So, I recently decided to pick up Elite Dangerous: Horizons after I bought the base game back near launch. Let me just say, I was not impressed then, as the game was shallow, repetitive, and ultimately not engaging at all. As broad as an ocean and as deep as a puddle and all that.
Anyway, I thought I'd give Horizons a try. Sure, it added in features that may or may not have been promised at development. Sure, I might have had to pay additional money after purchasing the base game to get access to features that in a big, open space exploration-style game really should be baseline in the experience, like planets, and upgrading ships.
I was willing to ignore all that, and I was genuinely trying to, until I found out that there is a ship in the game that is unobtainable unless you bought both ED and Horizons before a certain time.
I really cannot begin to express my dissatisfaction with any game company that gates products behind purchase timers. "Exclusives" are just another word for preorder bonuses - pay now and you too can get access to something shiny! It isn't even cosmetic, such as a special skin, achievement, or avatar - it's an actual ship in a game about spaceships.
So I find that I can't get the Cobra MkIV at at all and I find that any company that makes these decisions is not worth my time or investment. I would like to know where I can submit for a refund, since the Steam policy of "fourteen days or two hours" is woefully insufficient when it can take more than two hours just to get out of a stock Sidewinder.
Suffice to say, I am not happy with my investment and am incredibly disinclined to support Frontier in their future endeavors.
Anyway, I thought I'd give Horizons a try. Sure, it added in features that may or may not have been promised at development. Sure, I might have had to pay additional money after purchasing the base game to get access to features that in a big, open space exploration-style game really should be baseline in the experience, like planets, and upgrading ships.
I was willing to ignore all that, and I was genuinely trying to, until I found out that there is a ship in the game that is unobtainable unless you bought both ED and Horizons before a certain time.
I really cannot begin to express my dissatisfaction with any game company that gates products behind purchase timers. "Exclusives" are just another word for preorder bonuses - pay now and you too can get access to something shiny! It isn't even cosmetic, such as a special skin, achievement, or avatar - it's an actual ship in a game about spaceships.
So I find that I can't get the Cobra MkIV at at all and I find that any company that makes these decisions is not worth my time or investment. I would like to know where I can submit for a refund, since the Steam policy of "fourteen days or two hours" is woefully insufficient when it can take more than two hours just to get out of a stock Sidewinder.
Suffice to say, I am not happy with my investment and am incredibly disinclined to support Frontier in their future endeavors.
