This is an additional cash grab after many many promises. This is not like it is going to a new company that now wants to take their cash grab. XL already got their money when we PURCHASED Unchained and they promised no more pay to play. Manastorm Crystals will 'effectively' replace Diligence Coins and be earned through the Premium ArchePass.Īs expected, Kakao said that 'any paid items will be purely cosmetic.' Granted, the game will soon be under new management, and people seem generally pleased with how Black Desert Online goes about its business, but it's going to be hard for anyone, ArcheAge player or no, to take that promise at face value considering the game's tumultuous and controversial history - which even included a long-running lawsuit.

You will receive 20 Loyalty Tokens for free for your first login every day they can no longer be purchased. The premium ArchePass will be free during the first month of service and will cost 500 Loyalty Tokens for every month thereafter. The Patron system will automatically be applied to every subscriber. Further DLCs will not carry an additional cost. Purchasers of the original game or DLCs will receive up to 150 days' of subscription time, and new purchasers will receive 30 days of subscription time.

That subscription will cost $9.99 per month, with discounts applied for three- and six-month purchases. Also new will be ArcheAge: Unchained's monetization, as the pay-to-play version of the free-to-play ArcheAge will be getting a subscription, plans for which were outlined by Kakao today. ArcheAge will soon be under new management, as XLGames' MMORPG switches publishers from gamigo to Kakao Games in December.

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