First, let me apologize for my poor English 
Sick and tired of reading all the comments about high-cost for expansions, counting differences between lifetime pass then and now, ,'you are making a mistake' posts, etc.
What's wrong with you people? You're used to pirated games you don't want to pay for? You're comparing ED to some other MMO-games? You're telling $195 is too much for all possible expansions that will ever exist?
Let me be honest with you. I owned many computers/games since 1990, I played Elite on spectrum, yes, I am that old In this long way (today is 2015, btw), I've never had a game that I spent so much time in. Yes, it's not perfect, yes, it needs some work, yes, some things I really dislike, for example FD policy over updates (some large update, few days after that they fix something and leave it halfway and then they are silent for few weeks). But there's no other game, at least for me, that would keep me entertained for such a long time. I am playing since Dec 17, 2014, I am not a backer - a few then thought this game would be as great as it is now.
As for now, let me just get a few facts together without any conclusion, just a facts.
1) An hours per a dollar value. Can't say for sure since I deleted the game 1 or 2 times, but that's a hundreds for me. For original $60 I paid - one of best investments ever.
2) No one makes you pay for expansion if you don't want it. Play a game in basic stance as it is now + CQC. For $60 it's more than enough.
3) It's impolite to point fingers at others, but someone pays hundreds of dollars for ships that are standing in a shining hangar. You_know_what_I_mean.
4) Occasionally, I leave $150-$300 in a restaurant. To enjoy a tasty, unusual food (btw, sometimes I don't even enjoy it) and dump it a few hours. Nuff said.
5) Just count how much money you spend weekly for beer, wine, smoke, wife, kids, whatever. Same joy, heh?
6) Some people are paying $60 per every single 'hot' title of the year. COD, BF, you name it. However, I paid $60 for Witcher 3 since devs amazing job fully deserves it. Cities Skylines for $30 - same thing. I don't play these games anymore, but I do not regret of a single dollar spent.
7) FD could have gone monthly-yearly subscriptions way, but they have chosen expansion way. That's their game and their rules. We have to respect that.
...
so anyway. I could go on and go on. My $180.00 pass is purchased. I was thinking about that only for a second. I won't be regretting that no matter what happens.
Thanks, FD, for getting us a dream, a story, an unique for everyone experience that is not shiny special-effects pew-pew that is chewed for you and carefully put in a open mouth, like most modern movies. Please don't listen to moaners, try to skip the negativity and keep loving your game. The way it's now, it seems you really loving it. As we do.
(and please, do updates more frequently.... even the smallest ones)
Sick and tired of reading all the comments about high-cost for expansions, counting differences between lifetime pass then and now, ,'you are making a mistake' posts, etc.
What's wrong with you people? You're used to pirated games you don't want to pay for? You're comparing ED to some other MMO-games? You're telling $195 is too much for all possible expansions that will ever exist?
Let me be honest with you. I owned many computers/games since 1990, I played Elite on spectrum, yes, I am that old
In this long way (today is 2015, btw), I've never had a game that I spent so much time in. Yes, it's not perfect, yes, it needs some work, yes, some things I really dislike, for example FD policy over updates (some large update, few days after that they fix something and leave it halfway and then they are silent for few weeks). But there's no other game, at least for me, that would keep me entertained for such a long time. I am playing since Dec 17, 2014, I am not a backer - a few then thought this game would be as great as it is now. As for now, let me just get a few facts together without any conclusion, just a facts.
1) An hours per a dollar value. Can't say for sure since I deleted the game 1 or 2 times, but that's a hundreds for me. For original $60 I paid - one of best investments ever.
2) No one makes you pay for expansion if you don't want it. Play a game in basic stance as it is now + CQC. For $60 it's more than enough.
3) It's impolite to point fingers at others, but someone pays hundreds of dollars for ships that are standing in a shining hangar. You_know_what_I_mean.
4) Occasionally, I leave $150-$300 in a restaurant. To enjoy a tasty, unusual food (btw, sometimes I don't even enjoy it) and dump it a few hours. Nuff said.
5) Just count how much money you spend weekly for beer, wine, smoke, wife, kids, whatever. Same joy, heh?
6) Some people are paying $60 per every single 'hot' title of the year. COD, BF, you name it. However, I paid $60 for Witcher 3 since devs amazing job fully deserves it. Cities Skylines for $30 - same thing. I don't play these games anymore, but I do not regret of a single dollar spent.
7) FD could have gone monthly-yearly subscriptions way, but they have chosen expansion way. That's their game and their rules. We have to respect that.
...
so anyway. I could go on and go on. My $180.00 pass is purchased. I was thinking about that only for a second. I won't be regretting that no matter what happens.
Thanks, FD, for getting us a dream, a story, an unique for everyone experience that is not shiny special-effects pew-pew that is chewed for you and carefully put in a open mouth, like most modern movies. Please don't listen to moaners, try to skip the negativity and keep loving your game. The way it's now, it seems you really loving it. As we do.
(and please, do updates more frequently....
even the smallest ones)
