I liked it for awhile but just seeing this made me furious!

Frontier SW, if I pay for the damn game, let me ♥♥♥♥♥ paint my ship the way I want and don't charge me extra for it!

Don't do cancerous micro-transactions just for a function that should be basic!
f*ckers

This is what I despise most in games today! I buy the damn game and they still have micro-transactions in it! SMFH

Let me tell you about one of my favorite games that I have played on and off for many years.

1) The game is visually stunning. Even the most desolate rocks out in the universe still look amazing, and the sky-box is down right mesmerizing, with every star in the sky actually moving positions in the sky as you move from start system to start system.
2) The game is massive, a complete 1:1 scale of the Milky Way Galaxy. If you ever wanted to travel to Sagittarius A and see the black hole at the center of the universe, you can do so; just expect to take a few hours of flight time to get there because it ain't close. (To set expectations though, black holes in the game are the one thing lacking visually and I hope one day they re design them)
3) The game has a lot to do. Want to be a bounty hunter? Go do it! Want to be a pirate? Go do it! You want to mine ore from asteroids and/or haul thousands of tons of materials or trade goods across the galaxy in a massive fleet carrier? Go do it!

On top of all the above, we are getting the ability to colonize new star systems soon which will give the players the ability to build (pre-designed) space stations and star ports in currently unoccupied systems, bringing a whole new way to play the game in 2025; not to mention the possibility that a new alien conflict is likely to happen in the future after we start expanding outward so there is that to look forward to as well.

If I have to give one caveat about the game, it's that the game has no structure. It is a sandbox game through and through, so if the idea of coming up with your own objectives in an open ended game doesn't sound like fun to you, you may want to stay away. Otherwise, if that all sounds great to you, welcome to the galaxy commander! o7

Flew for an hour to get to a planet, got security scanned and the guard didn't like that i was on the same planet as him. Get shot, presumably t-bagged, shipped off to space Detroit, and charged for the experience. 10/10 Just like real life

there's some fun stuff in that game like fighting pirates mainly, but everything else is just a slow boring crawl. you spend lots of time dealing with the terrible transport mechanic that is supercruise and in the loading screens called "hyperspace".

this game asks way too much time to do anything. you can easily sink 2 hours without accomplishing any objective.

doing anything on the planet surface is just a pain. the AI is just a hair away from shooting you on sight even if you're friendly.

People say it's a grind, but it's not that bad. I'm exactly 100 hours in and I've done most aspects of the game. I've completed all the Fed and Empire ranks to level 12, so I've unlocked all the ships. I have around 15 ships (including the most expensive in the game - the Cutter). I've done asteroid mining, transportation, explored outside the bubble, and I have 1.5 billion credits in the bank. I've unlocked around 15-20 engineers and most of my ships are engineered to level 3 or 5 on fundamentals like FSD, shield generator, shield boosters, lasers, cannons, thrusters, power plant, etc. I have enough materials and money that i will be able to go fully engineered on my next ship build - a combat Corvette. Then I imagine i will go for a fleet ship or wait until system colonisation is released in 2025. I'll eventually do both!

One top tip for money making - form a wing with friends and share your missions with one another once you are back at base. You can make a mint doing that at easily 250 million per hour in a hazardous res zone with a 4 person wing team and half decent medium ships. You can also make a quick 50 million doing a silver 400-500 units mining run missions.

As to the game, I love the realism of this over games like NMS, Star Citizen, Eve, etc. And there is nothing like being the first person to discover an earth like planet and getting your name on it. :)

Maybe I'm just getting too old for games but this thing is so effing complicated it is not pleasant to play.

Already bought the game on my PS4 back in the days and now also on PC because...
Its one hell of a amazing game, there is always something to do and its all up to you to pick whatever you feel like doing!
The graphics, well the game looks fantastic, just stunning all over!

Traveled to the center of the galaxy and saw alot of amazing things!
As a space fanatic, I just love this game!

Guess I'M to dumb for this game.

Getting off the first planet feels like the final boss. stupidly hard.

The game is fun but unless you REALLY enjoy alt-tabbing every 5 minutes to go google what you're doing, This game isn't for you. The game has several complex systems overlaid on top of each other to simulate a space-exploration sim but really you're managing a heads up display and a star chart as well as 30 different reddit/wiki tabs.

The only tutorial the game provides you with is how to fly and how your guns work in groundside combat, which is fine if the information for LITERALLY anything else was inside of a menu in game or if windows had an optional help button for navigation. Instead you're required to fumble around with a single save-slot to your account, all of the cosmetics are tied to the earnable end game currency - which also resets between character, and potentially just waste 40 hours before you actually have a concept of an understanding of what to do in this game. There are two kinds of people who play elite dangerous, People who enjoy space-exploration simulation games, and people who enjoy reading reddit threads. You cannot go into this game with prior experience of another simulation game because most of the rules are thrown out the window for arbitrary complex systems that aren't present in most other space faring sims. If you want my brutally honest opinion - If you just want to explore a universe, pick up no mans sky. If you're into the brutal economy and large-scale intergalactic corporate warfare, Go play EVE. This game is for very specific people and it shows by the stark difference in peoples' play time. Your friends who own this game either have 400+ hours or 40 minutes.