How long ago is "a while ago"? It's been discounted for months now, so I'm guessing prior to October?
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How long ago is "a while ago"? It's been discounted for months now, so I'm guessing prior to October?
..this. I've just bought the 2 x Wolfenstein games for the xb1 for 15 quid for both (IIRC). The people who paid £45 + £25 a year ago must be livid!! And don't start me on the £65 I paid for Forza 5 for the VIP pass package. You can get Forza 5 for 20 quid now!! Scandalous.
Star Citizen - the game you can pay $1500 for and not play for another 23 years
Ah I know of SC, I wondered why Flint Read suddenly mentioned it in the middle of Horizons thread.
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You only need pay $30 to play SC and SQ42 and never need to spend another penny. ED WILL have several more addons before its done.Star Citizen - the game you can pay $1500 for and not play for another 23 years
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I thought there already was one actually. :/
You only need to pay £40,-- for Elite Dangerous and never pay another penny. All you have to do is wait until the final season is released.
you can still play the game without horizons bro. What, did you expect development on the game to continue for the next 10 years for free? FD need to pay the bills somehow and to me buying an expansion every 12 months is better than a subscription model. wayyy better.
I can't argue with Frontier's model and pricing on this. €50 for the first year, €37.50 for subsequent years, and lots of content has been added. Even if I'm not interested in some of it (e.g. CQC), this game offers great value for money. Of course, if you don't like the game, or you don't actually play it, then the value proposition might be different person to person.
There is nothing "absolutely disgusting" about it. Either you accept the value proposition and buy it, or you find something better (for you) to spend your money on. There's plenty of other popular games that cost more, that I would not buy - that's the whole point of consumer choice, right?
There is nothing "absolutely disgusting" about it. Either you accept the value proposition and buy it, or you find something better (for you) to spend your money on. There's plenty of other popular games that cost more, that I would not buy - that's the whole point of consumer choice, right?
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Isn't this just the Horizons Price Discussion back in Dangerous Discussions?
I paid £50 for beta access of ED and £30 for Horizons. I'm perfectly happy with the cost.
i paid 120 euros for lifetime expansion in 2014 beta, so far it isnt a bad deal.
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I suggest a forum for such complaints (called the complaints forum) because it's getting like an episode of Watchdog around here.
they dont hate people, ofc not! but it would be a good thing i think for evryone if they was more clear about that this is more of the sort of yearly subscriptions, rather than traditional expansions.
a yearly subscription you dont even must pay for each year, one can always wait a year and buy next one (i assume) and then ur in the game with all its features even if u dont "own" all previous years "expansions"
and if u see it that way its really not that bad of a deal.
however, i kinda wish i had seen it this way when i bought the lifetime pass. but then again, i would not have wanted to wait until game is "a finished and completed game" years from now either. afterall for me the journey is the goal of this trip, not a end goal itself.
and in any case, it was my decision, and so even if information could been more clear from FD, it was still my decision, and i cant say i feel cheated, not at all... im looking forward to hopefully years of new addons
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Ultimately, it's your choice. Wait a few years and you should be able to buy Elite with every single season's content for $84 or so. That's pretty exceptional value if you ask me.
If you don't want to wait, your option is to buy the seasons, or the lifetime pass. You have every right to want the entire completed game, and have several years of gametime and support, bug fixes etc. for $84, but I don't think it's realistic to expect it.
If you don't want to wait, your option is to buy the seasons, or the lifetime pass. You have every right to want the entire completed game, and have several years of gametime and support, bug fixes etc. for $84, but I don't think it's realistic to expect it.
Really depends on how you look at it. I paid £30 for E: D back in June and played 350 hours with is since; that is a "staggering" 9 penny per hour. I have yet to find better entertainment for my money.
In fact, bought a second copy during the sale, and using that to have a taste of starting anew and being miserable now and then, when I feel too cocky with my multi-billionaire main account. It is good to find new ways to climb up the ladder again too.
In contrast, paid £20 for a really bad Port at a dinner in some pub and paid £30 for that dinner and decided, not just me and my wife won't ever visit that pub again, but my friends neither if I can help it. Spent £50 for an hour "entertainment" that left me pocket empty and my stomach ill for two days. Talk about staggering.
ED: H is far from complete and promises a whole lot of goodies. But do not forget: you are not entitled to computer games, it is a commodity and luxury at that. If you do not feel like buying Horizons, do not buy then.
In fact, bought a second copy during the sale, and using that to have a taste of starting anew and being miserable now and then, when I feel too cocky with my multi-billionaire main account. It is good to find new ways to climb up the ladder again too.
In contrast, paid £20 for a really bad Port at a dinner in some pub and paid £30 for that dinner and decided, not just me and my wife won't ever visit that pub again, but my friends neither if I can help it. Spent £50 for an hour "entertainment" that left me pocket empty and my stomach ill for two days. Talk about staggering.
ED: H is far from complete and promises a whole lot of goodies. But do not forget: you are not entitled to computer games, it is a commodity and luxury at that. If you do not feel like buying Horizons, do not buy then.
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"Absolutley discusting" the op says, well lets do a comparison with a well known AAA game.
Asassins Creed, first game 2007 , second game 2008, 3 games in 2009, ect, total games is 16 upto now.
How much each game cost is probably around the same, or more than elite D, so thats a lot of money, and then they release a box set, saving new players a bucket load of money.
"The Amazon-exclusive Assassin’s Creed Anthology is a prestige collector’s edition which includes all expansion packs and downloadable content for the Assassin’s Creed games, including the Season Pass for Assassin’s Creed III, which provides full access to all forthcoming downloadable content, the first of which will be available mid-December. The Anthology Edition also includes five exclusive lithographs, an exclusive steel book and a collector’s box."
So in your view all those that bought the games (ED and AC) at release are losing out. Ok, yes AC are stand alone games, but that's not possible with the nature of ED. So instead they include the previous versions with every new expansion, so saving new players having to buy all the games at once, a bit like a box set. AAA games have been doing something similar for years.
When you think about it on these lines, it's not a bad pricing policy at all.
Asassins Creed, first game 2007 , second game 2008, 3 games in 2009, ect, total games is 16 upto now.
How much each game cost is probably around the same, or more than elite D, so thats a lot of money, and then they release a box set, saving new players a bucket load of money.
"The Amazon-exclusive Assassin’s Creed Anthology is a prestige collector’s edition which includes all expansion packs and downloadable content for the Assassin’s Creed games, including the Season Pass for Assassin’s Creed III, which provides full access to all forthcoming downloadable content, the first of which will be available mid-December. The Anthology Edition also includes five exclusive lithographs, an exclusive steel book and a collector’s box."
So in your view all those that bought the games (ED and AC) at release are losing out. Ok, yes AC are stand alone games, but that's not possible with the nature of ED. So instead they include the previous versions with every new expansion, so saving new players having to buy all the games at once, a bit like a box set. AAA games have been doing something similar for years.
When you think about it on these lines, it's not a bad pricing policy at all.
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