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6 years ago

Crafting Materials! How many you got? Will they become Worthless?

Im currently sitting on 3,600 crafting materials. At launch i bought enough boxs to get the wraith knife. I dont have any regrets on that as i really enjoy this game with over 650hrs played and was happy to support the launch of the game. As the game progressed though, i found very little use out of crafting materials. After this crown event where the new skins were locked behind a new currency, im quite skeptical about the future for crafting materials. Seems like theyll only be for the basic boring skins or when a new character is released while the cool skins will be locked behind big pay walls.

So my question is to the community- What would you like to see done with crafting materials?

Personally id like to see crafting materials have more freedom in what to purchase and for it to be rewarded for maybe weekly challenges. Itd be nice to do challenges for 20-50 crafting materials. Itd give players a real sense of progression for skins they want while baiting them to constantly log in.

I wouldnt mind if event skins were more expensive to craft, maybe 1600 instead of 1200 materials?

discussion

17 Replies

PlugYourMudd
6 years ago
@JjumpingJjack Not everyone spent 500$ so we should just abandon the players that did? i didnt spend nearly that much but the fact they want to bring in another currency even though there is already a rare currency in place seems rather scummy. A lot of people thought the Skins would be Similar to OverWatches where youd be able to craft event skins during the event period for a premium price. The fact you cant makes crafting materials less desirable.

I never said they'll become worthless, that was simply a question for discussion in the title. My last line of the 1st paragraph will explain how i see the crafting materials at their current point. (Crafting materials used for the rollouts of new characters and thats about it).
jonesy0218
6 years ago
Again, just like Solos, we can't keep catering to a small percentage of people who think there's a "problem." They're not worthless and will never be worthless to the majority of the player base. Crafting materials are a highly sought after currency, thus the outburst from the community about Season 1 not having enough. That's why they introduced them into the Season 2 Battle Pass.
What kind of weird upper echelon, elitist whale topic is this? I'm so confused.
MandatoryIDtag
6 years ago
@asukojo yassss the banana skin! XD
@jonesy0218 i think the OP was showing a concern that weird random currencies like the crowns would replace crafting materials if all new skins are event based, which sucks for all of us in the long run "whales" included.
As for the OP, the shortage of purchasable items is literally only an issue if you've spent a considerable amount of cash on loot ticks...as you stated you have. The rest of us still have plenty of use for the craft materials. 😛
PlugYourMudd
6 years ago
@jonesy0218 cater to the small %? This would be catering to the people that are spending money on their FREE to play game. If you don't cater to people who spend money on something thats free, well... i dont even know what to say to that.
All im saying is give players the ability to use mats for Events? Dont see how thats elistist in any way. Seems rather fair to me. Overwatch seems to do it pretty well.

Solos was a great addition and brought a lot of hype. It was poorly executed and could have easily been made great. Take away heros and put Titanfall 1/2 pilot models in instead with no abilities. BAM. you got a fully working solo mode that has equal hitboxs and abilities.
jonesy0218
6 years ago
I was referring to the small percentage of people that have most items and the heirloom. There's a larger portion of players that have a lot to unlock.
D3loFF
Rising Veteran
6 years ago
@MandatoryIDtag The sad thing is that is his best skin out there...
inferno2498373
6 years ago
I’m at 30 mats. I just had 1200 but I spent it on an Octane banner frame, (don’t judge me I love ma boi Octane). I really wish they would give crafting mats as a reward for something in game, like 5 mats every 700 damage done or something.