Yeah so Elite Dangerous totally just let me accept a mission that in order to complete I need the $30 DLC, with no warning save a coded icon (and maybe not even that, I can;t remember).
That's not cool.
After spending like an hour on that mission and a half hour trying to figure out what was wrong, yeah, that really sours me on the whole game.
:( :(
The game also seems like the kind of thing that really works best if you sink hundreds of hours into it and I just don't have that kind of time.
I'm trying to decide if the game is fun enough for me to plunk down the thirty bucks, or if I should just abandon the mission and do something else, or just walk away from ED entirely.
It seems like there's a relaxing game in there somewhere but I have to fight a horrible UI to find it. And I don't know if it's so chill I'd just get bored.