Lifetime Pass Content

[krylite]

I am fairly confident he doesnt care either way. It are the responses to his topics he is after. This topic just means he is running out of material. I am sure todays update will provide plenty of material though, as long as people keep biting.

Isn't it a riot? OP doesn't even have an LEP. But that's how the naysaying trolls have fun, starting these salt topics in the forum rather than the game itself. A token last day attempt to try to futilely convince others ED and Frontier are trash. Before Beyond 3.3 drops and ED surges back above NMS on the steamcharts, already ahead of Kerbal,SpaceEngrs and EvE. Maybe even approach X4 as it's dropped to #51 now.

 

[SAB380]

I didn't realise I was getting exclusive stuff.
I just bought the LEP so I didn't have to pay for expansions.

 

[Cliché]

If I knew then what I know now - famous last words.

I honestly expected the LEP to have covered 3 paid updates by now and to be able to do most of the stuff DB talked about. But as long as they don't somehow end this game and start up another similar game and say it isn't covered by the LEP, I guess I'll just have to wait to get any (more) real value out of the LEP, because skins and bobble heads aren't it (at least I can finally try a bobble head - may even keep it).

I didn't realise I was getting exclusive stuff.
I just bought the LEP so I didn't have to pay for expansions.

It's not exclusive. Anyone can buy it in the store.

 

[Faybs]

Isn't it a riot? OP doesn't even have an LEP. But that's how the naysaying trolls have fun, starting these salt topics in the forum rather than the game itself. A token last day attempt to try to futilely convince others ED and Frontier are trash. Before Beyond 3.3 drops and ED surges back above NMS on the steamcharts, already ahead of Kerbal,SpaceEngrs and EvE. Maybe even approach X4 as it's dropped to #51 now.

Oh Kerbal. Sooo many little green corpses all over that star system. Easily the game I played most before Elite came along.

 

[Dbrn47]

Be happy you're getting anything other than future expansions, because that is what you paid for. There's still expansions yet to be designed and released, don't go off the deep end just yet.

 

[Warprider]

I think I paid 20 bucks for the Horizons expansion and I honestly cannot recommend the base Eliteangerous without it. That’s how much better it makes the game. One of the best gaming purchases I’ve ever made.

 

[StevieG]

Well aren't I glad I didn't buy one. Enjoy your bobbleheads and paintjobs. I guess everyone will feel differently but I know if it were me, I'd be demanding a refund. That's just insulting. I can't believe that's the content FDev spoke of earlier in the year.

As a LEP owner I'm happy and looking forward to the big release in March.

 

[BDelacroix]

I'm happy with what I got this stuff is just extra. I wanted to support development, getting every expansion without paying further is also a bonus.

 

[IndigoWyrd]

As a lifetime pass owner, I got it partly so that I didn't have to pay for any future expansions. And I still don't.

Anyone complaining right now is upset that other people didn't have to pay for something, which is a really awful mindset.

And just wait till we get the paid announcement for next year announced.

At least there's one who can offer up a shining example of what a good attitude is among the LEPers.

 

[BDelacroix]

At least there's one who can offer up a shining example of what a good attitude is among the LEPers.

Wait, I bought a case of leprosy?

 

[IndigoWyrd]

Wait, I bought a case of leprosy?

Given the rotten attitudes shown by so many....

 

[Irisa Nyira]

Yes, you're getting paintjobs and bobbleheads. If you're satisfied with that then fair enough. Just saying I wouldn't be. I wondered if I made the right choice missing the LEP. I feel like i definitely did.

You didn't buy one? Then it's got nothing to do with you. Your observations are both irrelevant and boring.

 

[StuartGT]

Whoa, RamboJambo is still alive? Astonishing stuff!

 

[Sweet&Dandy]

Well aren't I glad I didn't buy one. Enjoy your bobbleheads and paintjobs. I guess everyone will feel differently but I know if it were me, I'd be demanding a refund. That's just insulting. I can't believe that's the content FDev spoke of earlier in the year.

The two hundred pounds this game cost me five? Six? Years ago is the best money I spent. I got to play from day one (alpha) and haven’t looked back. Moaners gonna moan, but at this point its already paid for itself a hundred times over!

 

[Morbad]

The only reason to offer things like Kickstarters, pre-orders, or lifetime passes, is to get funding upfront, and paying for something that does not yet exist will always carry an element of risk.

I bought the LEP while it was on sale knowing full well that it was a gamble. The LEP entitles me to get all future paid expansions, if any, for without further charge. It never mandated the number of paid expansions the game would have.

Maybe it will prove to be a poor purchase, relative to what I could have paid, if and when the cost of all paid expansions turns out to be lower than the $180 I paid in early 2015. Even if this proves to be the case, I'm not going to feel cheated because someone else ultimately paid less for the same game. I knew what I was getting in to.

There's plenty of issues with ED: nonsensical mechanics everywhere, broken balance, lack of persistence, lack of consequences all around...all of which could give you entire months worth of discussion and yet here were are complaining about the LEP and FD's Glassdoor reviews.
Two years ago I created a thread out of frustration with what people criticized Frontier for at the time... frankly since then I feel the quality of the criticism has only gone downhill.

Agree entirely.

Far less concerned with the value of my LEP living up to irrational expectations than a myriad of gameplay decisions that keep a good game from becoming a great game.

 

[Sweet&Dandy]

I’d also like to add that it was worth 200£ just to be a part of the alpha. VR support and watching (and helping) the game emerge from the inside was an incredible experience. Everyone on the forum was on the same page, working to make the game better and the tech run optimally. It really was a great experience. This place has gone to the dogs since they let the riff raff in! ��

 

[Lightspeed]

Spending on the LEP saved me wasting the money on ships in that "other game."

So I spent the money on the ED LEP and got a game to play from the start .... and there's still more to come ... so it's win win win !

Along with many players who bought early into the Horizons seasons, I also received the bulk of my fleet in midnight black paint for free, and a gold AspX, and the very useful mining ship, Cobra IV which is well-suited for the new update. I'm not complaining !

 

[SpocksOddSocks]

Myself, I was expecting to get some sort of official statement on development status, so the freebies I see as a nice gesture to acknowledge and apologize for the delays. It tells me that there is stuff coming, otherwise fdev would be trying to pretend LEP doesn't exist.

To be fair, they've said in the past they weren't going to release any details about next year's paid expansion until some time after 3.3 was released. How long after, we don't know. But as it isn't here yet, there wasn't anything to expect.

The store stuff was only ever there as an apology that the this year's premium stuff was delayed.

 

[Hanekura Shizuka]

First, thanks, Frontier, for an excellent game. I'm pretty sure this game is the one I've spent more time playing than any other game in my life, which is saying something. It's about as close to a perfect game as I can imagine. Also, thanks for whatever giveaways are coming up, whatever they are.

That said, Frontier can't make everyone happy. In fact, if you poll any player, they could give a laundry list of things they would implement to "improve" the game, if the decision were theirs. I'd love a smaller-and-nimbler-than-Anaconda ship designed for fast long-term flight and quick exploration - basically, a huge frame shift drive, fuel scoop, and ADS/DSS mounted on as light a chassis as possible. As much as I wish it, I don't think that's going to happen. Some people want space legs, and "walking" FPS missions. I actually don't want "walking" FPS missions, largely because I worry it would distract Frontier from the space-flight aspects of the game. We all want different aspects of the game, because we're all different players with different temperaments. And, because of that, there's no way on Earth, Alioth, or Achenar that Frontier can make everyone happy. So... Frontier does the best it can with the resources it has.

I bought the lifetime pass when it came out. I was in "Shut up and take my money" mode from the moment a friend of mine mentioned the words "procedurally generated galaxy". And I haven't regretted it. Given I've played just about 12 weeks' worth of game time, if statistics are to be believed, I would say I have gotten far more than my money's worth. At this point, anything else is just bonus.

Just one thing, one bonus, though... can you bring the Iridescents back to the store? Please? I was distracted by real life this summer...

 

[Calebe]

I am an Alpha backer. Paid initially for the game and life time expansions then upgraded till I hit alpha (200 pound) option. Don't regret it one bit. Play and enjoy the game. The part that I wonder about is a non LEP holder is upset over something that they don't have, didn't pay for, and now doesn't regret not having. So why the post? I appreciate that you are speaking for me and others. Wait your not speaking for me, maybe others, but not me. They said the next paid for expansion is in the works. Would I have preferred it this year, absolutely, can I wait till next year. I can, really have no choice. Till they say this is the last expansion or the game is now maintenance only, only then will the LEP have no more value, but till then it does.
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Calebe