Anyone else thinking of asking for a refund?

To the OP - did you actually read the EULA?

Frontier Developments reserves the right to modify, alter, amend, or update this EULA at any time in its sole discretion
Any continued Use of the Game <afterwards> constitutes your acceptance

and

We may deploy or provide patches, updates and modifications to the Game that must be installed in order for you to continue to play the Game
you hereby grant us your consent to deploy and apply such patches, updates and modifications

Neither of these are uncommon, and unless you were a backer, your purchase was made under the above conditions. If you didn't agree with them, you should have bought something else.

(Backers had the option to request a refund when it was announced there would not be an offline option, as that had been promised during the kickstarter.)
 
Like I said, give it another month or so. It will definitely sink in.

PP is only the beginning, as I've said before. Many times.

Many many times. Many many many many times. With ever changing hilariously poor reasoning behind it. Followed by paranoid accusations when pointed out.

But true, you are not standing idly by. Thats something I guess.
 
Ask for a refund ? Why ?

My "Approx. Time Played" is currently 22W 4D 20H 19Min ... which is about 3812 hours play time since Beta.
I've spend about GBP200 on the game (Game + LEP + 2nd account + store items), which works out at roughly 5p per hour.

The last AAA game I bought was Assassins Creed Origins, which costs ~GBP40 and I completed it in ~100 hours ... this works out at ~40p per hour.

So *so far* ED is 10x better value that AC, and I've no plans to stop play ED (whereas I may never play AC again) ... which means it'll only get *better* value as time goes on.

Mind you, I don't do PvP or PP or "play the BGS" and the Thargoids are currently meh.

I'm playing ED as I want to play, which is mostly Exploration and some PvE combat.

When it boils down to it, I can't really see what all the fuss is about :p
 
Ask for a refund ? Why ?

The general idea is that you pay $50, have unlimited entertainment and can ask your money back whenever you dont like something. Sounds like a good deal! :p Seriously though, in the Netherlands there was a TV show called 'the moving judge', which featured an actual judge going around the country making legally binding verdicts. In one case, a violin player had a custom build violin for very cheap ($3000 or some such). After many years, she wanted a more expensive violin, and demanded the original luthier take back the first violin for the original purchasing price. He wasnt interested. The judge sided with the luthier.

It was a fun case, because her partner was my piano teacher at the time. So on the air he had to defend his girl, while it was clear he wasn't really sure himself if she was on the right side of it. :p
 
You should have asked for your refund when PP was introduced after you bought the game, then, because it's not what you paid for >.>

Weeeeeeeeeeell, but when PP was introduced, he was INDIFFERENT about the change. Now he's doesn't like the change and it means that he finally must point out that it wasn't on a kickstarter/original game/not what he's paid for. Simple, right?
 
Let it go, let it go.
Am a Mac only player and the end is in sight for me.
I’ve paid my dues, time after time...
 
I thought the Engineers was as low as it was possible to go in bad game design, but here FD is thinking about changing the basic nature of the game after we bought it.
Not that i really care whether pp is open only or not, but just on the principle that FD shouldnt be rewarded for changing the basic nature of the product from what was advertised and sold, I am thiniking about asking for a refund. This sets a precedent i dont want to see play out.
A vendor removing basic features from a product after its sold and the money is in the vendors pocket seems unethical, maybe fradulent, and possibly illegal.

They could re-code the entire game into a tower defense MOBA and I wouldn't want a refund. In the years since I initially paid for this game, I have enjoyed it greatly. I've sunk more hours into Elite than any other game I've ever played, and will continue to do so, and it has more than paid for itself in my eyes.
 
Where there's blame there's a claim!

Does it do exactly what it says on the tin?

#iwanna-refund

+1

I have no intention of asking for a refund as it's not a significant amount to me and I will continue to play Elite in Open, as I have done for years.

That doesn't mean I agree or endorse what FD is proposing here.

What FD is proposing is just plain WRONG no matter how you slice it and dice it.
 
I thought the Engineers was as low as it was possible to go in bad game design, but here FD is thinking about changing the basic nature of the game after we bought it.
Not that i really care whether pp is open only or not, but just on the principle that FD shouldnt be rewarded for changing the basic nature of the product from what was advertised and sold, I am thiniking about asking for a refund. This sets a precedent i dont want to see play out.
A vendor removing basic features from a product after its sold and the money is in the vendors pocket seems unethical, maybe fradulent, and possibly illegal.
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