The Flaws of the Battle Pass and Overall Economy
I know this has been discussed at length on many forums buy my goal is to create a good thread discussing the fundamental flaws of the recently released Battle Pass. Hopefully someone at EA and/or Respawn will see this and understand the changes that need to be made and the things that should have never been.
The current Battle Pass is and extension of the greed and horrible economy that was created in this game. This game is truly amazing, that fact that it was given away for free is extraordinary and I want to help reward the developers and creators that have spent so much time creating amazing content. I refuse to pay $18 for a legendary skin for my favorite legend, had you made it $3, I would be buying them left and right trying to create the look I wanted. Now, this is where the battle pass fails.
Battle Pass- Promise of 100 unique rewards. 20 of which are a Badge Icon!! This is an incredibly poor design. The rest is filled with mediocre skins, trackers(should be universal unlock), worthless quips, and two unique skins(very cool) and about 7 apex packs.
1. How can you not put in crafting materials to allow us to eventually buy the skin we desire. Instead of Badge Icons, those levels should be replaced with 60 crafting materials, at the end of the Battle Pass, we'd have 1200 materials to get 1 legendary outfit of our choice.
2. Badge Icon on Battle Pass should be separate just like regular progression level and change and evolve as you level up. Just display two level icons on banner page.
3. To have an entire pass based on XP where you can't get bonuses for challenges, only for switching characters is lazy development. Also, your bonus for 2.5% survival time per friend is faulty to the core because it takes away from what is most fun about this game, Fast-paced action and being able to play with randoms due to the AMAZING ping system. You are asking people to just hide in corners to increase survival time. Terrible Design.
I think you misunderstand the goal of the battle pass which is to give people a sense of accomplishment and to strive for unique and amazing loot. The only loot people want from your pass is the 7 packs and the Havoc skin. The community has so many better ideas for what you could have done with this pass. What you seem to fail to understand is a basic business model of providing people with the options to customize themselves would give you more money than trying to just do random crap. It's greedy and poor development.
People want to support your game but you have to meet us in the middle. Provide people with the ability to play how they want instead of forcing them down a certain path.
-Thank you
