and that is where the disassociation occurs when your focus goes from making a good game to making money. which is also funny because you would make more money if you just kept focusing on making a good game. You should never cater to the investor that becomes a self destructive cycle a negative feed back loop because investors always want more.
as for paying the developers I am far more likely to purchase something in a game if I don't feel like I'm being forced to. It's not greedy for the consumer this model is absolutely greedy for EA as you get 45 free loot boxes x3 items per box that's 135 items and since you can get crafting materials in them you are likely to not even get 135 unique items as you will have gotten crafting materials likely multiple times. To put it in comparison each legend has 100 skins so currently 800 total so lets say you got lucky and got a legend skin every crate that's 135 skins. 800-135=665 so even if you got 3 skins in every crate you bought for $1 you would still need to spend $222 to get all the skins in the game 665/3 = 221.6 and thats just for legend skins thats not counting weapon skins or any other unlock-able feature in this game. it's actually pretty asinine.
It doesn't matter if it's not as bad as BF2 just because something was more unacceptable doesn't excuse this from being unacceptable.
If i have been conditioned to receive Apex crates by the game and then they just stop and i'm now forced to spend hundreds of dollars to finish unlocking the game that's absolutely ridiculous and at that point i will probably move on to another game having spent $0 total.
why not make it a $30 game at that point with a store like Pub G as I have and am more inclined to purchase something from their store and its a B2P game whereas I will never purchase something from apex legends the way the system is currently setup and it cost me nothing to buy. so that seems like a lose lose to me for apex.
if they kept me interested by allowing me to continue to earn apex crates i would then be inclined to buy a battle pass and stay interested in this game long term but as the current model stands they wont be making any money from me.
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