Spotted here:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...izon-owners-LEP-musings?p=6020972#post6020972
Thank you again, dev tracker...
Anyway, we already knew there were bits of Beyond they weren't ready to announce (which will also be free) but now it looks like Beyond isn't all they are working on either, and more paid updates will be announced alongside it.
So, Frontier wont be surviving on the skin store alone, and more importantly, their focus is apparently going to be split between:
The free core gameplay updates they (it feels like) have offered as an apology/goodwill generator for the past 2 years of slow development and barebones features....
And this paid content that they suspiciously didn't mention would even be coming at the announcement (as far as I remember).
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds to me less like they're totally focused on fixing core gameplay, and more like they threw it out as a side project (which would explain why there isn't all that much in it for a full year) to keep us from raging while they yet again split their focus onto more barebones features like multicrew/powerplay etc.
But splitting between a barebones headline feature no-one will use as it is incomplete, and making some marginal improvements to core gameplay is what we've had for 2 years now.
So...nothing has changed, and Frontier just announced it differently?
Of course, it could instead be that, because the team has increased in size (supposedly), that both the paid and free teams have as much investment/manpower as the updates we've had this year. But I'm not going to hold my breath on that until a dev say it.
I honestly don't know whether to be disappointed or not, I want to have hope I really do. Some confirmation by Zac, Dale or Brett that the latter is true rather than the former would be very welcome by myself, and I'm fairly confident much of the community as a whole...
TD;LR - Not FD bashing, just trying to have hope.
