How do i get a refund for the game?

Return it to the store you purchased it from, or seek a refund through the digital storefront you purchased it from. Subject to whatever terms those stores have for returns, same as any other game.

But, if you are one of the understandably salty, that has over a hundred hours in the game or something, just be prepared to be told to pound sand.
 
I'm feeling really sorry for the players on Console who purchased Elite under the promise from FDev that development would continue but will now not materialise. The least FD could and should (as it is the company that has pulled out) is honour any requested of refund.
 
Did any console player ever actually pay for an console version of Odyssey, or a contractual promise there-of?

I am very sympathetic to the disappointment of console players, but let's be honest here - they did actually receive what they paid for, and therefore refunds seem highly unlikely.
 
Did any console player ever actually pay for an console version of Odyssey, or a contractual promise there-of?

I am very sympathetic to the disappointment of console players, but let's be honest here - they did actually receive what they paid for, and therefore refunds seem highly unlikely.

It was never sold for consoles therefore nobody has a right to refund. There is nothing to refund.
 
Did any console player ever actually pay for an console version of Odyssey, or a contractual promise there-of?

I am very sympathetic to the disappointment of console players, but let's be honest here - they did actually receive what they paid for, and therefore refunds seem highly unlikely.
I'm sure they are talking about in reference to Horizons.

So yes you could say 'you paid for Horizons (or the base game) and you got that' from a pure product contract PoV. However it wasn't really sold like that was it so there is a case of false advertising i.e. you buy the base game with a very reasonable expectation for support in future updates and expansions.

Imagine as a PC player (pancake monitor) having bought the game in 2014 that Horizons never actually released and you quite reasonably bought the base game with the expectation of being able to buy the expansion for planet landing etc.... Yes you got the product and never got to buy Horizons so what's the problem right nothing to refund?

Same goes for VR, many of us bought a lifetime expansion pass for a game that "is designed from the ground up to support Virtual Reality and 4K Ultra HD display technology" 🤔

Without going into the depths of consumer law etc its not good is it, just purely from a perspective of how you treat customers and the gaming community regardless of your platform. Even for PC players think back to the disruption porting ED to consoles must have caused, they basically put the game into mainainence mode for years whilst that went on and how good that was supposed to be for the future of the game.
 
Without going into the depths of consumer law etc
Indeed, let's not, but suffice it to say, there is no chance that. in purchasing, receiving, and using Licence A, wherein no contractual obligation to provide Licence B was present, a legal obligation of refund would arise when said Licence B did not materialize.

As to your continuation regarding the optics of the whole thing - no, the whole thing does not look good - the scale of this fiasco is certainly reflected in FDev's share price. Someone did the math, and decided the best way forward was to throw console under the bus. I feel very sorry for the players, I really do - but none of that is going to lead to refunds. Apart from anything else, exactly who would be entitled to a refund - everyone who purchased the console version every? It's not going to happen.
 
The disappointment is entirely understandable, so much of this game's hype was the prospect of the future development. Unfortunately, that doesn't do much to force Frontier to offer refunds unless they want to, and even then there might be problems with Microsoft and Sony.

I'd be curious to know about what they did for Mac players when the Mac version became completely unplayable. All I heard was that Frontier looked into it "on an individual basis". Although even that situation, which has pretty clear justification for refunds, offers little protection to the customer. Games as a service, woohoo :)
 
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