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Thank you to the devs who don’t make toxic comments on Reddit calling your fans entitled because they don’t want to shell out $200 on a free game. Thank you to the devs who worked to create the most fluid, mechanically interesting BR I’ve ever played. Thank you to the devs who designed a beautiful map that still hasn’t gotten boring for me. Thank you to the character designers who created many distinctly different characters, all of which are fun to play and viable. Thank you to the devs who dreamt up crazy cool outfits for said characters, and awesome skins to go on all the guns.

This game is legitimately amazing, and all the hard work you normal devs put into it is extremely appreciated. This is my favorite game and has been for 6 months. That’s coming from someone who doesn’t play most games for more than a few weeks. So no matter what the management does, I won’t ditch this game, because it’s unfair to the people who poured their soul into this to just drop their treasure like that.

However, f*ck EA, f*ck Respawn management, f*ck whoever was responsible for MTXs, and f*ck Drew McCoy AKA u/dko5

They’ve ruined the reputation of this game and driven many players away from it this week due to greedy MTX bullsh*t, irresponsible and idiotic responses from Mr. McCoy, who is the project lead for the game, and all around just making poor decisions. I’ve fervently supported this game since February, spent around $60 between skins and Battle Passes because I want to support Respawn, and yet they spit in the face of all the fans who want the game to continue growing. Not to mention their apology was basically ‘well you can get the skins now, but you still gotta pay $20!’ It’s a special EVENT, events are supposed to interest players and get them to play the game, not draw in people to buy your f*cking garbage MTX.

Respawn, get your sh*t together. Your devs have created a game that will make people eat out of your hands. Just NOT at ridiculously stupid prices like $20 a skin.

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over 5 years ago - /u/pinedsman - Direct link

The thing that makes me angry personally is all the people demanding more free stuff in this free update. Solos is free. The map update is free. The challenges and rewards are free. Asking for more on top of that seems pretty f*cked up.

over 5 years ago - /u/pinedsman - Direct link

Originally posted by Warpath1138

If you think that's even close to representing what the bulk of the community is saying, you're simply not listening or intentionally misrepresenting their position.

I mean, I read all the posts and that stuff was definitely out there. Watch the ign video that was posted a couple of days ago, it specifically says that they wanted to earn cosmetics via challenges. That sentiment was not uncommon.

over 5 years ago - /u/pinedsman - Direct link

Originally posted by jellysmacks

I don’t mind dishing out money to support the team, I love the product and the work put into it. What bothers me is the price gouging. The extras shouldn’t be free, but it absolutely should not cost $20 per skin. That’s just price gouging. I would probably have spent $150+ bucks at this point if skins were $5-10 a piece. My money is mine to spend on the hobbies I love so I’d like to sink it into this game and support what you guys have created. I just wish the prices made sense at all.

You spend your money however you feel is fair. I don't mind. It's all part of how the economics of a free game is calculated.

With respect to the "price gouging", it also bugs me when people kick and scream that things are too expensive. Let's say the skins are indeed too expensive- does that give people license to kick and scream and call us "greedy f*cks"?

I mean, I think a lot of things are overpriced but I don't yell at people about it.

TLDR: "this thing is too expensive so I won't buy it" is ok "This thing is too expensive so f*ck you greedy f*cks" is not ok

over 5 years ago - /u/pinedsman - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

Nobody is demanding free things. People are asking for things to be reasonably priced and to not be forced to gamble for skins and if you guys still don't understand that I don't know what else we can say.

In this thread alone, literally multiple people asked for skins to be earnable via challenges, aka free