Principle
Any date on when thr Mandalay goes on sale for in game credits?
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Principle
Why spend when you don’t have to? They probably have a large backlog of games they can go through that they bought in previous sales while they wait for the other ones to go on sale.
Might be time to do something about old Archie if it doesn't arrive this year...
The principle of not paying for art that you enjoy?
Or waiting to pay whatever value one personally sees it to be because they’re in no hurry to get it.
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for me it is the principle that I paid more for elite dangerous than any other game in my almost 40 years of gaming (partly) on the basis that it included all paid DLC for the game.
now you can debate whether ships are DLC however bottom line despite enjoying elite immensely over the last decade my wallet is closed until we see some major expansion which costs actual money. (at which point I will buy some ARX).
also personally I don't enjoy stuff in game bought with cash, I much prefer to earn stuff ingame and the idea of a free rebuy ship totally turns me off.
I do love (not aimed at this poster specifically as I have no idea how much they supported the game, but historic posts from other players) players who got the game stupidly cheap telling me I need to support the game if I want it to be developed. imo I have done my bit
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Salesman of the month! lol I see what you did there, and well done sir, well done. I'm sold, and I wasn't even looking for a new ship!
Fdev should have a pic of you up on the wall in the breakroom. hahahaFor a 10yr old live service game, they have to have a store with dangling carrots. I think its a respectable approach they took for the transactions. Support your favorite game by throwing them a bone every now and then. I mean they don't have to allow the ship to be purchased for credits at all, but they decided to throw us players a bone. Op, you just have to hurry up and wait, you know principles.
Mmm hmm. Well stated. A topic that transcends all markets, you could write a book on this topic. Psychology and economics, I call it the bigshot syndrome.
But if they are in no hurry, how can this thread exist?
Wanting to know when something might happen while at the same time waiting for it to happen are not mutually exclusive.
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My apologies, I was basing that on the webpage announcement published in the 22nd October. As pointed out below, the release was delayed until the 31st October. Sorry
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But.... it is available. I know it for sure. I have one.
For in-game credits
Hope is a dangerous thing.
I'm in this camp as well. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy old timer, I remember when buying a AAA game was £39.99 and I thought that was expensive! £59.99 and even £69.99 are now common price tags. (I get costs have risen in 15 years but still...)
I'm currently waiting on several games to drop in price: HZD: Forbidden West still £49.99 (coming up to a year after release for the PC port, and original PS version came out in 2022!!)
I would finally like to try the Final Fantasy Remake (PC) but still a little too rich for my blood, admittedly Rebirth PC port only just released so its gonna be pricey.
Lol I sound like a grumpy old timer booooo.
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Costs have risen over the last 15 years. And that's not even taking into account recent hyperinflation in some countries, as normal inflation is always kept slightly positive, which means that everything becomes more and more expensive over time.
In fact, I find it surprising that the typical new triple-A game has been about 60 $/€ for the last 15 or so years. Only a few games have dared to try to break that barrier, and even they tend to be a small fraction of all new games.
AAA games are literally cheaper today, and in addition to that the production value is higher too
If you use an inflation calculator and find old magazines or newspapers that reliably date the prices of games, then crunch the numbers between similar-tier games, you'll notice that today you pay less and get more than ever before. (With some exceptions; we won't mention that you could have dropped $5,000 for Star Citizen and not have it yet
)(Likewise, I remember when ice-cream was 35 cents. The same thing today is $7, but I expect ice-cream is probably not more expensive today than it was then)
So there's no need to be grumpy! We live in a golden age of gaming
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Once upon a time, publishers had to pay for games to be copied to a medium and distributed. Quite a saving there.
I felt the same way but finally resigned myself to having been ripped off by the lifetime pass. Nearly 10 years later, Elite still gets most of my gaming time and I want it to continue. The only way that's going to happen is if players throw more money at it. So I bought $60 in arx and treated myself to a Mandalay. I'm bitter about it but that's the reality we're living in.
Ten years... and it gets most of your gaming time... you could have paid the LEP price five times over and that would still come out as insanely good value for money. Sure, with 20/20 hindsight it turned out that an ever better deal could have been had (probably... so far...), ok you picked the lesser of two incredible bargains, either of which cost almost nothing next to the hours you got out of them, but you feel "resigned" and "bitter" about not saving even more money ten years ago, a difference in money so tiny that even if you had saved it you wouldn't be able to discern any material difference in your life today, ten years later
The point of your comment was that you've found it's better to let it go and move with the new landscape, so I know me making this reply is beside your point, but it's really striking what you said. Your worst enemy this whole time has been you (and if "ripped off" is still how you feel then you're likely still undermining yourself while still pointing the finger elsewhere.) Our brains are like that, but tell your brain to knock that off and be on your side for a change
...Ten years, dude, the LEP was probably among the best purchases you've ever made (and there's no end in sight yet either). You won a medal in the bargain Olympics, doesn't matter if it was bronze, silver, or gold. Be proud and enjoy the heck out of it!
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