Let's talk about ARX.
This will be calculated in USD, as it is my personal perspective, and I'm American. The smallest ARX purchase is $4 for 5000 ARX. This equates to 1250ARX for $1. We get 400 ARX per week FREE! That is $0.32 (32 cents). What is the point? Well, let's look at this in another light. Frontier is paying every player 32 cents to play their game every week... If there are 15k players globally across all platforms, this equates to $4800 per week, given away FOR FREE. $249,600 per YEAR, FREE to it's players... JUST FOR PLAYING THE GAME. Is this greed? 1\4 Million USD per year, given away for playing their game? It sounds INSaNE… I know, but I want to look at this from their perspective. I don't see greed. I see FDEV reinvesting money into their game, IN HOPES of stimulating a few more sales, and MAYBE get a few impatient players to spend $4 for a paint job. But, you argue that they raised prices? Do "I" personally think $5 is too much for an aloe plant? ABSOLUTELY.
And I do believe the increase in such thing's prices, like the planets (once $20, now $60is) is ridiculous, and unjustifiable... but not all together unreasonable, when I see them paying a quarter million USD a year to players that play their game. Am I going to pay that much? NO! But, I'm going to play the game. Because I paid for it, not because they're paying me.
This will be calculated in USD, as it is my personal perspective, and I'm American. The smallest ARX purchase is $4 for 5000 ARX. This equates to 1250ARX for $1. We get 400 ARX per week FREE! That is $0.32 (32 cents). What is the point? Well, let's look at this in another light. Frontier is paying every player 32 cents to play their game every week... If there are 15k players globally across all platforms, this equates to $4800 per week, given away FOR FREE. $249,600 per YEAR, FREE to it's players... JUST FOR PLAYING THE GAME. Is this greed? 1\4 Million USD per year, given away for playing their game? It sounds INSaNE… I know, but I want to look at this from their perspective. I don't see greed. I see FDEV reinvesting money into their game, IN HOPES of stimulating a few more sales, and MAYBE get a few impatient players to spend $4 for a paint job. But, you argue that they raised prices? Do "I" personally think $5 is too much for an aloe plant? ABSOLUTELY.
And I do believe the increase in such thing's prices, like the planets (once $20, now $60is) is ridiculous, and unjustifiable... but not all together unreasonable, when I see them paying a quarter million USD a year to players that play their game. Am I going to pay that much? NO! But, I'm going to play the game. Because I paid for it, not because they're paying me.
