Is Fdev Guilty of Any of This?

Stealthie

Stealthie
For discussion of microtransactions as applied to ED, you can skip to 18:00 in the OP's video.

To summarise; "Games where microtransactions don't affect gameplay: These are fine"

Seems like there are two things mentioned in that video that ED might be accused of.

1) Game sells stuff as a microtransaction instead of just building it into the game to begin with.
ED is probably guilty of this to some extent, specifically in regard to basic paintjobs and ship naming.
Doesn't have an effect on gameplay, though, so it's not the end of the world.
Besides, it's kind of greedy to expect a game-dev' to spend their time - after they've created a viable product - dreaming up every possible optional extra and then bunging them all in the game as well... for free.

2) The "slippery slope".
This could be the case in ED's future but you can't really complain about stuff until it happens.
You can be wary of it happening which, hopefully, might be enough to deter a dev' from doing it.


If anybody's watched that video and has latched onto the stuff about "making a premium currency available in-game but making it so difficult to obtain that it has no practical merit" and thinks it applies to Arx in ED then they've failed to consider the thing I put in a spoiler.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
The only MMORPG I ever really got into, Guild Wars, didn't and still doesn't have micro transactions nor subscription fees. I've been mucking around in the game going on two decades and it's still supported.

Saying you need micro transactions to support server maintenance and that sort of thing for "AAA" priced games is incorrect. Game companies have micro transactions because it's easy extra money. Games these days aren't just games, they're marketing platforms.

That being said, I don't mind buying a cosmetic now and then from Frontier for this game.

Admittedly though, I haven't since arx was introduced. I'm not a fan of external marketing and the like forcing its way into the game as that changes the game to some extent around it. Buying extra cosmetics for the game now just seems weird and artificially tied in at the hip where before it was easy and out of the way.

The out of the way part I guess is why Frontier unfortunately changed it.
 
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Turd Ferguson

Turd Ferguson
Hooplah said:
Given the circus I saw today with Adam Schiff in public testimony if Trump ever played Elite Dangerous the Democrats could come up with 6 people who would testify that he exploited the game. Of course they were not there seeing Trump playing ED but they "feel' that he did it. You get the idea. What a joke. I'm embarrassed with our USA politicians NOT doing the job they were elected to.

If we in the USA cannot get it together then no wonder the rest of the world says, "Just wait for the next election". Very smart for them.
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At the very least there would be countless people with less than 1 hour of play time accusing him of hacking with no proof and demanding he be banned.

oh noes!!!1!1!! Headlook hack!
 

Tikanderoga

Tikanderoga
Stealthie said:
If anybody's watched that video and has latched onto the stuff about "making a premium currency available in-game but making it so difficult to obtain that it has no practical merit" and thinks it applies to Arx in ED then they've failed to consider the thing I put in a spoiler.
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That is pretty much spot on.
Arx earned should be hidden and not shoved in your face how much you earned. The monetary value of earned arx - as we already calculated - is about 24p. So per month, you can earn about 1 pound worth of Arx.
I rather not know about it tbh.
 

kaokao

K
Lol. Way to bury this FDev. There is nothing off-topic here except some of the commenters comments. ED has microtransactions, right? So not off-topic.

Pathetic, FDev.
 

WR3ND

WR3ND
Sorry, OP. I'll remove my off topic post.

Not sure what Frontier had to do with moving the thread though... Just saying.
 

Dutchman141

Dutchman141
Of course ED is pay to win definitely, it's been stated a couple times in this thread already.
Red ships are way faster, that's been a fact since paintjobs are a thing, double that with red thrusters and lazors and there you go, totaly OP.
I'm amazed of the fact that nobody takes Fdev accountable for such travesty.

I just saw that the Vulture got a new Red paint today, ugh like it needed one.
 

StuartGT

StuartGT
Dutchman141 said:
Of course ED is pay to win definitely, it's been stated a couple times in this thread already.
Red ships are way faster, that's been a fact since paintjobs are a thing, double that with red thrusters and lazors and there you go, totaly OP.
I'm amazed of the fact that nobody takes Fdev accountable for such travesty.

I just saw that the Vulture got a new Red paint today, ugh like it needed one.
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True facts right here

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cpbtrading

cpbtrading
I think sometimes the players feel as though they are between 'a rock and a hard place', when the game is online. I feel it's better to support it if we want it to go way out into the future. They (FDev) have to cover costs.
They will hopefully make it offline should they ever give up and turn off servers.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
World Of Warplanes is having a 5 XP week, to celebrate their anniversary. The two main features are the quintuple earnings rates, and discounts on all in-game items.

I burned out in about three days. To make any progress, especially above Tier 5, you have to buy game gold with real money.

I'm sitting on tens of thousands of points that I won't ever redeem. World Of Warships is better, but not much.

These are examples of where the industry is going, as the video described. The introduction of ARX is questionable, but not yet in range of a grand jury indictment...
 
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