What Arx do is tempt impulse buyers into spending their money on bundles of Arx by 1. dripfeeding people with Arx until they decide they want more, 2. obscuring the real value of cosmetics, and 3. preventing people from spending the real value of the cosmetics. You'll be left over with extra Arx as you can't buy a specific amount, you can't buy the value of a specific cosmetic in Arx.I think it’s just what you’re used to. For many on the PC, they were used to that paint job costing this exact pounds or pence.
Us console donkeys never had that ‘luxury’, before ARX we had Frontier Points, so we we’re quite used to working out the sums, the bottom line being, ‘Do I want to spend £5 on in game money.
ARX doesn’t feel that exploitative to me but I can see how a PC player might feel it is.
Sidenote, all this and the grindyness of Elite only help me draw comparisons between this and a typical mobile game.