I know we're all excited about chapter 4 but how about that "Premium Content"?

In the Important Community Update quite a large bucket of cold water was dumped on expectations as to what the Premium Content that would be free to LEPers could be.

However in the section quoted below Zac reaffirmed that they would be delivering something.

As many of you will know, we previously mentioned that premium (paid for) content would also be coming within the Beyond season of updates and that Lifetime Expansion Pass holders would be getting this for free. However, as we went through the early stages of what the next era for Elite Dangerous would be, we decided that it would be better to spend that additional time on the future content, rather than bringing new types of purchasable content out this year.

This is a big positive for the long term future of the game and its content. However, we also understand that there are people with Lifetime Expansion Passes who haven’t received paid for content in this season, because Beyond has been free to all owners of Horizons. We truly appreciate the support and commitment that those owners put in us when they purchased the LEP and we will be making sure that there is a form of free store content going out to them by the end of this year.

I think it's time for some confirmation as to what it will be, if it will be available to players who didn't stump up for a LEP and what price it will be if it is available to all players.

Time is getting on FD and you now have less than eight weeks to deliver on your commitment or issue a statement confirming that for whatever reasons the Premium Content is delayed or just not happening. If it is the latter I suggest that you come clean ASAP while there is all this goodwill surrounding chapter 4.
 
Time is getting on FD and you now have less than eight weeks to deliver on your commitment or issue a statement confirming that for whatever reasons the Premium Content is delayed or just not happening.

They did issue a statement, rather specifically stating there WILL be new premium content, that it DID enter active production some time ago, and will be available at a point well after Beyond is finished and the bug fixes settle. This is old news already.
 
In the Important Community Update quite a large bucket of cold water was dumped on expectations as to what the Premium Content that would be free to LEPers could be.

However in the section quoted below Zac reaffirmed that they would be delivering something.



I think it's time for some confirmation as to what it will be, if it will be available to players who didn't stump up for a LEP and what price it will be if it is available to all players.

Time is getting on FD and you now have less than eight weeks to deliver on your commitment or issue a statement confirming that for whatever reasons the Premium Content is delayed or just not happening. If it is the latter I suggest that you come clean ASAP while there is all this goodwill surrounding chapter 4.

There is no Premium Content this year now, it says so in the post you quoted from Zac Antonaci. They have no commitment to deliver on it anymore.
 
In the Important Community Update quite a large bucket of cold water was dumped on expectations as to what the Premium Content that would be free to LEPers could be.

However in the section quoted below Zac reaffirmed that they would be delivering something.



I think it's time for some confirmation as to what it will be, if it will be available to players who didn't stump up for a LEP and what price it will be if it is available to all players.

Time is getting on FD and you now have less than eight weeks to deliver on your commitment or issue a statement confirming that for whatever reasons the Premium Content is delayed or just not happening. If it is the latter I suggest that you come clean ASAP while there is all this goodwill surrounding chapter 4.

I dont expect to find out until after 3.3/Q4 has been released.
 
So, which part of 'in 2019' did you not understand?

So, which part of

we will be making sure that there is a form of free store content going out to them by the end of this year.

did you not understand?

Why is it that most threads about paid-DLC also refer to the LEP and getting stuff for free?

Because that's what FD do...

This is a big positive for the long term future of the game and its content. However, we also understand that there are people with Lifetime Expansion Passes who haven’t received paid for content in this season, because Beyond has been free to all owners of Horizons. We truly appreciate the support and commitment that those owners put in us when they purchased the LEP and we will be making sure that there is a form of free store content going out to them by the end of this year.
 
Yo chill angry mob, he's talking about the freebie store stuff IE:

we will be making sure that there is a form of free store content going out to them by the end of this year.

(Could have titled it better, as they're not calling that 'Premium Content', but all good).

In answer to your question OP: It will be a durable set of trousers. Space legs, if you will...
 

sollisb

Banned
There is no Premium Content this year now, it says so in the post you quoted from Zac Antonaci. They have no commitment to deliver on it anymore.

How so? People who divvied up for the LEP are entitled to have their agreement delivered.

The LEP, to my knowledge, delivers content, paid to non-LEPs and free to those with LEP.

Remember, without the LEPs there would be no Elite Dangerous! It's seems a bit flippant to me for you to state! that they have no commitment to deliver now. Do you know something we don't ?
 
How so? People who divvied up for the LEP are entitled to have their agreement delivered.

The LEP, to my knowledge, delivers content, paid to non-LEPs and free to those with LEP.

Remember, without the LEPs there would be no Elite Dangerous! It's seems a bit flippant to me for you to state! that they have no commitment to deliver now. Do you know something we don't ?

They have no commitment to deliver the Premium Content for this year since they've told us they decided to focus more time on the next era of Elite. Why would they still have a commitment to deliver something they've now said has been cancelled?

LEP owners will still get every other paid update for free, ie. the next era of Elite. But there's none for this year now.
 
@killminster.

Yes, there should be some sort of in store stuff, which is not the promised premium content.

Which bit of 'Premium content' did you not understand? :D
 

sollisb

Banned
They have no commitment to deliver the Premium Content for this year since they've told us they decided to focus more time on the next era of Elite. Why would they still have a commitment to deliver something they've now said has been cancelled?

LEP owners will still get every other paid update for free, ie. the next era of Elite. But there's none for this year now.

In the announcement of this years releases, it was stated, that there would be 'Premium Content' for LEP owners this year.

That was a commitment, which they [FDev] have decided to not fulfill. The reasons (although I understand them) are irrelevant. You either produce what you stated you will produce or not. In this case, not.
 
I think that it's pretty reasonable that there is residual irritation at the manner in which FDev has badly mishandled the LEP issue this year.

From an announcement late 2017 by Zac clearly stating premium content was coming in 2018 that would be 'free' (or prepaid if you prefer) for LEP owners, it then took over ten months, with many quite long and heated forum threads, for FDev to finally admit in a post chock full of padding and waffle that there was nothing coming for 2018, but that LEP owners would get
... a form of free store content going out to them by the end of this year...

Forgive the reprise (and feel free to mutter something about 'not understanding'...:rolleyes:) but context is all, and holding their feet to the fire is not unreasonable.

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