You mean real life one or two hours of work? Because that is how this game works. You work several hours in real life in order to buy (now: rent) yourself some virtual ship in the game to get an edge over the other idiots who did the same.
You are right of course. They (Epic) do not have 18% more in their pockets to reduce the price of the games by that margin. And you are also right that the developers COULD do that instead. But they do not. Why? Because they are in for the money. It's that simple.
My suggestion would rather be...
My main concern with the STORE (not with the client) is that there is no options to filter for anything. It is just one giant long list of Games made to look like windows tiles. Completely stupid to browse. For that reason alone i will never buy anything there.
And there is another customer not buying the game in the first 12 months. Too bad, i liked it, but i am not going to support the Epic Store, it is horrible to say the least.
I wouldn't mind trying before buying it. I was a fan of the first part but i am a little unsure about this one. So if anyone has an invite for me, that would be appreciated.
Game is alright i think, but i feel not connected to my char in any way....KB&Mouse for flying was meh....not so great, also never really felt in total control. Honestly, i would never buy this game after the demo but i got it for free with my nvidia card, so....
Finally I went to the only local store having a 144Hz WQHD monitor and looked at it. It was a HP 27 XQ with a TN display. It's actually better than I thought and i bought it. TN panels might have their shortcomings, but they also improved a lot since i last had one. Colors are definately OK, no...