Would you pay for....

[Lanceor]

The is one and only one case where I would support a purchasable ship - a ship that was visually different but functionally identical (including the hitbox) to something already in-game.

 

[Arvel Yael]

You're dodging the question.

I thought that I'd made my feelings clear when I said that ED shouldn't be turned into a pay to win game.
But to be very specific, no, I would not pay cash on top of what I pay for the expansions/season passes to get ships above and beyond what are included in those expansions/season passes.

 

[Suteksio]

You're so right. In SC anything you buy in the store will be able to be obtained just by playing the game. In ED they charge you for an expansion and then hold back items which are only available on their store (like nameplates). Pretty sad really.

The difference is that everything you buy in the Frontier store leaves you at the same competitive level once you buy them. When (if) SC releases the guy in the Aurora might see a difference when he faces a guy in a Idris. It's the difference between selling skins and P2W material disguised as funding.

Edit: And don't get me started on charging for Alphas, Betas, Single player campaign chapters and the online universe.

Get real.

 

[fennster]

Yeah, I have no idea. Maybe you keep your mods? Maybe you keep the beluga/dolphin if your account has horizons access? Maybe everyone has these ships? I googled it but couldnt find anything definitive.

I'd imagine it just stays. If you have a fighter hangar installed with fighters and you load the base game you keep the fighters, but you can't restock them.

 

[SaliVader]

Uhm, no they're not doing that right now.
You pay for season two and all that is released belonging to season two.
The items in store are not conected specifically to season two with the exception to a couple paints for season two specific vehicles.
All the rest is optional vanity, free to purchase or not wether you have season two or not.

If you buy a car but after a while there are better looking rims available for that car then you wont get those for free because you bought the car, quite simple actualy.
Complaining because everything isn't given to you for free, isn't there a word for it?

https://s25.postimg.org/3yyqxpbhr/tumblr_mzys8nfrxf1st18yzo1_400.gif

I think this is more akin to buying a car and then realizing it doesn't have a radio. Did the seller tell you it didn't have a radio? Probably not, cos all cars have radios nowadays so you assumed your car would come with a radio. Does the car still work? Yeah you can drive it just fine, but it ain't the same.

 

[askavir]

I am more talking about Beluga/Dolphin. AFAIK they require Horizons, or not? If so, just because we got more than just that doesnt mean we also paid for ships.

Well, we paid for access to purchasing ships. Not exactly the same as buying a Beluga in the store and have it in our hangar.

Anyway, they are ships specific to a role that only exists in Horizons, AFAIK there are no passenger missions without Horizons, and even though nothing stops us from using those ships in other roles, they are quite gimped as multi-roles due to their role-locked slots.

Although I do get what you mean, i think its still not the same as going to the store and purchasing a ship.

 

[SaliVader]

Well, we paid for access to purchasing ships. Not exactly the same as buying a Beluga in the store and have it in our hangar.

Anyway, they are ships specific to a role that only exists in Horizons, AFAIK there are no passenger missions without Horizons, and even though nothing stops us from using those ships in other roles, they are quite gimped as multi-roles due to their role-locked slots.

Although I do get what you mean, i think its still not the same as going to the store and purchasing a ship.

There are passenger missions in vanilla afaik, as well as passenger cabins. Don't quote me on this though, I might be wrong.

If you have Horizons and log into vanilla you won't lose your Beluga/Dolphin. Launching Horizons is required for the planets to load though, so you wouldn't be able to land on planets.

 

[fennster]

Well, we paid for access to purchasing ships. Not exactly the same as buying a Beluga in the store and have it in our hangar.

Anyway, they are ships specific to a role that only exists in Horizons, AFAIK there are no passenger missions without Horizons, and even though nothing stops us from using those ships in other roles, they are quite gimped as multi-roles due to their role-locked slots.

Although I do get what you mean, i think its still not the same as going to the store and purchasing a ship.

You do get passenger missions outside of Horizons, just no Beluga or Dolphin.

 

[Spacecat]

Don't give them any ideas.

 

[Cmdr Cheese Wedge]

Wish someone would pay me for every knee jerk reaction Frontier provide.

 

[Bit.Slade]

No way.
Bad enough FD has people paying for laser colors, that cannot even be assigned to individual lasers!
'Course, I'm a dinosaur that still believes that a dollar is actually worth something.
Yes, I make my own coffee.
And yes I feel greatly disconnected from the those around me who say, "it's only $x dollars."

*Goes back to rocking chair on porch, mumbling about the damn lawn.*

To be fair, those people are idiots.

 

[Jmanis]

Not that this is something I desire in the slightest, but I'm surprised a video game company hasn't released a (cheaper) base game + a main questline, and (literally) everything else is paid content.

Soo, take something like Dragon Age. You download the game and you get:
- Main Plotline
- Essentially the engine and "base" items.

... game is literally unplayable at that point. But then:
- Classes (E.g warrior, mage, rogue): $2 each
- Races (Human, Elf, Dwarf): $2 each
- Team Mates (Leliana, Sten, Alistair etc.): $2 each
- Sidequests: $2 each
- Two-handed sword (or other fighting style) skilltree for Warriors: $1 ea
- Each spell specialty tree (Fire, Frost, whatever): $1 ea

.... you get the point.