Great game. Outrageous Prices.

[LivingxLegacy]

I honestly loved this game since the first beta and had high hopes for it. But I cant shake the feeling that it is a massive cash grab. I am level 40 and capped until I can craft the Energy Activator which can be obtained one of two ways. Either grind for rare materials which I have been doing all day with minimal progress. Or open your wallet and spend 50$ USD for the 1200 Caliber required to purchase it.

I'm no stranger when it comes to free to play games. But the prices on the shop are just insane comparing to other free to plays such as wareframe and so on. What are your thoughts?

[Obscene]

29 hours into a game that's been out 48 and you're complaining about money you didn't spend. 1200 caliber is not $50.00 btw

[Multigun]

Originally posted by Obscene:

29 hours into a game that's been out 48 and you're complaining about money you didn't spend. 1200 caliber is not $50.00 btw

And you believe that 48 days or 48 months is going to make any difference on pricing? At all? You knew to free to play games? So they aren't allowed to express grievances on pricing until some mythical date in time?

And yes, 1200 isn't "technically" $50.00, but that's what you essentially need to spend to reach the 1200 requirement (or less by buying multiple smaller packs, but then as expected, you lose out on coins by doing so).

I agree with the OP otherwise. There is a LOT of intentional grind to force players to want to pony up money to deal with it. I nearly uninstalled the game, and may still do so, once I found out you can't have separate loadouts for other Descendants without paying a bunch of money to add more "Presets". I'm only 16 hours in and if I'm already seeing insane toxic grinding mechanics to get people to pay more, or even the most basic of game functions (having individual load outs for each class????) isn't a thing and costs extra just to have some loadouts, then how bad is it going to look 50 hours in?

Really glad I held off on buying the battle pass or anything like that. Once the majority of players start to find out how bad the microtransactions are, things are going to spiral really fast in the player counts.

[Moga CMDR]

The prices will be outrageous to some and not to others.

That's how it works for everything in life. No biggie. No essay needed. It's a waste of time.

[The Dess 2023 GOTY Edition]

People can still just play the game and go play something else after they finish the story. No biggie.

[Riqcrow]

game is free. unlock all with patience and time (except custom skins..)

btw, all games use same "X costs 300 / 1100, premium currency bundles are 250 / 1000" trick, not just Nexon. it is just a business model that somehow crept into games.

since game is free, would be polite to consider supporting devs, one way or another, when you have played over 15-20 hours. at least in my own policy, then game has then been worth my time, and then consider buying custom skin or something.

[hydRʌ.]

go work at mcdonalds for a week and you can buy everything you want ingame.

or just farm it if you aren't willing to spend a single cent on the game.

[Bubblegoose]

poor people shouldnt play video games

[TyresTyco]

Yeah no way I spend cash on this game. I considered buying the battlepass but I hold off for now. I first play through the story and look how the grind is.

If it's worse than warframe I will stay f2p and quit at some point. If the grind is bearable I may stay for longer than 100 h and spend some cash. But never for convenience stuff.. since the prices sure are insane.

I spend 300 euro for poe.. I spend over 500 euro for warframe. I consider the stuff I got there having a certain value and never regret it.

The stuff you can buy in this game however. No. Just no. Not worth it unless you are a whale throwing cash around like toilet paper.

[Shark_iNa_Chair]

Lot of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the game cause they got the $high dollar skins