I remember how hellgate london sold lifetime passess, look how that ended, heh you can even compare the level of bugs, but I suggest everyone buy horizons when its finished, we had enough half baked bugs, can they polish this one first before release? I will buy it but they expect too much money up front, they got kickstarted, and premium beta, polish the game before selling again.
To all 'high cost' moaners out there
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Why do people always equate how much they spent on a game to how long they played it with value? Has anyone heard of quality over quantity?
I have spent a long time in Elite but 90% was sitting in supercruise and browsing the internet on my phone. Standing in a queue in airport security is not ‘value for money’.
Anyway I don’t understand the argument over how much the expansions should be worth before they come out. Elite has some excellent parts to the game but also some terrible ones. ‘Planetary Landing Lite’ (no atmosphere only, that’s another year way) could be a fantastic addition or it could be rolling through procedurally generated grey after grey after grey landscape looking for surface equivalents of signal sources. Until we found out how they have implemented I’ll hold off judging if the price is a good one.
A few too many people are getting over excited about another over hyped trailer. Remember the original trailer? I’ve seen nothing to suggest the gameplay involved in planetary landings will be any good (and nothing to suggest it won’t) but some people are shouting around the forums how FD have just creating video gaming and created a masterpiece history by announcing a half year away feature.
I’ve seen a lot of people on here also proudly boast about how much they’ve spent already on elite and $300 in a restaurant etc. This to me is quite honestly obscene and arrogant.
It might be trivial to you as you have nothing else to spend it on but to some people $300 is their entire families disposable income for a month. Your financial situation has a lot to do with something is worth it or not.
So I personally am going to wait and see how this goes.
I have spent a long time in Elite but 90% was sitting in supercruise and browsing the internet on my phone. Standing in a queue in airport security is not ‘value for money’.
Anyway I don’t understand the argument over how much the expansions should be worth before they come out. Elite has some excellent parts to the game but also some terrible ones. ‘Planetary Landing Lite’ (no atmosphere only, that’s another year way) could be a fantastic addition or it could be rolling through procedurally generated grey after grey after grey landscape looking for surface equivalents of signal sources. Until we found out how they have implemented I’ll hold off judging if the price is a good one.
A few too many people are getting over excited about another over hyped trailer. Remember the original trailer? I’ve seen nothing to suggest the gameplay involved in planetary landings will be any good (and nothing to suggest it won’t) but some people are shouting around the forums how FD have just creating video gaming and created a masterpiece history by announcing a half year away feature.
I’ve seen a lot of people on here also proudly boast about how much they’ve spent already on elite and $300 in a restaurant etc. This to me is quite honestly obscene and arrogant.
It might be trivial to you as you have nothing else to spend it on but to some people $300 is their entire families disposable income for a month. Your financial situation has a lot to do with something is worth it or not.
So I personally am going to wait and see how this goes.
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 oldIn 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.
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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....
I sincerely hope that the crassness of this post is down to OP's admitted poor language skills.
If he means what is written then he needs to work on an incredibly immature and condescending perspective of others' financial situations. The fact that he has money to burn is not true for all, most of whom will need to sacrifice something.
For me, game investment return is epitomized by my purchase of FS2004 in 2003. Cost £10 and has given more than 10,000 hours of (ongoing) entertainment.
The software didn't need ongoing support funds firstly because it was finished on release, and secondly due the provision of SDKs to allow 3rd party developers to make addons (many of which are freeware).
FD shoot themselves in the foot by disallowing modding, but simultaneously not being able to control cheats and hacks. They have a long way to go to claim value for money.
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