Aquila shop is bunk

[Salty Sis' 4U]

I love how not only did the devs totally abandon Vermintide 2's monetization setup and how it was laid out, as well as the fact that you could earn the premium currency in-game just by completing a VAST multitude of challenges through passive play...

But even after having made a shop that rolls items out in sequence, whilst also being pay-only to acquire the middleman premium currency (instead of just making the items purchasable directly, because gods forbid modern games NOT utilize a cryptocurrency to separate gamers from their cash before they can so much as make an ACTUAL purchase)...
Even in spite of how terribly anti-consumer this is, the cash shop itself is also just flat out broken.

Try to buy an aquila pack? Game gets stuck loading forever.
Verified integrity, so it ain't that.
Checked with and without Steam overlay... Ain't that.

Bloody brillaint, Fatshark and GW.

[Emilia Tempest]

So we will see a hotfix for this tomorrow then. God forbid the money shop isnt working!

[Salty Sis' 4U]

Originally posted by Emilia Tempest:

So we will see a hotfix for this tomorrow then. God forbid the money shop isnt working!

Yeah, kinda what surprises me about this.
Like, GW clearly pushed Fatshark towards a more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and predatory model...
They'd be going ballistic if they heard the shop was incapable of milking their WH40k fans of all their clearly-in-excessive money.

[T i n o]

+1

[Kimahn]

oh come on, this is the only thing working in the game, just try again later !

[Calv]

Originally posted by Salty Sis' 4U:

I love how not only did the devs totally abandon Vermintide 2's monetization setup and how it was laid out, as well as the fact that you could earn the premium currency in-game just by completing a VAST multitude of challenges through passive play...

That isn't really true.

You could earn shillings for the colour swap cosmetics, but the interesting ones were purely cash only.

[puRe]

The whole system needs an overhaul, like most of the games features.

Originally posted by Salty Sis' 4U:

Originally posted by Emilia Tempest:

So we will see a hotfix for this tomorrow then. God forbid the money shop isnt working!

Yeah, kinda what surprises me about this.
Like, GW clearly pushed Fatshark towards a more ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and predatory model...
They'd be going ballistic if they heard the shop was incapable of milking their WH40k fans of all their clearly-in-excessive money.

I don't think it's GW who is behind all this.

Originally posted by Calv:

Originally posted by Salty Sis' 4U:

I love how not only did the devs totally abandon Vermintide 2's monetization setup and how it was laid out, as well as the fact that you could earn the premium currency in-game just by completing a VAST multitude of challenges through passive play...

That isn't really true.

You could earn shillings for the colour swap cosmetics, but the interesting ones were purely cash only.

And now we have a limited selection of recolored stuff while they even sell recolors in the premium shop.

[Monk]

I do love how you are so anti the system, but despite this you are trying to buy stuff and support it.

Problem is likely local or a short term one, I bought a bunch of the stuff yesterday with no issues.

[puRe]

Even though it'll probably never happen, I'll try to help Fatshark with the cosmetics and their premium shop, so that everyone is happy and they can still earn some money.

- Bring back the cut cosmetics and make them earnable through penances.
- Remove every weapon recolor from the premium shop and include it in the armoury.
(people who already bought them get their aquilas back)
- Every new recolor goes straight into the cosmetics shop of the armoury. Why would you even think about selling a lazy recolor for money?

- For every cosmetic you want to sell give us one that is earnable ingame.
- Fix the pricing of the cosmetics. 12 bucks for a single set? It shouldn't even be more than 5€, this isn't a free to play game.
- People who already bought stuff get a part of their aquilas back to compensate for the pricing change.
- No rotating cosmetics, give us a proper catalog to browse (like in PoE)

Optional:
- Remove the Aquilas and let us pay straight with our real money.
- Sire Melk's contracts serve just to grind another currency for a shop that could've been included in the armoury. Remove the shop and the currency and let us earn a small amount of aquilas for doing the contracts.

I probably forgot to mention something, but this should work as a start. No need to thank me, Fatshark, just give us a game that's worthy of a GOTY title.

[raμza84]

In case you missed it, a nice video about monetization in modern games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g16heGLKlTA&ab_channel=JoshStrifeHayes
Darktide also get mentioned

[Astariol]

I only play this game for the drip. So far I'm like $80 into this game, but I think that's my limit.

($60 for the special edition)
($20 or so on Aquila's)

Yeah I have more money than decency unfortunately :(

[Booh]

Client side issue.