Only 20,800 free Arx per year
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In the Lifetime Expansion Pass subforum.
Well I cleared the 400 in a few hours play the other day so if you are right then that cap will be slashed within a week.
Thanks for putting it in perspective. If free ARX were at too high a rate, players would be adapting their play to match maximum ARX instead of playing the game as intended. In fact they'd become obsessed by them. It's bad enough now, just look at the number of threads about ARX !
I guess it must have been just you with one pitchfork and torch back then, DEMANDING that Frontier implement more convoluted and exploitive features from mobile games.
I'm happy for you that you got your wish, but I hate the ARX system and am going to continue to express this necessary and critical feedback that Frontier absolutely needs to hear all day every day nonstop until they Get A Clue.
ARX opened the game up for ALL types of players.
the game is streamlined and self contained with a tangible economy now... this was a no brainer chess move! no more clunky website, bypasses all the negative steam reviews for garbage skinpacks. the store icon everyone is griping about should be seen as an accomplishment.
bottom line is ARX loyalty/reward system promotes gameplay; this inflates server/user numbers, pushes the MMO ranking up the list... all of this helps keep the game you like alive. the rewarded ARX can be saved up for single purchase now and then, or help augment paid amounts to stretch purchasing power.
anyone that dislikes this new system doesn’t have any vision.
the game is streamlined and self contained with a tangible economy now... this was a no brainer chess move! no more clunky website, bypasses all the negative steam reviews for garbage skinpacks. the store icon everyone is griping about should be seen as an accomplishment.
bottom line is ARX loyalty/reward system promotes gameplay; this inflates server/user numbers, pushes the MMO ranking up the list... all of this helps keep the game you like alive. the rewarded ARX can be saved up for single purchase now and then, or help augment paid amounts to stretch purchasing power.
anyone that dislikes this new system doesn’t have any vision.
Meh. Unless you have something specific to say about how you did it, I'm gonna just flat out not believe you. But yeah do keep an eye on your income over the coming weeks and see if it holds.Well I cleared the 400 in a few hours play the other day so if you are right then that cap will be slashed within a week.
but before that stuff was CHEAPER! and even considering it was cheaper, for what you were getting, it was obscenely expensive.
so now you get a couple of "free" paintjobs IF YOU PLAY LITERALLY EVERY DAY, but if you want to purchase something with real money, you're getting even more ripped off.
it's rather basic math/economics, and the amount of sycophantic behavior in this thread reminds why i don't come here often and why this game will never significantly improve.
Thank you Jonathan Swift.
Tangible economy?
I got 400 ARX over the weekend. I think material gathering and trading pretty much did that for me.
I don't need any cosmetics. I'll buy stuff on a whim when I have a few ARX gathered, but won't be dropping any cash on them.
This is not lootboxes or P2W. If it gets like that then I'm out.
I don't need any cosmetics. I'll buy stuff on a whim when I have a few ARX gathered, but won't be dropping any cash on them.
This is not lootboxes or P2W. If it gets like that then I'm out.
As I already explained in some previous post:
This is sneaky marketing dedicated to people that don't spend money in the Frontier Store. This is not for people that already spend money there.
If you've never had a paintjob, there are few odds that you will ever buy one if you're not interested in cosmetics.
But now Frontier is giving you some free items:
- the sidewinder paintjob for completing the tutorial
- the 1 Arx thargoid bubblehead
But what you see will always be "few ARX away". So one day you check the price of an ARX package.... 5000 ARX for 2.99£ and you accept to buy one (it's jsut 2.99£ after all) to get a paintjob that you never wanted before September 2019 but that is suddenly so cool.
Yeah, it was 400 a week. Thanks for calculating it per year. I'm hoping someone can calculate the amount after 10 years of playing, since I'm more interested in that...
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Imagine getting stuck with OP on a desert island. They’re asleep all day and you’re out hunting. You come home with a wild boar, you offer them a couple of chops even though they did nothing. Then they start complaining that you’ve basically given them nothing. I’d be waking up alone the next day.
I think this game needs a subscription fee. Clearly, paying your employees with the cash generated by voluntary microtransactions is worse than a mandatory subscription fee.
Hmm. When reading this thread, I come to the conclusion that people here are totally new to games with microtransactions and internet gaming.
I mean yes, 400 ARX a week is not a fortune. It's merely an incentive to look at the cash shop once a while. But that's the very same in each and any other game with microtransactions out there. Whatever you can earn in game is just worth a few cent of cash. When you then calculate how much you earn per time invested, any minimum wage worker will laugh at the stupidity of somebody actually grinding for the currency at such a low payout per hour. That's not new or unique here and absolutely logical: of course they still want you to pay actual money on the game, instead of wasting your time grinding cash shop currency. (So you can look good while wasting your time for other things. )
I mean yes, 400 ARX a week is not a fortune. It's merely an incentive to look at the cash shop once a while. But that's the very same in each and any other game with microtransactions out there. Whatever you can earn in game is just worth a few cent of cash. When you then calculate how much you earn per time invested, any minimum wage worker will laugh at the stupidity of somebody actually grinding for the currency at such a low payout per hour. That's not new or unique here and absolutely logical: of course they still want you to pay actual money on the game, instead of wasting your time grinding cash shop currency. (So you can look good while wasting your time for other things.
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Since it's Elite we're talking about there is of course a grindy, exploitish way to do things. You can buy/sell the same Reactive Armor for e.g. your Anaconda and you'll reach the 400 Arx limit within five or ten minutes.
I personally think you'd have just wasted five or ten minutes of your life, but some people will stick to it anyway until Frontier will hit it with the nerf hammer.
At the moment no one would pay it. The game doesn't have such a good quality reputation. Sneaky marketing is definitely the best solution at the moment.
Then you go to the supermarket to get milk but the enticing gum by the tills makes you spend £150 on gum.
No sympathy. Use some self control or exercise a little patience.