Developer Egosoft went out of their way to make preorder bonus content unable to be used by people who supported them before the game was even out by way of preordering the game. It is supposed to be accessed via a link from online features to the egosoft forums. The problem is content people paid for, which was the very incentive made to get people to buy in befoee it was released, is in fact linked to this feature which is down at time of writing, which is also a time where game is currently supported and updated by the offending developer. Egosoft essentially locked content paid for behind a dead feature, and despite release of a dlc in this time frame, and multiple updates, they have yet to in any way fix the issue. As far as i know, the developer cares more for money from customers than actually supporting the purchases made by said customers. If/when they fix this, i would whole heartedly approve and promote this game, as it is, at its core, a unique and fun product. i just cannot endorse this product's developer, due to such anti supporter practices.

And let me be perfectly clear. The game is great, and i have loved egosoft for years, despite their history of releasing broken games, since they have proven to fix and support said games over time, which many devs will not or cannot do, but at this time, which is the time of writing, i have not seen such be done for this product, or its supporters from before it was out, hence my great sorrow in not supporting this game. I truely want to support the devs, but i also really want their support. They got my money. They sold a product under the auspice of giving a paintjob in game, and no matter how minor the content, or how long ago, they got paid for a product, and to not allow access to thaat product due to a completely separate feature being down for almost a year is abhorrent.

Developer Egosoft went out of their way to make preorder bonus content unable to be used by people who supported them before the game was even out by way of preordering the game. It is supposed to be accessed via a link from online features to the egosoft forums. The problem is content people paid for, which was the very incentive made to get people to buy in befoee it was released, is in fact linked to this feature which is down at time of writing, which is also a time where game is currently supported and updated by the offending developer. Egosoft essentially locked content paid for behind a dead feature, and despite release of a dlc in this time frame, and multiple updates, they have yet to in any way fix the issue. As far as i know, the developer cares more for money from customers than actually supporting the purchases made by said customers. If/when they fix this, i would whole heartedly approve and promote this game, as it is, at its core, a unique and fun product. i just cannot endorse this product's developer, due to such anti supporter practices. And let me be perfectly clear. The game is great, and i have loved egosoft for years, despite their history of releasing broken games, since they have proven to fix and support said games over time, which many devs will not or cannot do, but at this time, which is the time of writing, i have not seen such be done for this product, or its supporters from before it was out, hence my great sorrow in not supporting this game. I truely want to support the devs, but i also really want their support. They got my money. They sold a product under the auspice of giving a paintjob in game, and no matter how minor the content, or how long ago, they got paid for a product, and to not allow access to thaat product due to a completely separate feature being down for almost a year is abhorrent.