The Elite Dangerous cash trap awaiting noobs...

grammatonfeather

grammatonfeather
So a friend a mine has been asking about Elite Dangerous... He told me he might buy on steam... £19.99. I had to tell him... That's not a complete game. You'd need to spend another £20 to be able to land on planets.

So of course he's not going to buy now. I don't blame him. It's a trap... Victim buys Elite Dangerous assuming it's a complete game then finds they need to spend another £20.

So how about ditching the old-outdated elite dangerous without planetary landings and other features.

There should be ONE version COMPLETE!

Need I point out SC and No Man's Pie are both complete and not fractured purchases?
 

Shanaeri

Shanaeri
SC is now a fractured purchase. SC+SQ42 now needs to be purchased separately.

I think he's working on an incorrect assumption or expectation tbh, probably brought on by out of date information or biased reporting

Elite without Horizons is a complete game in the same way as WoW without the expansions is a complete game.

Elite+Horizons is what, the price of 1 full game now and it not only covers everything we have had in the last 2 years, but the majority of content for the next year as well.

So 40 quid for 3 years worth of content aint bad imo.

There are also special offers very frequently, both on steam and on the Frontier store that reduce the cost for both sets of content.
 

Toumal

Toumal
grammatonfeather said:
Need I point out SC and No Man's Pie are both complete and not fractured purchases?
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You lost me at that part. NMS is still a shell of a game, even though it's becoming more and more complete just like ED. And SC... don't get me started on that one. You have to buy SQ42 and the main game separately, if you want to fly certain ships you have to buy them with real money right now, and there's no way in hell that you can call any single part of SC "complete" in and by itself.
 

Harry Hates Golf

Harry Hates Golf
grammatonfeather said:
So a friend a mine has been asking about Elite Dangerous... He told me he might buy on steam... £19.99. I had to tell him... That's not a complete game. You'd need to spend another £20 to be able to land on planets.

So of course he's not going to buy now. I don't blame him. It's a trap... Victim buys Elite Dangerous assuming it's a complete game then finds they need to spend another £20.

So how about ditching the old-outdated elite dangerous without planetary landings and other features.

There should be ONE version COMPLETE!

Need I point out SC and No Man's Pie are both complete and not fractured purchases?
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That's a little over 50 bucks in US currency?

Hell, 50 bucks is the cost of going out for dinner, without cocktails (and who wants to have dinner without cocktails).

50 bucks for Elite: Dangerous (and Horizons) is cheap. If 50 bucks is expensive to your friend, he probably shouldn't be playing video games anyway, and should concentrate more on how to raise his income level.

One Man's Lie goes for 60 bucks, so its actually more than Ed, and as already pointed out, Star Alpha Version is a fractured purchase.
 

CMDR Pugwash

CMDR Pugwash
Harry Hates Golf said:
That's a little over 50 bucks in US currency?

Hell, 50 bucks is the cost of going out for dinner, without cocktails (and who wants to have dinner without cocktails).

50 bucks for Elite: Dangerous (and Horizons) is cheap. If 50 bucks is expensive to your friend, he probably shouldn't be playing video games anyway, and should concentrate more on how to raise his income level.

One Man's Lie goes for 60 bucks, so its actually more than Ed, and as already pointed out, Star Alpha Version is a fractured purchase.
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LOl, those days are gone it's about $27 at best now.
 

ArchEmperor

ArchEmperor
Price for the game will only go up. When squadrons and infinite detail long hair physics is implemented I think one license will cost $1000.

Buy it before it gets too big, too deep and too much fun.
 

maboleth

maboleth
The game is a bargain, $/time is so much worth it. There are 40-50$ games having 20h of content, this can be played for thousands and it's never ending if you like space, exploration, science and flying. And what's more, the entire 2018 will be free upgrade.
 

Whiterose

Whiterose
We were all noobs before we bought the game. I don't consider it a trap, as I went in with my eyes open, and as that was from the start I think I spent about £40 at the beginning anyway.

Money well spent in my book.
 

zimms

zimms
When was the last time your friend bought a video game, 1980?

Addons/expansions/DLCs are common nowadays. And if you don't pay for a product, you don't get it. That concept is even older.
 

Vorxian

Vorxian
I have no idea on what SC will eventually retail at, but right now nothing can compare to SC in that, SC is, for want of a better term, a very very pretty tech demo. A very pretty, very expensive tech demo.

I'm not sure I like it enough to splash money on a tech demo. If SC is likely to cost silly money when out, I'm likely not going to get it either.

Hate to say it... but I'd probably get better value for money rolling a level 1 in Warcraft :)
 

Harry Hates Golf

Harry Hates Golf
CMDR Pugwash said:
LOl, those days are gone it's about $27 at best now.
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I had a $27.00 dinner once. I was at Denny's, and lied about my age, and got the 55 and Over menu. Ha-Ha. I totally conned them out of that one!

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SUCKERS!​
 

CMDR CPT. Boris

CMDR CPT. Boris
20 quid to start the game without horizons is fair,
You can easily play more than 50+ hours before you need engineers or land on planets

If you really like the game after that, well you can buy horizons

Does not sound like a trap to me, horizons is not mandatory when you start to play
 

daman

daman
dont buy this game.

its a time trap.....you will potentially lose 100s if not 1000s of hours of your life to it.

:)
 

ZAKALWEINC8876

ZAKALWEINC8876
£40 for a game that is now my favorite game ever. Thats including mariokart on the snes back in the day. “Its the sale of the (sweary) century” to paraquote lock stock and two smoking barrels...
 
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