Clearly Frontier have developed a very good game, and with much effort. However, I am a consumer and must consider my own interests before that of a business whose objective is to make profit from me. My objective is to get as much out of a business for as little cost to myself. I do not thank the gas board, or the electricity company for all their hard work bringing me gas and electricity - as well as high bills. I expect the to do so, and take advantage of the best prices. Frontier Developments is a company, their objective is profit - first and foremost. They are not my friend, or yours. Get real.
Yeah, electrical company and the gas board is totally the same thing as a video game, which is made entirely for entertainment and is totally not a necessity. If electricity and gas didn't work, your quality of life would instantly diminish considerably. Since modern life makes it incredibly hard to get by without these necessities, the gas and electricity companies are in a position to exploit you over your basic life needs. They exploit your needs with high bills and you expect them to do their job. Frontier Developments (or Aston Martin for that matter) are in no position which gives them power over your livelihood so they have nothing to exploit. Microsoft is in this position for example because they are essentially a monopoly. Without them, if computers are considered a life necessity, which they are, and the business computing relies on Microsoft more or less because no one knows how to use anything else, you'll want to get the most out of it for as little cost as possible. If your business depend on it that is.
With FD, you, me or anyone does not have a business arrangement as in a business to business arrangement. It's retail. Frontier doesn't have to provide you with anything and you don't have to buy anything from them. This is a much more basic level of interaction compared to the gas company. Your livelihood doesn't depend on FD in any way.
They are a business and they have to make money to stay afloat at least but this doesn't make their first and foremost objective necessarily making money. I have a friend who is an artist. His only objective is to be the best artist he can ever be. This takes all of his time because it is really hard work and time consuming so he needs all the money he can get when he sells a painting. He paints wonderful paintings and has a unique style. He is also a business in the sense that he sells these paintings for money and he pays taxes. Totally legal business transactions take place when someone buys a painting from him. I've never seen anyone call him on the phone or barge into his studio to demand he paints exactly how they wanted their painting to be. I see one or two every now and then trying to lower the price on one. This is totally understandable because the price is totally arbitrary and set by my friend. It doesn't go like a forum bashing session however. They politely ask if he can go any lower, because they really like the painting, and expecting this, he goes 1-2 thousand dollars lower, they consider if they can pay the rest and if they are convinced they buy it. No one goes on a tirade in front of one claiming the painting is not even that good and has little exciting content, the technique isn't sophisticated enough so it is only worth a third of what he's asking.
I'm real. I don't think FD as my friends. I don't see it as my objective to get the most out of them for as little cost to myself either. I wish for them to make a good game which I can buy if it's worth buying. I evaluate their work and asking prices on information I have from my previous gaming purchases, and I asses if what they'll sell me is worth the price. If I deem it unworthy, I just won't buy it! What I also won't do is to put an arbitrary price on it which seems attractive to me and post it on the forums on the hope they'll either lower the price on the current product or take it as a wake up call and start to make lots of more stuff to make it worthy of the asking price in the eyes of an anonymous forum denizen.
Your previous forum post puts you in a position which prevents you from denying this accusation of me because if it's your objective to get the most out of FD as a business with as little cost to yourself, these posts of yours will have to be seen as a means to reach that objective. So you actually have a hope they'll either lower the price or they'll up their product, however unrealistic, if enough people complain. Just because they actually do have something you want but you want to get it for as low a price as possible because it's your objective.
I'll give you a surefire way to prevent FD from profiting from you,
their main objective. Don't buy any of their products. How you go about this interaction is just insulting to everyone including you.
