I agree with you. It is not even "savings". I just bought ARX recently, amount based on some real money value and what was in the store. By increasing the prices, they technically stole my money. It is a fraud IMHO. (and they immediately closed my thread where I wanted to discuss it from legal perspective)
ARX store inflation
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The tactical graphite I have from before, from the golden age of ARX, is close enough and it'll have to do. There's also been decent twitch reward paintjobs for the FdL imo.Most importantly I have the midnight black for Fer-De-Lance, no other way to paint that ship
You'd be better off talking to Trading Standards or a solicitor, rather than starting a thread.
For sure. I am likely stupid when I expected some kind of reply, explanation, apology, or god forbid maybe fixing the wrong...
Hopefully they raise the weekly ARX earning cap a bit, and PP2.0 provides easy ways to bag a little more.
If FDev need to hike prices fair enough, but for the love of the far god, why not put things in the store that people actually want? Fluffy dice, powerplay bobbleheads, squadron uniforms, Hutton Mug, coffee machine, the hula girl, decorative rare commodities... It's not hard. Unfortunately it seems clear that the store assets are outsourced to a third-party company that pays little to no attention to the community, or even what the game is about (beyond "in space").
If FDev need to hike prices fair enough, but for the love of the far god, why not put things in the store that people actually want? Fluffy dice, powerplay bobbleheads, squadron uniforms, Hutton Mug, coffee machine, the hula girl, decorative rare commodities... It's not hard. Unfortunately it seems clear that the store assets are outsourced to a third-party company that pays little to no attention to the community, or even what the game is about (beyond "in space").
I am using sunglasses on my CMDR. Both of the frames come with a sunglasses and normal glasses version.
Fraud is a RL thing that you have to take seriously. This here is game chitchat, even if it feels like RL for some. The news where we read about a successful lawsuit against FDev regarding ARX fraud will not be GalNet.
Hmm... if those ARX don't contribute to the weekly cap, that could be a bit of a stick to encourage people to play PP2.
Now I have to check! I spent 20 Arx in a fit of exuberance a year or so ago, and never checked the options!
They used to be free.
I remember!
Nobody stole your money. You paid for intermediate currency with a price, that you agreed on. The prices changed later. That's the shopowner's discretion. If you don't want that to happen don't buy intermediate currency.
It might not meet the legal definition of theft, but it's a pretty sleazy move and I hope that it backfires. I certainly don't intend on buying Arx for the foreseeable future.
Unfortunately for anyone buying Arx 2 days ago or more, this is something you can't argue with. If you bought 5000 Arx and then got 5000 Arx, you got what you paid for. Shops increase prices all the time and aren't under any obligation to warn people of price hikes.
Whether you would qualify for a refund as a result of any cooloff period is a question for support and a delve into the Ts&Cs.
OK. Personally, I think some of these price rises are way out of proportion and unless there's going to be a way to earn more ARX in game, then we're going to have to either not Buy ARX (and the game will die quick) or we bite the bullet and try to keep the game profitable. It not like there's another Elite game to run to.
I used to believe that they'd honour the promise that an Offline version of the game would be made available if E : D was ever sunset. However, after the last couple of years I haven't been sure, which does make me watch those investor callings more closely. Remember the company lost over £30 Million last year (According to their interim results ), and they haven't got enough cash in the bank to cover those kind of losses this year. So they really to get the funds in, but how do you fund a ten year old MMO space game?
1) Season Pass :- They've tried this with Horizons but they people said it was too expensive on release for what it was (technically that was true), but then they didn't seem to include the four following updates which were included for free. In the end; The Total Horizons content was great value for money but the perception at the beginning put off approaches like this.
2) Big DLC Updates :- Odyssey was supposed to be the big update, with a lot of the content available from the get go, unlike Horizons. We all know why this didn't light the world on fire (and there are still people who refuse to even touch it), but fair play to fdev; they didn't walk away from and now Odyssey (IMHO) runs a lot better and is in a good place.
3) Free Updates supported by Sales and MicroTransactions :- Well, you can put the Beyond, Azimuth, the Thargoid War and probably PP2.0 under these categories. However, those of you who do listen to Lave Radio know, we haven't had a new store alert for months; no new cosmetics means even less revenue. One of the reasons that NMS can continue to pump out new updates is that they're now sold on so many platforms, with Odyssey unable to perform on consoles (i.e. Microsoft and Sony not letting Odyssey run exclusively on XBoxX and PS5), that means fdev can't rely on Multiplatform revenue. With Sales of Odyssey dropping off, that means revenue has to be pulled in from somewhere.
4) Subscription :- They've been told by the community that this is not acceptable.
To quote the 12th Doctor 'Some days, all you have are bad options, but you still have to choose!'
Personally, I'll probably still buy a couple of ARX packages this year (same as always), I just won't have as many items from the store this year.
Just as a though experiment, Would you buy a final DLC which would give you offline mode or the ability to set up your own server?
(Like what happened with Freelancer when Microsoft Abandoned it)
I used to believe that they'd honour the promise that an Offline version of the game would be made available if E : D was ever sunset. However, after the last couple of years I haven't been sure, which does make me watch those investor callings more closely. Remember the company lost over £30 Million last year (According to their interim results ), and they haven't got enough cash in the bank to cover those kind of losses this year. So they really to get the funds in, but how do you fund a ten year old MMO space game?
1) Season Pass :- They've tried this with Horizons but they people said it was too expensive on release for what it was (technically that was true), but then they didn't seem to include the four following updates which were included for free. In the end; The Total Horizons content was great value for money but the perception at the beginning put off approaches like this.
2) Big DLC Updates :- Odyssey was supposed to be the big update, with a lot of the content available from the get go, unlike Horizons. We all know why this didn't light the world on fire (and there are still people who refuse to even touch it), but fair play to fdev; they didn't walk away from and now Odyssey (IMHO) runs a lot better and is in a good place.
3) Free Updates supported by Sales and MicroTransactions :- Well, you can put the Beyond, Azimuth, the Thargoid War and probably PP2.0 under these categories. However, those of you who do listen to Lave Radio know, we haven't had a new store alert for months; no new cosmetics means even less revenue. One of the reasons that NMS can continue to pump out new updates is that they're now sold on so many platforms, with Odyssey unable to perform on consoles (i.e. Microsoft and Sony not letting Odyssey run exclusively on XBoxX and PS5), that means fdev can't rely on Multiplatform revenue. With Sales of Odyssey dropping off, that means revenue has to be pulled in from somewhere.
4) Subscription :- They've been told by the community that this is not acceptable.
To quote the 12th Doctor 'Some days, all you have are bad options, but you still have to choose!'
Personally, I'll probably still buy a couple of ARX packages this year (same as always), I just won't have as many items from the store this year.
Just as a though experiment, Would you buy a final DLC which would give you offline mode or the ability to set up your own server?
(Like what happened with Freelancer when Microsoft Abandoned it)
Oddly, if I only had the one CMDR account, I could almost support the idea of a small subscription, provided it actually paid for continuing development of the game...
But I don't only play a single account, and couldn't afford multiple subscription payments each month (I think a friend who has 19 active accounts might flinch also) unless I could select any to play as wished, logging out one and in another, on that single sub.
Theft is acquisition of goods or value in someone else's possession by active means. Fraud is also not the case here, unless the buyer was charged a different price than was agreed on. Don't give control over the currency you buy stuff with out of you hands, that's the simple lesson everyone should have already learned 10 years or more ago.
Subscription to get access to all the old, but newly overpriced cosmetics while your subscription lasts!
Or buy and spend it on the day you checked the prices.