I do not think that this will work as you imagine. Otherwise, I can imagine those mails to FD support - "I was in the game for XY hours and suddenly my Internet connection died... Can you refund me my ARXs ?"
Notice ARX and Frontier Points Conversion
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I do not think that this will work as you imagine. Otherwise, I can imagine those mails to FD support - "I was in the game for XY hours and suddenly my Internet connection died... Can you refund me my ARXs ?"
And? Does that mean we should just accept the bugs because it's Elite? No. I'm very serious.
Well, it is a reality. Maybe we can go and play some other space simulator. But I really do not know what other space simulator we can play.
Star Citizen in 10 years?Well, it is a reality. Maybe we can go and play some other space simulator. But I really do not know what other space simulator we can play.
Truly feel like the Frontier employees collectively dropped their pants and slapped us all in the face with their "members."
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And yet...we still can't customize UI colours properly without editing config files and making mess of things. Is it even on the list anywhere down the line? The only part of ship you see and interact on regular basis has zero customization. If you don't count goofy bobbleheads and absolutely ghastly lights.
Well, we agree on that too. o7
Star Citizen in 10 years?
Maybe in 50 years
Stop, being born in 1965, I will probably die before the SC will be finished.
I do not think that this will work as you imagine. Otherwise, I can imagine those mails to FD support - "I was in the game for XY hours and suddenly my Internet connection died... Can you refund me my ARXs ?"
I hope it does, a few support requests would be a small price to pay for putting an ARX tax on Combat Logging.
I do not like this, because I am 99.99% in Solo. So, no way for ARX delete if Internet connection is interrupted for some time.
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I don't know why anyone here is acting so shocked.
I've been saying for years that Elite Dangerous is not special. It is not an exception to the rule with MMO design, and like it or not but micros are part of the design.
The packages FD have put on display today are remarkably similar to the offerings of most other games with similar premium currencies, with bigger bundles incurring a discount. I play several MMOs so I do know what I am talking about.
Yes, FD said you could earn skins for free. But that doesn't mean you will. The free Arx is meant to tempt you into paying that little bit extra for more. The fact FD is giving us any for free is actually the only non-conventional design choice made here.
I never thought for a moment that I'd never be paying real money again for a skin in Elite. If you did think that, you were naive at best. At worst? Nah' not worth the ban. XD
Welcome to the world of MMOs. I hope that this move by FD is a wake-up call for those who still doggedly insist that Elite is "special".
It isn't. It's a service game. Always was, and always will be.
Personally I'm fine with it all. It's a proven business model and is why ESO is doing so bloody well right now. You guys do want to play this game for as long as possible right? Well that requires sales after initial purchase.
It would be foolish to think FD would cut themselves off their only post-purchase revenue stream without a sustainable replacement that quite simply doesn't exist.
You know. Unless you want engineering material loot boxes. Oh did I say that out loud?
I've been saying for years that Elite Dangerous is not special. It is not an exception to the rule with MMO design, and like it or not but micros are part of the design.
The packages FD have put on display today are remarkably similar to the offerings of most other games with similar premium currencies, with bigger bundles incurring a discount. I play several MMOs so I do know what I am talking about.
Yes, FD said you could earn skins for free. But that doesn't mean you will. The free Arx is meant to tempt you into paying that little bit extra for more. The fact FD is giving us any for free is actually the only non-conventional design choice made here.
I never thought for a moment that I'd never be paying real money again for a skin in Elite. If you did think that, you were naive at best. At worst? Nah' not worth the ban. XD
Welcome to the world of MMOs. I hope that this move by FD is a wake-up call for those who still doggedly insist that Elite is "special".
It isn't. It's a service game. Always was, and always will be.
Personally I'm fine with it all. It's a proven business model and is why ESO is doing so bloody well right now. You guys do want to play this game for as long as possible right? Well that requires sales after initial purchase.
It would be foolish to think FD would cut themselves off their only post-purchase revenue stream without a sustainable replacement that quite simply doesn't exist.
You know. Unless you want engineering material loot boxes. Oh did I say that out loud?
And all of a sudden we learn that the dreaded "Connection Error" drop was never a bug all along, but a stealthy "feature" designed in advance to mitigate Arx farming. Frontier were playing the long game...I do not think that this will work as you imagine. Otherwise, I can imagine those mails to FD support - "I was in the game for XY hours and suddenly my Internet connection died... Can you refund me my ARXs ?"
It's those rainbow tinted cockpits, available for only 7395 arx per ship.
And the sudden shift in the numbers being used from a simple flat £ value you can easily keep track of to a more arbitrary number of "points" per £ is a classic example of what Jim Sterling calls a "Confuseopoly" designed explicitly for the purpose of making it harder to keep track of your spending.
Like, I've earned hundreds of Cartel Coins in SWTOR, through achievements. But was NEVER under the illusion that the total number I made from that over all my playtime would ever be enough to afford more than maybe a single weapon skin. I suspect many ED players were unfamiliar with this business model.
I mean, we were all thinking it. Except Frontier, they probably already had someone at work implementing the backend for it.
Can I earn more ARX by playing in OPEN?
Probably no.
More precisely, no one from FDev said that there will be any difference between Open/PG/Solo in ARX income.
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Are you sure, your calculations are correct. I get:
5k pack: 1672 arx per £
8.4k pack: 1768 with bonus, 1683 without
16.8k pack: 1772 with bonus, 1681 without
25.5k pack: 1788 with bonus, 1701 without
51k pack: 1800 with bonus, 1701 without
85k pack: 2000 with bonus, 1700 without
It's the bonus points which should motivate to buy bigger packs. Hence, I think, they are going to stay.
Also, if you stay away from the 49.99 investment with that really nice bonus, the 4.99 one is a nice step up from the 2.99
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