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That would be because you were able to play the game for, potentially, a year before Horizons came out. If you hadn't spend money on it "a while ago," obviously you would not have had a chance to play the game yet. Instead, you made the conscious decision to spend hard-earned money on a video game, and play and (presumably) enjoy said video game for however long you've owned it.
If you bought the game a short time ago, and are now feeling cheated because you could have "waited" for Horizons and gotten the whole thing a lot cheaper... well, I don't know what to do for you. Ask for a refund, if you feel that cheated. There's never any guarantee that you're going to get a discount because "loyalty," and we've known about Horizons for a while. If you bought the base game just before Horizons dropped and are now upset because you "had to drop a staggering" amount of money, you essentially dug your own grave on this one. You didn't "have to" do anything.
Elite Dangerous $60 + five DLCs, right? (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5)
Elite Dangerous Horizions $51 ($60-15%) + X DLCs
Do the math, Its as easy as PI.
and OP: disgusting should not be used to describe once work nor pay.
/HC
Elite Dangerous Horizions $51 ($60-15%) + X DLCs
Do the math, Its as easy as PI.
and OP: disgusting should not be used to describe once work nor pay.
/HC
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Don't pay for it in Australian dollars. They are awful. I would suggest Croatian currency or even Japanese Yen.
Did you enjoy the original game you bought? Then you have had value for money.
Did anyone force you to buy Horizons? Don't buy it, keep playing the base game, it is still supported - at the moment you just can't land on the surface or have a free black paintjob.
Your only issue would be feeling disappointed if you bought the base game at full price and then the next day it went on sale at £9.99 for a short while or maybe if you had bought the base game a couple of days before the pre-order Horizons purchasers were given a free week in the game.
But then it would just have been a case of hard-luck, you were not cheated it is just that others fell lucky.
Don't you just want a fair go mate?
Sigh, I still can't believe people are complaining about this... God...
Look buddy, Frontier needs to have money to keep developing the game. You played for a whole year, which is more than can be said for many AAA games out there for the price. Horizons comes with a good discount for current players, so it's not like you are paying full price for it...
I mean, let's see, most other games out there charge FOR the main game, charge FOR each and every expansion AND on top of that charge a monthly subscription of some sort.
Additionally, it's not like it is a new thing for new players to buy the expansion and get the main game. Pretty much most, if not all games as time goes by offer everything as a bundle, which is of course, much cheaper than if you started playing from the beginning. It's the NORM.
Being an early adopter, and getting to have a headstart time-wise does have a price.
Point being... seriously STOP complaining about this. Jesus Christ. Do you REALLY expect Frontier to keep developing the game for FREE?
I'm going to go punch a tree now, for lack of something else to hit. God.
Look buddy, Frontier needs to have money to keep developing the game. You played for a whole year, which is more than can be said for many AAA games out there for the price. Horizons comes with a good discount for current players, so it's not like you are paying full price for it...
I mean, let's see, most other games out there charge FOR the main game, charge FOR each and every expansion AND on top of that charge a monthly subscription of some sort.
Additionally, it's not like it is a new thing for new players to buy the expansion and get the main game. Pretty much most, if not all games as time goes by offer everything as a bundle, which is of course, much cheaper than if you started playing from the beginning. It's the NORM.
Being an early adopter, and getting to have a headstart time-wise does have a price.
Point being... seriously STOP complaining about this. Jesus Christ. Do you REALLY expect Frontier to keep developing the game for FREE?
I'm going to go punch a tree now, for lack of something else to hit. God.
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I fail to see your point considering I've put hundreds of hours into Free to Play games where I never spent a dime.
In fact, some of those games offer more depth than Elite (currently) does.
Unless Horizons add some serious depth to the game and not just the top layer of yet another activity we can do by <insert copy/paste mission template> repeatedly to grind some number like we do with local factions, powerplay, galactic factions and so on, then I am going to start saying several F2P titles offer more, at zero cost, than Elite does it a double-dip costs (for ED+Horizons).
I've paid full price for both, and I am happy with what I've got. I dont care what others paid, if others got a better deal, good for them. Life is way more fun when, at the start of your vacation, you dont ask the stranger next to you in the airplane what they paid for their ticket...
Don't buy Horizons. By the way, it's comical to bring up 'F'2P because if people don't pay then you won't have a game to play. Terribly flawed logic on your part.
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You are 100% correct. Do not listen to any of these fanboy, cult, brainwashed, never gamed before trolls who say different.
I paid for the beta test phase of thd xb release, now I realise Frontier have scammed me - apparently 'game tester' is actually a job, and they should have been paying ME!
I agree.
anyone that pays a dev studio for beta access is a nut job!
Life time owners and backers get beta access. yes
pre-order for beta access. yes
sign up for beta access. yes
pre-order game AND pay us some extra money. nope (this needs to stop being a thing imho)
You got 1.5 for free. New ships, 64 bit support, missions, all that jazz.
You don't have to get horizons to carry on playing the game.
What's with all the drama?
You don't have to get horizons to carry on playing the game.
What's with all the drama?
Well I finally got round to building a machine capable of running the game and bought ED then less than two months later Horizons is out. I should be annoyed because I've bought it twice in as many months. I'm not though as I see it as the money is going into the system that gave me the game in the first place. They'll use that cash to improve things even more. I already love it so will love it more and more.
I pay Xbox live £40 a year and hardly use it. I bought every version of Halo all th "extras" and several xbox's to play it on. In comparison ED and Horizons is cheap.
I pay Xbox live £40 a year and hardly use it. I bought every version of Halo all th "extras" and several xbox's to play it on. In comparison ED and Horizons is cheap.
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Star Citizen - the game you can pay $1500 for and not play for another 23 years
Ahem...And Elite: Dangerous will be finished when? I mean, its currently in Beta right?
I am constantly reminded to wait for features, it's not done yet etc, so can you please get your facts straight.
And you can play modules of SC now, similar to another unfinished space game (although they already have multi-crew ship, ship crew roles, fps / space combat space stations that you can walk around on, so yeah, totally way behind the FD game.)
Terribly limited perspective on your part. I payed to play Firefall (of which I have played squillions of hours) during it's Beta period. It is now free to play, which I accept. You can buy Red Beans which support the game and allow you to unlock cosmetic features, similar to paint jobs (although Firefall makers don't try and gouge your wallet like FD.) These don't affect the balance of the game world. You can buy new frames but you will still have to level those frames. All optional.
Please keep an open mind regarding F2P games.
Can you assemble enough idiots to fully crew one of their 'ships'?
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And if everyone was like you? Answer: no games.
Hmmm no. SC crashes within five minutes and is a buggy mess. Will all get sorted out, of course, but then they have to create systems to visit and things to do. The latter is important. You can run around on bases and ships shooting at each other, but we have yet to see what meaningful activities and missions will be available.
Name one Free to Play game that has more depth.
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