haha TF2 was like 20 dollars at launch.. i dont think they got "suckered" to play a game with free updates and free servers for years before it went free to play.. but OK i see where you're coming from now.
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haha TF2 was like 20 dollars at launch.. i dont think they got "suckered" to play a game with free updates and free servers for years before it went free to play.. but OK i see where you're coming from now.
Maybe thats why they are charged because of the Dev time it takes for them to remove all the children we will be reporting for being lewd/offensive?
When they have finished being outraged at a lack of a boobie slider...
I have a sneaky suspicion that it`s THIS which has delayed the patch. In the stream he said this was coming `later`, not in this beta release. Good stuff.
My only gripe about hull naming being a paid cosmetic, is that this means it will almost certainly have to be entered in a station with outfitting. When 2.3 finally goes live, I will be ~10-20 hours of game play from the nearest station.
I'm ok with paying a few bucks here and there for cosmetics, but why do I have to wait weeks to be able to use them?
CMDR grnbrg.
I'm ok with paying a few bucks here and there for cosmetics, but why do I have to wait weeks to be able to use them?
CMDR grnbrg.
Doubt this would delay the patch. Pretty easy to do in a few lines of code, perhaps a little more annoying having to move around some of the imagery and give spaces to this aspect as well as the buying aspect for the plates on the outer hull. But over all a considerable more amount easier than one might think.
The delay is likely due to three major errors.
1) Passengers squatting in ships.
2) Missions failing seconds after taking them.
3) Planets that we land on all being sand colored.
Another thing to chew on: Will you have to pay for each ship?
Says who? You? I'm pretty sure all cmdrs in pink gunships and puke green asps using purple 80' lasers will use very colorful names for their ships, even if they pay 5€ on nameplates.
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It seems certain. You'll probably have to pay for each name generated, actually.
Can the first ship name be free to put on the side of our ships?
Elite: Dangerous was never pitched as a pay-to-win game, very much the opposite.
Selling Ship Skins, Decals, Bobbleheads and other cosmetic items in the store were always part of FD's plans to raise extra revenues.
But sure, blame the [evil] Kickstarter backers.
Yeah...
Evil Backers made me buy this game
Evil Backers made me buy ship names
Evil Backers they're so......evil
Evil Backers they all look like Weevils!!
Actually Weevils look a bit like.......Thargoids!!
Sorry, its been a long day burning through F5 keys.
Throwing us a bone?
That will make a lot of people happy for sure.
Throw one more please
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Selling games funds development of the game. I think you'll find that in every case, any game that requires ongoing servers to function, they fund it through either adverts, micro-transactions or a flat rate subscription. Even so-called "free to play" games are only free to play up until a certain level - then they expect you to buy their VIP pass or whatever to continue past that point.
Also, in the context of the gaming industry, Frontier are actually very small for an indie self-publishing company.
DeathStroke
Banned
Have some rep.
I'm sensing you don't like colors...
Not really. Valve have ~60 more employees than Frontier.
And had $2.5 billion equity in 2012, not exactly a good choice to use as a comparison.
Valve have Steam though.
I get what he's saying. In comparison to the likes of Rockstar, Activision, Ubisoft and so on, FD ARE small. What he's not getting is that FD are not bottom of the barrel indie developers with a few employees and a shoestring budget.
So where is it written... this full price game definition?? Once you give a company money they have to keep giving you new stuff for free, just doesn't make sense. I will give them money each time they "produce" something new I want, that simple. If you don't want new stuff don't pay them for new stuff.
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