Lack of ways to support ED financially?

M00ka

M00ka
CMDR Yates said:
Frontier is a highly successful, quickly growing, multimillion pound business that's doing juuuuuuuuust fine right now. It isn't a "cause" needing "support".

Ordinary consumers trying to work out how to go the extra mile to "support" wealthy corporations/PLCs, whose job it is to extract money from the public (FDev isn't EA but it also hasn't been your local, small-time indie business for a long time), all because they like a game or consumer product marketed by the company, is one of the wildest absurdities of consumerism today.

It's like something Paul Verhoeven or Kurt Vonnegut would slip into a dystopian late-20th Century sci-fi satire, and people back then would have complained it was too heavy-handed and far-fetched. I can almost hear The Gonk playing distantly right now.

I'm not singling out OP here... I see this kinda thing all the time now. Once upon a time it was just sports teams and religions that got this kinda treatment.

If you're genuinely dying to haemorrhage fat stacks in "support" of something, there's a funny thing going on right now where sickness and poverty are rife, a lot of hard-working individuals and families are suddenly finding themselves unemployed and living below the bread line, and thousands of small-scale, local businesses/employers genuinely struggling through Covid and in real danger of going out of business... maybe you could find a way to help some of them out instead...

If you must "support" FDev, you could always support them by buying some shares, and at least get something (hopefully) of actual value for your outlay, as opposed to paying to skip over most of the actual content of the game as requested ("catch up mechanics").

This whole "supply-and-demand" business only comes close to working if consumers are, to at least some small degree, careful and selective on where they spend their money. Otherwise, we just get low-grade, low-effort trash. See: the majority of mobile games.
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Well said and to take one of your excellent points a little further, don't FD hold an annual charity event? Maybe the OP can donate to that charity instead of trying to fill FD's coffers, I am sure FD wouldn't mind.
 

Oytis57

Oytis57
Starbrow said:
SC looked very much like a scam 7 years ago,
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And it's still an Alpha now...probably in 25 years when human race will have set foot on Mars,SC will be entering Beta stage.If you have money to waste there are so many people in trouble these days,go help someone ;)
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
bootsam said:
Im a LEPer. Ive contributed enough. Although apparently I get Odyssey free, which is nice.
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You get Odyssey, with all bells and whistles, at no additional cost.

If you're looking to throw your money at someone, could I suggest the macOS commanders benevolence fund.

Once proud macOS commanders, down on their luck, without a friend, can be found searching the bins around the Pilots Federation headquarters.

Honour these once sturdy warriors, honour the few, with flipping great wodges of cash ;)
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
bootsam said:
I also have a macos. But I game on a PC as all good soldiers must. A macos for gaming is like taking a nerfgun to a bar room brawl.
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macOS is quite adequate for gaming thanks. I have more games to play than I have time to play them. Occasionally, I reboot into Windows to play ED.
 

gooddoc

gooddoc
ED has been EXCELLENT value for money, it's always maintained it's stance on NOT having a subscription format, nor a pay to win system.
I was certainly quick to pre-order a copy of Odyssey, even though Iv little idea of what content is going to be in it.....or when it's going to be released;)

This is why ED is the ONLY game that Iv continually played for six years......no other game in my entire 40+ years of gaming, have I come even close to playing for that length of time.

Good work Frontier, keep it up guys!
 

bootsam

bootsam
amigacooke {macOS} said:
macOS is quite adequate for gaming thanks. I have more games to play than I have time to play them. Occasionally, I reboot into Windows to play ED.
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Good luck playing CP2077. :p

I only play civ and strategy games on my mac. Actually my Mac is a mainly for music and browsing reddit.
 

Taimaru

Taimaru
When you and your friends get to walk around your ship admiring it's size and greatness you'll probably want to buy paint jobs.
 

znôrt

znôrt
WaveRider said:
but when you open the door that you suggest opening, I feel some of the areas mentioned above could easily happen. I think this game is great - we are all thrown out into the Verse to make our way on 'generally' equal terms. I'm new, learning - I have money to spend - but God no, don't ruin this game with the need for greed.
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sound argument but there isn't anything at stake. you can already get a conda in a couple of hours. why should i bother if anyone buys a fully g5 engineered cutter 1h into the game? good for him. it doesn't matter, it doesn't mean squat in this schizophrenic world frontier has created. frontier deliberately made a game where there is no point in competing by design and then systematically eliminated any random circumstance where real competition was still even remotely possible by accident, so anybody's pace or achievements just don't matter.

if you are new you might still be under the impression that it does, but you'll know better eventually. and you are totally right, whales are a big factor in this game's design goal, nuff said.
 

Aidan Brooder

Aidan Brooder
I bought some cosmetics for my ships before there was ARXs and I think that's enough support. ED is not Frontier's only game, nor is it the only game of Frontier I play.

I <3 Planet Zoo! (and got some DLCs)

Progress already is too easy and there is no need to pay for it. I'd rather give some (again) at their charity events.
 
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