FD: Look what I have invested in you so far.
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pah, well there's your problem. You just don't believe enough and/or undertstand game development or something.
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Yup, naive. Kickstarter is a lottery though, and there were a bunch of things happening at that time - including Star Citizen, Josh Parnell's Limit Theory, as well as E: D books. I backed them all at varying amounts.
Only one I regret though in retrospect is Elite, even though they did actually deliver a "product". Just not anything close to what they said it was going to be, and it never will be.
Only one I regret though in retrospect is Elite, even though they did actually deliver a "product". Just not anything close to what they said it was going to be, and it never will be.
Quibblings?
I think you know what I mean.
£10 (ish) for base game.
£40 for EDO.
£0 for Epic account.
£20 (maybe?) on kits and PJ.
That's for (checks EDSM) 15W 5D 23H 38M of gameplay on main and... (2 secs...) 3W 1D 22H 15M on the alt.
I should probably give FDev MORE money...
£40 for EDO.
£0 for Epic account.
£20 (maybe?) on kits and PJ.
That's for (checks EDSM) 15W 5D 23H 38M of gameplay on main and... (2 secs...) 3W 1D 22H 15M on the alt.
I should probably give FDev MORE money...
If you tell me the amount, I will add it to the sum.
Why not. It all depends.
For me, I will put it on hold I guess.
It's well into four figures, that's all I can really say without digging through years of accounts/purchases. £750 for the Kickstarter, but then probably about as much again on 6 more accounts, skins and cosmetics for each, books which went back into the E: D Kickstarter, two LEPs, etc etc.
Invest is not the right word. You purchased a product either when it became available, or prior to it becoming available and then spent more money on things associated with that product. This is a 'sunk cost'.
Buying a game is not an investment as you have no 'asset' that can rise in value over time and give you a 'return'.
To invest in something here you would need to have acquired Frontier shares over the years, which would have given you a return (up until the last couple of months anyway).
Cheers,
Drew.
Buying a game is not an investment as you have no 'asset' that can rise in value over time and give you a 'return'.
To invest in something here you would need to have acquired Frontier shares over the years, which would have given you a return (up until the last couple of months anyway).
Cheers,
Drew.
£9 in cosmetics, as I said.
Just to be clear, I'm not going anywhere or threatening to.
And if I did, they wouldn't be losing much. I pretty much only buy from them when there's new paid content coming out, and it's something I want.
So far, only Horizons and Odyssey, and I've bought both of them because I am into that. But if they offered, say, base building as a paid update, I probably wouldn't bother.
It's also not an investment to me, at this point. I've had what I paid for, and then some.
Odyssey probably still has to break even in terms of fun had vs cost. But it's very much a work in progress, and I've paid more for stuff I've had less fun out of. I could spend more going to see a movie and getting a bite to eat, and it's all over in 2 hours.
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You invested 0€ in the game. Buying cosmetics isn’t an investment, you bought yourself a game and cosmetics for it.
I threw much more at certain games, never have I expected the dev team to look at it as if I’m investing into their future or to even feel special about it.
I liked the thing, I bought the thing. I have no idea how much I poured into elite but I’m not sorry for it, I didn’t expect a return on that “investment” other than enjoyment.
I backed a few Kickstarters around the same time 2012-2014. Pretty much all the game ones didn't deliver and others are now defunt or sold to some other company that doesn't care about the previous "plans".
ED was one of the only ones that delivered something around the time they said.
Pebble watch time, entire company defunct and no longer supported. Still love that watch though.
Oculus rift, sold to Facebook. Got the DK1.. Sent me a final CV1 as a gift for my initial support though. Still use it for ED.
Yooka-Laylee, loads of release issues. Dissapointing reviews.
Star Citizen, no release, made a crowd funding company instead of meeting rewards.
I agree "investment" is the wrong word, but your last sentence is the nub of it.
E: D has been consistently sold on a "jam tomorrow" model. A lot of the "enjoyment" comes from the idea of what the game will become rather than what it actually is.
Now they've confirmed that there's no jam, there's Bovril instead, and you'll just have to lump it.
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I'm not far off the OP, but don't want to double check because it will not 'sparkle joy' for me knowing the exact amount of money I spent on sub-par cosmetic items that are mostly ruined now (and no guarantee that they'll ever get fixed in EDO). Never mind the second copy (albeit discounted) and further cosmetics on that.
On a more positive note though, I got about 4,000 hours out of the game, I'm still playing it so it's not all lost (though the rendering issues mean I can't enjoy the cosmetics I bought over the years to the same extent any longer), but I decided to no longer give FDev any of my money ... as if they care, they already got enough out of me as is so fair play to them I suppose.
I'll cut my losses and move on, they're a sunk cost and if I consider how much money I wasted on nights out in the past (that weren't always that great, and came with a free hangover the next day) - if anything, what "paintjob gate" has done is made me realise that paying significant amounts of cash for a product that can change at any time (or worst case, cease to exist completely) is probably not a great idea. I got sufficient enjoyment out of it so I'm not too bitter about it but ... lessons truly learned.
On a more positive note though, I got about 4,000 hours out of the game, I'm still playing it so it's not all lost (though the rendering issues mean I can't enjoy the cosmetics I bought over the years to the same extent any longer), but I decided to no longer give FDev any of my money ... as if they care, they already got enough out of me as is so fair play to them I suppose.
I'll cut my losses and move on, they're a sunk cost and if I consider how much money I wasted on nights out in the past (that weren't always that great, and came with a free hangover the next day) - if anything, what "paintjob gate" has done is made me realise that paying significant amounts of cash for a product that can change at any time (or worst case, cease to exist completely) is probably not a great idea. I got sufficient enjoyment out of it so I'm not too bitter about it but ... lessons truly learned.
I see that as a you problem. I never expected elite to become something more. Sure I’ll welcome it (or moan about it if I dislike it) but I got more than my moneys worth.
I bought a game to play, I played it.
I liked certain cosmetics and I bought them to further my own enjoyment.
I didn’t buy any of it in hopes I’d get a vote in development.
<<< Expects an actual ultimatum from OP,but doesn’t see one