I bought the game on steam a few weeks back, but just put down on the website for the lifetime expansion. Will I be able to access the content when released?
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Everything is just in your words
Really looking forward to Landing on planets. Even if Atmospheric planets might be another year out, I'll still have a side of jollies rolling across the Moon! 
Don't be upset, all games are like this, you buy the game for 50eur and then expansions later, expansions in this case have a lot of content, they don't just add some cosmetics to the game, they are whole new gameplay features, like buying a new game set in the same universe
Ahh gotcha, the beta servers are just temporary things so nothing to log into now.
Cheers.
Really looking forward to Landing on planets. Even if Atmospheric planets might be another year out, I'll still have a side of jollies rolling across the Moon!
And fly over the Olympus mons on Mars
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I second that, as an ex WoW player I spent well over $150 on expansions. Glad I quit that a long time ago. At least there is no subscription fees.
I I think at that stage they need to have icons and text, rather than fully rendered 3d
its just too much too ask for.
some kind of sim city type layout
or perhaps scans and grids and graphs
it needs to have some kind of dynamic and playable level other than trying to do everything
i loved millennium 2.2 for this reason, it mixed game styles within the game
See here
http://youtu.be/GmcF0a6oiFU
so you have landing, then cut to this kind of set up
i agree with real time rover vehicle to the zone your into, or go through them scanning,
but once you settle on a place to do something. The dynamics have to change
it makes the most sense and keeps the immersion, and doesn't try to do something it cant
Great news. I have one question though.
- What will happen to my steam version if I will buy the Horizons via the ED shop? Will I get the needed updates via steam also or will I have to be forced to use the standalone? So far when I bought something in the store I had it available even though it was not bought via Steam. How will this work with season passes? Because if you will be selling the seasons on steam too, then they will be counted as DLC's and if I will not have keys for them, the data required for the packages will not download or it will and it will be handled differently? Thank you for an answer on this.
- What will happen to my steam version if I will buy the Horizons via the ED shop? Will I get the needed updates via steam also or will I have to be forced to use the standalone? So far when I bought something in the store I had it available even though it was not bought via Steam. How will this work with season passes? Because if you will be selling the seasons on steam too, then they will be counted as DLC's and if I will not have keys for them, the data required for the packages will not download or it will and it will be handled differently? Thank you for an answer on this.
This bit has me confused. If you own the game + spend £40 on it you'll still have to spend another £30 for Horizons?
What's the £40 for, if not Horizons? Ship paintjobs? Not sure I understand.
That's the point, this game is online but without fees, you buy the expansions you want, no restrictions forced on players like in all other mmos, it well worths paying for the expansions or the lifetime pass
OK, that sounds much more reasonable. Let's see if that's a one-off or whether there will be extra charges for future expansion --although with the money they've cashed simply by selling ships costing hundreds of dollars they should not have to (and let's also see whether it is possible to access these expensive ships reasonably easily with in-game credits).
I get the feeling you're buying "Horizons" for £30, which will come with several updates for the price you pay, like we got four free updates this past 8 months. Or if you just buy the lifetime expansion and consider that you're getting a subscription free game with major annual updates for £130. The idea is that this game will last at least a decade, so consider it as buying the game for £10 and paying just £1 per month subscription and anything after the decade is free. LOL
I'm in the same boat, purchased originally on steam, but just got lifetime pass on store. I'm sure they will figure something out. Hopefully steam keys to unlock the live content and just download beta versions from website?
I really hope the "boundaries" in Horizons have an in-universe explanation.
I.e. if I fly down into the atmosphere and another pilot who hasn't paid can't follow me, I hope they get the message "Warning: no landing guidance module installed, destruction imminent" and not "Warning: expansion not purchased, if you would like to follow target..."
Similarly, I hope there's a good explanation in-game of why we can land on airless planets but not ELWs etc.
I.e. if I fly down into the atmosphere and another pilot who hasn't paid can't follow me, I hope they get the message "Warning: no landing guidance module installed, destruction imminent" and not "Warning: expansion not purchased, if you would like to follow target..."
Similarly, I hope there's a good explanation in-game of why we can land on airless planets but not ELWs etc.
No, and I suspect it will be quite a while until we know (but I'll take a stab at 2nd half of November).
Meanwhile at the Frontier Developments Headquarters:
[video=youtube;ZeET7Z1ZGlw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeET7Z1ZGlw[/video]
[video=youtube;ZeET7Z1ZGlw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeET7Z1ZGlw[/video]
No, it will say "No planetary navigation module installed, please buy it on our website at the best pricing!"
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