I anticipate many assuming greed is the answer. I don't think thats it. If FDev just wanted more money in their pockets, they wouldn't waste time with an 11 year old game. They would push more profitable titles.

No, I think the reason is they want the game to grow.

According to FDev's financial reports, Elite makes up 7% of their total revenue. I do not know how much of that is profit, but I assume each of FDev's games are supposed to be self-sustaining. There's no evidence to suggest Elite is losing money, so why the push to increase cash flow?

She went away shortly after this photo and I was sad.

I'm in

While nobody has said "it will never be available outside of arx purchase" it has been confirmed there currently no plans to change the monitization method.

Its just a prank, bro!

As a die hard Jays fan that was a gut punch