Expansion Pricing
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AFAIK there's no details on any expansion pack prices.
Expansion packs help keep the money flowing in and help pay towards the costs of development and operating the game. If you mean £5 by a few quid, then I suspect you'll be out of luck. I'd hazard a guess that the expansions will be £9.99-£19.99, but that's just pure speculation on my part.
Expansion packs help keep the money flowing in and help pay towards the costs of development and operating the game. If you mean £5 by a few quid, then I suspect you'll be out of luck. I'd hazard a guess that the expansions will be £9.99-£19.99, but that's just pure speculation on my part.
It's not going to be an expansion from the way it's been described, but a whole new game that is linked to the one we now have with regards to the future out of the cockpit and walking around game release.
So people not wishing to purchase it won't be affected detrimentally by it. Hence the price is likely to be around the £35 mark again, but I'm sure if more recent news has been posted someone will correct me
I'll see well, the planetary landings, to £ 45
To me it's very unfair to say planetary landing and fps module are "content patches that should be core features". It's bigger than that.
Also, the only games that give content patches for free are the ones with monthly fees. Content has never been free.
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If you really think that paying more money for such fundamental expansion content like planetary landing and fpa is silly, then you should immediately turn your back on this game.
Did you really think this trough? To me a statement like that shows that you have no idea of the immensity of this project. The fundamental expansions are not just some horse armor you know. planetary landing not just entails putting your ship down on a planet and that's it. It entails much more than we had in Frontier for example. These expansions could easily be considered games in themselves and Frontier has to make money to be able to develop these expansions and to live up to the high quality standards they have set for themselves.
Of course I've thought about it, to the point where regardless of size, I do consider it content that should be a core part of the game.
I know very well how much work is put into a game like this, but nobody can truly be happy about spending a sum equivalent to another game, as some have suggested, for this additional content.
I know the size of the game, I know what the game is about, and I know that I want to play it. None of these are in question here. What is in question is how much they can expect us to pay for tacked on parts of the game that make it a whole, rather than a content rich experiment.
If they need more money, they should just release proper Die Cast models of Cobra III and Vipers... Which fan wouldn't want to proudly display their ship of choice on their desk...
Agreed. I'd happily have a cobra or an asp or any other ship from the game on my desk.
I dont see this as unfair. I know they are substantial parts, which is why I consider them parts that should be core.
I know the development team is probably smaller than usual for such a project, but if that was the case, they could have planned for a longer release, rather than divide the game up and require more payments.
If you were to receive any game these days with such a large amount missing, you would be rightly annoyed. Imagine buying a total war game, (or any example you like), and then realising that in order to access the boat or troop battles you need to pay another full price game rate.
Sure, you might have a fun game to play without those parts, but you would be fair in thinking "why didn't they delay the game a year and put those big parts of the game in".
I could understand if the features were small, completely optional things that wouldn't be game changing, but doing it this way will encourage everybody to go for it, because it just wont be the same without it.
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It's not going to be an expansion from the way it's been described, but a whole new game that is linked to the one we now have with regards to the future out of the cockpit and walking around game release.
So people not wishing to purchase it won't be affected detrimentally by it. Hence the price is likely to be around the £35 mark again, but I'm sure if more recent news has been posted someone will correct me
Seems like it will be detrimental to people without it, to the point where they might feel obliged to get it to actually experience the game they should have.
I can appreciate £5, and even £10 at a push, but if they try and force not only one, but two £20-£40 expansions on us for content that should be available to everybody, im not sure I can stay happy with the company.
Dont get me wrong, im excited to play the game come the 16th, but its a bit of a pushy move by the devs. We have already paid full game price for something that wont be fully complete without such features.
If they need more money, they should just release proper Die Cast models of Cobra III and Vipers... Which fan wouldn't want to proudly display their ship of choice on their desk...
Quote from David Braben at the Elite: Dangerous Premiere regarding Ship Models - I'm excited!
If they need more money, they should just release proper Die Cast models of Cobra III and Vipers... Which fan wouldn't want to proudly display their ship of choice on their desk...
See, even I would appreciate marketing moves like this. They could even just adopt a similar system to star citizen where by they give small rewards, or offer subscriber newsletters etc. (to my knowledge frontier dont).
However, if they are in trouble money wise, why did they have a slap up press event recently, which likely wasn't cheap.
Forcing us (this is how I view it, at least), to adopt further high cost expansions is a cheeky move.
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Sounds cool.... now if only there would be a successful lego ideas model made. I saw a post by another guy on the fan forum or something... he made some really nice lego sidewinders and cobras!
Asking for planetary landing as a core feature of the game is asking for wayy too much. Planetary landing alone will effectively double the content of the game.
Yes, but you are thinking of the current elite as a full game.....
I mean, really all it is, is a bunch of ships in a largely empty procedurally generated space.
It is very impressive and I dont mean to decry what they have achieved, but I dont consider it a feature complete game on its own.
I do not think asking for the expansions to be actual core content is too far... I think asking for extra money for those features is too far.
Its clearly worked as a marketing technique, because people WILL buy them precisely to make their game/experience complete.
You may be doubling the content of the current game as it is now, but that is fair enough, because at that point it will be closer to a full game.
I hate to have to resort to a "star citizen herp" comparison, but its the most obvious one.... Sure frontier might not have as big a budget or as much hype, but to be fair to roberts, they are offering the complete experience for a much more competitive price. Sure we will have to wait a lot longer, but why couldnt that have been done with elite?
The whole problem with your stance is that FD have stated right from the beginning that these features would come in the form of a paid for expansion, you bought the game after they had said that. If you did not look into the game properly that is your problem but there is no way that you can complain about something that has been there from the start .
Oh im aware of that, and I did buy it knowing that... So be it and all that. Im not going to be one of those special people who boycott a game that they will enjoy just because they dont agree with one thing.
I do have a problem with this method of marketing, though, which means I have more than enough reason to complain and discuss it. As far as I see it, while its very unlikely that my little discussion about it will make a difference or instigate a change, Im more than willing to open the conversation about it in the hopes that there is a change. Staying silent about such a thing helps nobody. Nobody can be truly happy with having to pay over the odds for this games content.
You can have a problem with my stance all you want, but I still view the content as something that should have been core content. Nothing will change that view.
The whole point of this thread was more to discover if there has been any news about actual price points. I would be far happier with this awful technique if the price is reasonable, say £5-£10, but if they charge much more for that, my good will goes out of the window, regardless of how good the product is.
My problem is that they have done it in the first place. They make the game you have always dreamed of playing, then make you pay three times as much as a normal game to access all of it.
I'm going to take a wild guess here.
Each expansion will prob cost around £14.99 i cannot see them costing any more than that tbh.
As most common expansions are normally around that price,I'm assuming FD ones won't be that far off.
As i have the unlimited expansion anyway the price wont effect me tbh.
Each expansion will prob cost around £14.99 i cannot see them costing any more than that tbh.
As most common expansions are normally around that price,I'm assuming FD ones won't be that far off.
As i have the unlimited expansion anyway the price wont effect me tbh.
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I doubt you can possible appreciate how much work will be involved in adding Planetary Landing or EVA modes. Have you seen the size of even one planet?!? Yes it most likely will all be procedural, but the size of the task involved is enormous. From the sheer amount of extra graphics content to development of new physics models for surface vehicles that the player can use to modelling and animating wildlife to QA of all that content and then layering on meaningful mission or story structures over that. You simple have no idea mate. What exactly do you think they pay their employees for all this vast amount of work?!? Get real. It will be an extra cost and you know what an extra £35 is fine by me tbh. I'd rather pay that than a monthly charge which in the end results in me paying even more over a year/s in the long run. Its an immense task and the fact you even mention Star Citizen pricing model is laughable. That project is a mess. Multiple studios work on different pieces of the game and then they've got to some how bring it all together in a year and half time and prey it all works together? No thanks. I like Frontiers approach. They have a complete game right now. You can be a pirate, a mercenary, a trader, a miner, an explorer, I mean what more do you want. For two years work that is phenomenal, they have a living galaxy that has factions and at launch the beginnings of a large political storyline that you can be involved in if you want. They have 400 billion star systems, accurately (to the best theories out there) modelled.
I just don't get people's negativity. God help you if you decide that ELITE isn't for you and go off to some other game like Star Citizen or EVE cos you'll be in for a rude awakening my friends.
I just don't get people's negativity. God help you if you decide that ELITE isn't for you and go off to some other game like Star Citizen or EVE cos you'll be in for a rude awakening my friends.
Well heres to hoping that this is the max.
Let me just clarify for anybody else here, im not trying to upset loyal frontier supporters or anything the like, I'm just discussing it openly.
Im not happy with the model, thats all. Doesn't mean I'm completely right, but its how I feel.
I was hoping for something les than £10, but this is a business, so unfortunately thats unlikely. If only though!
I hope they do so well off of other stuff (statues), or open up other funding, so they can go back on the idea fully.