David Braben on free & paid-for content after Beyond (from PC Gamer interview)

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From a substantial interview David gave to PC Gamer published in this month's issue:

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Bonus:

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More text has been posted by WCCFTech:

WCCFTech said:
What happened is we’ve become more visible, we’ve taken on around 50 people a year for the last few years, and that’s been really good for us. We’re in the new office which is really nice.

What it’s meant is we’ve continued to support and nurture the existing franchises. Elite Dangerous has continued to grow, the team size is actually getting bigger. Planet Coaster has continued to be supported. We’ve got the Adventure Pack, the Spooky Pack, the Studios Pack, there’s another one to come which we’ll be announcing shortly and then there will be more after that… Each of these things has some free stuff in and some paid stuff. And I personally don’t feel like there’s any issue with that. With the paid stuff, you’re getting a lot of new things. The Studios Pack also adds hotels and lots of other mechanics to do with that. We would do something similar with Jurassic World Evolution as well – continue to support it over time.

And then, of course, we’re hard at work on the fourth game. We’re not saying what that is yet, but we’ll say when it’s the right time, which will be a way off – probably either at the back end of the year or early next year. But obviously we’re excited about that as well, and with Jurassic World Evolution finishing, we’ll be kicking off other projects. We’ve already got a small team on the fifth game, we’re looking at it… so we have a nice flow-through.

From a staff point of view as well it’s also really good too because people who have been on Elite for five or six years now might want to change and we can offer that change inside the studio. And what’s good for Elite is it brings in a lot of fresh blood and fresh ideas, which is always good for a game. It keeps it alive and keeps it positive. The plan was – beyond the current season for Elite, which is mostly announced – there are a lot of things that we will be announcing that are really exciting, some of which will be free, some of which will be paid. So it’s that quite healthy mix that is very good for the studio and is really good for the game.
 
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Let's see how people are turning that one into a doom and gloom scenario. I'll start with 'David Braben lied to us before!' and 'How can he dare to announce an announcement!'

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He also said 'the plan was...'
Plans clearly changed and the game is abandoned. Doooooom!!!
 
The game media is bought by game companies and will print whatever they say. It is known since long that we must not believe what they write.

Also, there are green dots sprinkled all over the place. Highly suspicious! Fake news!!!!
 
I kinda predicted that it will be what this interview is about when I heard about it.

So congrats, Stuart, most likely big plan will be revealed at Gamescom. You were right.

Also I actually love that quote. If Horizons is evident of anything, some things *should* be part of core improvements. And some definitely can be premium.
 
The plan was to make announcements :D ...... some announcements will be free .... some announcements will be paid (out of David's own pocket?) [big grin]
 
The game media is bought by game companies and will print whatever they say. It is known since long that they we can not believe what they write.

Also, there are green dots sprinkled all over the place. Highly suspicious! Fake news!!!!
The photographer apologises for spraying their sandwich contents all over the magazine :x
 
Let's see how people are turning that one into a doom and gloom scenario. I'll start with 'David Braben lied to us before!' and 'How can he dare to announce an announcement!'

/s

PS
He also said 'the plan was...'
Plans clearly changed and the game is abandoned. Doooooom!!!

Seems you have managed it already.
 
The game media is bought by game companies and will print whatever they say. It is known since long that we must not believe what they write.

Also, there are green dots sprinkled all over the place. Highly suspicious! Fake news!!!!

If you zoom in on the 7th pixel on the 13th line, you can see David Braben handing over giant sack of cash to the guy who wrote the article. Media and Frontier corruption confirmed!!!!!111


On a more serious note - I am rather interested to see what will be free vs. paid content, despite being Life-time Expansion Pack owner.
 
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