Do not buy.[/h2]

TLDR: Frontier Dev lost almost 20 millions dollars in 2023 and their response was to go full EA on pay to win. They're making decisions that have preceded the discontinuation of almost every live service game before. Unless you truly, deeply want to experience the game, don't bother buying. Maybe wishlist and give it a year to see if Frontier get better. They probably won't though since most of the actual Creators of ED have long since left.



I want to love ED. I really, truly do. But Frontier has time and again shown they don't care about their product or their players. Forum bans for pointing out bugs, drip-feeding critical features, devaluing ARX... Odyssey (the DLC) is a whole different thing and just makes the game BAD.

The few "oh yes we were looking fwd to this" features essentially add another extra F-U to the grind. Or are behind a paywall. I'd love to see a non-dead planet. I won't, it's the DLC.

The game, as far as frotnier is concerned, is a Thargoid shooting simulator and they have done nothing of value in years about any other aspect of the game.

Now we're getting our first new ship in YEARS (no joke) and with it, the ultimate sign of the death of a game - lifelong P2W insurance. And while you'll still pay for upgrades after losing the ship... you can get late game gear with the power of your credit card. Forever. So that's another little fun stab in the eyes of people like me who had to grind our way to the top, but it's OK because this is the actual death throw.

Oh, and never forget that Mining and Exploration (the 2 most popular activities after shooting) have a barely acceptable loop, with exploration being especially unfulfilling.


The galaxy is pretty though. And when you're the first human to see a thing it does feel nice. But it's not worth the consistently broken hopes and promises. :)