Trion backpedals on P2W shop! Patch notes inside!

Kangaroomouse

ArcheAge Version 1.2 Build 4.9: Patch Notes

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GAMEPLAY

• The drop rate of loot bags from monsters has significantly increased.
• The drop rate of Sunlight Archeum, Moonlight Archeum, and Starlight Archeum from loot bags has been greatly increased.
• The chance of equipment from loot bags has increased from monsters. These items can be salvaged to gain archeum.
• The Solid Shaft recipe is available again, allowing for the construction of fishing boats.

INTERFACE

• The Auction House can now be searched using German and French.

MARKETPLACE

• The Marketplace inventory has been reorganized in terms of Featured Items and categorization of consumables.
• The Character Slot Expansion scroll has been added. Accounts may have a maximum of six character slots per region but a limit of four character slots per server.
• The Workman's Compensation labor potion has been returned to 12-hour cooldown and price of 300 Credits.
• The Auction House License permitting non-Patrons to create Auction House listings has been added. It is not tradable.

OTHER

• The priority server login queue for Patrons is now even faster.

COMING SOON

• Cosmetic Costumes: A future build will remove the stats from all costumes that are obtained or crafted in-game, much like stats were removed from costumes on the Marketplace. Similar to the normalization of mount speeds, this change is to prevent power creep and stat inflation while also promoting costume choice and preventing "best" items to be wearing to maximize your character's gameplay.
• Improved Anti-Spam: XLGAMES is delivering a way for us to integrate our internally-developed anti-spam technology which learns over time and then kills spam and spammers before you see either even once. Expect more details on this to be announced next week.

NOTES

• This patch is less than 200MB large from the Open Beta client (8.5GB large as a new installation) and is available for download now from Glyph. Note that Head Start begins September 12 at 10:00 AM PDT (GMT-7).

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Kudos to Trion to change it and even go a step further and add item drops to mobs that can be desynthed into archeum.

 

Mothanos

Great changes dint expect a patch like this on the day of early acces

maccarthur2004

Trion is indeed a very good publisher. I wish a big success to Archeage!

 

 

GeezerGamer

Well, I would much rather see them "backpedal" on something that's broken then try to forge ahead with it.

Copperfield

its defo a better direction that they have..

 

But still found it pretty weird for paying a sub + credits to expand my inventory or paying my taxes for my land

Bad.dog

Originally posted by Copperfield

its defo a better direction that they have..

 

But still found it pretty weird for paying a sub + credits to expand my inventory or paying my taxes for my land

You sure don't need to spend credits for taxes that can be earned in game ....expanding inventory with credits seems to be the trend of new games (although the starting inventory storage is pretty good and not a must have issue early in the game )

Mothanos

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Originally posted by Bad.dog
Originally posted by Copperfield its defo a better direction that they have..   But still found it pretty weird for paying a sub + credits to expand my inventory or paying my taxes for my land

You sure don't need to spend credits for taxes that can be earned in game ....expanding inventory with credits seems to be the trend of new games (although the starting inventory storage is pretty good and not a must have issue early in the game )

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Sadly this is the direction all mmo's are heading to.
Character slots / bag space / mounts.

Nothing we can do about it sadly.

Kangaroomouse

Originally posted by Mothanos

 

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Originally posted by Bad.dog

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Originally posted by Copperfield its defo a better direction that they have..   But still found it pretty weird for paying a sub + credits to expand my inventory or paying my taxes for my land

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You sure don't need to spend credits for taxes that can be earned in game ....expanding inventory with credits seems to be the trend of new games (although the starting inventory storage is pretty good and not a must have issue early in the game )

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Sadly this is the direction all mmo's are heading to.
Character slots / bag space / mounts.

Nothing we can do about it sadly.

Yes we can. Do not buy them or only play f2p and don't use the shop. Vote with your wallet.

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Sitting there saying there is nothing we can do is how we got into this mess.

thinktank001

GAMEPLAY

• The drop rate of loot bags from monsters has significantly increased.
• The drop rate of Sunlight Archeum, Moonlight Archeum, and Starlight Archeum from loot bags has been greatly increased.
• The chance of equipment from loot bags has increased from monsters. These items can be salvaged to gain archeum.

 

 

I wonder if they changed it enough to make players happy.  I know they stated during their video that the expected drop rates and actual drop rates are different.   We will know by the weekend if players are enjoying this change.  

 

 

 

Kangaroomouse

Originally posted by thinktank001

GAMEPLAY

• The drop rate of loot bags from monsters has significantly increased.
• The drop rate of Sunlight Archeum, Moonlight Archeum, and Starlight Archeum from loot bags has been greatly increased.
• The chance of equipment from loot bags has increased from monsters. These items can be salvaged to gain archeum.

 

 

I wonder if they changed it enough to make players happy.  I know they stated during their video that the expected drop rates and actual drop rates are different.   We will know by the weekend if players are enjoying this change.  

 

 

 

What surprised me was the addition of equipment from loot bags. It might now be worth opening them even if they still cost LP.