noting that when Frontier originally trailed new ships there was no mention of late access at all.

 

[Robert Maynard]

Also noting that when Frontier originally trailed new ships there was no mention of late access at all.

Nor immediate access for credits only (although that would have been a natural assumption, noting the flaws of making assumptions)....

 

[amigacooke]

Nor immediate access for credits only (although that would have been a natural assumption, noting the flaws of making assumptions)....

Given that all the previous ships were released without having to pay for launch day access and Frontier had previously stated ARX was only for cosmetics I doubt few assumed anything different.

 

[Robert Maynard]

.... and Frontier had previously stated ARX was only for cosmetics....

Did they? (a link would be very much appreciated, as I seem to have missed that rather definitive statement)

.... or was an assumption made based on the fact that ARX are now used to buy things from the store and until recently all that was for sale was cosmetics?

 

[Arioch]

Did they? (a link would be very much appreciated, as I seem to have missed that rather definitive statement)

.... or was an assumption made based on the fact that ARX are now used to buy things from the store and until recently all that was for sale was cosmetics?

July 2019:

As always with our optional additional purchases, ARX can only be used to buy cosmetic Game Extras and will not be used to introduce and acquire pay-to-win purchases.