When it comes to Ship Interiors, the question of how they would be introduced into Elite form a Buisness-PoV is indeed a very legitimate one.
It comes down to the following options:
1. It is a free update for everyone.
(The simplest solution with the largest potential customerbase for Interior Cosmetics, this however would mean that the Ship Interiors would likely be relatively minimalistic)
2. It is a free update for all Odyssey owners.
(This would likely still mean comparatively less fleshed out Ship Interiors, but it would have to act as an incent to buy Odyssey so it would have to offer at least SOME more)
3. It is a standalone Steam-DLC that functions idependently from Odyssey.
(A completely straightforward possibility, it is basically the median here but it does beg the VERY serious question of how it would affect current Odyssey-profits ...)
4. It becomes a Steam-DLC that requires Odyssey to be owned previously.
(This however would then be a "DLC for a DLC" and that is NEVER a smart buisness move, so while not impossible, I highly doubt FDevs execs will ever greenlight this route)
5. Odyssey is given away freely just like Horizons once was and Ship Interiors becomes the "third true expansion".
(This would then have to have VERY fleshed out Ship Interiors in order to attract enough customers to justify giving Odyssey away freely, and thus is relatively unlikely)
6. Ship Interiors are sold individually for Arx. {You could further branch this of into "Only for Odyssey owners" or "Everyone can buy them" but that really is not so important}
(First of all, this would undeniably be a rather "dirty" form of introduction, but in a twisted way, still an elegant one, as it does avoid the "DLC for a DLC" issue. This however would beg the question of how fleshed out any individual Ship Interior would be. E.g. I buy the Interior for say, the Imperial Eagle, it would likely be a fairly compact machine-room and nothing more, and then compare it to smth like the Panther XD + So how would you price them? 5$ for Small, 10$ for Medium & 15$ per Large XD?)
6.1. They go this route of "5$ per size".
(Yet if we would have to pay such prices, the Ship Interiors would have to be EXTREMELY fleshed out as well in order to justify that, therefore this is also rather unlikely.)
6.2. The only remaining alternative would then be to make the ENTIRE Ship Interiors basically nothing but another "cosmetic item", essentially entirely unneeded which {except for maybe Powerplant-Repair :/} would then make these prices appear in an entirely different light. Just like someone buying the insanely overpriced legendary skins for games like LeagueOfLeagends etc. but obviously, this would drastically reduce the potential customer-base and while I guarantee you, it would still be an absoulte gold-mine, there might actually be much more to be had with another option)
To conclude,
there is no "Golden Path" here. Every avenue here has its downsides and upsides.
IMO: Option 1, 2, 3 and 6.2 are all equally the most likely.
But I would personally go for option 2 and that's also where I'd bet my money on. As it would be relatively risk-free while also the most healthy balance between reaching a potential customerbase for the subsequent Interior Cosmetics, while simultaneously still incentivising at least some potential new customers to pay a for a DLC, as in here Odyssey, which would also come with the very neat bonus of (finally) seeing an actual big influx of positive reviews for it.
Yet really, I wouldn't complain about either of these and if I could choose my dream option: It would likely be option 6.1 XD But I know that FDev is likely unwilling to make such an investement.
But all-in-all, whatever way they choose, unless they completely remove their brains while doing so,
the $-profit will be MASSIVE!
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