Now that battlepass is removed, how do you get coins for the shop?

[Crimson]

Please don't tell me it's real money only now... I've seen the prices, and that is not even close to worth the money.

[LeRoot]

Unfortunately yes, buying Crom Coins is the only way now. You are right, it's not worth the price at all, you could buy one or more other games with the money you'd spend on Crom Coins. These prices are ridiculous and need to be adjusted/lowered. Best thing you can do is wait for whichever bundle or item you really want to appear in the store and buy it then.

[Jaq]

The Battlepass didn't give you coins for the shop. What it did was give you back the coins you spent to unlock the Battlepass. Which is to say, you had to buy and spend 1200 Crom Coins to unlock the Battlepass, and by completing it you were awarded 1200 Crom Coins, which anyone with any self-control left unspent on their account to unlock the next Battlepass and repeat the process.

The Bazaar has always been a straight cash transaction, other than the intermediate step of having to convert cash into in-game currency. Nobody ever got anything from the Bazaar for free. It was the Battlepass content they got for free, or more accurately as bonus content to whatever they eventually spent their original 1200 crom coins on in the shop once the battlepasses were discontinued.

[Gavener]

Battle Pass was still better than just a shop, wish all the people making a big deal about it are happy now, because for 10$ you could get 2-3 skins for armor, weapons, building etc, i got a cool dog skin, now you can buy them for like 5-10 each, miss the Battle Pass

[Bloodartist]

Originally posted by Crimson:

Please don't tell me it's real money only now... I've seen the prices, and that is not even close to worth the money.

Yes, Real money only. Although it was ONLY real money before as well, but the battlepass used to have actually free items you didnt need to spend any money for. And battlepass was extremely fair one: All you needed to buy was the first one and you could get all the following battlepasses with the coins gained from the pass.

Thats why I was so angry at all those people complaining about battle pass, ie. complaining about getting FREE STUFF. Now its credit card only. Good job, schmucks.

[Spectre]

Originally posted by Bloodartist:

Originally posted by Crimson:

Please don't tell me it's real money only now... I've seen the prices, and that is not even close to worth the money.

Yes, Real money only. Although it was ONLY real money before as well, but the battlepass used to have actually free items you didnt need to spend any money for. And battlepass was extremely fair one: All you needed to buy was the first one and you could get all the following battlepasses with the coins gained from the pass.

Thats why I was so angry at all those people complaining about battle pass, ie. complaining about getting FREE STUFF. Now its credit card only. Good job, schmucks.

Nobody complained about free stuff, stop being daft. People complained about the malicious FOMO marketing that forces a short time span to acquire the content then its gone forever until they MIGHT, MAYBE piece by piece add it to the bazaar. Which also has FOMO marketing by having a very small selection which is rotated every few days.
Tired of people defending this marketing strategy and saying out of touch things like 'complained about free stuff'. Its a disingenuous representation.

If the battle passes could be completed whenever without a time limit, nobody would have complained. DRG does it, Halo MCC does it. Any game that doesnt is trying to force you to shell out the money as quick as possible to not miss out before the artificial timer runs out.
Got the game later? Took a break from playing? Didnt have the money at the time? You are screwed.

[Dread Swoop]

The Battle Pass was not removed because people complained about it, there's about two years of evidence showing that Funcom wasn't concerned with that. Their problem was that self-financing BPs have greatly-diminishing returns, even becoming a liability, if the currency isn't instead spent at the Shop.

It was the people who were riding a $10 investment and feeling entitled to content in perpetuity that forced Funcom to axe the BPs. Coincidentally, these people accused those who were against the Shop and BP of that very entitlement.

[seven]

Originally posted by Dread Swoop:

The Battle Pass was not removed because people complained about it, there's about two years of evidence showing that Funcom wasn't concerned with that. Their problem was that self-financing BPs have greatly-diminishing returns, even becoming a liability, if the currency isn't instead spent at the Shop.

It was the people who were riding a $10 investment and feeling entitled to content in perpetuity that forced Funcom to axe the BPs. Coincidentally, these people accused those who were against the Shop and BP of that very entitlement.

I think it was more that Funcom miscalculated. They thought more people who bought the battlepass would see something they liked in the bazaar and would spend coins on that, and then have to buy more coins for the next BP. But too many people saw the bazaar as ridiculously overpriced and were content to just rolling their coins over for the next season BP, and not that they felt entitled. Very little in the bazaar is a good value for money. The old DLCs were great, I have them all. If they had made each of those BP seasons as new DLCs instead I'm sure many people would have bought them.

[Sublime Entropy]

Mods, with the use of a few good mods, you only need the base game and nothing else. these lecherous fools and their overlords will milk the franchise until its no longer sustainable then shutter it. It will happen either through attrition of player loss to another game that does it better or one that doesn't nickel and dime them to death for content in a game they paid for initially. F2P games all day long, milk those whales, make that cash.