Steam Key/Entitlement LEP Holders

[xzanfr]

Yup. Except that Steam does https://store.steampowered.com/app/1336350/Elite_Dangerous_Odyssey/

It is just that frontier don't want to provide steam keys for whatever reason and thus make an LEP a(ne even) worse value than just shopping sales.

I get that most folk will have problems with basic empathy but I have a lot of speed issues with the frontier content servers and thus would MUCH rather rely on Steam. Let alone the benefit of background updates while I am doing other stuff.

And, honestly, this is a horrible look for Frontier. I am not going to pretend that I thought they were doing good by the suckers with LEPs before this. But this is actively a worse experience because they want to migrate folk to the frontier launcher or want to inflate hours or are somehow using this for some NFT crap. It is Frontier saying they don't want me to play the game I bought and... it sucks but I guess that is what is going to happen. The good news is that the sunken cost fallacy of the LEP is already long since absorbed after it became clear FDev were moving away from the expansion plans they sold that on so...

I'm also a LEP owner and tend to play weekly, so there is usually an update every month or so that I need to install.
A bit of a protip, but if you turn on your pc and click "update now" in the launcher 30 mins before you want to play then you don't have to eat in to your gaming time.

 

[DYSEQTA]

The annoying thing about this is I can't review on steam. It thinks I don't own Odyssey despite having LEP.

 

[Gundato]

I'm also a LEP owner and tend to play weekly, so there is usually an update every month or so that I need to install.
A bit of a protip, but if you turn on your pc and click "update now" in the launcher 30 mins before you want to play then you don't have to eat in to your gaming time.

Usually takes considerably longer for whatever reason. Which tends to get into the "Well, I can sit here and wait for elite to deal with its crap or I can go play something else" territory

But, again, how is it that those of us dumb enough to give FDev money in advance for a game we had faith in get a worse experience than those who buy the game and expansions cheap on Steam? And how is Frontier at all okay with that as a policy (I can think of a few reasons...). All of this is easily solved by doing exactly what they did up until Odyssey.