Frontier Interim Results: major new paid-for release will mark beginning of new era for Elite Dangerous, targeted for launch at the end of 2020

The exception has been (And I know I'm stealing a Certain Co-Hosts Thunder here) Guild Wars where they decided to completely do a new release. As Guild Wars and Elite: Dangerous are 'Buy Once and play' games (Not subscription or Fremium models), It might be in Frontier's interest to have the 'Classic' and New Era clients to be incompatible, thus forcing people to upgrade if they want to get the latest features.
Horizons already required an upgrade to get access to the latest features, without making it impossible to play together when not doing anything reliant on those features. But the base game client continued to get updated too with non-Horizons features, etc. And Horizons/non-Horizons players can play together so long as they don't get too close to a planet, which I think is probably very positive for new players getting into the game communities, without people having to keep no-expansion alt accounts. (Fuel Rats, for example)

I'd be surprised if any new expansion was different to that.
 
I agree. Wish they would do more stuff like that.

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It was the day everyone came out their pods, ate breakfast as normal only to have an enemy rip through someones abdomen like tissue paper.
 
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Frontier did register the Elite: Deadly trademark some years back. Could this be an opportunity to use that for the New Era?
 
Frontier did register the Elite: Deadly trademark some years back. Could this be an opportunity to use that for the New Era?

It will be interesting to know the name. Maybe FD will poke Hello Games who also had Beyond by naming it NEXT, Foundation etc?
 
Frontier doesn't pay dividends, the only way a shareholder makes money is by selling their shares for more than they purchased them for on the open market and it seems the market isn't that impressed as the price is down about 10% on the news.

Guess those shareholders are out of luck. Sorry T.j.

That -10% drop is only effective for the last couple days.
During the last year their shares have been steadily rising, I'm not worried at all, I've got shares in companies with a much higher risk value than the ones I got from Fdev.
Don't spread panic without a proper backup.
 
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