Odyssey and player customisation - Is the 400 ARX week cap an issue ?

MikeMart

MikeMart
Hi fellow cmdrs,

I read a lot but post very rarely. :geek:

Some of us are wondering if Odyssey is going to bring a new currency to the game. But I can't help thinking that everything cosmetic is going to be ARX-paid. For now we can buy skins for suits and for a regular combo of jacket/pants/shoes. Unfortunately I think it's going to stay that way but with more suits types incoming and now on-foot gameplay, physical social hubs and the FPS gameplay I imagine that it would be a great oportunity to bring more clothing, suit customisation and weapons' skins.
I understand that it would be a great way to increase cash flow for Frontier and it has never been an issue to me buying paintjobs and such (it's everyone's choice right?). But now I'm seeing a very wide range of cosmetics that could be introduced.

That said, if we can buy them with ARX, aren't 400 ARX a week a bit too low to get to fully customise our CMDR without going bankrupt IRL (for compulsive CMDRs :D) ? What are your thoughts ? It's going round my head, like round and round...
 

sinisalo

sinisalo
MikeMart said:
aren't 400 ARX a week a bit too low
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Yes, it is low, and by design I reckon. In this way Frontier can both offer something free to the player, while dangling the carrot for purchases.

Rockstar has made a fortune on Shark Cards, and while I am not comparing them to Frontier, the ability to generate recurrent micro--transactions is a big win for the dev and publishers.

For the compulsive there is the fall back option of spending real-world money. We can debate about what the 'proper' weekly cap should be, but from a business perspective I think Frontier have got it about right. If Arx is a motivator it keeps players logging in to hit their caps. For others they can get as much as they want until the wallet is empty.
 

MikeMart

MikeMart
Amodin said:
Now, yes, it would be really nice to even double what the weekly cap is for this, or have them run specials where things are 10 ARX a piece or something. I took advantage of the sale last week based solely off of what I've earned from just logging in. But, there was so much more I wanted, yet I didn't buy anything (yet). I don't mind paying for some of this, but some of it for me is a bit much for what it is. My concerns are the balance of just that - is it worth it.
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Exactly, as for now it was totally fine by me. But now I'm seeing, guns, suits, clothes, etc...and they are going to sum up a loooooot of ARX :D I hope they will rebalance it at least to match the Odyssey customisation content (if there's any, which is another question actually). Enough to be a nice incentive, not to much too meet their "financial goals" which is also perfectly legit.
 

CMDR DragonHorn

CMDR DragonHorn
I don't think 400 cap is small, it feels quite alright, I reached cap maybe 2 times total (by accident), so it feels even high to me. My gripe is with some activities giving heaps of ARX and others give almost none. Kinda imbalanced. And I don't know why folks getting salty when someone brings up topic about "free stuff", since there are games, such as MWO, Warframe or PoE f.e., with very generous extra currency accumulation rates (which you can spend on cosmetics or stuff to be bought with real cash), and balanced across multiple activities, while games are completely free. Although, no matter that you get a lot of these freebies, these games are still in the top of steamcharts constantly, and developers don't seem to be turned into beggars. On the contrary, in fact. :whistle:
 

Factabulous

Factabulous
Given the OP probably doesn't want to pay top dollar for Odyssey, since they don't want to pay for ARX, then they have ... 18 months or so until Odyssey starts being discounted. So 18 months * 4 weeks * 400 ARX is ... nearly 80,000 ARX - should be enough ;)

Even just the time until Odyssey comes out is 4000 ARX - and if you pre-order you get a suit for FREE!
 

Vardaugas

Vardaugas
Factabulous said:
Given the OP probably doesn't want to pay top dollar for Odyssey, since they don't want to pay for ARX, then they have ... 18 months or so until Odyssey starts being discounted. So 18 months * 4 weeks * 400 ARX is ... nearly 80,000 ARX - should be enough ;)

Even just the time until Odyssey comes out is 4000 ARX - and if you pre-order you get a suit for FREE!
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BAH! You and your damn math! Not fair!
 

MikeMart

MikeMart
Factabulous said:
Given the OP probably doesn't want to pay top dollar for Odyssey, since they don't want to pay for ARX, then they have ... 18 months or so until Odyssey starts being discounted. So 18 months * 4 weeks * 400 ARX is ... nearly 80,000 ARX - should be enough ;)

Even just the time until Odyssey comes out is 4000 ARX - and if you pre-order you get a suit for FREE!
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That's not what I said. Nor I'm complaining about free stuff. But I expect them to widen the range of customisable items so maybe 400 felt a bit low to me for Odyssey's scope.
But I'm seeing a majority of player being ok with it so maybe it's just me being greedy... :devilish:
 
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