QOL Concept: Scrap
Scrap cosmetics you don't want to get crafting metals. With rarity effecting the exchange rate. E.g white/common cosmetics = 5 crafting metals. The increments could even be as little as 5 metals each...
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@GH0STEDbyME The exchange rate would have to be extremely low or people would stop purchasing premium content/skins. If it takes 1200 crafting material to produce 1 legendary, the exchange rate would have to be below 600 crafting material. If the exchange rate was exact, what would be the point to purchasing new content? You could just scrap the old content you have and get what you want in that specific moment.
I don't mind the current system as it is. I would rather see them abandon the bundles in the shop. Just go back to individual items and allow us to use crafting materials on them, including event items. Crafting materials are extremely expensive to pile up as it is. Yeah some people have a ton of crafting materials, but they spent a ton of money in the game as it is.
I don't mind the current system as it is. I would rather see them abandon the bundles in the shop. Just go back to individual items and allow us to use crafting materials on them, including event items. Crafting materials are extremely expensive to pile up as it is. Yeah some people have a ton of crafting materials, but they spent a ton of money in the game as it is.
- @DarthValtrex I know it would. I just hate repeatedly getting crap I don't use and having no crafting materials to get what I actually want. Like I understand that it's based on rarity but all skins costing the same baffles me. Why is it the same amount for a gun charm/skin than it is a legend skin (but that's another issue entirely).
Even if you got like 200-300 back it would be generous as hell. That's true you could scrap everything for the new stuff but then you'd have none of your old stuff and let's face it. New skins are usually stuck behind a paywall and bundled.
Again the decision to bundle stuff baffles me because I don't see the logic behind the decision. Surely the sales vs sales for individual skins is a lot lower? Players are going to be more willing to pay smaller amounts compared to larger sums, so the increased sales would exceed what you'd get from a smaller amount of customers buying more expensive items?
It would be a great decision to let us use crafting materials for all items. It's not like getting what 1200/1400 crafting materials is easy. People are still going to buy them with Apex coins because they don't wanna save up and wait. I play Apex everyday (on and off since season 0, nearly lvl 500) and I haven't got that many legendary skins and I've purchased three event skins.@GH0STEDbyMETrue suppose, I think it depends on how many packs you've opened. If you've opened a couple hundred packs (more than 500) and save the crafting materials, you'll have a ton of it. I have about 22,000 crafting materials and have opened around 1100-1200 packs. I did have around 32-35k crafting materials at one point, but I used about 8000-12k to help lower the cost of Caustics heirloom.
Now when I open packs nearly every item I get is crafting materials. I actually won't buy packs anymore because of it. If you get a duplicate legendary skin you only get 600 crafting material, which is only half of what you need to get a legendary skin of some sort. It effectively doubles the cost of getting 1 legendary item.
The crafting materials do cost more for rarer items. The event items that can be crafted are substantially more crafting materials. This winter event items you can't even craft which I some what understand, but also don't agreee with. If you have tens of thousands of crafting material, you've already spent $1000+ in game.
Plus if you want specific items, just buy them instead of the packs. I do think buying individual skins should provide some type of progress towards the Heirloom guarantee, or overall in game spending. If you've spent $500 or opened 500 packs you get a heirloom. I think that would be a huge positive for everyone. People who like packs can still buy packs, people who just want to buy individual items they can, can still do so and still make progress towards an heirloom.
If you do open 500 packs, I think overall you'll be happy with what you get. You'll get some stuff you like and want, you'll get some stuff you don't. But overall it balances out.Not the greatest idea imo in terms of revenue for the company. Those skins that everyone hates buying and such. Well this is what pays the employees. You cutting into their pay checks allow trade in systems. There is no monthly subs or nothing to generate their pay checks this is their pay checks.
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