How do I join the Atlas Explorer Club?

 

How do I join the Atlas Explorer Club? (self.AtlasEarthOfficial)

submitted 5 months ago by TheresJustNoMoney

How much does it cost to do so? How come there's not a join button for the AEC on the Android mobile app?

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[–]MessageDarren 2 points 5 months ago 

You need 5x passport badges too to join. The event badges don't count towards this.

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 4 points 5 months ago 

Looks like I'm covered on that front.

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[–]MessageDarren 5 points 5 months ago 

Might be worth double counting, just to be sure.

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[–]mike07646 2 points 5 months ago 

The reason it’s not on the mobile app is likely because in order to accept payment via mobile they have to give up to 30% of the sale price over to Google-Play or Apple-App store as a “processing fee” for transactions. Doing it via their own site eliminates that expense for them.

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 0 points 5 months ago 

30% of $50 is $15.

There'd still be plenty of players willing to pay $65/month for the AEC membership, so why not that also? We could have both the option to pay $65 in-app, and $50 on the AE website because there are some people too lazy to open the site to pay there.

Some people do gladly pay a premium to be lazy. As a full-time Doordash driver, I rely on people's laziness to sustain my livelihood. I, on the other hand, order carryout. I haven't ordered delivery to my apartment in a pretty long time, and that last time was due to my car being in the shop.

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[–]TheAndyCaneMayor 1 point 5 months ago 

Join on their webapp. It's $50 USD a month

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[–]subillusionMayor 1 point 5 months ago 

The Explorer club is a subscription, not a purchase.

Do Google/Apple even support automatic recurring charges? (I.e. subscriptions). I don't recall seeing a game with a recurring subscription through Google/ Apple.

I mean, many games have "seasons" or "events" on a monthly basis, but i don't remember seeing any of those that automatically billed every month. I always had to go in and click "buy".

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[–]TheresJustNoMoney[S] 1 point 5 months ago 

Do Google/Apple even support automatic recurring charges?

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[–]subillusionMayor 2 points 5 months ago 

Thank you for posting! I was not aware of that!

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