The new battle pass is really gross

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Draegnarrr wrote:

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raics wrote:

I'm thinking that the backlash would be way too severe, seems like a line they wouldn't cross.

They are boiling the frog, its how you get this shit passed (most) consumers.

So long as the consumers aren't being lied to, they are getting exactly what they want.

To be honest when they introduced the battle pass, i will never again give GGG money ... I would buy a support pack every 2 seassons, now they get 0 from me

Agreed. It's obnoxious and pathetic.

White knights should read out about predatory lootboxing in modern gaming. Bli$$/activ are kings but ggg is trying to catch up so it seems.

Modern gaming is not done by gamers for gamers like during golden old days. Now you have stakeholders and their expectations, how funny that now more than ever companies care more about PR than actual product. But oh well we have predicted it all when tencent bought ggg and so what. That approach wont ever change and w/o doubt will shape given one into likes of two which were above mentioned.

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raics wrote:

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Astasia wrote:

I have a feeling this is getting people ready for a paid track a few leagues from now with similar real items being rewarded. The free track gives you 3 scouting reports, the paid track gives you 6. Would they do it? I would have laughed at the idea of them offering a battlepass with progression items as a reward a couple years ago. Now my brow just furrows at the idea of blatant P2W being on the horizon.

I'm thinking that the backlash would be way too severe, seems like a line they wouldn't cross.

They'd attract all the opprobrium which Blizzard took for D:I, and without the excuse of this being a mobile game where P2W boosts are sort-of expected.

I also don't think they'd do this. But then, I didn't expect a free track, either.

I don't know what this thread is trying to address or talk about in any way shaper or form.

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Hey, what's this slope doing here? And why is it so slippery???

what do you expect from a company owned by tencent?

If it makes money, they will keep doing it.

The only people with enough clout to oppose it are also making money from it.

So...uh, have fun with that. And I mean that earnestly, because if you aren't having fun as a supporting Exile then you are just another pixel on an extremely high res image of a truckload of money going to a company that has a warehouse full of them.

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raics wrote:

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Astasia wrote:

I have a feeling this is getting people ready for a paid track a few leagues from now with similar real items being rewarded. The free track gives you 3 scouting reports, the paid track gives you 6. Would they do it? I would have laughed at the idea of them offering a battlepass with progression items as a reward a couple years ago. Now my brow just furrows at the idea of blatant P2W being on the horizon.

I'm thinking that the backlash would be way too severe, seems like a line they wouldn't cross.

Oh, are we playing that card now? Now?

Agreed.