What are the in-app purchases?

[Luke]

just curious

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Originally posted by Luke:

just curious

The only in-app purchases are for Souls. You can use souls to purchase equipment, upgrade your spells and buy cosmetics for your Caos. You can also farm souls by simply killing monsters :)

[Luke]

Originally posted by michael:

Originally posted by Luke:

just curious

The only in-app purchases are for Souls. You can use souls to purchase equipment, upgrade your spells and buy cosmetics for your Caos. You can also farm souls by simply killing monsters :)

Thanks for the quick reply!

For some reason, being able to pay to advance in the game (your equipment, spells) feels kind of pay2win to me; do I have an incorrect view here? In fairness I never played Ascend so I have no clue what purchasing equipment or upgrading spells means in the context of the game, but I assume it would give some kind of advantage?

And not that paying to advance in the game is an evil thing or anything like that; I'm just curious. I tend to be a bit off-put when I see in-app purchases, though I also realize the game is completely free lol (though personally I'd rather just pay for it up-front!) I'm speaking largely out of ignorance here and I don't mean to demean the decisions made; just trying to better understand.

[CR48]

Originally posted by michael:

Originally posted by Luke:

just curious

The only in-app purchases are for Souls. You can use souls to purchase equipment, upgrade your spells and buy cosmetics for your Caos. You can also farm souls by simply killing monsters :)

Thanks for the clarification, people seem to speak highly of this game but there is always a "catch" to it. Hopefully it'll manage to impress me.

[Luke]

Originally posted by ∞:

Originally posted by michael:

The only in-app purchases are for Souls. You can use souls to purchase equipment, upgrade your spells and buy cosmetics for your Caos. You can also farm souls by simply killing monsters :)

Thanks for the clarification, people seem to speak highly of this game but there is always a "catch" to it. Hopefully it'll manage to impress me.

I just played for a few minutes and "purchase souls" is pretty much front and center on the menu screens (even mid-game when you go into your spells inventory) --

I can't fault it too much due to the fact that the game is completely free, but, personally I tend to shy away from these kind of games because these kinds of things are kind of immersion-breaking for me; would be nice to be able to disable those prompts for those of us who will never spend money to buy souls.

Because, personally, I wouldn't spend money on souls but I would absolutely spend money on this game as a whole if it didn't have the in-app purchases. But perhaps I represent the very small minority here; I'm sure the team looked at this quite hard before making these decisions.

And I hope nothing but the best for them; just sharing my own personal opinion here.

[KingChonker]

Maybe I'm just blind, but I've only now noticed the in-app purchases after you pointing out where it was.

And sure, it does give a player a bit of an upper hand, but they still have to level up to find better items, even in the gear store, and ascend like everyone else.

[smokratez]

Originally posted by Luke:

Originally posted by ∞:

Thanks for the clarification, people seem to speak highly of this game but there is always a "catch" to it. Hopefully it'll manage to impress me.

I just played for a few minutes and "purchase souls" is pretty much front and center on the menu screens (even mid-game when you go into your spells inventory) --

I can't fault it too much due to the fact that the game is completely free, but, personally I tend to shy away from these kind of games because these kinds of things are kind of immersion-breaking for me; would be nice to be able to disable those prompts for those of us who will never spend money to buy souls.

Because, personally, I wouldn't spend money on souls but I would absolutely spend money on this game as a whole if it didn't have the in-app purchases. But perhaps I represent the very small minority here; I'm sure the team looked at this quite hard before making these decisions.

And I hope nothing but the best for them; just sharing my own personal opinion here.

same. but not for p2w

[smokratez]

Originally posted by KingChonker:

Maybe I'm just blind, but I've only now noticed the in-app purchases after you pointing out where it was.

And sure, it does give a player a bit of an upper hand, but they still have to level up to find better items, even in the gear store, and ascend like everyone else.

it cuts a lot of time. you can get way stronger