Hi,I am not in any way complaining about prices or anything, I just think 2400 crafting materials for a legendary is too much.Event or not, legendaries already give only half the amount you need, that's 4 legendary crafting materials for 1 event skin.You also have to consider, as others have said, that many do not have that many crafting materials and although the battle pass gives you crafting materials, this is just one event and only one skin is worth 2 battle passes worth of materials. I understand your point about needing funds for the studio and I appreciate you offering us a way to get the skins without technically paying, but double is just too much. Please consider at least a 25% reduction, overall 150% crafting materials rather than 200%. 1800 seems more than fine.I agree with another comment I saw, that your financial department have a good estimate of what the prices should be, but I also so MANY comments of people who would be willing to pay a lower price that meets players half way. More purchases of a cheaper product might be overall better for you as a studio. (Once more this is not complaining in any way, I have the best interests at heart for Respawn, just a suggestion)Thank you for reading.

These events are basically a 'sale'. What happens is, they make items more desirable by making them 'exclusive' and only available for a limited time.Similar to other retail events and sales.

@pandareno1999 Well, that's certainly good news. I don't mind being wrong about that.But I am sorry to say, $18 is still too much for a skin 🙂Edit: You may want to re-examine your definition of patently false, however. What you are saying is you believe Respawn over the anonymous poster. That's doesn't mean the anonymous poster in that article is making a 'patent falsehood'. You're picking the side you believe. And I'm not blaming you for that either, but that's a belief of an opinion when the truth is, you wouldn't necessarily know unless you worked there.And let's not fool ourselves, overworked developers is a problem in the industry, so I pretty much think I'd take any defense with a grain of salt.

@RazviC00L Now this is a post I can get behind.Agreed, you can't price all currency the same and having them cost 2k+ Apex coins or 2k+ CM is wild.CM pricing for legendary items should stay the same or around that considering how little you gain from packs overall.

@xXHalo8GeniuSXx Of course there's a reason lol. You up the crafting price,in order to quickly drain a players craft mat supply. From there on out they're forced to buy the skins.All about the profits my dude.

Agree, FED inflation target is 2%, but EA inflation target is 200% ??? WTF

Please consider crafting material reduction for event

22 Replies

asukojo
6 years ago
Agree, FED inflation target is 2%, but EA inflation target is 200% ??? WTF
RazviC00L
6 years ago
@asukojo They are trying to passively force players to buy the packs or the skins with coins, which is understandable, they need money, they said previously that EA does not fund them as much as they hoped due to Apex being a smaller project than others and them being a relatively small studio, however players who have some crafting materials at this point likely spent a bit of money on the game, or invested reasonable time, therefore hopefully they can meet us half way with the "free" way of getting an event skin.
Leo_the_Lion25
6 years ago
I don't know why they made crafting so super high for the event. You can't get crafts without buying packs. Battle Passes should give us 2400 crafts too but it only gives us 1200.
iBlockHead
6 years ago
@RazviC00L Now this is a post I can get behind.

Agreed, you can't price all currency the same and having them cost 2k+ Apex coins or 2k+ CM is wild.
CM pricing for legendary items should stay the same or around that considering how little you gain from packs overall.
warslag
6 years ago
These events are basically a 'sale'. What happens is, they make items more desirable by making them 'exclusive' and only available for a limited time.
Similar to other retail events and sales.
RazviC00L
6 years ago
@warslagIndeed. It is with reason that the event skins cost more materials and although the legendary items are at the same coin price of 1800, they could have been more, given that you can purchase exactly what you want and normal legendary items are already 1800. I was trying to point out that double the crafting materials seems like a whole new tier of rarity and since they mentioned that there will be a few events per season it is highly unlikely the average player will have materials for one skin per event, leave alone more than 1 skin or to gather enough for 1 skin for the following events.
The main point was that, although it is to be appreciated they allowed for a semi-free option, the current amount of materials needed reverts the free option back to a paid option when calculations are made.
P.S. : From another perspective, this could very well be another way to pay for the items, so it never was meant to be a free-ish alternative, however they could have been more transparent about it. I believe it is fair to say a good amount of players, dare I say the majority, expected this to be the later, hence the confusion and belief of the first event information post to have a typo when addressing the material cost.
xXHalo8GeniuSXx
5 years ago
They should just make it 1200 again! there is no reason whatsoever to make them more exspensive (crafting material wise) i think everybody is paying for a battle pass atleast the players who are playing it most of the time. Not to mention the big youtubers/streamers who give out money like its nothing, even in my friends group people payed almost 140 euro's worth of event skins and packs in a single event. Quick tip for the people who want to have more meterials in a season pass just change ur legion or whatever its called to belgium via your EA account, you get around 2800 crafting materials in a battle pass well atleast this current battle pass.
MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
@xXHalo8GeniuSXx Of course there's a reason lol. You up the crafting price,in order to quickly drain a players craft mat supply. From there on out they're forced to buy the skins.
All about the profits my dude.
xXHalo8GeniuSXx
5 years ago
No sh*t the reason is profit, but what i mean is they dont have any good reason to charge people more money when they gain more from those events. And like i said my circle of friends all pay so many for those events. so they cant be the only ones
MandatoryIDtag
5 years ago
@xXHalo8GeniuSXx You're basically giving the response to your own counter argument though that's the thing. More money is a good enough reason for a business.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not defending these tactics, however as long as people buy into said tactics developers will continue to use them. x.x
I've spent plenty of cash on this game in the past also, but when it doesn't feel like it's being invested back into the game I don't really see the point in making further purchases.