Yet people found away to cheat. Instead of FIXING all the rampant cheating, we have ARX
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Yet people found away to cheat. Instead of FIXING all the rampant cheating, we have ARX
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I mean we lost financial protection when we paid for our game key.
You don't get a refund when they switch the server off, and you may very well never get to play again.
I didn't realise buying Arx is so addictive. The ridiculous things people will say.
Please watch the video I posted because you are missing the point. Bundles are designed to look like you are getting a deal but in reality you are really overpaying because you don't use all the currency.
Another point is that you are only looking at the item in store NOW. That's not where Fdev makes their money. It's the limitied time items. As I tried to explain. ARX being released in September is not an accident. it's timed to coincide with Halloween and Christmas sales. At this point, most people will only get maybe one item. Two years ago, I spent maybe more than $100 on unique skins. With the new system, I probably have to pay 25% more at least because of the bundles.
So why add to your burden/risk
Once again watch the video. It is not a joke. There is real research on micro-transactions and compulsive buying.
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Because you don't make the rules.
No you don't as you can supplement it by earning in game. You are talking utter turd. 25% is a ridiculous lie that anyone with an ounce of intelligence can see through.
I believe you are missing the point... you are only likely to be worse off on balance if you only ever buy the lowest tier of ARX packs (the 5000 ARX pack for nearly 3 GBP) and never use the FREE ARX you can earn (upto 400 ARX per week). If you want a COVAS for example, then you can buy the next to lowest tier of ARX (8820 ARX for nearly 5 GBP) and should be able to top that up to the required 8850 ARX with relative ease (using the FREE ARX earned by playing the game).
This is looking at it from a PC gamer perspective but given the free ARX earning potential (and the maximum bulk ARX discount of effectively 12%) only those that have already bought most of the cosmetics using the cash store are likely to be truely losing out.
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Compulsive buying is a psychological issue. It's not frontiers fault if someone has issues. I suggest they get help if they can't help themselves.
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Something simple made stupid.
Based on my own spreadsheet analysis, and the values provided by Will, store items are a smidgen less expensive to hugely less expensive, depending upon what you buy, and which ARX package you buy. I find it mildly disturbing that some players are going "buy your stuff now, while you can," when if I wait a week, I can buy all the stuff I felt was too expensive to buy from the store currently, for 30%-85% off.
When we talk about Arx we can earn, then I'm ok with the prices of paintjobs and decals and I agree that Covas should be something what is not easy to get. But ship kit takes like 30 weeks is just ridiculous. I know reason it is so expensive is because kits are in bundles, but I be honest they should be split like paintjobs. So players should be able to earn ARX and buy this or that "spoiler" when they play lets say week or so. This way people could customize their ship as they play the game. Yes sure they could just spend RL money and get it, but I just want everything to be balanced with both paintjobs and kits.
I posted the actual figures above. Assuming you are happy to grind for up to ten hours, then there are only two purchases that leave you with more than £2 worth of Arx in the bank: cheap SRV paint and cheap ship paint, neither of which you can buy now with real money.
Now you can buy sets of six basic ship, SRV or fighter paints for £3.
With Arx, you will be able to buy eleven basic SRV/fighter paints of your choice for £2.99, leaving £0.24 in the bank (400 Arx), or eight basic ships paints of your choice for £2.99 and have £0.02 (40 Arx) left. Either way, it's cheaper to buy them with Arx even ignoring what's left in the bank.
If you buy a ship kit, you will pay the same for a cheap one (11750 Arx) as for an expensive one (13520 Arx). In both case you pay £7.98 (a bundle of 5000 and a bundle of 8820) but the cheap one leaves 2070 Arx (about £1.17) in the bank and the expensive one leaves 300 Arx (about £0.17). The current price in the store is £7 and £8, so you are saving £0.19. Even ignoring what's left in the bank, the expensive one is cheaper than it is now.
If you decide to buy a £9.99 bundle of Arx, then the ship kits cost £6.63 and £7.63 -- a saving of £0.37 over the current prices -- but that does leave Arx in the bank.
COVAS in the store is £5, and you can get it by paying £4.99 and playing for less than two hours, a saving of £0.01. It's unfortunately costed at £5.01 when bought with the £4.99 bundle, but it's unlikely that this would be a problem in real life, since we will always have at least a few hours-worth of Arx in the bank.
You can get a free decal for every three hours of play.
Now you can buy sets of six basic ship, SRV or fighter paints for £3.
With Arx, you will be able to buy eleven basic SRV/fighter paints of your choice for £2.99, leaving £0.24 in the bank (400 Arx), or eight basic ships paints of your choice for £2.99 and have £0.02 (40 Arx) left. Either way, it's cheaper to buy them with Arx even ignoring what's left in the bank.
If you buy a ship kit, you will pay the same for a cheap one (11750 Arx) as for an expensive one (13520 Arx). In both case you pay £7.98 (a bundle of 5000 and a bundle of 8820) but the cheap one leaves 2070 Arx (about £1.17) in the bank and the expensive one leaves 300 Arx (about £0.17). The current price in the store is £7 and £8, so you are saving £0.19. Even ignoring what's left in the bank, the expensive one is cheaper than it is now.
If you decide to buy a £9.99 bundle of Arx, then the ship kits cost £6.63 and £7.63 -- a saving of £0.37 over the current prices -- but that does leave Arx in the bank.
COVAS in the store is £5, and you can get it by paying £4.99 and playing for less than two hours, a saving of £0.01. It's unfortunately costed at £5.01 when bought with the £4.99 bundle, but it's unlikely that this would be a problem in real life, since we will always have at least a few hours-worth of Arx in the bank.
You can get a free decal for every three hours of play.
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There's been a large amount of innumeracy on display today. It seems numbers are difficult.
A ship kit taking thirty weeks to earn is rediculous? Why? It's free.
So free stuff is only good stuff when you can get it in what you think is a reasonable timespan?
Fdev didn't have to do this "free arx while you play" at all but they did.
Yes it's a stimulant to make you buy more arx but with a bit of discipline all that is left is a nice gesture.
The ED store is a business feature not a charity hand-out.
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If you still want to know the consoles have the Virtual currency reduced, So will PC users with ARX prices dropping for each item in the sale...
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