Horizons [STEAM] Is there ANY reason to keep Elite: Dangerous installed?

RadActiveLobster

RadActiveLobster
Due to reasons no one can actually think of Frontier decided to make Horizons a completely separate game on STEAM instead of doing what every single other developer who uses a custom launcher does and just have it as part of the same base game, just with an updated launcher.

It doesn't make any sense at all, but I digress.

Now that we have "Elite Dangerous: Horizons" on STEAM and it is basically identical to "Elite: Dangerous" (seriously, launch EDLaunch.exe from the SteamApps folder, you'll get the new launcher. Hell, compare the install folders and you'll see they are basically carbon copies of each other) is there any reason to keep "Elite: Dangerous" installed?

It now seems to serve zero purpose. You get everything in season 1 when you launch Horizons. I honestly cannot think of a single reason to ever launch the original game ever again. I briefly though "well, what if I wanted to play with friends who don't have Horizons?" but then I remember you can do that from Horizon's, they just can land on planets.

Anyone else highly confused by why they did it this way? Is there any reason to keep the now standalone season 1 installed?
 
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T1-Jafo

T1-Jafo
To answer your question, I would say no.

If I had to guess, probably the reason for a completely separate game on STEAM is due to the fact Horizons is 64-bit only.
 

T1-Jafo

T1-Jafo
SnowGhost said:
What if you DON'T buy Horizons?
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Just tried it with my steam account, (only purchased Horizons through main account from Frontier). The launcher through steam still has orange themed fonts. I was able to successfully launch Elite Dangerous 1.5 (64bit) version.
 
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WreckWren

W
For god's sake, 8GB+ wasted on downloading the Steam update because FD can't package them and sort out who can land on a planet through login credentials.

No notification, nothing. Had to find out how to play the expansion I foolishly pre-ordered on the damn forums. The 8GB+ I wasted time downloading this morning so I could play the game when I got home from work is wasted and now I have to waste even more precious little free time redownloading something that should have already been downloaded. Instead of a couple hours to play Horizons this week, that'll now be a matter of minutes.

Why can't FD do really simple things? Why was this even an issue in the first place?


EDIT: At least the launcher can use some of the existing beta files. It's not quite releasing the thing properly, but it's a start.
 
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Akofine

Akofine
The 8GB download on Steam includes Horizons, you just need to launch from EDlaunch.exe in your installation file. You didn't waste your time, you just have to jump through this hoop. The hoop is stupid and I don't understand why you have to do it this way, but at least it works and you can play.
 

Grumpy181155

Grumpy181155
I have both ED and Horizons purchased through FD but played on Steam. The first thing I did was generate a Steam key from FD then opened Steam and told it not to update ED, then entered the Horizons key and installed Horizons. Once Horizons had installed I started it, completed the verification checks and then checked that my ship was parked where I had left it. I then deleted all local content on Steam. I now have only the Horizons folder and no others. Oh and the Horizons Launcher is Blue while the ED series one is orange.
 
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