I figured as much. I'm good with that.
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I figured as much. I'm good with that.
Frontier has to fund development somehow --unlike SC which has obscene amounts of cash by just selling some insanely expensive ship models. Arguably that was a better option because people who are prepared to put that sort of money down for, essentially, a 3D picture of a ship obviously are not that fussed about money, which keeps the game affordable for people who are. But here you have to accept that the original £35,-- got you a year's game play that later buyers didn't have. Like I paid a premium once for PC performance that ten years down the line people can now buy for peanuts. You will always pay less later for the same thing now.
If you're not happy to do that, then wait a few years until Elite Dangerous has developed into what you want it to be and buy then.
I think your probably correct. I believe the idea is that you will need to transition from supercruise to 'orbital cruise' or something that allows you land (and your machine to load said planet). So you will likely need an orbital cruise module to land, which may just be built into the FSD for ships that are part of Horizons. A non-Horizons player would likely see you disappear as if you jumped into supercruise. Time will tell.
See, I'm exploring the Galaxy right now. I'm out in the big black for just under 2 days on my 7th lengthy trip (2nd in my shiny Asp).
While I'm gone, they bring in planets. But better than that - they announce the new Cobra IV.
OMG!
The Cobra III is still my favourite all rounder. How can they improve on it I wonder. Looking forward to finding out though
(also glad they haven't mentioned XBones. Love the PC.)
While I'm gone, they bring in planets. But better than that - they announce the new Cobra IV.
OMG!
The Cobra III is still my favourite all rounder. How can they improve on it I wonder. Looking forward to finding out though
(also glad they haven't mentioned XBones. Love the PC.)
Expansion Pack ?
You pay around 35$ i think because you already have bought ED before. 35$ is fine for an AddOn with more stuff to come in the future already included.
At least this is my opinion.
But the Lifetime Pass is a bit too steep i think. It was 140$ for Kickstarter as the Main Game was already included and now it is 180 when i already have the main game?
(And Paintjobs, Merchandise, DVD, Soundtrack CD etc. for over 200€ )
Also i definitely can't just afford this much money to spend this month.
Half a Year ago i might had paid this much, but i lost a good amount of enthusiasm for Frontier and Elite Dangerous since then.
(Especially with the 1.3 Powerplay announcement and the final "grindfest-for-the-jobless"-product it actually is. And the last of the promised ships suddenly are only "variants" with the same cockpit.)
So i think i will stay with the lowest price option now.
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You have no idea what the planetary landings will be like. All you have seen is a CGI trailer. Why not chill your boots a bit? You made a hell of a lot of presumptions already, based on nothing.
Instead of living in the past, and trying to preserve this odd ideal of what you think the game should be like, in an industry that has moved on 30 years. Instead think to yourself, if you did land on planets, why wouldn't you walk round and explore? and in that situation, why wouldn't you be armed????
More importantly, why wouldn't you want to????????? Its not like you can't still do the other things in the game. And we don't know what else will be added yet either. However, please, keep your blinkers on and stay with the naysayer crowd that always pops up on the forums. On every forum.
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Brilliant.
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It's pathetic that people who don't own the game and buy Horizons will get full access to it and base ED when the thing launches. Hell, I would rather wait two years and buy the last season update with everything included than to pay 50£ every 12 months.
Time to show a bit of real loyalty to your early supporters instead of thanking us for the privilege of giving you money.
Time to show a bit of real loyalty to your early supporters instead of thanking us for the privilege of giving you money.
Thank you for taking the time to answer so many queries in this thread. Hugely appreciated.
Damn. Agreed! =\
Not played for the last five or six months, this looks interesting, but CGI smoke and mirrors is a bit of an FD strong point. So far the development seems to have been quite slow and mostly uninteresting this year, at least from my own point of view. Hopefully as more information about this expansion (which as I predicted back in December would be Q4 2015) becomes available it will paint a fuller picture with some new depth and make it worth returning, till then I will continue to keep a very interested eye on things
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It better be discounted considering some us paid nearly 69$ dollars for elite back in early may when it was released on steam.
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Both, expansion pack and lifetime pass
£50,--? Most of us have spent more on a good night out. Let's keep perspective.
Planetary landings: will they be instanced like Unkown signals?
Will there still be no story and "no point" to play other than to fly a space ship and err... fly? I got tired of Elite too fast due to lack of story and social interaction...
Thanks for any answer in advance
This is all we know so far:
Whether that translates into some rich dynamic content, or repetitive pointless gameplay, who knows.
But I'm willing to spend the $45 to find out.
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OR this
I just remembered, I'm a premium beta player with lifetime expansion pack....
The right choice at the right time
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