I hear people moaning about paying cash money for Horizons a lot, but I’d like to remind people of this:
1. You paid £34.99 for the original game (or down to £9.99 since December 2015)
2. That game is still playable, you don’t HAVE to buy Horizons at all
3. Check how much time you played the game – is it more than 100hrs? if so, It’s fair to say you got more than your monies worth. Compare how much each hour cost you compared to say cinema tickets to see Force Awakens?
4. Horizons is OPTIONAL – if you don’t think the new content is worth it, don’t buy it. It also sold on an ‘early Access’ principle, which means they are openly telling you that not all the content you are buying is in the game yet.
5. Future expansions will be OPTIONAL – the original game you played for is still there, and is still being upgraded (1.5 was a HUGE release).
6. Now if you do buy Horizons, for what… £34.99 ask yourself are you going to get more than 100 hours of game out of it – likely isn’t it?
7. Compare the value for money against other MMO’s not Singleplayer games? (Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, etc) e.g not Fallout 4. This is a dynamic ever changing and developing open world online roleplaying game – Fallout 4, is static and won’t develop or change other than with PAID DLC and the changes with HORIZONS are HUGE far beyond any 'couple of hours' play DLC, the technical accomplishment with what they have done is astounding and it’s going to get better with every patch, every minor release and every expansion pack - see this as an investment, not a price.
8. We are less than a year away to getting all that seasons content.
9. So Stop complaining
Do the Maths (not Math my Yankie friends, MATHS), the average Elite player has clocked up between 500-1000 hrs of playtime since its release in Dec 2014 – I think we are getting a bloody steal at £34.99 a year.. and the chances are (I suspect) that this time next year, the base game will either be free or very low cost, and Horizons will sell for about a tenner, and the new expansion £34.99 – their business model is almost identical to Arenanet and Guild Wars 2 and you don’t hear so much moaning about it over on their forums, in fact most people ‘get’ that they are getting one hell of a deal in comparison to World of Warcraft.
Now I understand lots of peeps are jelly about people like me who bought into beta backer status and only will ever have to pay that £120 way back in August 2014. But then I remind them, that without our investment, the game may not have ever seen the light of day. Frontier were on the brink of not releasing Elite at all, or worse, selling it to Microsoft. Plus, factor in that I’ve purchased about £100 worth of merchandise and paintjobs and bobbleheads? Seriously? I think I’m likely to pay more over the next 12 months on paint jobs and bobbleheads that I did for the ‘lifetime’ licence!
So.. in short.. I’m fed up with people moaning about how much the game cost.. these guys have families to feed and they are giving us the best MMO experience in history. I think we can cut this small, independent, awesome, amazing, humbling and entirely British company some slack.
Thank you.
1. You paid £34.99 for the original game (or down to £9.99 since December 2015)
2. That game is still playable, you don’t HAVE to buy Horizons at all
3. Check how much time you played the game – is it more than 100hrs? if so, It’s fair to say you got more than your monies worth. Compare how much each hour cost you compared to say cinema tickets to see Force Awakens?
4. Horizons is OPTIONAL – if you don’t think the new content is worth it, don’t buy it. It also sold on an ‘early Access’ principle, which means they are openly telling you that not all the content you are buying is in the game yet.
5. Future expansions will be OPTIONAL – the original game you played for is still there, and is still being upgraded (1.5 was a HUGE release).
6. Now if you do buy Horizons, for what… £34.99 ask yourself are you going to get more than 100 hours of game out of it – likely isn’t it?
7. Compare the value for money against other MMO’s not Singleplayer games? (Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, etc) e.g not Fallout 4. This is a dynamic ever changing and developing open world online roleplaying game – Fallout 4, is static and won’t develop or change other than with PAID DLC and the changes with HORIZONS are HUGE far beyond any 'couple of hours' play DLC, the technical accomplishment with what they have done is astounding and it’s going to get better with every patch, every minor release and every expansion pack - see this as an investment, not a price.
8. We are less than a year away to getting all that seasons content.
9. So Stop complaining
Do the Maths (not Math my Yankie friends, MATHS), the average Elite player has clocked up between 500-1000 hrs of playtime since its release in Dec 2014 – I think we are getting a bloody steal at £34.99 a year.. and the chances are (I suspect) that this time next year, the base game will either be free or very low cost, and Horizons will sell for about a tenner, and the new expansion £34.99 – their business model is almost identical to Arenanet and Guild Wars 2 and you don’t hear so much moaning about it over on their forums, in fact most people ‘get’ that they are getting one hell of a deal in comparison to World of Warcraft.
Now I understand lots of peeps are jelly about people like me who bought into beta backer status and only will ever have to pay that £120 way back in August 2014. But then I remind them, that without our investment, the game may not have ever seen the light of day. Frontier were on the brink of not releasing Elite at all, or worse, selling it to Microsoft. Plus, factor in that I’ve purchased about £100 worth of merchandise and paintjobs and bobbleheads? Seriously? I think I’m likely to pay more over the next 12 months on paint jobs and bobbleheads that I did for the ‘lifetime’ licence!
So.. in short.. I’m fed up with people moaning about how much the game cost.. these guys have families to feed and they are giving us the best MMO experience in history. I think we can cut this small, independent, awesome, amazing, humbling and entirely British company some slack.
Thank you.
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