alienw arearena game vault for this month just opened

I might do that, as I've wasted too much time on this...

I wish. They not only think fast, but act faster.

I think they already raised it in general so lets not raise it more. Opening it up to more then one game after a couple days is a good idea. Let people spend arp if they have it if the game did not all go when it opened. There has been at least once I would have spent more arp on a second game that remained avail.

I got the DLC this time. I got the base from them 10 months ago when it was in the vault.

I like both ideas, and I hope they implement them, even more if the old, overpowered artifacts come back.

They should just increase ARP prices, at least for the expected most wanted

That would be the best way to ensure only bots get the game for real.

What they should do is go back to some form of giveaway instead. Determined by chance and not by a subatomic speed contest with bots.

This month was particularly lopsided as far having a single clear "most wanted" game versus a bunch of cheap indie games with at best mediocre reviews. Past months weren't as heavily tilted towards one game. For e.g. March had Nightingale, No Man's Sky and Pacific Drive, all 3 of which absorbed some of the demand. It's also evident that they had very few copies of No Rest for the Wicked in stock this month considering that it sold out in less than 3 seconds.

I agree with your suggestion to allow users to claim a second game after a certain waiting period to flush some of the excess ARP out of the system. Next month is going to be a bloodbath since apparently many users passed on grabbing a game this month.

I think they should also add some sort of captcha to throttle some of the script users who claim games in less than a second. It doesn't have to be one of those annoying reCAPTCHAs. They already spend time designing a new arcade game every few months, so I'm sure they could come up with a simple, unobtrusive captcha mini-game.

In July of 2023 the prices started to go up to 5k ARP depending on the game and if I remember correctly this is about the time where there was a general decrease of overall ARP by a lot across the board and artifacts started to become very relevant.

Before that Hogwarts Legacy and The Last of Us Part 1 were only 3,800 ARP, which were two of the top games in the vault.

heard the dlc wasnt good

Thank you for confirming. I came here to see if anyone else had the same concern.

Because at the beginning the vault start time was in the middle of the night and in the middle of the week for Europe, I had no chance of getting any AAA game (the next day there was nothing in the vault), I managed to do it only for Christmas 2023, when they released Diablo 4 again. Therefore, I currently have over 27,000 ARP, but I haven't been interested in any of the games that can be obtained for a long time. That's why I wrote that I would love to see games like Cyberpunk, Baldur's Gate 3 or Hogwarts Legacy again.