If you played Arc Raiders on weekends you may be entitled to compensation. What I mean is that you will receive 500 Raider Tokens from developer Embark as compensation after server issues and an emergency queue delayed the launch.
More specifically, if you log into Arc Raiders on Sunday, November 1st, you will receive your 500 tokens. Embark Announces Free Release Twitter post addressing the slightly rocky launch weekend. (The studio also confirmed that separate bonuses should be sent out for participating in Server Slam.)
“We appreciate your patience as our servers were shaky on Sunday. Scrappy must have ripped off a few wires as he was placed on an unruly step,” the studio writes. “As a token of our gratitude, we are sending 500 Raider Tokens to all Raiders who logged in on Sunday.” As far as I understand, Scrappy is a chicken and, moreover, an unqualified network engineer.
For those who haven't discovered it yet because you were too busy getting shot at and changing your pants, Raider Tokens are the premium shop currency in Arc Raiders, typically used to purchase cosmetics for around $1 per 100 tokens. For 500 tokens you can buy small trinkets such as bag accessories – all cosmetic. For comparison, one premium skin costs 1,400 tokens. So, 500 is not a lot, but it’s not nothing either.
Arc Raiders comes under fire over cosmetic prices in your in-game store, as it happens, as well as the lack of earned currency. The game sells a $40 cosmetic pack that's worth $24 worth of tokens, for example, and there's plenty more in the store.
Despite this, the game has performed incredibly well so far, gaining 350,000 players over the weekend on Steam alone and receiving good reviews on the Xbox Series X and PS5 stores. After all, the servers didn't just break for nothing.
Developer Palworld says it's “fashionable right now to say 'ewww, UE sucks!'” but Arc Raiders “could become the new benchmark” for Unreal Engine games: “Excited about what they've achieved”.
