With 0 way to earn credits or earn other armor freely the store is still far too costly.
Cross cores still need to happen! Especially between mark V and mark VII minimum.
So make cross cores, make a few credits earnable and keep every item in the store and have the weekly and daily resets as discounts that swap in and out.
But how will they make money if you can just play for everything for free? Lol. The store wonât change for the better. They shot themselves in the foot going free to play
By creating a balance, Warframe does it somewhat well. Platinum can be either bought with money or traded for, regardless, you can still earn it without opening your wallet by just playing the game to get things to trade to people who are interested.
The incentive should be that buying is an option, not a requirement for the things you like. It should always be the âI sadly donât have as much time as Iâd like to invest into this game, so Iâm going to buy a few things with my paycheckâ and not the âthis is the only way I can get it, regardless of how much time I put into the gameâ.
Both of those feelings have the fear of missing out aspect and I donât like it at all. You should be able to play for everything that doesnât take a long time to do so
The question is, how good enough does it have to be in order it to be âGood enoughâ. Youâll be dreaming if you think itâll ever go to âHit X, unlock everything instantly!â.
Depending on what youâre grinding for in terms of Warframe, it really doesnât take you long at all. I just farmed for like 4 Primes in 5 days and Iâm just waiting for them to build. But yes, the incentive of play over pay needs to implement the idea that you can get whatever you want if just play the game. Pulling out your credit card should always be the last thing youâd consider and even then you would consider waiting till whatever you wanted came back into rotation.
There is never a shortage on people who will readily pay whatever price the developers or whoever is in charge of marketing wants. But if theyâre the only oneâs youâre catering to, youâre ignoring the biggest part of your entire ability to make money from a video game; the average player. The more average players there are, the more likely they are to get their friends invested, the more likely people who are willing to pay will come on board.
(not that Iâm saying EA sports game are good anymore but it is just a suggestion)
Have it be like the EA sports games. You have a âpremiumâ currency that you can buy and another currency that you can gain through playing. They obviously gain enough money that it is worth making it that way so why canât MS do the same?
They cut the 20$ bundle price in half to 10$, do you want it to be 5?
Earnable credits are being worked on along a host of other things, this kind of stuff canât just be thrown in with the push of a button, as much as we might wish it could
I guess itâs really hard to wrap my head around that because I donât agree with the entire system. Customization should be free across the board. This however wouldnât make 343 money which is why it shouldâve never went free to play
But yes there should be an incentive to play rather than pay