It's really the Fortnite model copied everywhere that's causing the problem. Fortnite can get people to pay $40 for a batman skin or star wars skin. And, sure, they have more 'common' skins for $5, $10, $20 but really the whole 'free' to play is a gimmick to sort of basically get you in their store and buying stuff.
The prices are too high because, frankly, people have been pretty solidly fooled into paying for them. And if people want to lose cash, there is always someone happy to take it from them. This is completely aside from whether you think it is worth it or not. More a matter of if you want to pay $60 for a game plus $15 per DLC, a company will do that. But if you'd rather pay $0 for a game, then buy a $10 battle pass 4+ times a year, and then also maybe drop $20 on a skin each event...which is also 4+ times a year, you BETTER BELIEVE a company would rather take your $120+ every single year, for all the years they can.
I mean, come on, who cares if you want to pay it or not. Somebody does, and Respawn is going to send it to EA while making the developers work 80 hours a week for even more ca$h
@KelRiever wrote:I mean, come on, who cares if you want to pay it or not. Somebody does, and Respawn is going to send it to EA while making the developers work 80 hours a week for even more ca$h
I'm sorry, but this is patently false.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2020-11-13-respawn-emphasises-its-no-crunch-policy
@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.
@KelRiever wrote:
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.
You have caught me red handed, my friend. I have heard this "fact" tossed around enough that I didn't question it and just grabbed a quick link without a good proper look first. I didn't realize that this was a disputable fact.
@pandareno1999 lol! To be fair, I kind of think there wouldn't be such a strong response either if Respawn really wanted to lie about it. I mean, I for sure actually hope you are 100% correct because, seriously, game industry burnout is bad and unfair. Very unfair.
