Just wondering

hypervoodoo77

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Hi all,

I have read people wondering what the paid content might be
It got me to thinking would ships perhaps like the panther clipper or other might be the content.
What do you think would frontier do payed ships or is that a too star citizenish route?

O7
 

Lightspeed

Lightspeed
They have consistently maintained that there will be no pay-to-win, hence no ship purchases will be introduced.

On the other hand, that didn't stop them giving LEP and pre-Horizons orders access to the Cobra IV, but that was not a "winning" ship, so their principles were not violated on that occasion !
 

Wolf Starslayer

Wolf Starslayer
Lightspeed said:
They have consistently maintained that there will be no pay-to-win, hence no ship purchases will be introduced.

On the other hand, that didn't stop them giving LEP and pre-Horizons orders access to the Cobra IV, but that was not a "winning" ship, so their principles were not violated on that occasion !
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Didn't they say they were 'relaxed' about people using a 2nd cmdr to get extra pips in combat...
 

mp4x

mp4x
My guess - Paid content will be to unlock permit locked areas, and those areas will have unique stations/planets/find-ables
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
Factabulous said:
Didn't Horizons introduce Engineering, so that is a bit P2W....
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Horizons certainly gives you an advantage but the term pay to win usually applies to stuff that directly gives you more power. If we could buy fully engineered modules on the shop it would be clear pay to win. But as it stands Horizons is simply an expansion that adds all sorts of stuff (which anyone playing the game should own by the way). If you want to have the full Elite Dangerous experience you'll want to have Horizons.
 

Bill Clement

Bill Clement
OP- I don't think they'll do anything as physical as a ship or ability mere peons can't access. Otherwise inaccessible areas of the Galaxy with cool stuff is possible, mini-games and puzzles, exclusive paint, the ability to put names to things, all of those would be worth money to some players.

I hope they do put some paid content into the game sooner rather than later. I'm very aware that I only get to play this amazing game because people put their money down before I did. I've been here since 'premium beta', a point at which the game was both funded and fully green lighted. Many people bought into the project to get it to that stage and the LEP was a decent money maker for Frontier back then. I'd like to see those peeps get a decent return on that investment. That means I have to pay for part of a hypothetical new update, but I'm fine with that.

It doesn't hurt to put a little coin FDs way, it helps to keep the devs in a job and the servers running. It's all win from where I'm sitting... :cool:
 

LeoBartlet

LeoBartlet
hypervoodoo77 said:
Hi all,

I have read people wondering what the paid content might be
It got me to thinking would ships perhaps like the panther clipper or other might be the content.
What do you think would frontier do payed ships or is that a too star citizenish route?

O7
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Probably not but the forum outrage would be epic.
 

Kaocraft

Kaocraft
Lightspeed said:
They have consistently maintained that there will be no pay-to-win, hence no ship purchases will be introduced.

On the other hand, that didn't stop them giving LEP and pre-Horizons orders access to the Cobra IV, but that was not a "winning" ship, so their principles were not violated on that occasion !
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Any excuses given to dismiss accusations of "Pay to Win" with the Horizons release (engineers is p2w, cobraIV is pay2w, etc), are sufficiently open-ended and wishy-washy that you could extend them to justify nearly anything. So yeah they could sell ships and there's no meaningful distinction between doing that and doing what they've already been doing. Once you introduce that kind of stuff, fanboys just start re-framing the argument in terms of "what does 'win' even mean, really?" etc. That's what they do with Star Citizen (seriously the fanbase believes it is NOT a p2w situation at all), and that's what will happen with Elite. The floodgates are wide open.

That said I doubt they'll start selling ships right from the store. They might however do little paid DLC update packages which have a a bunch of new ships and few features here and there which primarily boil down to ship packages more than anything else.
 

krylite

krylite
FD couldn't be perfect in a not p2w policy, but they've kept general sales consistently and professionally in line for the most part and are still far above other game firms' marketing that resorted to lootboxes to advance, overpriced .jpg ship sales, or an infamously misinformed pre-order grab.
 
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