...and that means they don't take us, their customers, serious.
Just a few days ago (23rd) I accidentially sold my almost completely engineered Federal Corvette, worth ~700 Mio. Credits. Cue salty post here...? No. I lost only 69 Mio. Credits here which are a few hours of work, nothing more.
What irks me though, is the weeks lost of work engineering the ship. All lost because of a careless sell dialogue that places the confirm button for the sell so that an unfortunate placing lets the mouse hover exactly above it and a quirky left mouse button can do the rest (which is what happened). 1-click(TM) and everything can be lost.
In every game I played until now where a Vehicle or the Character you play is essential for the game is a distinctive change of input when you try to delete or sell something: You have to physically input per keyboard either the name of the character or the worth of the item or type in DELETE or at least Y E S. It wakes you up through the change in approach of what you're doing and prohibits quite essential an accidential deleting or selling.
That Elite Dangerous doesn't have either that or at least a safety net (in form of a buy back button for at least 5 min. or leaving the station) shows what Frontier Developments thinks of the work the players invest in their ships:
Nothing.
I did shut down E
almost immediately and opened a ticket and asked if they could return my Corvette to me, but after less than 24 hours (quite a good response time and at christmas to boot) I got the answer that they could restore it only if I had lost it beforehand (shot down etc., the interior is then protocolled for the rebuy screen). Which I hadn't, because frankly, the whole point of engineering a combat Corvette almost to the max _is_ to never loose a ship that is worth almost three quarters of a billion Credits and comes with a penalty of 35 Mio. Credits loosing it.
I blew it on selling the ship, they blew it on not establishing a safe way to not accidentially selling a ship and by also not providing a way to get it back.
I lost 69 Mio. Credits (nothing to sneeze at but doable in a few hours) and an almost fully engineered Corvette (definitely nothing to sneeze at and worth a few weeks of collecting materials, data and engineering). But, nothing really dramatic. No salt. I have still my almost fully engineered Cutter, Anaconda, Fer de Lance, Python, etc. after 1859 hours and a few minutes playing without any dumb errors accidentially selling or deleting something.
What angers me is the blatant disrepect of Frontier Developments, through inaction, for the work I invested into the game.
So, how do I get even? I thought a little while and in fact, I can get even. Maybe just symbolic but I can get even. The solution is, I give them:
Nothing.
I bought E in August 2015, Preordered Horizon at the end of November 2015 but I refrained from buying Paintjobs because I already had bought the game, that is enough. Then came November 2016 and no new DLC. So, no money for them.
My thoughts: Since 2003 I played always one or the other MMORPG and they all had a monthly fee which gathered most of the time to approximately 150€ per year.
Frontiers Developement generally does good work on E and there's a way, through the store, to contribute money to them. My plan: ~100€ to 120€ per year, I don't hurt for that much money. So, between November 2016 and November 2017 (Black Friday) I bought Paintjobs and other gimmicks for, until now, exactly 95.90€. In fact I planned to buy some of the Festive Countdown gimmicks to get above the 100€ mark, maybe above 120€. That won't happen now. All those games that had a monthly fee had also a useful safety against accidentially selling or deleting an essential item of the game.
That decision then, backing the game through game extras, gives me now a way to get even. I won't buy any extras for at least until November 2018 (again, Black Friday). Okay, or until they implement a sensible protection against accidentially selling a ship or a least retrieve it directly after selling. I would prefer the first solution (sensible protection).
Maybe they sneeze on the losing of my 100€ the next year. Maybe they laugh about that. However I get even with real money against virtual money and work time.
It's, at least, a statement, if nothing more.
Greetings,
Lyronix
(Everything written here is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.)
(No, that's no 2nd try to get my ship or my virtual money back. Not interested anymore. I'm interested in a SOLUTION)
(BTW, what about the 'Clear Save' Button? Similar dangerous? No, I won't try it.)
(And please would the godlike creatures that never made an error in the game hold back from commenting? You're not human anyway and as such have no right to comment. Thanks!)
Just a few days ago (23rd) I accidentially sold my almost completely engineered Federal Corvette, worth ~700 Mio. Credits. Cue salty post here...? No. I lost only 69 Mio. Credits here which are a few hours of work, nothing more.
What irks me though, is the weeks lost of work engineering the ship. All lost because of a careless sell dialogue that places the confirm button for the sell so that an unfortunate placing lets the mouse hover exactly above it and a quirky left mouse button can do the rest (which is what happened). 1-click(TM) and everything can be lost.
In every game I played until now where a Vehicle or the Character you play is essential for the game is a distinctive change of input when you try to delete or sell something: You have to physically input per keyboard either the name of the character or the worth of the item or type in DELETE or at least Y E S. It wakes you up through the change in approach of what you're doing and prohibits quite essential an accidential deleting or selling.
That Elite Dangerous doesn't have either that or at least a safety net (in form of a buy back button for at least 5 min. or leaving the station) shows what Frontier Developments thinks of the work the players invest in their ships:
Nothing.
I did shut down E
almost immediately and opened a ticket and asked if they could return my Corvette to me, but after less than 24 hours (quite a good response time and at christmas to boot) I got the answer that they could restore it only if I had lost it beforehand (shot down etc., the interior is then protocolled for the rebuy screen). Which I hadn't, because frankly, the whole point of engineering a combat Corvette almost to the max _is_ to never loose a ship that is worth almost three quarters of a billion Credits and comes with a penalty of 35 Mio. Credits loosing it.I blew it on selling the ship, they blew it on not establishing a safe way to not accidentially selling a ship and by also not providing a way to get it back.
I lost 69 Mio. Credits (nothing to sneeze at but doable in a few hours) and an almost fully engineered Corvette (definitely nothing to sneeze at and worth a few weeks of collecting materials, data and engineering). But, nothing really dramatic. No salt. I have still my almost fully engineered Cutter, Anaconda, Fer de Lance, Python, etc. after 1859 hours and a few minutes playing without any dumb errors accidentially selling or deleting something.
What angers me is the blatant disrepect of Frontier Developments, through inaction, for the work I invested into the game.
So, how do I get even? I thought a little while and in fact, I can get even. Maybe just symbolic but I can get even. The solution is, I give them:
Nothing.
I bought E
in August 2015, Preordered Horizon at the end of November 2015 but I refrained from buying Paintjobs because I already had bought the game, that is enough. Then came November 2016 and no new DLC. So, no money for them.My thoughts: Since 2003 I played always one or the other MMORPG and they all had a monthly fee which gathered most of the time to approximately 150€ per year.
Frontiers Developement generally does good work on E
and there's a way, through the store, to contribute money to them. My plan: ~100€ to 120€ per year, I don't hurt for that much money. So, between November 2016 and November 2017 (Black Friday) I bought Paintjobs and other gimmicks for, until now, exactly 95.90€. In fact I planned to buy some of the Festive Countdown gimmicks to get above the 100€ mark, maybe above 120€. That won't happen now. All those games that had a monthly fee had also a useful safety against accidentially selling or deleting an essential item of the game.That decision then, backing the game through game extras, gives me now a way to get even. I won't buy any extras for at least until November 2018 (again, Black Friday). Okay, or until they implement a sensible protection against accidentially selling a ship or a least retrieve it directly after selling. I would prefer the first solution (sensible protection).
Maybe they sneeze on the losing of my 100€ the next year. Maybe they laugh about that. However I get even with real money against virtual money and work time.
It's, at least, a statement, if nothing more.
Greetings,
Lyronix
(Everything written here is my opinion, nothing more, nothing less.)
(No, that's no 2nd try to get my ship or my virtual money back. Not interested anymore. I'm interested in a SOLUTION)
(BTW, what about the 'Clear Save' Button? Similar dangerous? No, I won't try it.)
(And please would the godlike creatures that never made an error in the game hold back from commenting? You're not human anyway and as such have no right to comment. Thanks!)
