Re: EVENT PRICES ARE TOO HIGH!

@MandatoryIDtag 

So you don't want that Octane Heirloom.C'mon. lol

I guess it's time to fork over some cash.lol

@MandatoryIDtag 

Exactly, Blizzard pretty much wrote the book on how to be successful with a live service online game.

But you definitely cannot accuse them of doing little to nurture their iconic World of Warcraft. It's a leviathan, and an enormous amount of work and craft went into it over the years.

w3 refunded and diablo immortals are so successful

I’m not one to hoard heirlooms, and as much as I would love Path’s, I’d rather get lucky with free packs if it ever happens.

But for a skin that I really enjoy, 20$ is the going price for a McDonalds meal in Canada, 20$ is a pack of cigarettes, it’s also the going price of a 24 pack of beer.

I don’t smoke, I don’t drink (on a regular basis) and I don’t often eat McDonalds…..my disposable income can easily be spent on a skin if it makes me happy.

@RevenanT-G7  I do want it lol,i'm just not getting it. 😛

@Wingmannedbro  has basically just given a perfect example of my expectations from a game. Free or otherwise. 😛

F2P translates to everlasting Beta game. 

Fortnite is still in beta if I remember correctly, but they at least put it right on the loading screen. 

As far as overpriced or not I would buy a skin if it suited me or an heirloom if some of the connection issues actually were gone and there was a whiff of solo mode. 

Since neither of those are happening my disposable gaming income sits and waits for a game to come out that just makes me want to spend that cash. On the plus side I saved enough by not spending my gaming money on Apex to upgrade to a large screen gaming monitor set up for the next gen consoles.(Faster refresh rates than currently available 4k hdr etc.) So that is a positive. 

@Gabrielmojo26 

There would be no difference to me as an end user. If  I build a machine for a company putting widgets together and 1 of the purchased parts that goes into my machines is faulty I am culpable for the replacing of the purchased part period. 

My end customer wants a machine that does what it is advertised to do. 

I play a game with a lag and connection issue that is to date unresolved. It matters little to me if the parent company or the producer of said game are the issue. The issue exists and ruins parts of the game. I consider the fault to be with both parties at  this point. They have had a year to sort it out. Funny thing is SW battle front is on EA servers I played 1 & 2 and never had any issues. Same thing for TF2. Only Apex.

But I am done siderailing the main convo, you guys carry on about overpriced heirlooms and skins. 

@mastiffslingerI don't mind encouraging the game designers since the connectivity issues (which I didn't experience since the launch of S4, knock on wood) aren't really Respawn's fault, they're at the mercy of EA.

Edit* We can side rail this one, it was meant as a joke, it's a light hearten thread, meant to alleviate tension. 

To be more "on topic": Xpensive skinz turk err jerbs!

On a more serious note, did anyone consider the impact of skins on this game? For example, the fact that the selection screen needs to have like 36 high res skins and intro animations cached so that there's no noticeable delay? No wonder it freezes so often... Another fact: a match needs to support up to 60 different legend skins and 120 different weapon skins. No surprise that Bangalore disappeared a few times.

I'd like to see bandwidth measurements the next time there is a dummy ltm, or with a lobby where all players use the default legend skins. Really curious if the issue rates would change or not, but I have a hunch they'd drop.

Did some quick math and I wouldn't mind paying $120-$144 if I was to purchase everything at once. 

Ya know, save some $ for getting everything vs paying $7 for 1 item. 

$120-$144 prices the items at 500-600 Apex coins, seems fair. 

A little cost saving tip on future events for you guys aswell, save all your mets for heirloom events, purchase as many of the epic skins as you can with metals and you save yourself a fortune in boxes.

Assuming of course you're getting the heirloom.

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@NaRnIaaa wrote:

w3 refunded and diablo immortals are so successful

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Diabo immortal is an outsourced spin off for china's market and has not even released yet, and WC3 is indeed somewhat of a mess up. But not as much as disgruntled fans argue. It's the same campaigns in a distinctly better looking graphic while staying true enough to appear with similar aesthetics of the original game.

Gamers assumed promises that were never actually made, and seriously though they would recreate all new cinematics. The promise for some newly changed dialog was indeed unfulfilled but whatever.

Reforged was obviously going to be a semi remade game of the original and that's what it actually was, minus the cinematics.

All of the hubbub doesn't change the fact that WoW crams out massive amount of content over time, is easily the largest game, and WoW players actually see returns and value for the money they spend, no matter how hard you or anyone else pretends otherwise.

@mastiffslinger 

Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming out next month. On the 11th if I recall right.

Free demo is available to download and play right now, it's the demo that was available last E3. Then again... Playstation exclusive of course, so you're out of luck without a PS.

From what i played seems nice, i'm probably going to buy it in the hopes that there will be a hard mode playthrough (normal in the demo was already pretty harsh) 

@WingmannedbroYeah those promises were made. The blizzcon 2018 campaign trailer is still on the game's wesbsite lol.
One of the biggest lies of game industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwG5ct900B0

So pls pull your tongue out it wasn't made for that anyway.

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@budzai wrote:

@WingmannedbroYeah those promises were made. The blizzcon 2018 campaign trailer is still on the game's wesbsite lol.
One of the biggest lies of game industry.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwG5ct900B0

So pls pull your tongue out it wasn't made for that anyway.

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Anyone with half an ounce of experience knows that pre release promotional material is subject to change. It also mentions that explicitly on promotional material that images shown may differ from the retail release.

This is basic knowledge that barely needs mentioning. It's not comparable to the stunt Bethesda pulled with Fallout 76 Merch.

Didn't you just tell me a few hours ago I wasn't allowed to speak here for being critical of Apex in certain highly specific regards? Yet here you are, being critical of a game and it's devs.

Guess it would be "healthy" if you would just leave instead of spew venom.

Oh lord that fallout 76 merch though.....the nuka cola bottle was by far the worst.

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