Horizons Cobra Mk IV???

This portion leads you to believe you get a discount and the Cobra IV
For a limited time all existing
Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship when ordering the
Elite Dangerous: Horizons through the Frontier Store.
This portion says you get the discount and unlocks the Cobra IV for purchase
Discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Those who take advantage of this offer will be able to purchase the Cobra MkIV in-game when
Elite Dangerous: Horizons lands.


and is all very confusing...

P.S. Im in game and the Cobra MKIV is listed at 764,718...
 
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Based on this I think Frontier needs to come out with a statement regarding this... Back when the announcement first came out a lot of us were talking about the Cobra Mk IV and when we would get it.. and now the confusion appears to be whether that is the case or not?

There has been statement after statement, in this very thread from the executive producer. How is this horse being resurrected and beat to death again? There was one statement one time that was ambiguous enough that you might be able to think you would be given one, and every other statement has been so obvious that it would just be unlocked that you'd have to lock yourself in a basement with "I'm being given a free mkIV" painted all over the walls to keep believing you'd be given a free mkIV.
 
This is definitely the line I saw "For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship".

From that I inferred that I would have a free MKIV added to my ship inventory. It is not a case of how much the ship costs but of how the statement was worded, and the wording here clearly points to a £10 discount and a Cobra MKIV in game. There is no mention of having to buy it or have access to it!
 
Yes the wordage used to me seemed as if youd get a free MKIV but just a misunderstanding, could have been reworded. The backers however got a free Viper MKIV with this release.


This really isn't much af a big deal. We're talking about ~350K credits. Although it's going to be less for me because i'm going to strip and sell my III and buy a IV :) the cobra ai a really nice ship si i kept mine when i upgraded. and now it's even nicer and will look good on the surface :))

Its just over 760K
 
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It was CLEARLY stated that it will be FREE OF CHARGE, as a "present" , "reward", what u wanna call it, for pre-order the game, or like me, that i bought the base game on march and then the lifetime pass , expending over 60USD + 180USD later, and you know what?? YOU CAN KEEP THE SHIP... I DONT WANT IT NOW!!

I just expected the gift to be there waiting in the hangar to be "selected", not to "buy" it....


GREAT MOVE FRONTIER! REALLY GOOD.
 
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This is definitely the line I saw "For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship".

From that I inferred that I would have a free MKIV added to my ship inventory. It is not a case of how much the ship costs but of how the statement was worded, and the wording here clearly points to a £10 discount and a Cobra MKIV in game. There is no mention of having to buy it or have access to it!

Except in every other statement about it other than the only one you found yourself able to pay attention to....curious.
 
This is definitely the line I saw "For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship".

From that I inferred that I would have a free MKIV added to my ship inventory. It is not a case of how much the ship costs but of how the statement was worded, and the wording here clearly points to a £10 discount and a Cobra MKIV in game. There is no mention of having to buy it or have access to it!

It does not mention anything about in-game in that sentence! You cant just add in-game onto the end of it.

Let me try.. "For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship through the post as a cardboard cutout"

Nope nothing in the post as yet... :)
 
I don't recall any statement made about the fact that you need to buy it; nor that it was exclusive to certain players.
Instead now I see that it is exclusive to certain players, and on top of that it cost 600K and it is worst than a regular Mk3 Cobra.

What a deal! :) You can keep it.

Even the bubblehead, which where in beta, are now items to buy on the store...add this to the outrageous price for the expansion; I can see that Frontier cash are pretty dry, and trying to monetize on anything.

Not my problem; glad about that, but I would really reconsider how you handle your customers.
 
Except in every other statement about it other than the only one you found yourself able to pay attention to....curious.

Man you really seem rather bitter this evening lol.

Why would I go searching for other threads or statements regarding a freebie - I read the original ad, and paid my money for the lifetime pass whilst getting my £10 discount - job done. Just because the goal posts may or may not have subsequently been changed doesn't alter the fact that originally the ad read 'plus an exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship'.

Now regardless of the fact that I would have bought the game whether the ship was free or not you cannot advertise something then backpedal once a contract has been entered into. It's the principle of the thing more than anything else...lets face it, it is hardly a ground-breaking ship and in the grand scheme of things relatively cheap in game terms. :)
 
I was quoting the current Store web page that still says both and is why I said it was/is confusing... Check the part in red...

https://www.frontierstore.net/games/elite-dangerous-cat/elite-dangerous-horizons-beta.html/


There has been statement after statement, in this very thread from the executive producer. How is this horse being resurrected and beat to death again? There was one statement one time that was ambiguous enough that you might be able to think you would be given one, and every other statement has been so obvious that it would just be unlocked that you'd have to lock yourself in a basement with "I'm being given a free mkIV" painted all over the walls to keep believing you'd be given a free mkIV.
 
For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship when ordering the Elite Dangerous: Horizons through the Frontier Store. Discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Those who take advantage of this offer will be able to purchase the Cobra MkIV in-game when Elite Dangerous: Horizons lands.

probably should have been

For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus exclusive access to the Cobra Mark IV ship when ordering the Elite Dangerous: Horizons through the Frontier Store. Discount will be automatically applied at checkout. Those who take advantage of this offer will be able to purchase the Cobra MkIV in-game when Elite Dangerous: Horizons lands.
 
There has been statement after statement, in this very thread from the executive producer. How is this horse being resurrected and beat to death again? There was one statement one time that was ambiguous enough that you might be able to think you would be given one, and every other statement has been so obvious that it would just be unlocked that you'd have to lock yourself in a basement with "I'm being given a free mkIV" painted all over the walls to keep believing you'd be given a free mkIV.

Apparently you cannot read either... try again: "For a limited time all existing Elite Dangerous players will receive a £10 loyalty discount plus the exclusive Cobra Mark IV ship"

Note the word PLUS

THIS is why there is confusion... That is not the only statement made where it is eluded to that we got the actual ship in our hanger free...

Which is why the question was asked.. And there has NOT been a single statement from Frontier in this thread about this because I created this thread today and have been watching it...
 
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Hmm... From reading this post, I too was under the impression that the Cobra MK IV was going to be free..

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=172167&page=13&p=2637465&viewfull=1#post2637465

05/08/2015, 10:04 AM Click here to go to the next staff post in this thread. #185
Michael Brookes
Executive Producer
Frontier Employee

Quote Originally Posted by 1500 View Post
So if we already have the life time pass do we still get the Cobra Mk IV for free? PB player asking.
Yes, you'll get the Cobra MkIV.

Michael

(Please forgive my ungainly copy & pasting 'skills').
 
Guess next I'll have to higher a team of lawyers to comb the preorder page next expansion to make sure there aren't any more catch all words that will be taken literally to screw me over on release
Just wondering, how many people actually feel they are being screwed over by something like this?

Personally I think anyone who's feeling even a little butthurt about not getting a free CIV should get over it. It's 750k credits, and unless you're in your first 20 hours or so this is not much at all.

To the many of you who may be in your first 20 hours, you'd you'd probably lose your CIV real quick considering the hull alone is a 37,500cr rebuy. Anyone who'd consider selling it will be missing out on a lot of the rather meaningful early game of credit pinching.
 
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