Powerplay: Elite Dangerous subscription model

[telperion]

Considering the debate between people who have loads of time and no or little work and those who have lots of work, family and or life but little time to play games I'd like to suggest a happy medium: The ED subscription

For a mere £10 a month you could get 10,000 Powerplay merits for your chosen power. That's it

Now, those that consider this "pay to win" please limit your wrath temporarily. All this gives people is a way to pay to avoid the mindless grind. It gives people who don't have the time to grind the ability to keep up with those that do.

It doesn't give them "gold ammo" or better ships or anything else that gives them an advantage over those who don't subscribe. It just allows them to avoid the head-banging-wall perpetual grind whilst giving Frontier a new revenue stream with which to pay for future development of the game.

You wouldn't know whether someone subscribed or whether they played the game for 60 hours a week so does it matter?

Wouldn't it be good for Frontier to have another revenue stream considering you want the game development to go on indefinitely?

If you don't get much time to play, would you subscribe?

 

[Titus Balls]

There is a subscription model, it's called optional skins. If you like the game and want to support the developer buy some.

You can easily spend £10-£20 a month if you like.

 

[Cyda]

Hell no!

 

[Ben Ryder]

[h=2]Powerplay: Elite Dangerous subscription model[/h]
No thanks. Pay to win and subscriptions has been done to death.

 

[bossbrigand]

Lmao - that's the 50 million credits a week mark. You clever lad, you.

All things considered I'm surprised they've stuck to the buy-once model. I can see an option for a lesser, monthly subscription being available alongside the buy-once option.

 

[Hacker#451563]

Considering the debate between people who have loads of time and no or little work and those who have lots of work, family and or life but little time to play games I'd like to suggest a happy medium: The ED subscription

For a mere £10 a month you could get 10,000 Powerplay merits for your chosen power. That's it

Now, those that consider this "pay to win" please limit your wrath temporarily. All this gives people is a way to pay to avoid the mindless grind. It gives people who don't have the time to grind the ability to keep up with those that do.

It doesn't give them "gold ammo" or better ships or anything else that gives them an advantage over those who don't subscribe. It just allows them to avoid the head-banging-wall perpetual grind whilst giving Frontier a new revenue stream with which to pay for future development of the game.

You wouldn't know whether someone subscribed or whether they played the game for 60 hours a week so does it matter?

Wouldn't it be good for Frontier to have another revenue stream considering you want the game development to go on indefinitely?

If you don't get much time to play, would you subscribe?

For just a little more you could 'obtain' and train an immigrant child to do the grinding for you, and then you would also have a trained immigrant child when you decided to quit ED.

 

[excalibus]

no thanks to subscription, I support ED through their store in an ongoing manner... I do not want Pay to Win or Pay for in game Bonuses

 

[telperion]

[h=2]Powerplay: Elite Dangerous subscription model[/h]
No thanks. Pay to win and subscriptions has been done to death.

How is it pay to win? You're not getting anything that helps you "win". Not better guns, not better ships, not better flying skills. How is it "pay to win"? That phrase gets bandied about a lot these days, often incorrectly used as I believe it is in this case.

 

[Synther]

Nope train to nope town with this one.

 

[INSTG8R]

Yeah...No...

 

[Senex VII]

Wonderful opening post! Sent my sarcasm detectors full-scale. Hard to believe people are missing the troll-humor here.

 

[telperion]

Yeah...No...

I love it how people get so emotional about this topic

Why? Why no? How is it pay to win?

Love it how so many people just say no without having a reason. Perhaps it's due to the fact that most of the players are middle aged. They grew up in a time when "just say no" was all the rage

 

[Lazarus Skyhammer]

I don't understand why people continue to promote these types of ideas...

Why play the game if your just wanting to pay out cash in order to avoid playing the game? It makes no sense at all....

 

[Marra Morgan]

If you don't get much time to play, would you subscribe?

No, I wouldn't.

 

[Mythryl]

Absolutely not.

 

[jou84]

no no no

I buy skins thanks

 

[salad]

Never.

Sugarcoat all you want its still P2W.

 

[Hacker#451563]

I love it how people get so emotional about this topic

Why? Why no? How is it pay to win?

Love it how so many people just say no without having a reason. Perhaps it's due to the fact that most of the players are middle aged. They grew up in a time when "just say no" was all the rage

As a middle aged chap who grew up in the 'Just say no' times I have to admit that I actually ended up saying 'Yes' to everything. Everything.

However, I still think it's a bad idea. Maybe thats the after effects of all that 'Yes'....

 

[Maun]

Lmao - that's the 50 million credits a week mark. You clever lad, you.

All things considered I'm surprised they've stuck to the buy-once model. I can see an option for a lesser, monthly subscription being available alongside the buy-once option.

I think their numbers playing the game would drastically drop if they brought in some kind of sub model.

 

[Aegis I]

With rating 5 giving 50 mil credit weekly, that can be interpreted as credit buying, along with other bonuses, via real money.