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Fair Play Pledge

Draft dated 2 October 2026. Questions: support@arionword.com

ArionRO is free to play. Running it costs real money (servers, backups, domains), so exactly two things are for sale: Premium, and cosmetic items that change only how you look (no stats). This page says plainly what they give, what money will never buy, and where the money goes. If we ever change it, this page changes first.

Fair play: every gear item sold for real money can also be earned in game.

What Premium gives

Premium lasts 30 days from the moment you activate it and costs EUR 9.99 (or 999 Cash Points; VAT included where it applies). Every perk is a convenience: it saves time or walking, and never makes a character stronger than a free player's can become.

+25% base and job experience from monsters, on top of the normal rates (base 5x, job 5x).
3,000 storage slots instead of 600. The extra slots are Premium Vaults; when Premium ends you can still take everything out, nothing is ever deleted.
No experience lost on death. Free players lose 1% (the official amount).
@autoloot for items up to a 10% drop chance. Free players pick up loot by hand.
Auto-identify: items you obtain arrive identified, and opening your storage identifies what is inside. Free players use a Magnifier or the Identify skill, as usual.
@autostore: when your bag is over 80% weight, loot moves to your storage by itself. Consumables, quest items and anything you lock (@lock, or Account on the website) stay with you. After two hours without chat, NPC talk or a map change it pauses and asks a quick anti-bot check; a wrong or missing answer means jail for a GM to review, never an automatic ban.
Global chat: post in #main without a cooldown, and in #market and #party every minute. Free players can post every 10 minutes in #main and #party and once an hour in #market, so the channels stay readable.
Free healer, buffs, warps and stat/skill reset at the town NPCs.
A Premium title, and double daily-login rewards.

Premium is not on sale yet. This list is final for the launch; any later change is announced here first.

Cosmetics

Wings, costumes and other visual items: they change your look and nothing else. No stats, no bonuses, no effects in combat.

Cash Points

Cash Points are the paid currency: €1 = 100 Cash Points, bought on the website from €5. They are spent only in the in-game Cash Shop, which sells only Premium Tokens and cosmetics. Arion Coin, which you earn by playing, is a separate currency and can never be bought.

What money never buys

Nothing you cannot also earn in game, and no stats beyond what an item itself has.
No zeny, no Arion Coin, no refines, no rerolls, no paid random ("lucky") boxes.
No higher drop rates. Drops are the same 3x (cards 3x) for everyone.
No access to content free players cannot reach: every map, dungeon, instance and class is open to everyone.

The website shop and Artisan Crafting take only Arion Coin and crafting materials, which you earn by playing. Arion Coin cannot be bought with money, so nothing in those shops is for sale for real money either.

Tokens and cosmetics are tradeable

Premium is sold as a Premium Token item. Until it is used, it can be traded in game like any other item, and so can paid cosmetics. That means a player who never pays can still get Premium or a cosmetic by trading for it with zeny or items they earned, the same idea as the WoW Token. Buying or selling them for real money outside the game is not allowed (see the Code of Conduct).

Where the money goes

Server hosting, encrypted off-site backups, domains and email, and the tools that keep the game running. ArionRO is run by one person in their free time; Premium is what keeps the server online.

Refunds

Tokens are delivered right away, so once a token is in your account it is not refunded, unless it never arrived or the fault is ours. The full rules, including chargebacks, are in section 5 of the Terms of Service.