Schmooples' Den! The DA News Discussion Thread

...Sheesh, can you imagine if EA went the Star Citizen way and offered 15 THOUSAND $ DLC?

Well what conal says is correct but I also have no idea what venue he is talking about because as a community manager I never saw or heard from him at all as far as interaction goes unlike previous community managers.

$170 cost for loot boxes to buy all available cosmetic items in the "Iron Crown" event in an Electronic Arts game.  This does not inspire confidence in EA as a reputable company.


www.cnn.com/2019/08/17/business/apex-legends-electronic-arts-loot-boxes/index.html

In general you pay for what you see. The essential gameplay things like slots are quite reasonable. Shortcut stuff is pricey but mostly not needed if you play with a longer horizon i.e. stick with game for some time. There are premium cosmetics - quite pricey but they are usually exceptionally well done. A nice way to pay for the time spend enjoying the new content in between. 
There arent really lootboxes. A couple of card packs buyable but I wonder who bbuys these.

Warframe micros are paid for with Platinum (in-game currency that is bought with real money but can also be traded for with other players so in theory you can never give them a penny of your own) or direct money purchases for TennoGen (user generated content).

1 platinum bought under the most unfavourable circumstances (smallest pack of 75 platinum at no discount for 4.49 €) costs 6 euro-cent. However, the daily login reward may randomly award a player with a discount between 20% and 75% for their next platinum purchase.

Many microtransactions are just shortcuts to things you can grind for yourself, like buying a new warframe (between 225 and 375 platinum).  So far I never found that necessary, I own almost all available warframes in the game and I'm essentially a one man clan.

More interesting are the "unavoidable" micros, i.e. things that you cannot gain through gameplay. These are:
- warframe inventory slots: 20 platinum per slot (exception: both night wave seasons so far had one warframe slot and two robotic slots among their rewards)
- weapon inventory slots: 12 platinum for two slots

I kinda forgot the exact prices for robotic slots (for sentinels and their weaponry) and stasis chambers (for doggos / kittens) but they are in the same ballpark.

The wiki page with an overview of the in-game market is here.

TennoGen (user generated content) prices are generally about 6,- € for a syandana (cloak) or helmet, and about 8,- € for an alternate warframe skin.

Maybe Apex's solution is to increase the amount of grind needed to access those costly cosmetics; with a reduction in the price of course. IIRC, Warframe is unique in this situation because it also allows for trading; something Apex doesn't. I wouldn't think people would be that opposed to having a relatively lengthy grind for high-end cosmetics, though I guess it depends on how distinct the cosmetic is. I've only briefly perused the subreddit, but most people tend to be happy with the $10 battlepass. Maybe they could add $20 and $50 versions with significantly more items in them to grind for.

Do we need to be watching gamescom?

Can you tell us, roughly, when it was during the stream?

This thing?






I can see stylistic similarities - and the first hat looks quite a bit like Inquisitor's hat, but I think I'd put my money on it being something from Monster Hunter.