Personally, I think it’s kind of stupid. A rotating shop with over priced, cheaply made cosmetics does NOT make me and other people want to spend any money on the title, and that’s on top of me not really seeing any value in the current battlepass either. I think a good way to solve this is to remove ALL of the bundles from the store, and allow for every cosmetic item to be purchased at a flat 200cr apiece straight from the armory. While I don’t exactly know how that would affect how much everything would cost total, I can certainly guarantee that it will get a LOT more people spending money on the title when they wouldn’t have otherwise.
I also did some calculations on some of the store bundles over a three day period. two of those days would have made the same amount of money should the bundles have had their items split and sold for 200, while one day would have had more profit should these items have been split up and sold for 200, though it was only by like 4 dollars. I also applied that logic to the epsorts bundles, which would have earned less, but I and many others certainly would have dropped 200cr on a visor and 200cr on a coating from those sets if they were separate, but I won’t since they are in a locked kit. I do know that some of the bundles would cost slightly less alltogether, though I think that cost difference would be negated because more people would be willing to purchase the cosmetics, and it might even exceed the amount of cash that could have been earned with the current (and frankly, outdated) shop model.
Any thoughts on this?
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The current shop system is actually bad.
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Bundle pricing is too high for what you’re actually getting. Yesterday there was a medic pack for 500 credits that featured the color red. That’s right, an armor skin that was red. I already have a default red skin that looks the same.
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Inability to purchase individual items from each bundle. Suppose that I’m an idiot that actually DID want that basic red medic color that was featured yesterday. Can I just buy that color for 250 credits since I don’t want anything else in the bundle? Nope. Other games let you purchase individual items from a bundle. Why not here?
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No evergreen purchases. There isn’t an evergreen page that just stays the same. Everything in the shop cycles, which sucks. I get that timed content does promote impulse buys, but there should at least be a catalogue of goodies that can be purchased year round. Again, every other game does this, and other games are doing just fine.
The best we can do is keep complaining and keep holding out on purchasing things.
We can provide ideas until we are blue in the face, but 343 is going to make whatever system they can leverage best based on data they have in house. The only way we can make change is if we impact those numbers they use as metrics.
Keep making posts, keep submitting tickets, don’t buy armor and we will get changes.
I was already doing that anyway. Honestly, if they put in this incredibly simple change I can see myself dumping a lot of cash into the game, even though I absolutely HATE the shader system. I would probably buy every battlepass and at least one of every cosmetic type.
Yeah, I legitimately hate what they are doing with the coating system. I don’t want the color blue twice, I already have the color blue unlocked by default, I shouldn’t have to buy it again. They should honestly unlock the shaders to be usable with every cosmetic item in the game instead of just shoving duplicates into our faces and expecting us to pay up if we want a coating on a new armor core or a different weapon.