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resiliencelol's avatar
9 months ago

Heirloom Refund

I think adding 1-3 lifetime heirloom refunds would be overall healthy for the game. EA has recently stated that they want to focus on player retention and making the game better. Heirlooms have changed drastically and I'm sure many skin buyers regret the choices they've made with heirloom shards. Allowing the ability to refund would make people feel as though their money is valued and help to fight the stigma about EA being money hungry (which is definitely true to some extent). If players were able to refund heirloom(s) it would bring many people back and increase retention. It would bring people back by allowing them to get a new heirloom that was released without spending additional money. It would increase retention by giving them the opportunity for new experiences. Another feature that would be cool would be letting people go into a "testing range" with heirlooms so they can make good decisions on which ones they want. Heirlooms are valued at $500 a pop which is crazy amounts of value and people feeliung that their money is valued is essential to a positive developer-player relationship. Other games such as Fortnite have implemented 1-3 lifetime refund opportunities for cosmetics and it was well received by the community. Ultimately I don't think it would decrease monetary gain but rather player satisfaction; leading to more player retention and therefore, more monetary gain. I hope developers see this and take my feedback into consideration. I love Apex and want it to be at its full potential and I think this would be a step in the right direction.

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  • @resiliencelol 


    The new level cap in Apex Legends is effectively 2000. You can loop through levels 1-500 4 times.

    The total number of packs you can now earn, through leveling up to 2000, is 544 packs. That is a guaranteed heirloom.

    Recently published Heirloom Shard drop rates indicate an actual drop rate percentage of 0.045%. 

    https://answers.ea.com/t5/News-Game-Updates/Apex-Legends-Minimum-Global-Drop-Rates/m-p/14143089#M192

    My 1st heirloom I bought for about €43, as i had collected up loads of cm bought the purple stuff first, had the ea play discount (1month trial for €1) and collected up coin too. With that I also bought the event skin that gave 7 packs and opened them last.

    I now collect up my packs and open them by the 100, so I only have to count to 5 😃 273 opened so far and 85 collected toward the next 100 grand opening.

    I play Fortnite too, but I dont think there is anything like a heirloom there, so perhaps the lifetime refunds there are easier vs a refund on a mixture of collected coin, cm and bought coin.

  • resiliencelol's avatar
    resiliencelol
    9 months ago

    What I meant by refund was being able to refund an heirloom for heirloom shards if you bought it with heirloom shards. Collection events would be different.

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