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Arc 3.0 Incoming!
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Hey guys!
When we launched the Arc platform in 2014, our goal was to create a platform that allows gamers to find the best free-to-play games. That vision still holds true and we are launching Arc Quests this week to give you more opportunity to discover games, be rewarded for playing, and for follow the latest updates for games on the Arc platform.
With Arc 3.0, we're updating tons of features on our platform, including quests that will reward players with ZEN while they play and enjoy their games!
You can learn more about Arc 3.0 here.
~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
When we launched the Arc platform in 2014, our goal was to create a platform that allows gamers to find the best free-to-play games. That vision still holds true and we are launching Arc Quests this week to give you more opportunity to discover games, be rewarded for playing, and for follow the latest updates for games on the Arc platform.
With Arc 3.0, we're updating tons of features on our platform, including quests that will reward players with ZEN while they play and enjoy their games!
You can learn more about Arc 3.0 here.
~Morrigan "LaughingTrendy"
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Reminds me of collecting Kool-Aid points to redeem stuff. Thousands to get me a Game Boy game.
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Or, phrased another way, whether I continue as a subscriber to this game or not.
I just hope this new version doesn't come with an increase in resource drainage.
Perhaps fixing the in-game UI, so it does not eat half of the frame-rate, for starters?
Conspiracy theory ahead: I wonder if this is why Mac Client support is being dropped. Arc isn't on the Mac and it will soon be mandatory to run PWE games...
Please enable us to buy a token with Zen to faction change a 25th Century FED to a TOS FED.
I guess for free zen it's not a bad thing despite the steep grind/prices, provided as @questerius says the launcher doesn't chew up your system.
I agree. ARC becoming mandatory isn't a "if" question, it's simply a "when". I'm wondering however why they don't simply make it mandatory as quickly as they dropped the Mac client. The people actually quitting to play entirely because of that should be a disappearing minority, really.
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From this article, you are correct.
1000 Arc Points = 1 Zen, minimum buy of 5 Zen.
http://www.arcgames.com/en/games/champions-online/news/detail/9839863-arc-quests-reward-you-for-discovering-new-games
So 20 levels of quests to earn 10 cents worth of Zen. Um... no.
You should start thinking about which ship to buy next. Otherwise your Zen will keep piling up!
Should be noted, I actually understand not giving out big payouts from a business standpoint; zen purchases are, after all, what keep the game going at all. However, that being the case I think they simply shouldn't bother with this system at all. Ten zen over however many days is not going to make Arc any less of a nuisance.
And why, or why, do web designers and the like keep insisting on making everything so flashy? It makes things harder to navigate and takes up ever more system resources. The KISS principle exists for a reason, guys.
I would also like to know this.
As half the super nerds on this game put in massive game time, i don't see why once again, people are resenting something that does no harm. Why not earn something for nothing that requires no more effort than a lot of people would put in anyway in their normal playtime?
Its laughable that people just resent ARC for the sake of it. I would like someone to list the negatives of using ARC. Find me one legitimately bad thing and i would be amazed.
OH NO! The horror!
*audience gasps*
The only real issue I have had with ARC is a sound issue. If I plug my headset in and launch STO from ARC, everything is fine. If I launch STO from ARC without my headset plugged in, everything is fine. If I plug my headset in after launching STO from ARC, everything is fine. If I close the game client and unplug my headset, the sound returns to my speakers. But, at that point, I cannot plug my headset back in at any time--with or without the game running--and have sound return to my headset until I reboot. After much mucking about in my system, I discovered that ARC doesn't actually close gameclient.exe. It remains running in the system, but uses no resources. I am unable to kill the task, and cannot actually close ARC, either. If I launch the game client directly, everything works fine. Somewhere in there, ARC is the problem.