No, it is a great idea. Yes, people do love battle passes. You will see.
In CoD, you get some tiers free. New weapons added to the game come free at certain levels of battle pass, too. So there would be free tiers for cheapos & premium battle passes for people who are into supporting the games they play.
Welcome to games as a service; MMORPG is & always has been the pioneer of that model & it is lagging behind. Amazon should be an industry leader & bring BP to new world. Give top level players things to level for again.
You get rewards leveling up; this is the same thing, with more rewards. 25 level passes, a piece of cosmetic gear every 5 levels, some mats, some shards, whatever. You can only be against it if you are non-supportive of the service which is what an MMORPG is - a service. A service that needs to be supported to remain.
Anyone with 500 hours paid 8 cents an hour for this 40 dollar game. 1000 hours, 4 cents. 2000 hours, 2 cents an hour. IF you think that is enough to keep the servers online, you are sadly mistaken.
So, how much have you spent on marks of fortune/what all have you bought from the shop? NOT including whatever might have come with the deluxe edition, assuming you forked out for even that. I want to support the game. It will need to be paid expansions or battle passes. Not buying skins by themselves until there are hundreds to choose from. You want the new areas free, you want probably transmog, too, right? Well how are you going to support the game & keep it funded? How are you going to get new zones & quests & weapons & so on & so forth without supporting the game? Who just wants to buy a skin? How is that even sustainable? It is not.
Battlepasses are sustainable funding that people like. Much better than buying new zones/chapters/one-off skins that everyone would have if everyone did that. Battlepasses make people happy; give them progression after hitting max level. It is a good idea. Great idea. Some people say it is the best idea.
Sweet! It is & has already been in the plans for a while now:
For transparency on future plans, we are also contemplating, but have not finalized, a “battle pass” style program that would combine store items on a periodic basis. This will also be tested ahead of time to ensure it provides strong value without disrupting gameplay for those not participating. Much further along there is also the possibility of optional expansions, which would have a separate cost.
They want to do it in a way that doesn’t disenfranchise people not participating from the looks of it. Maybe it will be like CoD where game-altering things are free tiers & you can buy to unlock the ability to gain all the tiers.
just getting started, dude! It needs a couple patches but this game just came out, there’s years ahead to go. Every good mmorpg launches rough & has massive hype that dies out fast, then as it expands & grows & gets improved, people come back along with new players
wouldn’t call 50% server pop just starting. Unless they remove 50% of the available servers and perform a full merge pass, the game will always be losing pop.
They may at some point try to introduce some (optional)subscription model. This may be in the form of a battlepass… It would be great to see a game strive to do things differently. They are so far from having content that would justify a subscription though…
It would be great if they decided they could sustain their product on cosmetic and box prices alone. If they went on to grow their audience and stuck to this business plan it would be huge for the gaming market in general.
I hate what gaming has become and I don’t mind buying the odd cosmetic. It’s the level of p2w nowadays, the fact that p2w is discussed as though it is a spectrum is mad. Like we already assume they’ll be an element of p2w, but our only realistic concern is how egregious it is…
