Here's my financial argument: their decision to charge money for the privilege of having your own ships name show up on scans, is something that so disgusts me that their company will never see another cent from me again.
Since I can't double dip +Rep to the OP, have one on me.
Fairly new CMDR (2.2 arrival just before Xmas), I bought the overcharged 6 colours
PER ship for a fiver a time for my five favourite ships, two laser colours and a Coriolis bobblehead but now? well <expletive deleted> Frontier!
Bugs that never get fixed, networking that locks up for seconds when exiting warp / entering glide mode (even in solo mode), a BGS that
feels like it's mostly flavour text in various systems (Oh yea, we're in civil war so no missions for you), might as well have created a random generator for system states that affect nearby systems - do the same job.
Naval / Empire ranking that is basically (like Powerplay), an unfinished mechanic, unfinished crime & punishment - they may as well do away with
Anarchy and
HiSec since there's so little difference between 'em (no bounty in one, easily avoided
advertised checkpoints in the other).
In VR, no curved commodity screen bug reported as early as two
years ago, side bar in the maps that should also be angled towards the player or virtual keypad for finding stars or improved movement system.
A locked UI colour which has been hacked but changes radar blips and NPC character portraits.
But they can program (and charge) for something as basic as ship names (check any RL ship, name plastered on its hull). Plus, have you seen the font on the video, it looks like Ariel with a line above and below it, sure it took an intern all afternoon to come up with that design!!!
Can't wait til some real competition arrives and I can
jump ship - I already thought they were taking the <bodily function deleted> with the ship colours but at least the ships had default styles, maybe Fdev should sell them untextured (untapped market there guys)...
Oh, and I know 3D modeling is
teh hard but really, slightly modified colours on one flight suit, for cash? you're really not making it hard for me to stop giving you money.