id rather use real money for services rather than raw creds, personally.
id rather use real money for services rather than raw creds, personally.
I will not support a game that sells power, currency or any advantage for profits.
First serious answer from me...
Pay to win - anything where you can pay to get some actual advantage in the game - sucks as far as I'm concerned.
I would never play open ever again if that were to come to pass and if I felt it was cynical enough I would give up on Elite as painful as that is because it's been a long dream to be back in this universe.
It's why - even though I backed "the other game" - I've given up on that game: the cynical nature of the p2w from that vendor is, to me, beyond the pale.
I agree with the FD idea of allowing payment for cosmetic 'personalising' things and think having more of them might be a nice idea but as soon as you can give real money to get a better gun or ship or location I'm out.
And there is the problem. Suddenly the game becomes a contest of who can put the most money into it, not the most in the game effort.If somebody is willing to invest a lot of effort into such a meaningless task, I'd say give them an opportunity to increase their output by some paid items. I.E. "Major Government-change boost", increases your government-changing performance by 100%Here you go, cash to support the servers.
We do not plan to make it subscription-based. Once you have purchased the game up front, you will be able to play thereafter for no further cost. Everything in the game will be purchasable with in-game Credits, earned from trading, bounty-hunting, etc. We will probably allow the supplemental purchase of Credits with real money, for those who want to accelerate their progress through the game.
We do plan to charge for additional updates, to be available sometime after the original release. These will offer additional content, features and gameplay.
As the majority of the people will argue that it doesn't matter what another person has in this game in respect to you, would it be fair to say that buying credits for real cash doesn't affect anyone at all?
There is no "win" in this game, hence it wouldn't be pay to win.
This does not appeal to me at all. My friends and I abandoned Lord of the Rings Online shortly after they introduced micro transactions. It just sucked the soul right out of the game. I would rather pay a monthly subscription.
As the majority of the people will argue that it doesn't matter what another person has in this game in respect to you, would it be fair to say that buying credits for real cash doesn't affect anyone at all?
There is no "win" in this game, hence it wouldn't be pay to win.
I think cash-for-credits will be introduced once the RTE competition has been decided. As a mod has stated, the idea was mentioned by Mr Braben himself at one stage, so it's a definite possibility.
A possibility I'm not in favour of in the slightest.
Bad idea in a game where credits are everything. It would kill the game very quickly, like all other pay to win games.