FTL: Advanced Edition Will Be The Same Price On PC And iPad

<p>Last year Subset Games announced that their popular indie title&comma; <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"FTL&colon; Faster Than Light" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;FTL&percnt;3A&lowbar;Faster&lowbar;Than&lowbar;Light" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">FTL&colon; Faster Than Light<&sol;a> was getting an expansion pack&comma; FTL&colon; Advanced Edition&period; You can check out our review of the original game <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;ftl-faster-than-light-review&sol;">right here<&sol;a>&period; This version will feature new enemies&comma; environments&comma; weapons&comma; systems&comma; drones and effects&period; In terms of gameplay systems there will also be a new Mind Control mechanic and a Hacking mechanic that will be added to the game&period; FTL&&num;8217&semi;s original writer Tom Jubert had teamed up with <a class&equals;"zem&lowbar;slink" title&equals;"Chris Avellone" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;en&period;wikipedia&period;org&sol;wiki&sol;Chris&lowbar;Avellone" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"wikipedia">Chris Avellone<&sol;a> from Obsidian to create a brand new sector for the game&comma; as well as many more events&period; On PC&comma; owners of the original game will receive this expansion for free whilst newcomers will be able to buy it at &dollar;9&period;99&sol;£6&period;99&semi; although this price point is not yet confirmed&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What is confirmed is that the iPad version of FTL&colon; Advanced Edition will cost exactly the same as the PC one&period; Whilst &dollar;9&period;99 is considered quite reasonable and cheap on PC&comma; it will be considered a premium price point in the mobile market place&period; The co-founders of Subset games&comma; Justin Ma and Matthew Davis&comma; are not concerned by this&period; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;21&sol;ftl-advanced-edition-shoots-for-10-on-ipad&sol;&quest;ncid&equals;rss&lowbar;truncated">In a GDC interview with Joystig<&sol;a> Ma stated that&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Presumably the higher price point will make players a little bit more discerning on whether or not FTL will be something that they&&num;8217&semi;re interested in&period; Which is funny&comma; because we&&num;8217&semi;re very expensive on iPad with the same price that&&num;8217&semi;s extremely cheap on PC&period; It could even be the same users that have the different perception of what is a &dollar;10 game&comma; just based on the system&period; <em>FTL<&sol;em> works really well with the general way you play on iPad&comma; just because you can pause it at any moment&comma; come back later&comma; and all the little events are bite-sized moments&comma; so that works out very well&period; And in that way&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s kind of casual&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s just you have to be able to put up with severe disappointment&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>So far we have no confimred release date for FTL&colon; Advanced Edition but Davis and Ma stated that it would be coming &&num;8221&semi;soon&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2014&sol;03&sol;21&sol;ftl-advanced-edition-shoots-for-10-on-ipad&sol;&quest;ncid&equals;rss&lowbar;truncated">Joystiq<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;