Extremely Predatory Pricing

[Aurummorituri]

I know as a FTP game that the shop might lean towards the predatory, but the prices are an absolute joke. The in-game currency NOT 1:1 with the US Penny. It's 1:2. That means the "Ultimate Descendant" bundle which costs 3000 Caliber is not $30 like your brain thinks, but $60 for a SINGLE FCKING SKIN. Of course you have to buy the Caliber bundle which costs $70 to have enough.
This game looks kinda cool, but I'm pretty disgusted by the predatory pricing that makes Gatcha games and Destiny 2 look like a bargain. The Ultimate skins have stat boosts btw, so no it's not just a cosmetic. The Battle Pass has an Ultimate weapon among other boosts. These developers must think all PC players are a bunch of suckers like the Korean mobile crowd. These are ostensibly in the realm of macrotransactions. You could blow $70 on a skin in this game, or just head over to the Steam Summer Sale going on right now and pick up three or more FULL GAMES for that price. They could have made this a $60 full game with paid expansions down the line, but they went this route. This ain't it, folks.

[SaltyWeasel]

Guess you also complain when you go to Europe that 1$ isn't the same as 1€?

[Pedro]

wow

[Locke]

Publicado originalmente por SaltyWeasel:

Guess you also complain when you go to Europe that 1$ isn't the same as 1€?

I hope this is like a joke or something because this might be one of the dumbest replies I've ever heard to predatory pricing practices.

[PortalShifter]

Publicado originalmente por Aurummorituri:

This game looks kinda cool, but I'm pretty disgusted by the predatory pricing that makes Gatcha games and Destiny 2 look like a bargain.

It is disgusting, and the more people support this kind of slop, the more we get.

[L]

I agree. I like this game, despite it's severe flaws, however the pricing is absolutely trash, and the fact that people willingly, and I mean, willingly will pay up front for these things costing $60-100 is all the more reasons why.

It's also hypocritical too, since I see individuals who post on here (not in this particular thread) whom were antagonistic towards other games for putting up $6-10 monetization things in other games, while they're defending or supporting this type of trash in TFD which has $60-100 things.

You want that Ultimate Bunny with all for Premium, give us $100 and it's yours.

Seriously people, we NEED to let Nexon know that this is enough. Play the game, but don't pay for these astronomical prices. Other companies like League of Legends with their $500 Ahri skin are reasons why this type of nonsense will continue forward, because certain gamers can't help themselves.

[Myztkl©-Kev]

Publicado originalmente por Wykydtron:

Publicado originalmente por Hyro1:

So just like primes from Warframe, what's ur point

primes can be obtained for free in short time, you cannot get ultimate premium chars here without paying $100 (absurd).

Publicado originalmente por E:

Meanwhile mobile games like Honkai Star Rail it costs $2200 to max 1 character

but its not HSR and no one says pricing in HSR and other games like that is fair or good.
Also you get full new character there while here its just skin with bonus stats making it not worth it at all.

There is literally an entire NPC for "Researching" that lets you craft ALL of the characters, you just need the mats and the in-game gold. Half of the normal characters are provided to you basically for free as side missions. Just goes to show you didn't even play the game more than 20 minutes or you'd know this. The ultimate characters you buy come with a legendary skin, and a bunch of other cosmetic crap, you're mostly paying for that, and the convenience of skipping the grind to create the character. It's still hella expensive, but I need to call out misinformation when I see it.
That being said, I usually have no problem forking out $60 (or maybe more) If I'm playing the game lots and getting enjoyment out of it (I've spent almost $200 on The Finals) but when I saw the ultimate premium bundle for literally over $100 it made me not want to spend any money because there is very little value, and of course they do the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ predatory practice of giving you enough credits so you're just shy 25 for a cheap thing when you're basically out of credits, forcing you to spend at minimum another $6 just to buy a $2 thing to use up your currency. The bundles give you "bonus" amounts, but you literally can't use it unless you spend more.

[Pixelica]

Compared to all those Chinese gacha game, this game looks like a saint. You get what you paid for in this game. Also all item beside some characters skin, you can get it in game by doing quest, grinding, and farming.

[KuroneR]

Koreans think we have lots of money thats why they are predatory xdd

[SaltyWeasel]

Publicado originalmente por Locke:

Publicado originalmente por SaltyWeasel:

Guess you also complain when you go to Europe that 1$ isn't the same as 1€?

I hope this is like a joke or something because this might be one of the dumbest replies I've ever heard to predatory pricing practices.

One of the things the OP was whining about is that it isn't 1:1 to dollar, what is it with you Americans that you American't immagine a world you are not the center of? There are so many different currencies, why would a Korean game link there in game currency to the $?

If you are talking about that you need to buy multiple currency packs to get close to the currency you need to buy something that is a different story, but companies trying to trick you into buying stuff is nothing new just as pricing something 99 instead of a 100 isn't anything unique.

Maybe next time before you call something "the dumbest" you might actually want to read where the OP is about.

[Gias]

Publicado originalmente por Pixelica:

Compared to all those Chinese gacha game, this game looks like a saint. You get what you paid for in this game. Also all item beside some characters skin, you can get it in game by doing quest, grinding, and farming.

Why always ride on asians? Blizzards is western and diablo 4 did same ♥♥♥♥. EA sport games had lootboxes before anyone knew what eastern gacha games are.

Why are devs doing it? Cause the consumers already proved they eat it up. They arent unique, they are only following in old laid out tracks.

[Sloop]

From the trailers looked like a fun game, but man the F2P Nexon pricing model just turns me off it, I'd rather pay 70 dollars or a sub for a live service and not be in this "feel like a lower class citizen or pay unreasonable price for very minimal value" zone.

"Don't pay if you don't want" is true, but for sure the game progression systems will be designed in such a way that your progression is super slow to incentivize buying the overpriced nonsense to make the gameplay experience "normal".

[Cloak]

This has very no relevance to me seeing I never pay for microtransactions. But seeing you'd probably bought some in the past I have a message for you and others alike. Shut up and pay already you whale. You brought this upon yourself so shut up and pay already. You're words, your worries and your complaints are worthless so... shut... up... open your wallet and PAY! People warned you all and even told you why microtransactions were bad for many years. And you all kept buying them anyways and even defended the practice. And now you want to complain? You reap what you sow.

And no you will not get a thank you from me for "keeping the servers up" cause I payed the price by allowing this company to collect information and data on me so they can probably sell that data and make profit without getting some of that bread myself. Instead I'm payed in to be allowed to play their game for "free".

[Brohan Creates]

Nexon at its finest. Game will Dead in a year.

[Spartan9lives]

In my region there's not even regional pricing, the 2750 cash costs around the same as the entirety of the prime access bundle on warframe

[Haze]

Not gonna lie , I have $100 bucks reserved for this game . But at these prices, nu uh.