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babelfisch

babelfisch
Chris Simon said:
Hmm... now I'm hungry.

In all seriousness, though, it kind of grinds my gears that Fdev pushed out probably one of the smoothest updates yet and even did something explicitly pro-customer (as much as they could while retaining the revenue income) and the literally only downside of all this is the icon in station menu and yet people still whine.
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People act as it's the worst update of all times, like they always do. And it actually is a buggy mess, but that's why I never play on patch day. We have exactly the same discussions we always have, and everyone who is saying something different either lies to himself or has very bad memory.
The next problem is that the update didn't contain anything for veteran players, apart from being able to unlock paintjobs in-game. Personally I couldn't care less about earning Arx in-game, I gladly give Frontier the money that I spend for a coffee or a beer everyday as long as the game gets maintained.
And I am not even slightly annoyed by the blue shop icon in the station screen, but even without being annoyed I know that it's wrong. It's immersion breaking (just like all the press button hints that I don't want to see) and it's completely unneeded. If I want to spend money I'll do just that, I don't need a reminder that I could spend it since I'll do it on my terms (=when I am in the mood) and not because I get overwhelmed with adverts. So if I had the choice I'd rather see the bad blue icon being gone. The protest against it seems rather fun and not entirely serious, and since I am never serious (but always reasonable, or was it the other way around?) I'll gladly support it.
Most importantly though, if Frontier listens to our 'demands' it would send a pretty important message to the community and that can only be a good thing.
 

Enderby

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babelfisch said:
People act as it's the worst update of all times, like they always do. And it actually is a buggy mess, but that's why I never play on patch day. We have exactly the same discussions we always have, and everyone who is saying something different either lies to himself or has very bad memory.
The next problem is that the update didn't contain anything for veteran players, apart from being able to unlock paintjobs in-game. Personally I couldn't care less about earning Arx in-game, I gladly give Frontier the money that I spend for a coffee or a beer everyday as long as the game gets maintained.
And I am not even slightly annoyed by the blue shop icon in the station screen, but even without being annoyed I know that it's wrong. It's immersion breaking (just like all the press button hints that I don't want to see) and it's completely unneeded. If I want to spend money I'll do just that, I don't need a reminder that I could spend it since I'll do it on my terms (=when I am in the mood) and not because I get overwhelmed with adverts. So if I had the choice I'd rather see the bad blue icon being gone. The protest against it seems rather fun and not entirely serious, and since I am never serious (but always reasonable, or was it the other way around?) I'll gladly support it.
Most importantly though, if Frontier listens to our 'demands' it would send a pretty important message to the community and that can only be a good thing.
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Well said, that man.
 

Chris Simon

Chris Simon
babelfisch said:
Most importantly though, if Frontier listens to our 'demands' it would send a pretty important message to the community and that can only be a good thing.
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I would dare to disagree with this bit if I may.
"Community" isn't a person and more importantly, "community" isn't a game designer. "Community" at its best doesn't know what it wants and at its worst demands ridiculously antithetic features.
The only thing "community" agrees on is that the game should be better, but it has hundreds of thousands of conflicting and mutually incompatible ideas of how it should be done.

Listening to the community may be good for the PR, but it isn't ever going to be good for the game.
 

Phisto Sobanii

Phisto Sobanii
Kamiyoda said:
TRANSFORMMMMEERRRSSS
ADVERTS IN DISGUISE
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Remember when they killed off Optimus Prime and everyone else? Literally to make way for new toys.

Dutchman141 said:
Yeah yeah I get the point, you're the second one telling me this.
Please tell me if you didn't understand what I meant with that post.
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I think there's some hay to be made over the virtual currency. It does mask the true cost of things but again it's 2019. We've been in schemes like this for so long it's a wonder FDEV didn't do it earlier.

Regarding the button being blue? Gods, give it a rest. Lot of overblown pearl clutching over it.
 

Dutchman141

Dutchman141
Phisto Sobanii said:
Remember when they killed off Optimus Prime and everyone else? Literally to make way for new toys.



I think there's some hay to be made over the virtual currency. It does mask the true cost of things but again it's 2019. We've been in schemes like this for so long it's a wonder FDEV didn't do it earlier.

Regarding the button being blue? Gods, give it a rest. Lot of overblown pearl clutching over it.
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I don't mind the new currency at all we already had Frontier Points on the console so the thing just got another name.
The new store looks good too imho.

What I don't like is that they emphasize on spending money in a regular gameplay menu, and accentuate it in blue even.
I don't want to be reminded of their store every couple minutes I play the game, if I want to buy something I will and won't have any trouble finding the place where I can spend my money, in the main menu or the livery screen.

It might not bother you but it does bother me, I think it's cheap.
 

Drelthar

Drelthar
Phisto Sobanii said:
but again it's 2019. We've been in schemes like this for so long it's a wonder FDEV didn't do it earlier.
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Ah yes, the "everyone else does it" defence. A classic! I do love that one.

This is just normal now, so stop complaining about it.

The fact it would have been utterly reprehensible in the recent past doesn't matter, just get on the bus!
 

Enderby

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If they had made more quality, paid for updates maybe we, and FD, wouldn't have had to suffer this fell ignominy.

Or, could suffer it with greater equanimity.
 
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LynxAwakening

LynxAwakening
the cartoon hate does almost seem satirical.

on one hand there’s an icon that takes like 3% of starport services menu... but on the other hand there’s now a tangible economy with a loyalty/reward system.

could be worse! like holograms in your face everywhere you go like blade runner or altered carbon... that’s the future right? or nolan sorrento trying to take up as much of your visual field without inducing seizures.


all that icon does is remind me there’s incentive to play the game now... and earn some ARX.
 
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