Post Your Support for Elite Odyssey to have VR Support.
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I'd still rather be playing ED.
I agree with that, what I'm saying in these threads is not emotional hyperbole, but simple cold hard fact.
+1 on that
However, there is a very important distinction that needs to be made:
Our hardware upgrade purchases matter not one iota to Frontier as a business.
As long as we buy the game, the DLC's and the skins, their game will be commercially successful, regardless of what hardware we are running the game on. A skin pack applied to a spaceship rendered on the screen of a 5 year old potato laptop that overheats and thermal throttles still makes Frontier as much profit as a skin pack applied to a spaceship rendered on a HP Reverb Pro VR Headset connected to a "Full Mongo" gaming rig with a Ryzen R9-3900x / RTX-2080Ti.
As long as we buy the game, the DLC's and the skins, their game will be commercially successful, regardless of what hardware we are running the game on. A skin pack applied to a spaceship rendered on the screen of a 5 year old potato laptop that overheats and thermal throttles still makes Frontier as much profit as a skin pack applied to a spaceship rendered on a HP Reverb Pro VR Headset connected to a "Full Mongo" gaming rig with a Ryzen R9-3900x / RTX-2080Ti.
However, while our hardware purchases do not affect frontier's bottom line, their stance on VR in future releases will affect our hardware purchasing decisions moving forward. I'm psyching myself for a 3080ti and an HP Reverb Gen.2 for later this year, but if elite shuns VR, I'm outta here, and will most likely to use that money, and the resale price of my VKB Gunfighter + Kosmosima Premium L+R sticks, as the downpayment on a lotus elise.
![[VR] Orodruin](https://forums-cdn.zaonce.net/data/avatars/m/237/237188.jpg?1614840532){kind=avatar}
Another thing that might be said is that while Frontier makes the same money for a paintjob rendered on a potato as on a 2080TI, I strongly suspect that the VR clientele is more prone to buying cosmetics than the general customer - simply based on the fact that the average VR player will typically have more economic power and will to spend money on entertainment and games. The cosmetics also represent a smaller fraction of total investment for VR players. I may be wrong and it would be interesting to see data on this - but I suspect Frontier only has access to this information.
to be quite blunt, in the extremely unlikely event that Frontier completely removed VR support for ED, I'd stop playing. I've tried playing this game in pancake mode, and it simply isn't the same, especially the way I like to explore.
That is true, I know I myself have spent a silly amount of money after buying elite + horizons on things like:
- ship kits
- ship paint jobs
- SRV paint jobs
- bobble heads / dash addenda
- flight suits
- CMDR clothes
- books / audio books
- Alt Accounts
- gifting paint jobs to friends in game
- gifting a copy of the game to IRL friends
- these in turn buy "stuff" at the store
I disagree.
When I learned about Odyssey, I was primed to finally buy some ARX for both my accounts. I'm now putting that off until I get official confirmation that VR will be supported in the future. And if they won't be supporting VR at all? Someone who isn't playing the game isn't going to be buying ARX to buy cosmetics.
And let's face it. Players who have sufficient disposable income to buy expensive VR headsets, and the machines necessary to run them, are the types of players with sufficient disposable income to buy cosmetics in the first place.
edit: ninja'd by @Orodruin
That’s the two words I was looking for but could not for the life of me get into my mind ...
You misunderstand me, what I mean isn't arx, I'm referring to computer hardware purchases - as in our purchases of graphics cards / CPU / Ram / joysticks etc... So to put it another way, us spending money on computer bits to improve our computers performance doesn't affect frontier's financials.I disagree.
When I learned about Odyssey, I was primed to finally buy some ARX for both my accounts. I'm now putting that off until I get official confirmation that VR will be supported in the future. And if they won't be supporting VR at all? Someone who isn't playing the game isn't going to be buying ARX to buy cosmetics.
And let's face it. Players who have sufficient disposable income to buy expensive VR headsets, and the machines necessary to run them, are the types of players with sufficient disposable income to buy cosmetics in the first place.
edit: ninja'd by @Orodruin
I was actually thinking on starting an ARX boycott until we get confirmation of VR being art of Odyssey.
I was considering getting extra ARX for cosmetics on my carrier. This certainly is not happening until continued VR support is confirmed.
I understood. I just don't agree.
I don't believe for one second that VR Support is being dropped.. but I'll post my support all the same.
Elite Dangerous is currently the best VR experience in gaming. It's literally what makes this game special.
Elite Dangerous is currently the best VR experience in gaming. It's literally what makes this game special.
+1
Dropping VR would be an interesting decision. Its pretty clear that VR can only get bigger in the future, so why would Frontier go backwards? The kit gets cheaper (relatively) all the time, and faster graphics cards are working their way down the value chain, so VR won't be 'niche' for that much longer...
I'd be pretty p***ed off if I lost VR and just got FPS with a few frills in exchange
Dropping VR would be an interesting decision. Its pretty clear that VR can only get bigger in the future, so why would Frontier go backwards? The kit gets cheaper (relatively) all the time, and faster graphics cards are working their way down the value chain, so VR won't be 'niche' for that much longer...
I'd be pretty p***ed off if I lost VR and just got FPS with a few frills in exchange