400 ARX per week max - How Come?

Mechanist

Mechanist
FD is slowly turning a game into real sweaty "I hate my job" work ... *cough engineers ... *cough Guardians ... and now ARX ... we'll see how it ends.
 

Ezren

Ezren
Mechanist said:
FD is slowly turning a game into real sweaty "I hate my job" work ... *cough engineers ... *cough Guardians ... and now ARX ... we'll see how it ends.
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This is either a dishonest comment or a deeply ignorant one.

You get ARX for playing the game. Compared to before, when you did not earn anything towards cosmetics... no, wait. We've gone through this before.

Every time we finish this cycle, somebody new steps up.
 

ebbrell

ebbrell
im happy getting anything for playing it all helps. we got nothing before, I don't see a problem with 400. at the end of the day, FDEV still need to make money, so we shouldn't expect to get everything quickly by earning loads of ARKs per week
 

Ezren

Ezren
M4st0d0n said:
Patched game will be broken fo at least a week because marketing decided it's time for alternative currencies no one ever asked.
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So, not all the other changes, you're somehow blaming the bugs on ARX?

That was an FSD-boosted leap in logic there.
 

Ralph Vargr

Ralph Vargr
Ezren said:
This is either a dishonest comment or a deeply ignorant one.

You get ARX for playing the game. Compared to before, when you did not earn anything towards cosmetics... no, wait. We've gone through this before.

Every time we finish this cycle, somebody new steps up.
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Thanks. That makes up for all the things that Go Wrong on Patch Day.
 

[VR] M4st0d0n

[VR] M4st0d0n
Ezren said:
So, not all the other changes, you're somehow blaming the bugs on ARX?

That was an FSD-boosted leap in logic there.
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Well. The non-optional non-feature was patched tonight while several real features appeared broken now. It may as well be a coincidence, I guess.
 

sollisb

Banned
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Factabulous said:
It does seem the easiest way to curtail a lot of these complaints is to allow purchase of arbitrary ARX above the minimum value. Would mean fdev having to actually work out a proper currency -> ARX conversion rate, but that wouldn't be a bad thing as they've had to fudge their manual numbers twice already.

People would still grumble about virtual currencies, but they should just holiday abroad more often and get used to how exchange rates work ;)
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I'd be perfectly happy to buy the amount I need to get whatever I want, but then I guess it'd just make the arx redundant ?

I know it;s probably a personal thing, but I'm not going to pay above what I need and have arx left over just to have a paintkit which I rarely see.
 

amadeus1171

amadeus1171
Commander Danicus said:
I've see quite a few people raise this point, but I am looking for some clarification from anyone that has insight on the design philosophy here.

Many mmo's have what are called Daily's.

These are unique activities you perform on a daily basis to earn a modest in-game reward. It's a check - in model that consumes about 20 minutes of time, and the rewards are valuable enough to grind toward a skin or achievement title that many players will complete them.

Daily's are pretty well known as a last gasp of an mmo trying to secure player log ins, and provide the player with in-game events communications.

Capping ARX to 400/week feels very much like a Daily structure to me.

There is an active core player base that might grind more than 400 ARX in a week, but my hypothesis is that is not a huge number - and many of those folks probably already dropped cash to get the skins they want.

So what is the upside on the cap?
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Because FD wants to make money and not just give stuff away.
 

Space Dandy

Space Dandy
Factabulous said:
Stops them being pulled into Parliament with other companies and being asked why they try to get children to play excessive hours on the game? Is the responsible thing to do when you know there are people with addiction issues in the community? That kind of thing. Being a responsible company.
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Lmao no. This has bupkiss to do with it. It a question of money, they dont want people grinding arxe to a tune of more than 400 a week so it doesn't cut into their bottom line. In fact this will even "encourage" people to simply buy arxe as 400 is a pittance and it will take forever to acquire enough to get anything decent in the store.

I mean consider the cheapest pack is for 5k arxe so really.....it's not rocket science why they have limited it..lol
 

EXE Sasser

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Does it matter?? Elites screwed.

I saw nothing wrong with Frontier Points as they worked PERFECTLY. But noooo FDEV thought. Let's go like everyone else and ruin a game with microtransactions. Promise you they'll add something like a brand new ship that's only obtainable by ARX and is OP in every way possible.

Also known as PAY TO WIN.

Fdev moderation team, moderate this comment, within reason this time.

Oof.
 
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