When will there be a new crate to purchase?
Will there be a new crate to replace the gamescom crate anytime soon?
Posted Aug 28, 2017, 7:37 AM UTC
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Will there be a new crate to replace the gamescom crate anytime soon?
Posted Aug 28, 2017, 7:37 AM UTC
I hope not. They said a lot of times that there wouldn't be any paid skins while it is still in Early Access but eh.. what do I know.
see while you complain others sold their gamescom crates for about 2.50 each, a friend of mine paid off his game already just by selling the crates. where's the harm in paid cosmetics, purely cosmetic with no stats or advantage? the ones who feel like it's worth their money are happy, the people earning some $ selling the crates are happy and the people who don't care just keep playing the same game that didn't change, except that you occasionally kill a guy in a skirt or yellow tracksuit.... and if you kill them you can wear these clothes for the rest of the round if you like so.
The real harm is not the skins, but the fact that the developers are willing to break promises they have made about their game, recently troubling for an early access game.
"but the fact that the developers are willing to break promises they have made about their game"
you have to start using your brain mate... sure breaking promises is bad, but you always have to take a look at the context and content aswell. they said fpp will only come further down the road yet they released it pretty fast because there was a high demand for it. the same has and will happen with paid cosmetics, there are always gonna be people who have no problem spending some bucks on a virtual skirt or coat.
can we please cut this bullshit mentality of trying to fuck over and smear bluehole/pu/streamers for ever little thing? all of them made some mistakes but for fuck sake let's focus on the important things, like game optimization, feedback for the tournament and bug/glitches that are kinda gamebreaking (the no building bug etc)
early access stand for sudden chances and going back and forth on certain ideas/systems and even tho I don't like paid crates in an early access game it's not the same as ark releasing a DLC before they finished the main gsme after over a year in development. some cosmetics, especially in pubg, don't take up much time, manpower and effort and were probably done on the side or outsourced and more of a fan service to battleroyal (the movie) and a test to see how if a market would build in this game
The official statements do not say that cosmetics were released because of high demand from the community, skins were released in order to fund the gamescon tournament, and in order to test the skins system.
I certainly agree that early access games are prone to sudden, drastic changes, but wholeheartedly disagree on "going back and forth on certain ideas." Part of buying an early access game is that you are paying to support the ideas of a dev studio, in order to make their ideas reality. Playerunknown had stated very clearly in interviews that there would be absolutely no paid cosmetics during early access, and it is incredibly immoral for them to so blatantly backtrack on their word.
I absolutely understand why they added micro transactions, it would be an incredibly foolish business decision for them not to, but going back on your word as an early access studio is a great way to have your community lose faith in you.