ARX store inflation
- Thread starter Fnord Velkor
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Price rises aside, the actual quality of what you get for the ARX isn't amazing.
With half of the paint jobs in the salvage pack, the extra bolt-on bits in the ship kit aren't coloured/textured and are instead just dull grey. It's the same story with the explorer pack and some of its paintjobs/geometry.
Not only that, but whoever decided to stick a big giant cool-looking satellite dish on the anaconda explorer pack has made no effort whatsoever to stop the doors that cover the "heat radiating coils" from cheerfully just clipping right through the new geometry.
The paint job stuff has been commented on before with previous ship kits and paint jobs, and the ships that now clip into themselves is even more irritating. Doesn't anyone do QA before charging money for the damn things?
With half of the paint jobs in the salvage pack, the extra bolt-on bits in the ship kit aren't coloured/textured and are instead just dull grey. It's the same story with the explorer pack and some of its paintjobs/geometry.
Not only that, but whoever decided to stick a big giant cool-looking satellite dish on the anaconda explorer pack has made no effort whatsoever to stop the doors that cover the "heat radiating coils" from cheerfully just clipping right through the new geometry.
The paint job stuff has been commented on before with previous ship kits and paint jobs, and the ships that now clip into themselves is even more irritating. Doesn't anyone do QA before charging money for the damn things?
Actually, that might be a tactic: announce that it was a mistake, and those prices were going to be live later.
Prices reversed to the previous level for a few days, with ensuing massive cash injections and Arx expenditures before the hike.
It might not be a constant stream, but it's a one off spike, that might be more useful at this time.
The price of ARX hasn't increased, the price of cosmetics has.
The Arx you bought yesterday have been reduced to as low as 33% or less of the buying power today...
The only reason I was mulling over buying the Python MkII was I’ve a tonne of accrued ARX (and those left over from when I bought some a very long time ago.)
The only reason those ARX were unspent all this time is because so many of the paintjobs are so badly designed that they obscure and/or discolour (and so make pointless) the decals and nameplates they shift for more ARX. Fix that and I’d have spent my ARX, no doubt bought more and maybe made me overlook the big jump in price when the P2 does arrive and I want it to look pretty.
As it stands this, sadly, makes little difference to me; however, for the price hike you’d like to think they’d realise a quality hike is required too.
The only reason those ARX were unspent all this time is because so many of the paintjobs are so badly designed that they obscure and/or discolour (and so make pointless) the decals and nameplates they shift for more ARX. Fix that and I’d have spent my ARX, no doubt bought more and maybe made me overlook the big jump in price when the P2 does arrive and I want it to look pretty.
As it stands this, sadly, makes little difference to me; however, for the price hike you’d like to think they’d realise a quality hike is required too.
I have a suspicion that this move is going to turn around and bite their bum...
You're looking with the mindset of "how could this be improved". Try "what can we get away with", that seems to be the number one priority of whoever is calling these shots.
In Legacy as well ?
Apparently, yes.
A console player remarked that the store prices had increased today, so it is across the board.
W.t., so they increased the price while giving us ,Diddley squat in return, go fdev ,what a joke this company has become
Oh well, so much for buying Tactical Ice across my alt's flotilla. My wallet's adopted the foetal position and started rocking backwards and forwards.
They are giving you server time.
A sensible business would have sunset Legacy once 4.x had become the current branch of the game - but they probably had agreements with the console manufacturers to uphold for a fixed period, so PC legacy continued too...
They can keep it,I haven't played in a month, nothing to look forward to,no nothing, unlesss there is a reason to go back, I will be on even less now. Are they trying to drive ppl away ??
As well as content for console, they haven't given us anything to justify the increase, other then disappointment
That‘s probably true. I’m a freelancer (irl, not just Cmdr role) so look at things very differently from some ‘big business‘ practices. I wouldn’t dream of allowing my reputation to hang on some of the quality levels found in the Store. Friday afternoon stuff.
Or that a decimal point has slipped in the price hike.
Hopefully this will be like the sales and disappear over the weekend.
Reading this thread, I realised that FDev have actually done something really good with this change, something that is almost heartwarming.
They managed to get the whole (forum) community together!
I can say with confidence that everyone is in agreement here, which is quite extraordinary!
Well done!
They managed to get the whole (forum) community together!
I can say with confidence that everyone is in agreement here, which is quite extraordinary!
Well done!