Didn’t their latest shareholder report mention something about Odyssey driving a multi year source of revenue from elite dangerous? I’m assuming based on revenue sources for the game over the last few years, this simply means increased ARX sales. Cosmetics has been a significant source of revenue for the game for years now, increasingly so now that sales are hidden behind a fake currency. With the release of Odyssey, this strategy is more apparent than ever based on the massive price increase for Odyssey cosmetics compared to ship cosmetics.
As this player base has embraced ARX so hard, I see FDev doing very little with game features going forward because, well, why waste expensive resources developing a game when you can throw a few items a week on the cosmetic store for cheap (especially if outsourcing that work to a cheaper country) and still outdo sales in their other games? The savvy business strategy in this case is to keep overall staff numbers low, work on developing new games, and keep watering the ED plant with a couple low cost skins every week.
I think nothing new is coming to Odyssey any time soon. And, I think the solution to increasing content release frequency is to stop buying ARX. Force FDev to actually have to work for your money.
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