Odyssey vs Odyssey Deluxe Alpha Expansion.

[One Eye Jack]

So both are available for pre purchase but it doesn't really tell me what the difference between the two are.

Anyone know?

Edit: Upon further reading it looks like the Deluxe Alpha expansion only means I get to play the Alpha version prior to release. So..... I guess they want me to pay an extra $20 so I can have the honor of being a Beta tester...... I understand now...... LOL Think I will just wait.

[Mu77ley]

The store page tells you exactly what the differences are:

Deluxe Alpha Expansion Contains:
⦁ Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
⦁ Access to the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha.
⦁ Elite Dangerous: Odyssey OST
Pre-order Bonus:
⦁ Gain access to the exclusive Pioneer suit skin.

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Mu77ley:

The store page tells you exactly what the differences are:

Deluxe Alpha Expansion Contains:
⦁ Elite Dangerous: Odyssey
⦁ Access to the Elite Dangerous: Odyssey Alpha.
⦁ Elite Dangerous: Odyssey OST
Pre-order Bonus:
⦁ Gain access to the exclusive Pioneer suit skin.

Yeah..... I stealth edited while you were posting this I guess. Seems like no reason to fork over an extra $20 just to play the Alpha early....... or am I missing something?

[Mu77ley]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

Originally posted by Mu77ley:

The store page tells you exactly what the differences are:

Yeah..... I stealth edited while you were posting this I guess. Seems like no reason to fork over an extra $20 just to play the Alpha early....... or am I missing something?

The soundtrack?

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Mu77ley:

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

Yeah..... I stealth edited while you were posting this I guess. Seems like no reason to fork over an extra $20 just to play the Alpha early....... or am I missing something?

The soundtrack?

LOL Well that make ALL the difference! Think I can just wait. I will say from the YouTube streams I have seen it looks pretty cool. I quit playing months ago out of boredom and burnout. This will bring me back.

[★BigShot★]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

So..... I guess they want me to pay an extra $20 so I can have the honor of being a Beta tester...... I understand now...... LOL Think I will just wait.

Finally, someone with common sense, heh.

It's one thing to buy into a game early, especially when a discount is on offer due to the risk. But to actually pay extra to play it early is just idiotic.

By purchasing a game early, before it is ready to be publicly released as it is intended to be, you are clearly lending a big helping hand to the developer/publisher in several ways. You are:

#1: saving them money by needing to hire less testers & opinion panels
#2: the massive amounts of feedback alone can & does save these companies literally millions in lost revenue
#3: you help to future proof or extend the overall life of the game for these people
#4 by talking about the game, posting all over the internet about it, telling your friends, etc. you are saving them huge sums of money on sales & marketing early on.
#5 you are fronting them large amounts of cash by buying the product before the product is actually ready for prime time.

Considering how much money early players/investors are saving them they should not be charging a $15 or $20 premium over the retail release price for simply playing what you've just paid in full for. Yea, to actually pay MORE for an alpha than a full completed release version is certainly fool's gold. But you'd be surprised how many line up to buy the stuff :-)

[5hadowfax]

Originally posted by ★BigShot★:

But to actually pay extra to play it early is just idiotic.

Why? What's wrong with wanting to be able to play it a bit early and steer the direction?

[wven]

Originally posted by ★BigShot★:

#1: saving them money by needing to hire less testers & opinion panels

This is what ya'll are worried about right?

I know if people started paying to do a job that I got paid to do....I would start worrying ;)

[Grimerek]

The deluxe alpha edition gives you the access in the alpha, a suit and the ost, you should buy the deluxe if you want to play the alpha, if not you should buy the standard edition

[luZk]

Is the elevator music part of the soundtrack?

[Unknowninfo]

Tbh I bought the delux because of 3 things.
1 I want to play it
2 I can afford it and
3 I've been waiting to get out of my ship in elite since 1984 (yes I bought the original on release at age 11)

My only question is where is my bloody pioneer skin

[One Eye Jack]

Originally posted by Unknowninfo:

Tbh I bought the delux because of 3 things.
1 I want to play it
2 I can afford it and
3 I've been waiting to get out of my ship in elite since 1984 (yes I bought the original on release at age 11)

My only question is where is my bloody pioneer skin

I can respect that...... if I were impatient and wanted to play badly enough I would likely do the same thing. But I will wait. I haven't played Elite in months anyway...... got bored and burned out with it. This will get me back in the game. It looks pretty good from the videos I have seen. But I can wait a while longer. Heck..... we've been waiting for space legs for how many years now? At least it's finally almost here.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by Unknowninfo:

My only question is where is my bloody pioneer skin

It probably will be there when Odyssey is finally out.

[Dolphin Bottlenose]

Originally posted by One Eye Jack:

LOL Well that make ALL the difference! Think I can just wait.

Absolutely! There is nothing wrong with waiting for the release, if you don't want to play with testing servers and hunt for some bugs (not the green ones).

Just as there is nothing wrong with buying Alpha to try it now and not in 2 months, with an added fun of hunting for those bugs. Some people like to find bugs, especially when they are not obliged to do it by a job contract.

[Unknowninfo]

Originally posted by Dolphin Bottlenose:

Originally posted by Unknowninfo:

My only question is where is my bloody pioneer skin

It probably will be there when Odyssey is finally out.

Got an answer

Message from Steam Support on Apr 1 @ 2:39am | 15 hours ago
We apologize about any confusion regarding this matter.

The DLC is preorder content, it will not show up until leased.

For information on release dates and pre-order bonuses, please see the game's Steam Store page.

Steam Support
Joe