Good opportunity for a CG that makes it available to all.
ANNOUNCEMENT Elite Dangerous: Horizons Set to Land for All Commanders
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Thanks Frontier ! 
best regards
Nanjan
best regards
Nanjan
We know they have things planned until 2022, so we're ok till then. It did take 2 and a half years to get Odyssey and they were still working on Fleet Carriers at the time. As long as the Game makes money, they'll want to keep working on it.
And if it is ever Sunset, fdev promised to enable the game to be run offline.
What he means is that many other games out there do it the very same way. To pick a rather random example, as i play it: Elder Scrolls Online. For example this year in spring it got the Greymoor expansion. At the same time, the Elsweyr expansion was removed from the store and became part of the base game. A year earlier, when Elsweyr got released, the previous expansion (Summerset) was removed from the shop and became part of the base game.
You see a pattern? Also note the advantages for either side: players who did not buy the expansion also get it, just one year later. The developers on the other hand have have an easier way of maintaining the game, they merely have to look at "base game with Greymoor" vs "base game without it" and not "base game with Summerset but not Elsweyr but with Greymoor again" and so on.
I picked this example because i actively play this game. I know of a number of other games who went the same or at least a similar way, but as i don't play them and thus don't know them well enough, i stick to this one example.
For ED the advantage is even more logical: how to sell people an expansion where they can walk on a planets surface, if they can't even reach the planet yet? Including it into the base game was a logical move, basically required to even market the next expansion. The only surprise here is the date, i would've expected this to happen at some time next year.
The last part is the one i have my doubts at. The game relies way too much on the BGS, so i fear that converting it to be able to run offline actually is a good deal of work. And that's where my confidence ends: i don't believe that FD will still invest the time and money for a game which doesn't create revenue any more.
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Can me and a few friends join you please, it sounds damn marvellous - prices in the UK are a right rip-offI bought Horizons for 25.91 PLN on Steam sale. It is about £5. And the equivalent of one kebab and two or three beers
A Pint of crappy larger is about £4 (I'm a bitter drinker, but just for an example), kebab £5 if you're lucky, so let's say about £20 for 3 beers and a kebab
I am now very jealous, and very hungry
Have a few beers tonight for us
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I think your assumptions are way off, did you think the same with horizons? or are you saying this because its now becoming free?? if so how does that mean anything other than FDev trying to make their development lives that bit easier?
would you rather a paid expansion every 6 months - 1 year?
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Yes, please! That way my LEP would finally pay off!
That being said, given the choice between more frequent updates and quality, i would choose the second. But i can understand anybody who voices doubts on FD being able to deliver quality. The game has a rough history on this side. Time will tell how Odyssey turns out, but my expectations are a bit limited.
That's never been an easy option for console players, we just self destruct our SRVs.
Which when you are thousands of light years from the bubble and only have one SRV is inconvenient to say the least.
Fleet carriers improve this now with the deep space array, I would like to see the ability to 3D print SRVs like fighters though.
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I wonder if the PL kebabs have a less than 50% chance of mild food poisoning? I wept when I read that reply tooCan me and a few friends join you please, it sounds damn marvellous - prices in the UK are a right rip-off
A Pint of crappy larger is about £4 (I'm a bitter drinker, but just for an example), kebab £5 if you're lucky, so let's say about £20 for 3 beers and a kebab
I am now very jealous, and very hungry
Have a few beers tonight for us
I wonder if the PL kebabs have a less than 50% chance of mild food poisoning? I wept when I read that reply too
i'd happily (and most probably merrily at those prices) take those odds
Are we allowed out of our houses anymore?I wonder if the PL kebabs have a less than 50% chance of mild food poisoning? I wept when I read that reply too
I fancy a lot of beers and a kebab !!
feels like a distant dream, verging on the mythical
We had a very good (never got tummy ache once!) kebab van just up the road from me for years... Lockdown lost it - his burgers were a work of art too - I miss it
"That's what she said" is a common one I believe and applicable to your post.
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