"We are listening to the community"...

Wrecked

Wrecked
ARX are just a way to obfuscate what you are actually paying for something. It allows FDev to change the prices of items without most customers realizing what the change really amounts to. Some will calculate, but most will just purchase without question. It’s not real money, it’s “points”, so they have no mental value to a person.

I’m assuming that you won’t be able to purchase a precise number of ARX for your item, right? This is akin to the gift card system whereby you give frontier money upfront for a pool of points and they get to use the money as investment income until you redeem the point value through store purchases. Oh, and I’m sure it’s going to be financially incentivizing to purchase larger buckets of points over smaller ones. Another way for FDev to acquire piles of cash with no actual obligation to the customer at the time of purchase.

Edit: Just to be clear, I'm not advocating for Frontier to give everything away, and I am more than happy to support them financially if they continue to produce content I deem worthy of my money. I simply think this industry practice of obfuscation through meaningless virtual currency is a dirty practice that we should not embrace.
 
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Wrecked

Wrecked
Vandaahl said:
Oh come on, don't be a commy. It's either this or a subscription fee.
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There are honest ways to make money that don’t require you to confuse and exploit your customers. The store is completely fair as it stands now. You see real prices and you purchase only what you want. In the future (for example) you will have the option to purchase:

10,000 ARX for $5
20,000 ARX for $7
50,000 ARX $12
100,000 ARX for $22

What did you just buy? That day a paint job costs 3254 ARX. A month from now the same paint job costs 3289 ARX. Frontier just got a raise without most people knowing it. If paint packs have been $5, and they go for $7 all of the sudden, players notice that. These ARX changes will go unnoticed due to their amounts.

We have no subscription fees now, why would ARX be required to maintain this?
 

Dionysymbiant

Dionysymbiant
You can also earn by playing the game, this offsetting any potential increase in price.

Why complain about this? It'll be more engaging as they will likely have you do many different things to earn them. If all that upsets your PerSOnAl NaRRrraTivE, that's on you, not them, not the rest of us that are welcoming the change, as the change isn't a selfish greedy thing but rather them trying to make everything a bit more accessible and balanced for everyone
 

babelfisch

babelfisch
Allowing us to unlock paintjobs in-game was a frequently posted suggestion. Fleet carriers even more.
I'd say this is a typical case of 'they aren't listening to the community unless they listen to me'.

I guess there'll also be a ton of fixes, QOL improvements and some smaller content they didn't show yet.
 

JesusRocks1988

JesusRocks1988
Wrecked But Whole said:
There are honest ways to make money that don’t require you to confuse and exploit your customers. The store is completely fair as it stands now. You see real prices and you purchase only what you want. In the future (for example) you will have the option to purchase:

10,000 ARX for $5
20,000 ARX for $7
50,000 ARX $12
100,000 ARX for $22

What did you just buy? That day a paint job costs 3254 ARX. A month from now the same paint job costs 3289 ARX. Frontier just got a raise without most people knowing it. If paint packs have been $5, and they go for $7 all of the sudden, players notice that. These ARX changes will go unnoticed due to their amounts.

We have no subscription fees now, why would ARX be required to maintain this?
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Actually the current tiers on consoles are as follows:

300 Frontier Points for £3.19
500 Frontier Points for £5.19
1000 Frontier Points for £9.99
2500 Frontier Points for £23.99

Anything that is currently £1.00 in the Frontier Store for PC is 100 Frontier Points on consoles.

Frontier have had to use a virtual currency on consoles since the beginning because of requirements beyond their control.

I don't see this changing very much when they rename Frontier Points as Arx.
 
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