Python Mk II & Updates To The Gamestore

CMDR X

CMDR X
It's all fine. Elite has no "win" so P2W is meaningless. What is it to anyone how and where others spend their time or money. Those who live in moms basement have time to earn game fake money and those that have to work earn real fake money. Same difference.

Selling A grade pre-builts won't vaporize the galaxy and Fdev can make a bit of fake money also to keep the game going a bit longer for all of us. Everyone wins.

Going to check my Arx. I think I have just enough for that early Python.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
Paul_Crowther said:
New Elite Dangerous content such as the Python MkII, Powerplay 2.0, ship bundles etc are for the Live version of Elite Dangerous. As previously announced, there are no current plans to bring updates to Legacy outside of critical fixes should they be necessary.
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I will never understand why you abandoned the consoles. They would be one of your biggest markets. It just doesn't make much sense from a financial perspective.
 

Ian Doncaster

Ian Doncaster
Alien said:
Virtual currency and Pay 2 Advance is right up Tencent's alley and playbook.
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Of course it is. But that doesn't mean that it wouldn't have happened anyway. It's right up lots of companies playbooks, presumably because it usually brings in more cash than it loses in goodwill.

Frontier had virtual currency ("Frontier Points") on XBox from the start - October 2015 (almost two years before Tencent)
Frontier were suggesting cash for credits + everything will be purchasable with credits (= Pay 2 Advance) in the Kickstarter in December 2012 (almost five years before Tencent)

On the other side ...
- it was over 2 years after the Tencent investment that they started using virtual currency on PC
- it will be almost 7 years after the Tencent investment that they're bringing in ARX-for-non-cosmetic purchases

These timescales do not suggest a particularly strong causal relationship between Frontier's changes to monetisation and the one-time cash-for-shares payment they got from Tencent. They're quite capable of thinking it up themselves.
 

Alien

Alien
Ian Doncaster said:
Frontier were suggesting cash for credits + everything will be purchasable with credits (= Pay 2 Advance) in the Kickstarter in December 2012 (almost five years before Tencent)
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"Credits" was referring to in-game currency not real-world virtual currency and you know it.
Virtual currency for real world cash was never, and I do mean NEVER mentioned or thought about in the kickstarter.
Please stop suggesting it was, because it simply wasn't.
 

DjVortex

DjVortex
FixMeNow said:
Hi Frontier. I play ED weekly since 2015 or whenever it came out on GPP on Xbox so you can put me under hardcore player.

I wont be paying extra to unlock a ship 3 months early.

Cheers and good luck with the cash grab.
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As a hardcore player, would you not like to see the game continue to be developed for the foreseeable future? You do understand that development is not free?

Why are you writing as if this is nothing but pure greed?
 

TalonKarrde72

TalonKarrde72
Florenus said:
Pre-built ships for real cash now?
That's why I hate online games.
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I imagine it means a different set of hardpoints, based on the role, and higher class weapons. All stuff that can easily be accomplished in game with using any of the road-to-riches tutorials. If someone wants to give FDev money instead of grinding it out, hey, that helps us all out, because that keeps the lights on that much longer.
 

Cmdr. Numa

Cmdr. Numa
DjVortex said:
As a hardcore player, would you not like to see the game continue to be developed for the foreseeable future? You do understand that development is not free?

Why are you writing as if this is nothing but pure greed?
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To think that FDEV could have gotten that much easier, with no outcry at all: Just more ship kits. There's still ships without a single one.
 

amigacooke

amigacooke
Alien said:
"Credits" was referring to in-game currency not real-world virtual currency and you know it.
Virtual currency for real world cash was never, and I do mean NEVER mentioned or thought about in the kickstarter.
Please stop suggesting it was, because it simply wasn't.
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To be fair there was an element of P2W in the Kickstarter. If you parted with enough money you could start with a Cobra III (I did :) ).
 

TalonKarrde72

TalonKarrde72
Alien said:
"Credits" was referring to in-game currency not real-world virtual currency and you know it.
Virtual currency for real world cash was never, and I do mean NEVER mentioned or thought about in the kickstarter.
Please stop suggesting it was, because it simply wasn't.
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Which is what these ships will be bought with. You buy in-game credits with real-world money, sure, but there are ways to earn in-game too. I Hope this rework of things also sees a rework to in-game earnings. 400 cap is too low.
 

FixMeNow

FixMeNow
DjVortex said:
As a hardcore player, would you not like to see the game continue to be developed for the foreseeable future? You do understand that development is not free?

Why are you writing as if this is nothing but pure greed?
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Make something nice in the cosmetic store and I would buy it, but the effort is MS standard. If the game dies the game dies, Its 100% greed.
 

CmdrPSB

CmdrPSB
Alien said:
I'll be surprised if there's any LEP holders that give a fig any more.
Not saying there isn't, just that I'll be surprised if there is (and knowing my luck, there almost certainly is ... and they are about to reply to this post)
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In the unlikely event there's another actual expansion then I'm sure myself and the other LEP holders will get that as promised.
 
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