The difference is Fortnite doesn't resort to loot boxes. Hell, loot boxes aren't even a thing in that game. It's strictly currency and there are numerous ways to earn it up without buying it. If Respawn wanted to match Epic's battle pass formula, they should have went ahead and added weekly challenges worth a certain amount of Apex Coins or Crafting Metal on completion. Crafting Metal is what most people are really after at the end of the day. It's satisfying to get a legendary cosmetic from a loot box, even for a character you don't one-trick or a gun you hardly ever use. But people really want to get the crafting material to unlock cosmetics for legends and guns that they do use frequently.
Quite honestly, I would have taken Crafting Metal over the Apex Packs in the battle pass.
The battle pass is ok, nothing great but worth the price.... the economy is definitely broken though, not so much on character skins but weapon skins is horrible, no one is going to pay 18 dollars for a alternator skin then spend legend tokens for the exclusive that's the same dang skin but different color....lol... fortnite skins cost 8-20 bucks depending on variant so that's pretty par for the course but weapon skins should be no more then 3-4 dollars. Also the item shop doesn't update fast enough, literally i play lifeline as a main and the option to buy one of her legendary skins has only been in the shop once since the game came out, having the chance to buy a skin in the shop shouldn't happen every 2 months... and there's no way I'm buying anymore apex packs just to get 1 of the 4 million intro or kill quips for a legend
Agreed. I dont know if they make more or less money going the loot box route, but it sure feels worse. And having people spend $500 to get a knife? That is just wrong.
I've probably spent $700 on league of legends over 7 years... But always $3-12 at a time - for something i actually wanted that made me happy. Like buying overpriced coffee from starbucks.
I spent some money on apex packs, and decided they only enjoyable thing i get from that rng fest is the fun of opening a box.. so i really cant understand why i would spend any more on them. Plus, most of the cosmetics are boring recolors of other boring skins.
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