Generally when you say you have a “free” event, you dont charge $70 AUD worth of cosmetics in the store, so far because there no doubt will be more.
Want visors and knee pads to add to your new free core? $30 AUD bundle thanks.
Like the look of the Sentinel’s Blades? $23 AUD alone… 1/4 the price of a AAA game
All of this is just day 1 of the “FREE” event… nearly the cost of the campaign in aditional cosmetics… And according to the shop bundle leak there’s meant to be about 12 armour bundles alone for the event and we’re only looking at 3 of them, not including any weapon/vehicle customization.
Anyone that tries to defend this agressive overpricing of items just because it’s “F2P” is -Yoink!- delusional, even more so when it was so heavily marketed as a “FREE” event… I was a fool for thinking they would follow through.
343, stop sitting there in silence pretending the shithouse isn’t burning down around you because your whole customization and monetization scheme is terrible joke and a spit in the face. Frankly you need to refund everyone and shutdown the store until you sort out this mess rather then continue of overcharge people. While you’re at it, make your “FREE” event actualy free.
Edit, because I said this later on in the comments and feel it’s relevent:
I’m fine with MTX being part of the game, it’s F2P, it comes with the terrritory. There’s a few things that are not OK.
$23 AUD for a single armour attachment being one of them. Do I need to buy it? No. But just because I don’t need to buy it doesn’t make it ok to sell it at that price. The issue is the pricing, not that it’s being sold. This isn’t jusst limited to the event though.
Marketing it as a free event and having 5 armour customizations + the Yoroi-core, 3 weapon coatings (that’s a whole different issue altogether), 4 of the same emblem at different tiers and 1 background… which leaves us with 16 tiers of challange swaps and XP grants. Battlepass is similar except with 75 free tiers of challange swaps… fun.
so between 130 free tiers of battle/event pass we have 1 armour core and 14 free armour pieces. Not looking good for their statement that a “lot of armour would be unlocked through playing the game and only playing the game”… 343’s words, not mine.
The final issue is, if you are going to go around promoting your free event using time gated paid content, because they showed store customization that isn’t available yet, there’s going to be backlash. There were 16 other tiers, 19 if they consolidate all of the same emblem into a single tier instead of spread over 4, that they could have put this stuff into in the event pass, but they chose to promote and monetize it instead.
This was 343’s chance to take a step back, acknowledge an issue that a vast majority of the player base has and offer an improvement. Remove the challagne swaps and XP grants, provide more free armour options in the event pass and cheaper bundle prices. It’s literally what people would like in the regular battle pass, you don’t need to remove all 75 challange swap, maybe swap out 30 of them for free armour pieces so the F2P people can freel rewarded for being F2P.
But instead we are left with more of the same sour taste.
