No MMO I know of has a 'funny hat' that is purely cosmetic.
https://eu.battle.net/shop/en/product/game/wow?categories=helms
(I don't even play but it took me 30 seconds to find it.
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No MMO I know of has a 'funny hat' that is purely cosmetic.
I don't mind Frontier bringing in revenue form other platforms at all, if it eventually gets us the missing features. I actually wouldn't mind a subscription fee, and I've changed my stance on 'cash for credits' or 'microtransactions' to 'meh, ok, whatever' if it keeps the game going and we see continued development on features 'we' (read I) actually want.
We will, we will.PP was 1.3, we haven't had the disappointing 1.4 yet.![]()
They will in a CG.As long as they keep Solo I don't care what you pay to win, you won't be winning against me.
As per the above, I think that trying to impose a subscription onto people who bought a 'pay once play for life' offer would be such a PR disaster that it could destroy the company.
I have also moved on the 'pay to win' debate, if not quite as far as you. It seems rather silly to complain about 'pay to win' when we have players flying about with all sorts of ill-gotten gains through exploits, stupidities like not resetting the gamma, poorly calculated bonuses (the first player to Sag A* got something like 300 Million for it ...), badly balanced game play (spamming 'seeking luxuries' anyone?) and so on.
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We will, we will.
So Michael explicitly says in the new update here:
The most obvious benefit comes from the income. We have chosen not to go down the route of subscriptions or 'pay to win', but we do need income to support the game, and so far most of that is coming from adding new customers, so it is in all our interests to get more people playing.
You know what? That's absolutely fine with me. I welcome CQC, I welcome the XBox guys. The more money there is for development the better for everyone. (Speaking of which, you really should make decals and paint jobs in the store a priority).
This week was a bad coincidence for me. I contributed to some of the negativity in the forum, but for a completely different reason. I wanted PC NEWS from E3, I wanted news about the paid expansions (First Expansion Coming Xmas 2015!) or something.
But I was not, have not and shall not be upset about Frontier broadening their revenue stream and welcome their attempts to do so. Thanks for not going 'pay to win'!
Just my two euro-cent.
I still say Frontier should do this.Custom paint jobs would be good...
Personally I don't mind that Elite Dangerous is on console because I know that money is the core of all businesses. But I what I'm asking from FD is for them not to be a sold out and treat PC gamers as second class citizen, and by that I mean that consoles get amazing exclusive while PC gets to watch console players enjoy it. If it wasn't for PC gamers funding Elite Dangerous on Kickstarter then the game might never even exist. So I guess what I'm really asking is for FD to treat everyone equally because more often than not I see developers turning their backs on PC gamers and switch to console gamers instead. But if FD wanna give backers a little something special as a thank you in the future for supporting them then that's fine too.
I still say Frontier should do this.
Release a template for each ship that can be opened in an image editor
People design the paintjob and save it to a specified format
They send the paintjob to Frontier who check it for copyright and legal issues
(let's say there's no more work to be done on it at this point other than making it work for that ship) They then put it in their store
Benefits:
*More paintjobs for different ships - saves Frontier the work of designing the paintjobs
*Community feels invovled
*Frontier make money from selling them
I'd say win-win all around. I may not be up to Mobius' standards, but I have made content in this ^^^ way for a game (Myst Online Uru Live), and you can go play it right now and use my content.
When the XB1 version gets launched, patches on PC will have to go through Console certification first, 2 weeks generally.
That'll be the major drawback of bringing the game to console.
Patches won't be so quick bar hotfixes.