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Originally posted by kittyhat27135

The new phantom skin comes with a completely altred personality of the character along with new voice lines. Alot of people want to know the justifications for prices like these and honestly its just the price to pay when your game has no loot boxes. Like Apex Legends had 0 reason for their skins to cost 20 dollars on launch with loot boxes in their game. In the future I would love for legendary skins to come with a calling card or even a weapon wrap because I do feel like we are going to get legendary skins that just should not be legendary skins. At the end of the day I think the prices can be worked on a lot, and that is why i am happy the shop released in beta cause it gives them time to work on things like skin prices.

Appreciate you pointing all this out! The amount of work that goes into the art, animation, and voice recordings (VO isn't cheap even with unknown actors) is fairly significant and I can tell you that particular skin took about the same amount of time as a map (obviously utilizing only a handful of people). These are big investments for the team and most feedback I've heard on this particular one is it's top tier.

We do appreciate everyone's feedback on pricing during Beta!