People were doing that off "the egg" even without Fleet Carriers. Amazing that the people screaming blue murder about the bugs in Odyssey (and yes, there were many!) had absolutely zero problems with the ones that allowed get rich quick schemes.
there's always people complaining about get rich quick schemes. But it's so constant, that it is like complaining to a wall. Most have given up that battle. Fdev wants them (most of the time) because it placates the players enough to ignore the grind and weak gameplay.
Someone worked out that he'd (if his claim of 15,000 hours in game was true) played 7 hours a day, every day, since launch. There's another thread that popped up where a guy is claiming he started in March of last year and has almost 3,000 hours. Again, over 7 hours a day, EVERY day. Same ones complaining that Frontier have swindled them with a dodgy game. I mean, its not like they've not gotten their money's worth!
or, perhaps 12 hours a day for roughly half as many years. Or perhaps they're just botting it for the past 2-3 years at nearly 24 hours a day every other day - more or less.
regardless, the real complaints were about odyssey, which nobody is saying they've gotten thousands of hours in and still feel swindled. Plus, those that are and have played more than a couple hours are full of crap.
But measuring hours of play time with satisfaction in a game is always misleading.
An open ended game is about the cumulative experience you've had and a change made 2000 hours in that kills the game for you is no different than an update in a game with an ending that makes reaching that ending impossible.
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