I've gone life time on Elite... and this is why

[Muzz UK]

Well I backed at premium beta level... why because I believe in Elite Dangerous and Frontier developments. I think David Braben is one of the few gaming company owners who wants a truly different experience before the money...David is a gamer and sci fi fan first unlike companies like Blizzard for example.

Another reason Elite really is a game I'll always love and I'm patient with bugs and I trust the devs to deliver an amazing MMO experience. I loved Frontier II and First Encounters and when I heard Elite 4 was coming and multiplayer I was sold. Games like X Beyond, Freelancer and Wing Commander just never had the same effect on the imagination as the Elite universe. Elite is a game about grinding numbers or running the same quest over and over hoping you'll get a good drop.

My opinion on the pricing is its just about right but those complaining just wait until a sale or a Steam discount it's bound to happen. Normally with MMO games you pay between £5 and £10 a month. So easily £120 a year, some games like Elder Scrolls make you pay a one of and then monthly. I bought Elder Scrolls for £40 and last about 3 months before boredom.

Your not really buying an one expansion your buying to keep our amazing game alive think of it that way! Would you rather pay addon fees once or twice a year or let Elite end up as some tarnished free to play or some forgotten title kept alive by micro transaction and pay to win.

 

[StayFrosty]

Except ED isn't exactly a MMO, it's more like a singleplayer game with broken coop.

Plus not everyone is into MMOs, and actually, people are very glad ED has no subscription. If you're now telling them they need to shell out just as much money as if it was a MMO, obviously they're not going to like it, especially when you're paying MMOs by the month, while ED is a one time price even if you play it for two weeks.

 

[LeetNoob]

My issue isn't with the pricing, it's with the asking for a pre-pay, with a 'limited discount' to pressure you in to the pre-pay for something that is not nearly ready, nor do we have any real idea exactly what it entails, let alone if it's well made or not, all on top of a game they still haven't really progressed past beta.

It all looks like a cash grab to me. But this is just how I see it. Others are excited and trusting enough to risk the pre-pay which is fair enough.

 

[FuzzySpider]

If they had delivered on the stuff in the DDF I might have been ok about this, if they didn't but still delivered a complex and engaging universe I would have been ok about it.

As it is we have about 7 missions on the bulletin board, endlessly rehashed. We have two major factions with ranks, that have virtually no bearing on the game and zero immersive quality (I ranked up in the Federation with smuggling missions and in the Empire by mostly donating coffee or something). We have pointing your ship at celestial objects and waiting for a scan. We have ferrying X good to Y port back and forth. And, to cap it all, we have a few areas of combat.

Nothing seems to matter.

One of the great things about Elite is that you don't matter. You aren't some hero, or the Chosen One, or the Dovakhin, or a Spirit Monk, or whatever. You're just a schmo. But that isn't the point - the entire universe is empty and devoid of things that matter.

Powerplay perhaps was intended to address this. It failed for all but the most avid of Frontier followers, who charitably defended it with the phrase "You don't have to play it!"

As it is I can't support new offshoots of Elite until they finish what they have already sold me here, frankly it wasn't worth the £50 I threw at it. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it and it showed great potential for a long time. But it just isn't quite what we were promised.

Fool me once...