News Roundup: Patron 10% Marketplace Discount Missing, Bonus Founder's Pack Redemption, Missing Patron Status Fix

Official forum user Scion pointed out:

UPDATE: Trion Ocho has acknowledged the issue, although he didn't say much about it.

We're aware, and will address this topic early next week. Thanks for bringing this up, and your patience as we resolve it. - Ocho

No 10% Discount on Marketplace Purchases

Anyone else notice this?

Below are the original Patron benefits:

•Bonus online Labor Point regeneration (10 per 5 minute)
•Offline Labor Point Regeneration (5 per 5 minute)
•Increased maximum Labor Points cap (5000 maximum)
•10% bonus to all Experience gained through combat or labor usage
•10% discount on Marketplace purchase
•5 Loyalty Tokens per day for use in the Loyalty Store
•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

The new list on their website is the following:

•BONUS EXPERIENCE
Get a 10% bonus to all Experience gained through questing, combat, and labor usage.
•OFFLINE LABOR
Earn Labor Points (5/5 min) even while you’re offline.
•AUCTION HOUSE LISTING
Get full access to listing and selling items on the Auction House.
•LOYALTY TOKENS
Get 5 Loyalty Tokens when you log in each day. Redeem them for special items at the in-game Loyalty Store!
•FASTER LABOR
Double your Labor Point regeneration to 10/5 min!
•MAX LABOR BONUS
Increase your maximum Labor Points to 5,000
•LAND OWNERSHIP
Claim and own a piece of Erenor by placing farms and houses!

Whether is is an oversight or a short-changing by Trion remains to be seen. Regardless, people are up in arms over this. We'll be sure to update you as soon as there's an official word on this.

From Scapes' Launch FAQ thread on Founder's Pack Bonus:

To make sure that they can enjoy their Founder's Pack items, our Founders now have access to a bonus single-use product that can be used to apply the per-character Founder's Pack items to the character of their choice.

When you've selected the "Founder's Pack - Bonus" product from the ArcheAge product page (make sure you're signed in), click "Apply" and select the character that you'd like to receive these items on. Please note that this can only be done fr one character, so choose wisely! This grant is in addition to the 6 characters who have or will receive the items. 

When you sign in you'll see the Founder's Pack - Bonus item for sale for 0 cost and you click apply then it will immediately ask you which character you want to apply the bonus to.

More From Scapes' Launch FAQ on Missing Patron Benefits:

We have just deployed two fixes: a platform fix and an account update script. The first fix makes it so that all purchases from the website store will correctly grant Patron status. The second fix is addressing a large batch of players who should have Patron status but do not. Once the script is complete, in about an hour, please (and I know this is a pain) log out of the game, log out of Glyph, restart Glyph, and then log back into ArcheAge. This fix may not fix all players who are missing their Patron; if you complete the relog and still aren't seeing your Patron status, please let us know in this thread or let our Support Team know via a ticket: http://support.trionworlds.com

These two fixes should address a majority of the players who are missing Patron right now and we are working until absolutely everyone who should have Patron gets it.

While this issue isn't effecting a very large percentage of the player base, to those that it is are having a terrible experience so I'm glad this is being addressed.

On Server Transfers Trion Kiwibird had to say:

Hey there. Currently, we don't have the option to transfer characters between servers, but this is something that we've made a request for.

This will be a great feature to get added, I'm curious to see if XL Games will want to charge for them. I know in Rift server transfers are completely free. People are clamoring for this feature, but with the current overpopulation of the game it may not make that big of a difference, although it could still reconnect players who had friends seek shorter queue time servers and ended up separated.

A big, unaddressed, question still remains on server transfers and more importantly server merges. What happens to housing in these situations? In transfers you likely forfeit any land left behind and must demolish it before leaving. But in mergers? I foresee this being a massive issue when that time comes.