*** The Official Elite: Dangerous Thread ***

tbh said:
Don't buy it then?

I have no problem with the pricing; it's cheap compared to the amount I've spent on microtransactions in some "free-to-play" games, and I'm sure I'll get a lot more value out of it.
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But it's nothing to do with the fact of it being "cheap" or not, they are charging existing players, the players that actually funded the development of the game much more than new players.

They are now saying that not even a year down the line, a game a lot of people paid £50 for, is now only worth £10.
 
I only popped out for some milk and sugar...

Should have gone to Rhyl.

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It's taken much longer than I originally planned as my 'Explorer OCD' kicks in and I just cannot stop myself from scanning everything even when it's 450,000Ls away in a System.... :o Should be worth a fair old few pennies when/if I get back :D
 
Antony101 said:
They are now saying that not even a year down the line, a game a lot of people paid £50 for, is now only worth £10.
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Have to say this.....

I don't have an issue with the DLC being the price it is, what I am a bit irked about is the £10 quid difference. I will have paid £70 for the same game a new player who is paying £40....

That is the bit that niggles a little....
 
Strudders said:
Have to say this.....

I don't have an issue with the DLC being the price it is, what I am a bit irked about is the £10 quid difference. I will have paid £70 for the same game a new player who is paying £40....

That is the bit that niggles a little....
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But you get to play ED now, if you are new to ED and purchase the base game you get to play when Horizons is released and not before. ;)

£70 for two years aint so bad in the grand scheme of things.
What`s that £2.91 a month that's a bargain if you ask me. :D
 
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Cavallino said:
Can I ask why you are searching for liquor? Mission?

Are missions worthwhile in Elite? I just thought that if you want to make money its all in bounty hunting etc? Or am I wrong?
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Yeah a mission, I'm starting with the easier, trading/collecting/delivering missions first. Then build up/buy a new ship ready for bounty hunting.
 
robfosters said:
Guys, is this game easy to get into or is it a bit of a slog?

Fancy playing a space game, but not really willing to go into Star Citizen until the full release.
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Best example I can give is, do you or did not like playing flight simulators ?

Elite dangerous you actually feel like you fly a spaceship, power demands, weapons, fuel etc.
Its a spaceship simulator no matter what way you look at it.

It will take about 6-12 hours to get to grips faster if you watch youtube.
Once you get going its a really easy-ish game..

Its more of an experience than a game, as the is no goal etc just do what you like.

Like marmite some love it, some don't. But its a very good form of escapism if you like space and astronomy. ;)
 
It's out in time for Christmas this year, unless I misread the update email wrong.

Edit: The impression I got was that there will now be yearly paid for updates, starting with Horizons at the end of this year.

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Elite Dangerous: Horizons is a new season of gameplay expansions for Elite Dangerous, beginning this Holiday season and continuing into 2016
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Antony101 said:
But it's nothing to do with the fact of it being "cheap" or not, they are charging existing players, the players that actually funded the development of the game much more than new players.

They are now saying that not even a year down the line, a game a lot of people paid £50 for, is now only worth £10.
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Personally, I don't really mind if they release an annual update that costs £30-40. Most other games offering similar online services (WOW, EVE, etc) would charge a monthy subscription which would end up as way more than that then charge you for expansions on top of it.

I get that you feel they are comparatively charging existing players quite a lot at £30 for the upgrade when you consider new players are getting the 'original game' plus the 'expansion' for £40. However if they didn't do this it would split the player base into those with the expansion and without. To me I'd rather everyone playing the game had all content available to them.

If you feel your original 'purchase' has 'devaluated' over time then that's probably because it has. If you want to make or retain your money buy stocks and shares or invest in property/land. Video games tend to be a poor investment over the longer term if you're buying them ;) Of course if you have an original boxed copy of Elite for the BBC Micro, like another poster on here, that's probably worth more now than they paid for it in the 80's!

I really like the way Frontier development are funding the game. No monthly subscriptions nor any upgrades via micro-transactions or in game advertisments. Just a £30-40 fee annually if you want to keep playing which gets you minor monthly updates plus a larger annual update. Sounds perfectly reasonable IMO!

Based on the current pricing it's basically costing £30 per year to play Elite: Dangerous. You'd have to be pretty miserly to complain about that IMO if it's a game you enjoy and play frequently :p
 
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Its more of an experience than a game, as the is no goal etc just do what you like.
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I agree with you IF you are playing it in VR e.g. a DK2 but if you're playing it on a monitor then i disagree. You're right there is no goal just an absolute **** ton of empty nothingness. FD really lucked out when making this game because people cant argue with that because heck space is supposed to be empty hehe.


Its a game though...and no other open world game is this empty. I compare this game with games like X series, Red Dead Redemption (mainly because the desert can be comparable in a sense due to the levels of emptiness), Skyrim etc

And if you treat this game like an MMO then i genuinely dont know any MMO in existence right now that sells for £40 and is this bereft of content (even basic mmo stuff) and is P2P :eek::eek:

As a vr game its great though..does feel like you are flying a ship in space...cant fault the visuals at all.


itchy said:
But you get to play ED now, if you are new to ED and purchase the base game you get to play when Horizons is released and not before.
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So you dont get to play the base game either? wow didnt know that. So spend money buying horizons now and not even able to play base Elite wow :(
 
So guys. I've put off buying the game until it had settled down (And until I bought a gaming laptop).

So is now a good time to jump on this bandwagon spaceship
 
mattyg said:
So guys. I've put off buying the game until it had settled down (And until I bought a gaming laptop).

So is now a good time to jump on this bandwagon spaceship
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Well i would say wait until Horizons is released so before Xmas.

The thing is...i am sure there are exciting times ahead. You want to be in a good ship when the Thargoid Invasion Armada storms occupied space :D Now that could happen after Season 2 (horizons) and Season 3 (atmosphere landings) so in 3 years basically..but i dont think they will wait that long the fans will depart in droves..i reckon it will be part of the main game Elite and i dont think they will advertise it saying expect thargoid incursion on X date. I think buy it play it so you have a decent ship and some millions in the bank then shelf it until it gets the more interesting content.

There have been signs already ...they are coming. (i really hope they are big fans of Babylon 5 :D)
 
Just been looking on FD and it looks like I could go the whole hog and buy the future expansions for £130 which would give me ALL future releases. But £130 seems a fairly large investment into a game I've not played yet.

Even if I lost months in the 80'/90's to the earlier Elite series
 
Trig said:
If you want to paint cross hairs on yourself put 1 mining laser and 1 pulse laser on your Vulture, sit mining when it quiet and when people come sacn you and your packing decent stuff they'll some come try and take it off of you, plus a single pulse will fire for ages before you ahve to move pips..
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Much easier way to do this without hamstringing yourself using mining lasers.

Get a combat load out and then add a single tonne of gold in a small cargo slot. Same result but you now at least have two lasers. ;)
 
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