Why no Standard Beta players allowed to play Horizons Beta?

[nats]

Nats not going anywhere...

Well maybe not lol. But it does depress me when I see all the concentration on making more money when I still dont have a substantial game to play yet I feel. I go and in a rare case of enthusiasm I buy Horizons thinking it was going to be out in a few weeks to find out that it wasnt going to be out until Christmas and then I find out that my Beta purchase from last year doesnt qualify me for any beta releasing in this 'season'. I admit I am not a fan of this relatively new way of making multiplayer online games anyway - 'seasons' and what not. Well I dont like multiplayer games full stop, and have never partaken in any of the season passes etc for any other computer games which I see are just exploitative. I am not a fan of Early Access or playing a game as it slowly develops.

But you know I dont want much - I just want to play a finished product. They have had more than enough time to get this game 'finished', by which I mean providing an equivalant experience to Frontier or FFE. After that they can add all the extras they like such as dogfighting arenas, crafting, Powerplay, and all that rubbish. JUST FINISH THE MAIN GAME FIRST! All of these extras are distracting them from the main task at hand which should be passengers, planet landings, crew, chained missions, a story, Thargoids!, ie some excitement in the game. This is the sort of thing we all thought they were producing when we paid out money in the Kickstarter and after. Now it seems like I am just propping up an ailing dinosaur of a game that has no focus, no clear way forward, and it just keeps on getting worse not better!

 

[Dominatus01]

The Lifetime Expansion Pass WAS available again for a time a month or two ago!

Huh? What? /facepalm.

Surely not. How did I miss that? I must have been busy being interdicted...

If indeed I missed that then a) badly publicised! I read the forums every day, and pay close attention to the newsletters (yes, sad I may be) and b) I deserve to be flogged at dawn

 

[Genar-Hofoen]

Huh? What? /facepalm.

Surely not. How did I miss that? I must have been busy being interdicted...

If indeed I missed that then a) badly publicised! I read the forums every day, and pay close attention to the newsletters (yes, sad I may be) and b) I deserve to be flogged at dawn

Yep you definitely missed that - it was on the store front for ages!

 

[Edd Jordan]

ER what? Did you actually READ the posts? People are miffed about paying for the Beta TWICE.........And No its not to halt the bad press, if that was the case it failed and is STILL failing badly. THIS IS A CASH-GRAB, nothing more. They are trying to gouge the players for every penny (SEE Electronic Arts). We see this more and more when the games companies try to over-monetize products, they milk it until it dries up then move on. FD is NOT your friend, they do not care about you, they only care about pounds, dollars and the like. All the speeches and hype are just marketing tools to part you from your money. Gone are the days when games were designed and made by gamers FOR gamers, the bean counters are in charge now.

Yes i did read it, and that's why i reply with my opinion. you sound like you have very strong opinions of your own.

if you don't want to pay to test it then don't they are the choices. if people find it unfair then get in contact with FD. they do actually listen.

and again its just a game.