
Buy the base game plus Horizons for £70 now. Buy the base game for £40, play now, but do not get access to Horizons. Pre-order Horizons for £40, but cannot play until December. In summary, as new customer you have currently these options: (You also get beta access to all upcoming versions, if you are so inclined, which is not included in the other offers.) So, in addition to the £70 worth of the base game and Horizons, you already pay now for two more major versions, expected for 20. a price of £30–40, with all previous content bundled. (Let's ignore for a second that I got the same LEP for £40 back last year.) You get the base game now, Horizons in December, and all other upcoming major versions of Elite: Dangerous, which according to Frontier will all be similar deals as Horizons, i.e. So, start playing now, get Horizons, £70–80 altogether.Īlternatively, you can get the Lifetime "Expansion" Pass for £130. And if you have bought the base game on Steam, you apparently don't get this loyality discount at all. There is currently a £10 discount for owners of the base game, so you'd only pay £30 at the moment, but it seems as if this is a time limited offer.
What if you want to start playing now? Then you'll have to buy the base game – which still costs £40 –, and then plunk down the price for Horizons in addition. Sounds good? There is one catch: you won't be able to play anything of this, even the already existing content, until Horizons is released in December. The deal even gets even better since Horizons includes the base game, so as new customer you only need to buy Horizons and get still the whole package (except one ship that is reserved for existing customers). Not cheap, but considering they will basically add another game's worth to the already existing one, understandable. I don't know the price in US$, but it's the same as the original game. Okay, here's the thing: a few days ago, Frontier announced the next big addition (note that I try to avoid the word "expansion" – I'll explain below…), "Horizons", which costs £40 and will be released around Christmas.