So, Elite: Dangerous is selling ships for real money now but in a twist they're kind of doing it worse than Star Citizen. Not in regards to the price tag - yet, anyway, but there are about 3 more ships not yet revealed - but in that the ship sells with at least some engineering completed.
If you've ever played E:D then you how straight-up pay to win engineering is vs non-engineered ships.
This is also on their brand new PvP focused ship, which just makes it all the more silly.
If there's a silver lining it's that you can grind out their item mall currency via game play, with some caps to how quickly it's earned in-game. I can't be bothered to look it up but, in theory, players will eventually be able to buy the ship via grinding. How long (or not) that'll take I don't know.
and if Elite is anything, it's a grind. So yeah, that's on brand I suppose.
OTOH, FDev, rather unsurprisingly IMO, is breaking a promise after saying they'd never do this with their item mall.
The funny thing about being P2W is that in Star Citizen you can spend disgusting amounts of money on ships but the bigger the ship, the more necessary the crew. Engineering (actual engineering, not ED's button click RNG) now exists in Arena Commander & is proven to necessitate a crew.
Where as in ED you can buy a big ship and multicrew is a side thought. The ships are intended to fly solo.
Spend the big money in SC & you need a crew to handle encounters. Get a big ship in ED, you fly it solo.
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