I don’t think anyone can defend this 
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I’m looking forward to rebuilding some cars, and also to making new cars that take advantage of the new perks.
I already have so many ideas!
I’m thinking I’ll be returning to my love of small fast cars, as I see some possibilities for fun.
If it’s bad or to sell it really depends on the co-drivers impact on the game as well as how they treat the releases of new co-drivers in the future. As players only have a bank of 8k intel points imagine any combined cost above the bank max can cause the following type of situation:
What happens if they release 3 co-drivers for a limited time during a season or event. Depending on the cost a player might not be able to gain them all without making the purchase.
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Let’s just hope they don’t do that. If Devs actually make this game p2w I see the population declining twice as fast as normal, after a big chunk just leaves flat out.
I think they should spoof Hunter Biden’s laptop with an “Intelligence Briefcase” pack that contains a unique co-driver, a portrait, and crack-pipe exhaust decor.
The way they are selling them now is pretty vanilla (Crosscrowns). I think they could spice it up a good bit (I bet they will), but they’re off to a robust start, IMO. What they’ve got so far is working, I think. Looks good too.
I just hope they can continue being creative with this idea. The possibilities are vast. Especially when you consider the kind of hitchhikers one might pick up in a wasteland like ours.
They could have more than just the virus going on.
I’m not against them having flawed and dangerous character either. That could also be amusing, I think, if they played it right.
I need one to help me with my Corvos.
How is this a predatory microtransaction? It could be called predatory if the Intelligence could only be acquired via micratransactions, which is not the case. It’s easily farmable.
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Yeah, Crosscrowns are inconvenient, but I can see why they work. Almost any multiplayer game nowadays has several types of in-game currency, which come down to:
- Currency you can earn by playing the game.
- Currency you can earn by paying the game.
Let’s take League of Legends, for example. The play-currency is spent to unlock playable characters. Pay-currency is spent to unlock skins and other cosmetics.
Now, imagine the pay-currency didn’t exist. There are currently over 120 playable characters, with an average of 5-7 or even more skins for each character, and hundreds of other cosmetics like avatars, ward skins and other stuff. Yes, it might not be a problem for a player to buy each item individually by directly paying for it… And now imagine this game running:
- In a self-sufficient client,
- In Steam,
- On PS,
- On XBOX.
Adding new content into the game with direct real money price tags on all the platforms is much more problematic than just using a pay-currency. So much paperwork, money and time is saved by using a pay-currency.
Also, Crosscrowns finally allowed the devs to put skins and cosmetics for sale in-game.
let me smear the unspent crosscrowns you have left over because they wont sell them to you in amounts you can use up in the shop in your face while youre still bent over! yeah you like that, dont you?!
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Check again. You can purchase coins for 10, 20 and 40 crosscrowns. Stop being so wrong and toxic.
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It doesn’t justify the use of said currencies.
They could’ve put them for in-game gold. They could’ve put them for a purchase via real money. It’s not my (and not only mine) problem they are keeping the game in perpetual beta stage to not pay taxes… excluding some current events from the list.
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It’s predatory because many of the vet cross out players have already ground through most of the passive bonuses they are giving out. Most of the active talents are joke worthy, they have you jumping through hoops for stuff that lasts 4-5 seconds. They are literally making you re-do stuff that was done or pay for it. You have less now then you did before. Your grind is even 2 percent more and your rewards are lower too.
If they would, I’d buy’em. The only reason I don’t is because they didn’t. Instead they invited me to jump through hoops first, hoping some spare change would fall out of my pocket in the process.
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They have prices like 25, 89, 119, 99, 59 in the shop… There is more change then your imagining.
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Yes, and that’s the issue, it looks like you didn’t even read what I’ve wrote. You can’t simply put a lot of small cheap items for real money on different platforms simultaneously. All platforms have different rules and restrictions towards direct real money priced items, so it would be a lot of trouble trying to sell singular skins or cosmetic items for real money.
That’s why almost every game has the in-game value specifically converted from real money. Adding 5-7 transaction options to buy the currency is MUCH easier than adding hundreds of items with individual price tags and approving each one with all four platforms.
I simply do not care about that, because their profit is not my problem.
That does not justify such use.
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I know everyone has different experiences, but…
I also thought this at first, but now I find that most the the perks are pretty strong in the right hands and with the right guns.
It may only be a high PS thing but The game has became very interesting now.
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Well acutally, it does. It becomes easier for the devs to implement much more new items that we, players, can buy. Win-win.
I’ve just told you why your proposed solution wouldn’t work, and you reply with “I don’t care about the company’s profits, it’s not my problem, they mist do as I wish”. Such an entitled worldview.
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This isn’t an “entitlement” issue. We are expected to (over)pay for this stuff. If they can’t find an honest way to sell it, they can keep it, IMO. The shell game they play with this feature is a hustle.
Edit: I called it a “scam.” I think a “hustle” is a better word.
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No, it does not. We can buy packs and BP for money. That is a thing that exists and existed before crotchcoins.
Devs became greedy enough to implement that on PC too. Since then I have 27 crotchcoins-leftovers.
You either won’t or can’t look at the problem deeper than one step or one simple solution. No reason to try and explain you the complex system that’ll help devs sell big packs of anything for real money.
That one you just made up. I never said such words. I have no reason to continue my monologue for a liar.
I think I did, and what I think right now, is you should let the hustler hustle. It’s shifty, I agree, but they are open about all the terms. Obviously, you did the math. Some people won’t bother. I don’t usually, but I know a hustle when I see it. I didn’t really need to.
Point is, I’m not feeling too bad about who the mark is at the moment, I guess.
I say, “a player’s gonna play,” and I’m not sure I have a problem with an honest hustle, now that I think about it. Like I said before, I don’t have to buy this stuff if I don’t like the terms, and I don’t.
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