Rux's shop scares me
Is it just me or am I terrified about rux's shop. Today I watched the livestream and saw what it was about. I am going over pros and *. PROS: they are giving us 500 free rainbow stars. You can get 15...
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@ToastedSarnie you are absolutely right. Before the bulb fix I was considering of leaving the game for a bit cause it wasn't fun and there is only four things to grind for In this game currently mr reward atron, levels, regions, and bulbs that's it. Once you do all of that you have nothing to do. In previous games it was almost endless. I am glad they are maxing the level cap so I go back to FUN grinding again and it should take awhile with how much xp it's going to take. Like you said in your post that the rainbow star grind will not be fun counting that even if you grind it it wont meet the required amount if you want all the cosmetics. I just dont want to wait months or even a year for the cosmetics to show up again like in gw2. But to end on a good note the rux shop is the only negative out of this update to me, everything else is cool and exciting and I cant wait to play.
Good points from all. However I have a slight challenge for discussion!
I'm assuming you can earn rux items through gameplay and that items will rotate and not be gone forever.
One big complaint i see in this forum is that people have unlocked everything and now have nothing to aim for. So if takes 1 year to unlock all of rux items through gameplay alone is that really a bad thing? Or does it add longetivity to the game? What would be the ideal timeframe to clear the shop that isn't too short or too long?
Personally as long I have more to earn from rux it will keep me playing.
- @34975634954957 😂 I think you've made good points, to be honest. I haven't maxed all my characters or all of the regions - and that was a deliberate decision on my part not to rush, because the finishing lines seemed very close. I don't have a problem if I can't earn everything Rux sells at once, as long as they DO go back into rotation - that's what I'm really hoping will be clarified next month - at the moment I fear they might not because they want to make money. I hope I'm wrong!
Now we know why this game was so relatively inexpensive. It was their plan all along to micro transaction us to death even though they said it wasn't going to be like that.
- @CJackson5083 Only 10% of players are going to buy into Rux anyway, wasn't marketed at E3, and considering the free Founders rewards, I think it is unnecessarily generous for them to do a $10 discount for Founders Edition. And to top it all off, if you look at youtube views for videos surrounding BFN, including official trailers, they're much lower. You could say it's due to time but honestly, I'm quite sure this game has only sold 30% of what GW2 sold. I don't think they're trying to "micro transaction us to death" especially if they made the Reward-o-Tron that gives hundreds of free cosmetics and the prize map which gives 40 free items a month, with little grind.
It says in this picture "rotation" which would seem to indicate that indeed things will rotate and therefore we will have other chances to buy them.
Still, to me, 1000 seems a lot for one costume if to "buy" the stars for the outfit is $10....
for the same spend you get twice the amount with the 2 upgrade deluxe/feastivus - 2 outfits (plus with them you get the slab and punchers)....
Don't know how many rainbow stars we can get through playing... but I think the devs have said similar to "a small amount" or "some" in relation to ingame earning....
so I don't hold out much hope for a large amounts for weekly challenges etc... but we will see.
But the thing is this is what will probably pay for new maps, characters, modes etc in the future.... and any other new content to come hopefully.
They have to make money somehow to pay the wages... this is life.
It all comes down to how much you want the things I guess....
and at least you get to choose what to buy or not to buy and in buying it will be supporting the game itself. 😃
Dammit I still want that Slide outfit 😃I hate microtransactions in any non free game, but... At least it isn't pay to win and it isn't loot boxes, people know what they are getting. The way the AAA industry is these days that is probably the least worst way it can be.
However I agree with the overall sentiment of this thread... Us loyal players (many who are not going to participate in microtransactions, sorry) are waiting to see if we get screwed over and can't access the best stuff.
My gut is that the system will be fair (given the free bulbs and sped up earn rate, they seem to listen). However, we are nervous...
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