Would you pay for a Power Pass?
In light of the recent news that the western version will not have a Power Pass for Destroyer, I wanted to start a conversation around this decision and why we do not have purchasable Power Passes in the first place.
The logic that was stated as to why we will not be getting a Power Pass, according to Roxx relaying a message from the team, is as follows: "while other regions may get a Power Pass with most class releases, they are only getting a small number classes per year; we on the other hand will be seeing many more classes come out this year, which would be a much more significant number of power passes shared with players." TLDR; we don't want to give out a Power Pass every month.
It's possible that this is motivated by not wanting to give bots the opportunity to get characters to endgame too quickly, it's possible that they think people having 1 of every class in T3 for free is a bit too much, we truly have no idea. I wish they would communicate their motivations with us a little bit more when it comes to decisions that will have an impact on the player base like this. Either way, this logic seems flawed because we are being compared to a version that has less classes per year but also the ability to purchase passes.
So, in an environment where they can spend money to get infinite passes they are getting one for free on every class release. However, for NA/EU we can not buy power passes at all and yet we are not getting a Power Pass because classes are being released too... fast?
If we had the ability to purchase power passes from the beginning, then some people might claim this decision is just a money grab (and it can still be argued that it is one), but since we do not have the ability to purchase them... Would you if we could?
Posted May 6, 2022, 6:54 PM UTC