Horizons PAYING FOR LASER COLOURS!!!

Daish

Daish
Really!! £1 for a different colour laser beam, I find this a little extreme, now correct me if i'm wrong wasn't we supposed to get a change of colour through the engineers update...

Fdevs charging for a laser colour i feel is wrong i do feel you should re think the sales tactics a little here..


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warlock

warlock
Really i mean really, at least you can see these, unlike ship skins. I couldn't believe these were ONLY £1 ive just bought 3.
 
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babelfisch

babelfisch
Yes! They are way to cheap, make it £5 per colour!!!

There are already a few threads on colours in general discussion.
 

Parmo

Parmo
Daish said:
Really!! £1 for a different colour laser beam, I find this a little extreme, now correct me if i'm wrong wasn't we supposed to get a change of colour through the engineers update...

Fdevs charging for a laser colour i feel is wrong i do feel you should re think the sales tactics a little here..


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I paid 7 quid, 2 or 3 pints of beer: discretionary spending;
If I couldn't spare this amount of money I would not have bought the laser colours and I would not have those beers.

I support ED's development financially when I judge what they offer is OK - laser colours are OK.

Engineers update - were we supposed to get laser colours? That's Horizons though.
 

5miley

5miley
What FDEV failed to tell us is that if you buy all the laser colours,
you get special access to the top secret Python ship kit









































ONLY JOKING
 

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]

Cmdr Delmonte[VR]
A WHOLE pond !!! Even my local pound shop charges more than that for 90% of what they sell :) a quid is NOTHING in real terms.
Oh and I got the Xmas tree bobble head too :)
 

Zenith

Zenith
I'm a real miser when it comes to online purchases.
However, I've paid for paint jobs and even a Sidewinder ship kit in the past. I don't think £2 for the blue and cyan laser colours is a hardship.
 

Saool

Saool
How much would you spend on a single bottle of beer?

I find it very odd how people's perceptions of value change with context. People think nothing of going out for a night and spending £30-£50 on things that will come out of your crotch and bottom the next day, yet prickle at the idea of spending £1 for a digital upgrade that will last for the rest of the games lifetime. Odd.

But I look at it this way. This is how they make money to stay in business and keep running the game and adding to the game. You could have everything for free... and then the game would close down and you have nothing, or have to move to a subscription basis where you can pay £8 a month just to keep what you already have.

I think you need perspective.
 
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TinyPwny

TinyPwny
I was kinda afraid individual colours would be €5 or more so for me current price was a nice surprise. Dirt cheap imho. I bought only one so far (I'm not the 'gotta catch em all' type) for my conda (black friday skin + purple weaps, yummy), but I'll probably buy some more for my other ships soon.
 

GG7

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Since Laser Color denotes the actual TYPE of Laser being used in the Real World, I would caution all those "Immersion" focused players about buying these "FAKE" color options for their various laser weapons in the game.

I guess if you don't care about physics realism in the game, then it won't matter, but it is curious how Frontier puts so much effort into trying to do things according to real-world physics etc. and then does something like this.

A classic case of Elite Dangerous meets Arcade Game mechanics.
 

Harry Stone

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If it keeps FDEV going I'm fine with them charging a reasonable amount for laser colours and paint jobs. So long as that doesn't change I'm ok with that and £1 is fine
 

Tristounet

Tristounet
@GG7 mhmhm well, i don't agree with you, in this case, everytime you use your jump drive your imersion is broken, everytime you shoot with an energetic weapon and got this fancy array your immersion is broken and so on... Even if frontier got things right in term of physic, 80% of the game is purely Sci-Fi, so i don't see how it can break immersion to have different laser color when they don't even exist in real life or go in contradiction with real life physics... =)
 
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TinyPwny

TinyPwny
GG7 said:
Since Laser Color denotes the actual TYPE of Laser being used in the Real World, I would caution all those "Immersion" focused players about buying these "FAKE" color options for their various laser weapons in the game.

I guess if you don't care about physics realism in the game, then it won't matter, but it is curious how Frontier puts so much effort into trying to do things according to real-world physics etc. and then does something like this.

A classic case of Elite Dangerous meets Arcade Game mechanics.
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Sure, healing lasers are very real-world physically correct. But only of the beams are green...
 
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