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ArcheAge: Patron Program and APEX Revealed
SBFord
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The ArcheAge site has been update with news that many fans of the forthcoming title have been wanting to hear more about. The post details the benefits to becoming a Patron of ArcheAge and indicates that this incarnation is based on Rift's "No Tricks, No Traps" philosophy of free-to-play gaming. Lastly, free players will have a robust game in which to play that does not require any cash output in order to have fun, though some features, including the auction house, are somewhat limited.
Players can become patrons in one of two ways: Through purchasing Patronage with real world cash, or by using the game's "credit" currency to purchase Patron Passes.
Before we discuss how to get it, let’s detail what Patron status means in ArcheAge. Patrons will enjoy the following benefits:
Bonus online Labor Point regeneration (10 per 5 minutes)
Offline Labor Point regeneration (5 per 5 minutes)
Increased maximum Labor Points cap (5000 maximum)
10% bonus to all Experience gained through combat or labor usage
10% discount on Marketplace purchases
5 Loyalty Tokens per day for use in the Loyalty Store (awarded on first login of the day)
Ability to claim land by placing farms and houses
Ability to pay in-game taxes on owned property
Ability to post auctions on the Auction House by default
Read more details about the Patron Program and APEX currency on the ArcheAge site.
The ArcheAge team will be on hand for a live stream even to further discuss the program at an as-yet unannounced date and time. We'll keep you posted.
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Agreed. Not a huge fan of the 5 lp regen while offline, but it could be worse I guess.
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Sounds like their way to ensure that once you are a patron you stay a patron. If you can't pay taxes on your property you can't keep it, or so it seems.
and NA ppl r surprised by this? if you were a actually archeage fan you would have knows all this from day 1 from the KO and RU games....i remember a few months back streamers and ppl beaking me for saying this game will not allow you to build lands for free and ppl yelling at me saying YES U CAN ITS FREE TO PLAY they said so themselves.....
WELL POOP ON YOU PPL! just like the RU and KO versions of the game...you need to sub to own....ahhh feels good to be right...
The beta should had started by now, but as they are implement the 1.2 patch that solves the problems generated by the infamous 1.0 patch, the beta will be delayed for 2 or 3 weeks. Expect the beta in mid/late July I would say. They have 70 000 words more to translate and all that.
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Online LP > Offline LP = AFK macro wars = Login Queues for players because everyone is AFK grinding LP
And no, I don't believe that they have a magical system to prevent this.
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Honestly no AH for f2p is a bad call... restrict it to 5-10 max but nothing at all ...
Not really. After playing the alpha for a month and a half now, I have realized how integrated the housing and farming are to the overall progression of the game. Without land and the added labor point regen, you will be severely gimped. It's basically not a F2P game, it is a free to try game, with a subscription.
Agree.
Such a really bad decision, promote to be online all the time is allways a horrible feature in any game, really really bad decision imo.
Yup, the requirement to be online for higher LP earning rates will lead to a lot of players using bot programs. No doubt there will be an AFK timer to kick inactive players, so to appear "active", the AFK character will have to perform actions, hence the bot program requirement.
If this gets abused enthusiastically enough, they'll probably link the LP creation to the subbed players only with a set amount generated per day.
Presumably you can buy LP top-ups in the Cash Shop ?
Subscribe-2-Win
Seems a reasonable way to go.
Think they are a bit optimistic if they think they will be able to beat the AFKers though.
They just shot on their foot with this decision.
If offline LP regen = online LP regen with patron they just need to worry with f2p afks, this way they need to worry with ALL.
Ppl allready afk to lvl mounts, now everyone want to afk for LP and they are going to spend resources fighting this? Wait and see but i dont think so.
I suggest you give up right now on internet 99 % of people are retarded ignorant arrogant kids
Basically all you have in have has 0 value . If you waste time building a house you will lose it if you get tired of the game and decide to take few months day off . As I expected this localizations will fail as other before .
How many times we say that in a game X ? Its easy to get that player doing this or doing that, and in the end it doesnt hapened.
Im not overreacting, i just think its a horrible decision, make patron status regen LP equal online and offline, whatever the amount they decide, and its one less afk "problem" to worry about.
But, everthing might works perfect... who knows.
Love the way how Trion does Archeage.
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And to think the freeloaders tought this was a free to play tittle while most of us warned well in advance its going to be a sub based mmo or a heavely restricted gameplay model. ^^
Glad they are taking this route
They are by far one of the best studio's in my book.
Now just hurry up with 1.2 and release this mmo !!!