Just yesterday, Morgan observed that tanking the steam rating of the game has become a reflexive response to complaints of large and small PC games. Now, the Helldivers2 user review average has recovered from the weekend's PSN account link fiasco, and another game has been hit with a small but still noticeable influx of negative Steam user reviews.

Recent reviews of space sim Elite Dangerous show that some players have expressed disappointment with the new offer in the game's store. Because of the "mixed" rating sits.

The latest update for the Milky Way simulation almost a decade ago adds a new ship, the Python Mk II, but at least 16,250ARX, which can be earned in-game This ship will not be available in a non-purchasable in-game currency called Credits until 8/7.

In addition to early access to new ships, Elite Developer Frontier has added powerful pre-built ships to the arx store. "We assume that these pre-built ships are a faster way for new players to participate in areas of their most interest, or for existing players who are considering a new career path in the game but don't have time to devote to new builds from scratch," the studio said. Said on 4 May.

Some players have not taken such a positive view of the change. 

"They went to pay to win!""I'm not going to let you down," declared one of the most recent Steam reviewers. "The whole point of the game is to earn credits, explore the beautiful galaxy and buy ships. Where is the problem with this'Well now you earn credit for the ship and don't let me start with the fact that the new Python MK2 for pre-built ships is locked behind the wall of cash store payments until 8/7, just to do what you want. What a pity it was a good game."

Since the announcement, with more than 550 new Steam reviews averaging a month into "mixed" ratings, this is certainly not a Helldivers2 situation, with over 200,000 negative Steam reviews flooded one weekend after the announcement that PSN account links had become mandatory. Elite obviously has far fewer active players than this year's biggest hits, but the addition of the ARX store also doesn't unify its entire player base with PSN issues just as frustrated as Helldivers2 players — some are fine with that.

"In fact, it's all in the micro-transaction root because it's being processed," said 1 player on Reddit. "That is, the ship is essentially a timer for those willing to pay, but it will not be locked forever behind it. As someone who is not interested in microtransactions, I don't lose anything, I just don't get it as soon as I'm okay. [Frontier] is giving players a choice. They are not like turning the game into a subscription model that you can not play if you do not pay.

The various perspectives of its players have saved the elite from bearing the red "Recent Reviews: almost negative" mark of shame, but for now it should suffer the yellow "Recent Reviews: Mixed" tag. Elite's overall Steam review average "remains mostly positive.""