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Everything in the store can be bought with in-game currency. There are no premium currency-only items.
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Anthem launch MT pricing
- Thread starter Ralemont
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Everything in the store can be bought with in-game currency. There are no premium currency-only items.
Agreed but this is the norm for many video games in this generation. Both f2p and otherwise. I'll never pay for them but way too many people do which has allowed the devs to charge so much.
Much better than I expected acutally. I thought I saw it was 20 bucks / 2000 shards for a skin? 8.50 is a lot more reasonable.
Are you seriously saying that lootboxes are better than buying directly the actual skin? Are you for real?
Siege earned it with 3+ years of stellar support.
We'll see if Anthem makes even a year before EA decides the margins aren't high enough.
We had a thread for the leaked image, so here's what Anthem's pricing actually is. Shards are bought at more or less a 100:1 conversion from US dollars, to give you an idea on prices.
So, pricing is less than half what the leak showed. Epic armor skins are around $8.50 instead of 20, and emotes are $4, not 12.
Additionally, players start off with free coin (not Shards, but coin the in-game money which you can also use to buy these) in the range of 40k-200k (likely some mistakes in there, not sure what it's supposed to be), with 80k being shown above.
Edit: Removed since pricing was Canadian dollars which might be confusing.
USD here:
Game is out in early access for 2 hours now. Hard to judge. You start already with atleast 40k coins tho.
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Loot(weapons and armor items with actual stats) and skins are totally separate in Anthem. You can customize your look independent of what gear you are wearing.
Everything in the store is purely cosmetic.
its the lesser evil compared to what anthem is doing. they took the free2play model and put it into a full price game
No shit, the lauch was a disaster ( i bought Siege at day one)
Siege has MTX, lootboxes and on top of that a Season Pass, the monetization si agressive af compared to Anthem.
Forcing you to buy lootboxes or grind for a chance to get a skin is LESSER EVIL than buying the skin directly?
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>paying f2p skin prices in a full-priced videogame
You won't be paying for extra contents -- no season pass, no DLC map packs.
>paying f2p skin prices in a full-priced videogame
You can also buy it with "Coin" which is farmable.
I think they start you off with 40k and around 2k~800 in free roam chests + you can get it from various missions.
I definitely understand the feeling, but It's more for the people that are invested in the games. When you're planning on playing a game for months and months, investing a ton of time into your character, it becomes more appealing to spend a $ so you can add a new emote that you'd like to use, or unlock a new color option that will let you customize more. It's not really for the mindset of playing a game, finishing it, dropping it. It's for the people who get much more invested than that.
i guess we will find out a few weeks after the launch. im hoping for the best cause im interested in this game.
there is no paid loot. You can only buy items that affect the look of your javelin with paid currency(shard) - and they can all be earned with in-game currency (coin), too.
See above.
Anthem has free content updates. These cosmetics are how they are funding the ongoing game. Expansions - free - nobody gets left behind, no playerbase fragmentation.
Optional.
Some PC players have been getting multiples of 40k (highest I read was 200k) and multiple javelin unlocks at level 2.
Yes
Paid Loot boxes are a prey on the weak gambling predatory practice. There is nothing worse than them in term of MTX.
I guess that purple coin thing next to the paid number doesn't exist...
Edit:Whoops mean the gold coin thing
It's still a paid cosmetic unlock in a game built around unlocking causmentics.
It's a bad idea.
But by all means if they want to try, make it free 2 play.
we are talking about cosmetics here not the kind of bullshit games like Battlefront 2 tried to pull
Doesn't seem too bad! I wonder how quickly we'll earn the in-game currency. I'm hoping it doesn't feel like a huge grind.
I'm okay with this. The purchases are cosmetic, the prices are more reasonable than the previous leak, currency can be earned in-game and you can buy what you want, with no loot box nonsense.
It remains to be seen how easy it is to actually accumulate the in-game currency, or if EA chooses to juice the prices in some way later on, but this implementation is relatively inoffensive, given our current reality.
It remains to be seen how easy it is to actually accumulate the in-game currency, or if EA chooses to juice the prices in some way later on, but this implementation is relatively inoffensive, given our current reality.
That poster is talking about the inherent nature of RNG loot boxes, not the content of the boxes.
And it's also only cosmetic in Anthem, can be earned with in game currency, and no loot boxes, no paid expansions. Definitely better than anything priced 60$ with loot boxes aka Overwatch.
Also this.
im not buying it for a simple reason, EA. so excuse my scepticism. they gonna make you grind for it or pay for it.
When there is no stat on the skin, Legendary is not always better looking than the simple one.
Ah yes, spend some additional real money or grind for things that used to be rare loot, unlocks and cheats.
Prices seem fine to me overall at the moment. I think the real question is how hard is it to grind for those Coin totals? Seems like there's a lot of avenues to earn it though.
I wonder how the people just laid off at blizzard feel about these 'benefits'?
I don't think I can recall skins with stats. None of the games I have played have skins with stats. Also I can barely recall a Epic skins being better looking than Legendary skins. On the rare occasion maybe but generally that isn't the case.