Currency Imbalance: Time vs Money vs Greed
The market and ingame currency here is totally whack. 1200 minerals for a skin, which would be fine if we actually earned minerals at a reasonable rate or awarded them at a reasonable rate when we do...
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Except it the main source of income to feed thier children. How do you think free to play games are made? Magic? Here is how it works, generally speaking.
- A game studio will pitch an idea to an investor.
- The studio will then make a game using the investor's money.
- In order to repay the investor, the game studio needs to have some kind of plan to earn money from the game.
They either
- Charge people to Download the game
- Free to play and include micro transactions.
Now you might be confusing the "scam" with "pay to win" but we are talking about making weapons/skins look different, which is NOT pay to win and NOT a scam.
You can incentivize people to buy your microtransactions better than that. Mostly by offering something actually worthwhile for the money they want. If you compare the loot you get for money in here to a non f2p game, the difference is ridiculous. Is it that bad in other f2p games?
Overwatch: 1 time payment of 40 bucks, 1 lootbox every single level with unlimited levels, 3 extra boxes per week from extra game modi, extra loot boxes depending on your endorsement level, 1 extra loot box at the start of every event, extra loot boxes at christmas... you're basically being buried in loot boxes there and all they ask after the one time payment is that you keep playing.
Oh and you can buy specific skins for ingame currency that you get if you get a duplicate of something you already have in a lootbox.
Here: ~$1 per loot box, 20 bucks for a special skin. So for the price that a different company gives you a full game and essentially unlimited loot boxes until the end of time, this game gives you... 40 boxes with 3 items each and the chance for something good in there is rather low. How many of the... 30 million(?) Apex players have already bought loot boxes for the company to feed their children do you think? And does the sum total of loot they got from that come close to what a single overwatch player gets? I've seen one dude on the forums who dropped $600 on Apex. That's 15 Overwatchs. And he got crap all in that he said.
Believe it or not this model is the "KOREAN" way. IE Gatcha games like Epic Seven. I really hate these type of microtransactions because at the end of the day you are gambling and not getting what you pay for. If this was more like League of Legends where you can just pay for things outright at a reasonable price then I don't think there would be much complaint. But whatever, at the end of the day you can play the entire game and level up to 100 without the need for any cosmetics.
I personally will purchase what I feel the game is worth... $30 and not a penny more.
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