Elite on Kickstarter...

[Misfit]

Ok. Now backed.

Seems a lot of £20 slots have opened up (I guess people must have upgraded), so I'll go in on one of those for now.

[axel000]

Lots of pledge upgrading has occurred in the last couple of days as Frontier added a bunch of new pledge level rewards around getting more interesting start points, a few extra starting credits and some ship customization to different roles (trader, explorer, pirate).

[Xstreme]

This has GOT to happen. If its PC only then fuck it, I'm buying my first ever PC.

[Darkflame]

Id guess its PC only unless they smash over their target by quite a bit.

Oddly I find that this more appealing than directly supporting the game at the moment. So I've backed it, which I guess makes it more likely I'll back the game too.

Well, its more bang for the buck.

I also find the idea of a Fighting Fantasy style book with a elite setting quite appealing on its own.

[pogo]

It is looking much more likely now. They're not raising enough daily to hit the target but they're not far short so only need a small surge at the end to push them over. Of course they could do without Christmas and New Year which will reduce the press coverage they get in the final two weeks, but they may have enough momentum not to worry about them.

Still think they made a mistake on pricing. After selling 10,000 copies of the game at £20 weeks ago they've only managed to attract 672 as I write who think the game's worth £30. I suspect many more people would pay £20 if they could; even more would pay £15. I doubt they will be able to charge £30 for the finished game, and that's putting people off. Use the rewards to extract the maximum from keen backers, but have a low base price to attract those unsure or not so enthusiastic.

[Misfit]

For sure.

I'd have been as soon as I saw it at £15 and only cracked once some £20 slots opened up.

I may not have the machine or time to play this, so £30 is just too much.

[Yak]

They've had the BBC basically advertise this for them though, haven't they?

[Darkflame]

Yes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20165344
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20205555

Its not even going to be on a BBC this time either.

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70 x 20GBP slots atm.

[Jamesac]

Two articles about the return of Elite, one of which looks like a blog post, and both of them from 11/05, doesn't seem unwarranted to me. Unless there have been more since those were posted that aren't linked here, of course.

James

[Governmentyard]

There was a big thing on the BBC News front page, for ages. That will have helped.

As for the twenty quid slots opening up, I cancelled my pledge once they started going on about DLC and redundancies. Id prefer it not to get made now, and for the past to remain the past. Sick of former glories. It's bad enough being a Forest supporter.

[Darkflame]

Isnt the whole project supposed to be about creating a new glory?

And whats so bad about DLC? They talked specifically about walking around planets and going inside spaceships....thats not trivial "buying new ships" crap, thats major new game-play that would surely cost a heck of a lot more then what they are asking for initially.
Dunno about you, but Id love those options in future, so I think its great they are designing the engine with that in mind.

[The ghost of raids past]

The trouble is the all the DLc option is 80 quid, so they are thinking of adding three times the cost of the game as dlc. Thats a pretty extreme milking of people who buy the game.

[Darkflame]

Depends how much they add.

I dont see Elite as being suitable for yearly sequels, its better to build it modular.

It does depend on how much is in the DLCs vs how much they charge. Maybe they will put shit up, or charge too much.
I dont think in principle this approach is wrong though. In many ways Elite can never be a complete game - its trying to give the universe after all. So theres not really any clear cut places to put a "end" on content and say "this is game 1" lets work on game2.

[Surfr]

This has GOT to happen. If its PC only then fuck it, I'm buying my first ever PC.

This is pretty much my thinking too.

[Governmentyard]

Isnt the whole project supposed to be about creating a new glory?

And whats so bad about DLC? They talked specifically about walking around planets and going inside spaceships....thats not trivial "buying new ships" crap, thats major new game-play that would surely cost a heck of a lot more then what they are asking for initially.
Dunno about you, but Id love those options in future, so I think its great they are designing the engine with that in mind.

That sounds like the sort of thing CCP and Mojang are already well on the way to giving me. DLC is frequently dissappointing, even at expansion level. I'm happy to buy this game if it comes out and doesn't suck, but I'm no longer excited enough about it to spend most of my annual gaming budget on it in the new year, only to play it the year after.

Besides, I don't think I'm going to like the multiplayer.