I really find it sad that some LEP owners are growing ever more disatisfied with their purchase as time goes on. It shows one thing: you guys simply can't accept responsibility for your actions.
Back when you bought the LEP, this LEP really only gave you one thing: access to the game as it existed at the time of purchase. That was the value of your LEP, and nothing more. Sure it also gave you access to any potential future developments and additions, but that obviously has no real value until those additions do come to the game if ever.
So back then your LEP had a set price but a baseline value that could either go up with time or stay the same (until Frontier removes your access to the game when they shut down the servers). But you hoped that this value would go up, to the point that hopefully it would justify the price you had paid for it and maybe some more.
Still, if you're a reasonable and sensible adult, you should consider any gamble is lost until it is not. So why is it you are growing angry at Frontier over the LEP now? Your LEP hasn't lost any of its value, and for all of you it actually has increased in value because there have been additions and improvements to the game since you bought it. You weren't angry back when your LEP was worth less, in fact you were happy enough to buy it. And yet, as time goes and Frontier improves the game, you guys are growing fixated on the fact you haven't "saved" enough money to justify the money you spent on that LEP. And you're afraid you never will if Frontier drops paid expansions entirely.
So you gambled, but instead of accepting you were taking a calculated risk and that what you were getting back then was potentially all you were going to get, you assumed Frontier owed you and that you were entitled to making your money back. But they don't and you aren't, that was never part of the deal and you need to take responsibility and accept, without rancour, that you could lose your bet entirely.
Not that I believe you will. I'll stil not buy the LEP, because I don't gamble and I want to keep some bargaining power, however little it may be.
Back when you bought the LEP, this LEP really only gave you one thing: access to the game as it existed at the time of purchase. That was the value of your LEP, and nothing more. Sure it also gave you access to any potential future developments and additions, but that obviously has no real value until those additions do come to the game if ever.
So back then your LEP had a set price but a baseline value that could either go up with time or stay the same (until Frontier removes your access to the game when they shut down the servers). But you hoped that this value would go up, to the point that hopefully it would justify the price you had paid for it and maybe some more.
Still, if you're a reasonable and sensible adult, you should consider any gamble is lost until it is not. So why is it you are growing angry at Frontier over the LEP now? Your LEP hasn't lost any of its value, and for all of you it actually has increased in value because there have been additions and improvements to the game since you bought it. You weren't angry back when your LEP was worth less, in fact you were happy enough to buy it. And yet, as time goes and Frontier improves the game, you guys are growing fixated on the fact you haven't "saved" enough money to justify the money you spent on that LEP. And you're afraid you never will if Frontier drops paid expansions entirely.
So you gambled, but instead of accepting you were taking a calculated risk and that what you were getting back then was potentially all you were going to get, you assumed Frontier owed you and that you were entitled to making your money back. But they don't and you aren't, that was never part of the deal and you need to take responsibility and accept, without rancour, that you could lose your bet entirely.
Not that I believe you will. I'll stil not buy the LEP, because I don't gamble and I want to keep some bargaining power, however little it may be.
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Besides, if you want to make an honest comparison, you compare identical time periods. You can buy SC + Andromeda + mining ship for $500 now, or get Elite Dangerous + Horizons + Beyond for $18 now. One is an actual game, the other is a completely broken shell of a tech demo. The actual game is 25x cheaper... Its also silly to pretend your voluntary cosmetics are comparable to having to pay hundreds of dollars per single (wholly unfinished!) gameplay loop. Not sure who you are trying to fool here, us or yourself...
