they will be adjusting the amount of currency given during the next event instead of giving us more cosmetics to purchase with the currency
That’s the problem in a nutshell: it’s being painted as a problem to do with oversupply of chips and not an undersupply of content.
Funnily enough, the cosmetics introduced in last week’s drop (the animal masks and the black Halloween hoodie) were all clearly event themed and priced like event items, only they turned out to be SVB buys - catching many of us out in the process.
It looks very much like they were intended to be unlockable with the event currency, but were switched to paid currency at the last moment. Why else would we have such a massive amount of event tokens? But again, this is now being described in vague terms as a currency balancing issue.
In perfect honesty, it feels like a money-grabbing bait and switch. It hurts, because I’m prepared to support this game (and have done), but not if it’s using unfair or exploitative business practices. Too many tricks; not enough treats.
I'm in the same boat —I bought the deluxe founding founders pack, and I've bought like another hundred dollars of SVB. I really wanted this to be good. I have even expressed to close friends who don't play the game that I wish they had just released it as a finished single-player game with multiplayer capability (like Skate 1, 2, and 3), priced it at $100, and I would have bought it.
