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Elite Dangerous takes a leaf out of Star Citizen’s book a decade later and starts selling ships for real money


Elite Dangerous, arguably the best space sim ever is finally making the move to sell in game ships for real-money and not all the players are happy.

Then, this morning we get some new Elite Dangerous news across our bows as Frontier Developments, who have taken a lot of flack over the years from the community for a perceived lack of pushing the game on from the groundbreaking title it was when it came out of beta. While Frontier is unlikely to offer a package in the tens of thousands like Roberts Space Industries does it is still a move that could divide the player base still further. “Every time they f*** up another franchise deal they crawl back to Elite to milk the loyal fanbase with dubious practices and lackluster updates.

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