Dude, it's okay to buy another game. ED is a computer game, not your wife. You are not supposed or expected to play only one, or pretend any game is the One. FS2020 looks cool, it's fine if you buy it.
Fine for me. Maybe not so fine for Frontier.
Hand problems (my hands are 95% functional, I just have to be careful with them) led to me giving up console gaming in 2013. I didn't at that time have a computer powerful enough to play modern games. Then in 2016 I bought a grunty machine for photo-editing purposes, and PC gaming became a possibility again. And there was this old game, Elite, that I'd played back in the eighties, and there was a new version out, and I needed to distract myself from a (happily temporary) back problem....
I realised as soon as I bought it that I had to play it with HOTAS and VR. It took me two years to train myself to use the joystick carefully enough to to engage in combat without risking further injury to my hands, and while I tried other VR games frankly ED is the meta for seated VR (tried standing once, almost killed myself, didn't do it again). Except, of course, for racing games, which don't interest me, and flight sims, and I reckoned I already had one of those, which I had, with some difficulty, taught myself to safely play.
So I played ED more or less exclusively, and spent liberally in the Game Store to support the game's further development.
But here we are, almost four years after I started playing, and the fundamentals of the game I love are still as good as ever, but its development since Horizons has frankly been lacklustre, culminating in a two-year shutdown during which I rather hoped the game would be completely revamped, as opposed to say, gluing a First Person Shooter onto a game which is showing its age and calling it good. While dropping the single most compelling feature of the game (for me) for even that part of the new content which is vehicle-based.
So now here I am looking at alternatives, and it looks like FS 2020 is a good alternative, and I'll probably buy it.
Which doesn't mean I'll quit ED. I'll keep on playing, I'll even buy Odyssey, but it'll no longer be getting the lion's share of my gaming hours, and its rival will be a flight sim, a genre which is famously a money pit for add-ons. Microsoft has already announced an in-game store for such things.
Where am I going to be spending my spare cash in future? In the Game Store buying paintjobs, or in FS 2020, buying an occasional new plane to fly?
As I say, fine for me, maybe not so fine for Frontier.
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