Store scrubbing paint jobs again?

Umm, yea. So they were meant to be temporary from start? Is this information here on the official forum? I don't follow social media.
Its probably here on the forums but only because a player re-posted it here, IIRC...I don't FDev they made any announcement on the forums.

But let me look...

I did separate searches for gold, chrome, paint and store with Phil W and Paul_Crowther as the posters. Nothing I saw in the headlines (post name) indicated that they announced it. I did not read any of the search results beyond the results page.
 
I did separate searches for gold, chrome, paint and store with Phil W and Paul_Crowther as the posters. Nothing I saw in the headlines (post name) indicated that they announced it. I did not read any of the search results beyond the results page.
Yeah, I don't understand why they keep doing this. It's just perverse.
 
Its because forums are old and busted old-skool and social media is the new hotness...to paraphrase a movie line, more or less...

I wouldn't classify Discord as "hotness"! More like a hot mess.

I can't use Discord anyway, seeing I run Win 7 on this rig. I never did find a workaround. Yeah, Yeah, I know, upgrade Windows! When hell freezes over!

Call it my own form of protesting MS trying to control the PC market, which basically they have. Can you say "antitrust lawsuit"? Seriously, if you don't like Windows and how they do business, what are your options? Linux and none. That means lawsuit time!
 
I wouldn't classify Discord as "hotness"! More like a hot mess.

I can't use Discord anyway, seeing I run Win 7 on this rig. I never did find a workaround. Yeah, Yeah, I know, upgrade Windows! When hell freezes over!

Call it my own form of protesting MS trying to control the PC market, which basically they have. Can you say "antitrust lawsuit"? Seriously, if you don't like Windows and how they do business, what are your options? Linux and none. That means lawsuit time!

Does Elite Dangerous Client still run on a Windows 7 then, wow.

I do agree, Microsoft does need to F###ing eat it at this point, seriously, my Computer has Spyware Baked in, and always Transmits S###, and Downloads S### on its own. Not that it's 'On-Topic' here, but serious note, why is my Computer, even with many Settings Disabled via RegEdit, why is my Computer still Downloading Hundreds of Gigabytes of Bloat every single Week?

Back to Elite Dangerous though, does it run on a SteamDeck smoothly without issues?

And, back onto Topic, they really need to just keep Items in the Game, so that people can buy them when they are ready.
What they Lose in FOMO Players, they will Gain in Sales from those Players who only Shop during a Sale.
I know that I want one Paint for EVERY Ship I got, or will have at some point.
If that Paint was something like the Chrome Paint, they'd be making a Mint in Sales from me.
It's actually the special nice looking Metallic Purple that I forgot the name of right now.
That Paint isn't cheep.

However, by taking a Paint off of the Shelf, for no reason, it means that fewer Sales of the Paint can be made overall.
If we don't have the ARX right now, we may not even be thinking of buying the Paints, as we don't have the ARX for them.
However, if around Christmas for example, we get the ARX then, and then find we can't spend them on what we actually wanted, then we are not going to buy ARX are we?
 
I wouldn't classify Discord as "hotness"! More like a hot mess.
I wasn't referring to Discord, I was specifically referring to these:

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And here I was thinking of getting the chrome skin for my FDL in the next big sale, but now I guess I can't? That's cool, thanks, I guess?? I always like when my ability to pay for things is taken away, for no good reason???
Your ability to pay isn't taken away, but the things you could buy. Like living in the GDR.
 
Weird, still working on mine, also worked on my old AIO that I used just for VTT RPGs. It complains that it can no longer update but who cares. Maybe it just doesn't let you install it?

I have used it in years past, even on this pc. Deleted it a few years ago, then when I saw it's used here I decided to try it, and yes, it won't install.

It downloads and starts install, then a little windon opens with red X thing that says "Installation has failed...There was an error while installing the application. Check the setup log for more information and contact the author."

I click "Open Setup Log". A notepad window opens and it shows a bunch of lines of info, towards the bottom it has a line that says..."(Inner Exception #0) System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform.".

Translation? "Your version of WIndows sucks!".

EDIT...

Decided to give it another try so I could post what it says when failed, then decided to try the browser version which I never have before. Seems to work!
 
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I wouldn't classify Discord as "hotness"! More like a hot mess.

I can't use Discord anyway, seeing I run Win 7 on this rig. I never did find a workaround. Yeah, Yeah, I know, upgrade Windows! When hell freezes over!
Decided to give it another try so I could post what it says when failed, then decided to try the browser version which I never have before. Seems to work!
Yup, Discord is every bit as much of a hot mess in the web version, or maybe even more! Woohoo :)
And Linux isn't so bad - maybe try it? I'm seriously considering it for my own daily driver, because my W10 box is getting replaced soon and my W11 experiences so far have been bad.
 
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