So, how many of you have purchased the Krait Phantom salvage paint jobs with these awesome new ARX? I bought this pack back in May of this year, and it cost me a whopping $4. If you add them all up in the store post ARX, you're spending $10.60 for the same thing!
White knights, justify this, please. What exactly has changed with this paint pack to justify a 2.5X increase in price? Oh, and this isn't the only paint pack that has drastically increased in price. Almost everything has gone up significantly since the introduction of ARX. Luckily I have my purchase history because I'm already starting to forget what things used to actually cost.
I'm not surprised there aren't more threads about this topic because the purpose of ARX seems to be working perfectly. No one knows what they pay for anything anymore, and obfuscation is working so well, they don't even care. Why is the community OK with this? FDev can't get fleet carriers out the door in over two years, but by God, they'll get this new money-making scam out the door without delay! No matter how badly it up the actual game, ARX and the new store were there right on time! And everyone is super cool with this behavior and will always defend it? Madness!
Before you come back with the predictable "Yea, getting stuff for FREE now is way worse than before," you're kidding yourself. It would take you six weeks to earn ONE of those paint jobs and a grand total of 36 weeks to earn all of them. If that is "FREE" to you, then you must severely undervalue your time. 400 ARX a week is a joke. It's a sample of a drug to get you hooked so that you buy more.
As consumers, we should demand more transparency on what we are purchasing. I don't mind paying for things, but trying to bamboozle me by hiding costs is the quickest way to lose me as a customer.
We should be demanding that the actual cost of something in ARX is represented in real currency by the highest cost/ARX ratio, so we at least have a slight idea of what we are paying. I know I can whip out a calculator and figure it out, but that's not the point, and I obviously did that for this post. You shouldn't need to do that to figure out what you're paying for something, and with a tiny amount of effort, FDev could do it for you next to each item in the store. But, they won't unless we make them.
You know, cows never resist going to the slaughterhouse because they're too dumb to know what's going on around them. I guess that's what this community has become, a bunch of oblivious cows from which money is harvested. You can either choose to moo on or take a stand against dishonest business practices and demand more transparency. I'm taking that stand and refuse to purchase anything further from the store until it begins to demonstrate more honest business practices. I'm not asking for ARX to go away, I'm asking that we know what we are paying for something in real currency through the store.
White knights, justify this, please. What exactly has changed with this paint pack to justify a 2.5X increase in price? Oh, and this isn't the only paint pack that has drastically increased in price. Almost everything has gone up significantly since the introduction of ARX. Luckily I have my purchase history because I'm already starting to forget what things used to actually cost.
I'm not surprised there aren't more threads about this topic because the purpose of ARX seems to be working perfectly. No one knows what they pay for anything anymore, and obfuscation is working so well, they don't even care. Why is the community OK with this? FDev can't get fleet carriers out the door in over two years, but by God, they'll get this new money-making scam out the door without delay! No matter how badly it up the actual game, ARX and the new store were there right on time! And everyone is super cool with this behavior and will always defend it? Madness!
Before you come back with the predictable "Yea, getting stuff for FREE now is way worse than before," you're kidding yourself. It would take you six weeks to earn ONE of those paint jobs and a grand total of 36 weeks to earn all of them. If that is "FREE" to you, then you must severely undervalue your time. 400 ARX a week is a joke. It's a sample of a drug to get you hooked so that you buy more.
As consumers, we should demand more transparency on what we are purchasing. I don't mind paying for things, but trying to bamboozle me by hiding costs is the quickest way to lose me as a customer.
We should be demanding that the actual cost of something in ARX is represented in real currency by the highest cost/ARX ratio, so we at least have a slight idea of what we are paying. I know I can whip out a calculator and figure it out, but that's not the point, and I obviously did that for this post. You shouldn't need to do that to figure out what you're paying for something, and with a tiny amount of effort, FDev could do it for you next to each item in the store. But, they won't unless we make them.
You know, cows never resist going to the slaughterhouse because they're too dumb to know what's going on around them. I guess that's what this community has become, a bunch of oblivious cows from which money is harvested. You can either choose to moo on or take a stand against dishonest business practices and demand more transparency. I'm taking that stand and refuse to purchase anything further from the store until it begins to demonstrate more honest business practices. I'm not asking for ARX to go away, I'm asking that we know what we are paying for something in real currency through the store.
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