weird

Were there any actual players asking for this, or just the investors?

neat

hey frontier, can we get ship interiors next?

Wooh I could get PAID? What am I giving up?

Jk I dont play ED any more. But for anyone wondering: "Just About" is a Discord clone (with a worse name).

So presumably the reason they want to pay us for screenshots is to attract users to their new service. I guess they got a bunch of VC money to burn.

lol. good luck to them. it's not gonna work :)

Originally posted by B0RIS:

Wooh I could get PAID? What am I giving up?

Jk I dont play ED any more. But for anyone wondering: "Just About" is a Discord clone (with a worse name).

So presumably the reason they want to pay us for screenshots is to attract users to their new service. I guess they got a bunch of VC money to burn.

lol. good luck to them. it's not gonna work :)

now it makes sense

This actually seems Interesting, of course i do not know what the Partnership between Frontier and Just About entails on their end but on the user side this does not really seem bad. I've Read through the terms, the copyright policy and the cookie
policy. Overall this seems pretty good.
-Copyright stays with the User (us) and Deletion of a post on the site removes their Right to further use it (though it seems that prior use in Featured Articles for example stays)
-They seem to ban Scraping of their Website so Ai probably wont be involved (as of now)
-The Payouts are payed for from ad revenue from JustAbout themselves so it does not seem like Frontier is footing the bill here (i refer back to the "i don't know their deal part at the beginning though).

One, in the end actually small, thing i have to Critigue is that on their Website they are not Specifing the Cookies they collect in the usual Popup, they have a Popup but it only says "Accept" or "Reject"
They do have a List in their Cookie Policy though and that one is... Short, like Really short. If i reject cookies it also only installs a single mandatory one.

This does seem like a fairly Good deal for us users, at least for those that want/are willing to participate. I remain a bit skeptical on how viable their Buisnessmodel is in the long term but this seems like a really Unproblematic service in todays digital day and age soooo...
Yeah, make of that what you will

Instead of screenshots they should fund inara and some of the tools devs make to make their game better/address shortcomings

Originally posted by Zenith:

hey frontier, can we get ship interiors next?

And VR on feet.
No, i'm kiding, they will NEVER do this , EVER ! ^^

I want to be positive about Elite but this looks like lazy social media influencer advertising that is on the level of non-effort from the development side of the game to increase the mainstream popularity.
Please take the feedback that many have given: that there are fundamentally broken sides to the features of the game, like multiplayer being poorly implemented and that players cannot co-op exploration in the same vehicle, or that VR is not fully developed and doesnt even work in Oddyssey's first person.
Second to that criticism I'll also say that the biggest investment you could make to pander to the mainstream audience is Ship Interiors like some other comments already mentioned. This would generate hype that would carry this game back into the mainstream.

i mean, sure it sounds good but...

i would put this kind of money into making some more assets just like the new ship you guys shipped last update

FDev, why don't you make content for your game for us to share instead of asking us to create content for you?

Uh what???

Yeaaaaah... no thanks. I would prefer to see that money goes toward the game production instead of random marketing BS.

gaming industry is so corrupt i feel like im watching The Wire