Atom Store prices WTH

[FreshRevenge]

So I been playing the game for a bit. I got it on sale last week. Now I been doing some of the quests. I just finished doing the Brother of Steel story.

Now I got a subscription for mainly the storage issue with collecting loot. Fine. But when I look at the store prices it's insanely high. A power armor skin is 10 dollars or 1000 or more atoms. 10 dollars for a skin color? Are they out of their minds?

A skin should be around 1 or 3 dollars at max. Not 10 dollars to start off. So I get about 1650 atoms per month if I keep my subscription. If I were to get a armor skin mod, there goes those atoms.

I know some people get the subscription for the scrap storage. Then they get enough scrap and turn off the subscription until they need more. Sounds like a viable solution to that.

But holy smoke, all the other stuff in the store is like going to cost you a mortgage or something. I know you get atoms from getting SCORE objectives. I don't really pay attention to that. I just get them from scrapping stuff or killing stuff.

I know that no one is forcing me to buy anything. So let's take that argument out right now. Story expansions I can see them charging 15 to 30 dollars.

To place a new color paint job on my armor or gun should not even reach 10 bucks or higher.

This sounds like I am ranting but I notice the new set of items and I think wow, I can't get any of it unless I spend bank loads of money to get. I also understand this is an online game, but charging high prices isn't going to attract newcomers.


I think my point is that they should lower the prices on the items.

End rant Sorry I had to get that off my chest.

[Grendel_Khan]

As a new player I would not worry about atoms for now, simply play the game and have fun.
You will earn atoms progressing through the scoreboard(s) and by completing the various challenges, i.e. kill x amount of robots with a musical instruments.
Personally I would not focus on getting atoms through those challenges but rather let them trickle in by just playing the game or else they might become a chore. Later on it gives you something to focus on as some of them are quite silly, in my opinion.

[jerrypocalypse]

You mention expansions costing $15-$30. That's honestly part of the trade-off I believe in Beth's mind. All of the story/ops/gameplay content updates are free,.so they charge more for the frivolous small stuff.

Now, I'm not justifying the high prices on things, especially for PA skins, but just giving some insight as to why this is (partially) the case.

There are also many skins you can find for free in-game that you get as rewards for different quests and events, so you can still get those to customize things.

I just started playing again about a month and a half ago, after not touching it since launch. Personally, I just watch for the bundles and discounts they do every week in the store to get things cheaper. There's also a decent amount of Atoms that you can get from the scoreboard, which you mention, that you can snag stuff with. You get a bonus of 500 for completing rank 100, pkuse the several 150s on the board. And, if I'm not mistaken, get more for ranking the board past 100

[Dezktop]

hmmm i wonder why they would over price everything but do weekly sales hmmmmmm

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

You mention expansions costing $15-$30. That's honestly part of the trade-off I believe in Beth's mind. All of the story/ops/gameplay content updates are free,.so they charge more for the frivolous small stuff.

Now, I'm not justifying the high prices on things, especially for PA skins, but just giving some insight as to why this is (partially) the case.

There are also many skins you can find for free in-game that you get as rewards for different quests and events, so you can still get those to customize things.

I just started playing again about a month and a half ago, after not touching it since launch. Personally, I just watch for the bundles and discounts they do every week in the store to get things cheaper. There's also a decent amount of Atoms that you can get from the scoreboard, which you mention, that you can snag stuff with. You get a bonus of 500 for completing rank 100, pkuse the several 150s on the board. And, if I'm not mistaken, get more for ranking the board past 100

Originally posted by Grendel Khan:

As a new player I would not worry about atoms for now, simply play the game and have fun.
You will earn atoms progressing through the scoreboard(s) and by completing the various challenges, i.e. kill x amount of robots with a musical instruments.
Personally I would not focus on getting atoms through those challenges but rather let them trickle in by just playing the game or else they might become a chore. Later on it gives you something to focus on as some of them are quite silly, in my opinion.

I would rather spend money on story stuff because that seems justifiable for those prices. But to swap a color skin for the same price is ridiculous.

Reminds me of Angry Joe ranting about the color blue. 20 bucks for the color blue.

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by Dezktop:

hmmm i wonder why they would over price everything but do weekly sales hmmmmmm

Probably to draw more people to the game.

Okay one of the PA is on sale, it's regular price is 1500 atoms. But they reduce it to 1050. That is 10 dollars and 50 cents. They probably want you to purchase the 24.99 atom pack. It couldn't just be 1000.

[Dezktop]

yah they still do that but now they give away recolored junk too

[Dezktop]

do you buy games based on the sales in the game before you buy it?

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by FreshRevenge:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

You mention expansions costing $15-$30. That's honestly part of the trade-off I believe in Beth's mind. All of the story/ops/gameplay content updates are free,.so they charge more for the frivolous small stuff.

Now, I'm not justifying the high prices on things, especially for PA skins, but just giving some insight as to why this is (partially) the case.

There are also many skins you can find for free in-game that you get as rewards for different quests and events, so you can still get those to customize things.

I just started playing again about a month and a half ago, after not touching it since launch. Personally, I just watch for the bundles and discounts they do every week in the store to get things cheaper. There's also a decent amount of Atoms that you can get from the scoreboard, which you mention, that you can snag stuff with. You get a bonus of 500 for completing rank 100, pkuse the several 150s on the board. And, if I'm not mistaken, get more for ranking the board past 100

Originally posted by Grendel Khan:

As a new player I would not worry about atoms for now, simply play the game and have fun.
You will earn atoms progressing through the scoreboard(s) and by completing the various challenges, i.e. kill x amount of robots with a musical instruments.
Personally I would not focus on getting atoms through those challenges but rather let them trickle in by just playing the game or else they might become a chore. Later on it gives you something to focus on as some of them are quite silly, in my opinion.

I would rather spend money on story stuff because that seems justifiable for those prices. But to swap a color skin for the same price is ridiculous.

Reminds me of Angry Joe ranting about the color blue. 20 bucks for the color blue.

But you don't have to pay for the story/expansion stuff, that was the whole point about that part of my post. Instead, you pay extra for all the other frivolous stuff, which is essentially funding the other story stuff. Personally, I'd rather pay extra for a skin I *might* want now and then and get all the actual gameplay content for free.

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Originally posted by FreshRevenge:

I would rather spend money on story stuff because that seems justifiable for those prices. But to swap a color skin for the same price is ridiculous.

Reminds me of Angry Joe ranting about the color blue. 20 bucks for the color blue.

But you don't have to pay for the story/expansion stuff, that was the whole point about that part of my post. Instead, you pay extra for all the other frivolous stuff, which is essentially funding the other story stuff. Personally, I'd rather pay extra for a skin I *might* want now and then and get all the actual gameplay content for free.

Just because they offer the story content for free that they need to charge high and ridiculous prices for everything else.

They want to look like saints but in reality they look like crooks. I mean they are no better than the raiders in the game that you come across.

Oh the story is free. You might as well be paying for the story content for all the high prices on power armor skins they are charging..

[Dezktop]

right IF those content updates weren't always botched you might have a point

[jerrypocalypse]

Originally posted by FreshRevenge:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

But you don't have to pay for the story/expansion stuff, that was the whole point about that part of my post. Instead, you pay extra for all the other frivolous stuff, which is essentially funding the other story stuff. Personally, I'd rather pay extra for a skin I *might* want now and then and get all the actual gameplay content for free.

Just because they offer the story content for free that they need to charge high and ridiculous prices for everything else.

They want to look like saints but in reality they look like crooks. I mean they are no better than the raiders in the game that you come across.

Oh the story is free. You might as well be paying for the story content for all the high prices on power armor skins they are charging..

Originally posted by Dezktop:

right IF those content updates weren't always botched you might have a point

You both seem to have missed this part of my original post:

Originally posted by jerrypocalypse:

Now, I'm not justifying the high prices on things, especially for PA skins, but just giving some insight as to why this is (partially) the case.

OP, it's clear now that you just want to have something to be upset about.

[FreshRevenge]

Originally posted by Dezktop:

right IF those content updates weren't always botched you might have a point

I haven't been around this long enough to know what updates have been made. So far with my time with it. It plays like a Fallout game.

I have run into a few bugs. Like dogs that slide all over the place when they are chasing you.

I am not saying the game is horrible. I am enjoying it but I just feel some of the online business model of charging prices is only done by their corporate shareholders instead of reasonable people.

Because charging 10 dollars for a color swap on armor in the game is just bad business practice.

[Dezktop]

it is yes

[Fluffy Chops]

All am going to say OP is Steam wants they own cut of the profit, the money you spend for atoms doesn't all go to Bethesda.

Buying atoms was much much cheaper on the Bethesda launcher after all all the money went to them so for their cut they didn't demand us to spend as much but that shut down sadly. So yeah now we have higher atom prices.

I'm still living off the Bethesda launcher atoms knowing that the steam prices were way higher so bought a ton of atoms before the Bethesda launcher shut down. got 4773 left the scoreboard is kinda keeping me afloat as well. but yeah i don't like the steam atom price tag myself so i will never buy into that price these 4773 atoms i got left will likely be mostly my last with only the scoreboard refilling my atoms.

[SentinelDaniel]

"Is that... Is that blue? is that ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ blue. Are you joking me fallout. 10 bucks for blue? ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND"