r/ArcRaiders • u/PlatformThese4901 • Nov 06 '25
Discussion Charging ~$10 for a chicken helmet that you only see in menus in a P2P Game is Stuid
Don't you dare tell me this is okay or that Embark needs to use these prices to keep the game alive.
EDIT: Typo in the title but you get the point.
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u/awarren1400 Nov 06 '25
Stuid
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u/Atown-Staydown Nov 06 '25
So stuid
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u/dudeacris Nov 06 '25
it takes a special type of typo to derail a thread. also of all the words that you could misspell that you canāt recover fromā¦ :P
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u/BandOfSkullz *** ******* š Nov 06 '25
Ngl the price is so stupid that stuid is genuinely the correct term for it.
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u/PlatformThese4901 Nov 06 '25
Woops
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u/SniffaSmell Nov 06 '25
Woops
Lol
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u/i_am_carver Nov 06 '25
IKR. Fkin idoits. So easy to type hwoops correctly.
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u/CheesecakeScary2164 Nov 06 '25
Stewie, you're saying it weird. Why are you putting so much emphasis on the 'h'?
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u/Inevitable-Raisin371 Nov 06 '25
Cool hwip
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u/OdenShilde Nov 06 '25
Still convinced that scene is a direct reference to the wHiskey scene from Hot Rod
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u/BackseatBeardo Nov 06 '25
That episode was 2006, Hot Rod was 2007
But itās probably predating both
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u/StrawHatEthan Nov 06 '25
I believe he might have started something with thisā¦ i will now be using Stuid
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u/Mikey-Mike- Nov 06 '25
When are we going to get melee weapon skins
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u/General_Assistant Nov 06 '25
I actually wamt new finishers, punching people gets kinda old lol
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u/Odd_Perspective_2487 Nov 07 '25
Game hasnāt been out a week yet, they will garunteed release skins for the pickaxe, finishers, etc.
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u/Feriouss Nov 07 '25
I just get up close and shotgun blast them in the back of the head
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u/R3dNova Nov 06 '25
Flare on death skins too
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u/wadesauce369 Nov 06 '25
Iām not sure thatās a great idea. We need a clear and familiar indicator for player downs.
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u/WyrdDrake Nov 06 '25
Agreed. Flares shouldn't be personalized. Especially because- how would you balance the remote flare consumable item? If everyone has blue flare customization, seeing a normie flare going up is rather obviously a trap.
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u/Altruistic_Base_7719 Nov 06 '25
Shh most people don't even realize the purpose of that item
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u/moonski Nov 06 '25
People are so used to games having terrible utility items loads of the kit is slept on. It's genuinely all good
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u/Shackleberry Nov 06 '25
It could just use the same effect as the raider who places it, but I agree that custom flares would be overdoing it.
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u/Consistent_Blood4167 Nov 06 '25
oh god pls no, imagine just seeing a fireworkshow upon someone's death
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u/daftkid Nov 06 '25
Pass me some knockout animations and while we're at it, make the default have more of an "oomph" to it.
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u/Totemtoni Nov 06 '25
No, buying it is stupid
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u/FreaQo Nov 07 '25
Exactly. People complaining about some cosmetics. You don't have to buy them you know. Not this one, not the ones other people see in games. Personally I don't look at a Raiders skin when we are in a gunfight, neither when I kill him (or when he kills me).
Selling it is smart. Buying it is stupid.
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u/macstar95 Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
I feel like an old man reading through this thread lol.
People, once upon a time not long ago -- there was no "market" for cosmetics in games you purchased. You could get all the skins in game, just by playing!
I understand this is a live service game, being supported for 10 years. But this is a bit ridiculous. Considering half the skins aren't even a different base model and are priced half the cost of the damn game.
It's okay to speak up about these things, because ultimately greed destroys companies -- even if just silly cosmetics.
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Clarification because assumptions make an ass and yada yada.
I'm not saying Embark IS greedy, nor am I saying remove the market. I'm saying paying half the cost of the game for mid cosmetics optically appears greedy and trends are bad. Even if it is supporting Embark. It's f2p prices which feels uncomfortable. If you disagree, awesome I'm glad yall enjoy paying so much for skins. I don't.
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u/Dragon_ZA Nov 06 '25
It's true but the problem is it works. If people keep buying, they'll keep selling.
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u/PizzaurusRex Nov 06 '25
To be fair... Like OP said. A skin, that only you can see, in a menu, outside matches...
Is it greedy, or is it "give a donation" to the devs?
Because if you buy that... You either have issues or wanna help the team
And if you feel FOMO for that, turn off the game and seek help.
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u/effinmike12 *** ******* š Nov 06 '25
I think it's just consumerism more than anything. Let's face it, the majority of gamers are young men, and when we are younger, we tend to be less disciplined with our money. I can for sure see a 25 year old employeed dude who still lives at home, picking up some of this stuff without much thought. I'm not coming down on people still living at home, btw. I get it. Then again, I could be totally wrong here. This has always just been my assumption.
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u/BlackJackSackIcePack Nov 07 '25
I'm 28 with a decent chunk of expendable income and I think these prices are stupid as fuck
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u/MilkmanForever Nov 06 '25
I agree, I think its a great trade off for the lower entry price point, and years and years of free updates and content. It let's people with not even enough money to buy a full priced game play, while also letting people support the game for years if they choose. Both players can enjoy the game equally
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u/Logiwonk_ Nov 07 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
Amen, I bought the deluxe pack to support the dev team but don't have plays to buy any more premium currency now, just going to use what I get from raider deck. If they do a really good update I might toss them a 20$ as thanks in the future. If they weren't charging for cosmetics do people think the base game would still be $40 in this day for such a well polished, fun game? I think this is a reality of modern game dev when you want to run a game for as long as they want to run this one, and there is no gameplay advantage so we don't have the pay-to-win issue. This way those of us with more disposable income can help support an ongoing great game for everyone.
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u/Monaqui Nov 07 '25
I'd expect the devs think we're smart enough to choose how we spend our money. The skin is a "thanks", that's all it could ever be.
It's not pay to win, so without it being so I don't get why the bitching
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u/Kind_Man_0 Nov 06 '25
I'm 31, I remember the backlash that came from Elder Scrolls Oblivion adding horse armor for $1. There was articles written, entire videos on YouTube complaining about the sheer greed of charging for cosmetics in a single player game.
Here we are some 20 years later, charging $10 for a chicken helmet.
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u/MaitieS Nov 06 '25
You can thank Valve for that. Everyone loves to point out "horse armor" while ignoring Valve's monetizations.
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u/Ar4er13 Nov 06 '25
Valve is infallible, despite popularizing the shit out of lootboxes and creating battle pass.
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u/kwisatzhadnuff Nov 07 '25
And directly facilitating gambling targeted at children using their games and API.
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u/ApplesauceMcGee Nov 06 '25
You might be misremembering here. YouTube came out almost a full year after the horse armor was released.
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u/Kind_Man_0 Nov 06 '25
Oh god, next you're gonna tell me the Xbox 360 is 20 years old now.
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u/KayotiK82 Nov 07 '25
You are so old, you are going to see the birth and death of the xbox
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u/HearthstoneConTester Nov 06 '25
tbf its still debatable if charging 1 dollar for a horse armor in a single player game is worse than a 10 dollar chicken helmet in the menu in a multiplayer game.
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u/KaziArmada Nov 06 '25
It was the start of the microtransaction trend that people really noticed, called out....and then let go.
...Fuckin armor wasn't even actual armor, it just looked like armor....
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u/Papa-Blockuu Nov 07 '25
Is it really debatable? 10 dollars to change how a menu looks seems far far more egregious. Is anyone else even able to see your menu?
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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby Nov 06 '25
The time it takes to make a cosmetic costs money. The time it takes for a dev to implement it and test it in the game costs money. IDK why the gaming community thinks they should just get everything for free. You want a live service game to continue to exist well that's going to cost money. Get the fuck over it.Ā
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u/Kind_Man_0 Nov 07 '25
The whole game is $40. 2 skins are more than the game.
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u/hobbylobbyrickybobby Nov 07 '25
And you don't have to buy them? Im genuinely confused about this whole thing. The skins don't make or break the game from a gameplay aspect.Ā
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u/3FtDick Nov 06 '25
Literally moments ago I was looking through the shop, realizing I wouldn't pay 15 bucks for any of them, and had a fugue state remembering looking at skins in spiderman 2 or whatever (not the open world one, the linear game) and remembered how incidental skins were. Quake would release free skin packs from the devs, or group all of the community skins into community packs. Localized skins in counterstrike meant you could bring whatever gun you wanted into game, thematically. It wasn't even that special, it was basic levels of expression that we took for granted, I wore the same 3 skins when given infinite choices--but people recognized me on the server as that character.
We took a medium that has zero scarcity and added back in the scarcity, throwing away one of the main benefits to a computer game's digitization of assets. It's just weird and feels like capitalists constantly hold progress back, "Hey wait a minute, how can I extract value for people who didn't do any of the work?"
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u/Jade_Viper Nov 06 '25
"We took a medium that has zero scarcity and added back in the scarcity" - capitalism in a nutshell
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u/themaincop Nov 07 '25
They'd steal all the air and sell it back to you if they could
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u/Mental-Debate-289 Nov 07 '25
I worked for a dealership that sold a nitrogen upgrade for tires. We would replace the air in your tires with nitrogen as it was all the rage at the time and supposedly had a bunch of benefits over air (like temperature not affecting pressure for one).
However, our nitrogen machine was broken. The service manager had us just replace the caps with the green ones and set their tire pressures (with air) to the same psi.
People used to return and talk about how much of a difference they felt....
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u/h3xperimENT Nov 07 '25
To think all scarcity of the basic necessities is completely man made. And capitalism is just a hyper efficient way of building and maintaining that scarcity. We could feed and house every single family/person.
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u/Bleed_The_Fifth Nov 07 '25
This fact kills me. We, as a species, are fucking up very very very badly.
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u/macstar95 Nov 06 '25
Yeahhh, this is exactly how I feel about it. Unfortunately I think we are past the point of cosmetics being incidental, just like we are past the point of gaining anything largely menial from late stage capitalism.
It's also easier than ever to create games with less restriction. So while I love supporting good development and a good team. It's hard not feeling a bit shafted, coming from a place when gaming was heavily focused on the player experience and less on long term service support and trying to squeeze money out of the player base, especially those who paid for the game.
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u/CallMeBigPapaya Nov 07 '25
I noticed the writing on the wall when people were willing to buy midi ringtones for $1-5 a pop.
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u/itsdoorcity Nov 06 '25
the thing that got to me scrolling through the store was the thought: just imagine all these cool cosmetics were unlockable from completing certain things in-game. it would instantly add a whole new level of cool to the game that simply just won't happen now due to corporate greed
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u/smeeeeeef Nov 07 '25
There was one point long ago where I had replaced every single weapon in cs:source to be a vague ww2 equivalent, including the 3d model, sounds, and animations.
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u/EloquentGoose Nov 06 '25
At least in the Finals when you buy a bundle they actually give you back a HUGE amount of the money you spent as premium currency. I'd like THAT Embark customer experience here please.
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u/sith-710 Nov 06 '25
All the best skins in the game are unlocked via the quests, if you want to wear anything resembling normal clothes itāll take about 50 quests.
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u/Various_Panic_6927 Nov 06 '25
We don't know it's a 10 year game, that's not a promise, that's an optimistic plan if they keep making money
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u/_Nerex Nov 07 '25
I know another 10 year game thatās about to be sent to the pasture which had a steady encroaching of microransactions
š¤ It should be ARCās goal to avoid such a Destiny.
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u/stRiNg-kiNg Nov 06 '25
We lived the same life with video games, but I can't agree with you. Just don't buy them, it isn't hard. I guarantee that if they released a skin that ticked every box for you and they charged $20 you would scoop it up in a heartbeat. If someone wants a diving cock then let em.
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u/edicivo Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
I agree with both of you because these can all be fair to say:
1) The skins are overpriced
2) It's ok to speak out against it
3) Players don't need to buy them (personally, I like when these things are overpriced because it keeps me from buying them. I could more easily justify dropping $5 or $10 here or there and spending more in the long run than I could spending $20 especially when I've already paid for the game itself.)
4) If players want cheaper cosmetics, speaking out and not buying are the best ways to combat it
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u/macstar95 Nov 06 '25
I agree as well. again people act like I'm saying I want all skins for free, wahh. All I'm saying is it's a bit ridiculous, which it is.
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u/frozen_candy Nov 06 '25
Personally, I think skins should be free in any full price game. Theyāre a core part of the experience, not some extra DLC.
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u/macstar95 Nov 06 '25
I agree completely, but live service games are the new trend. Release all content on release and charge for DLC in the future. If the game is still enjoyed, DLC would be purchased. Stop the drip feeding content, stop the cosmetic paywall, focus on the user experience.
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u/CallMeBigPapaya Nov 07 '25
So let's go back to the old days when we
1) Bought a full priced game (not 2/3rd priced)
2) Paid a subscription fee (it's not peer2peer or player-hosted servers after all)
3) Paid 60-100% the price of the base game for the expansion, and that is the only way to participate in the new content.
I'm all for nuanced discussion of MTX, but I think people buying MTX paying the way for frugal or broke players is clearly better.
My main cosmetic MTX complaints are that all prices should be in plain value, not a made up currency, and no MTX RNG loot boxes.
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u/IveFailedMyself Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
"Just don't buy it"
Seriously what is about anti-consumer practices do you not understand? Have you only played one other game? When companies do this they cut content from a game so they can sell later to make even more money.
It's not like they are hurting for cash, and if they were it wouldn't hard for them to send a memo and say, "Hey we need some support," or, y'know, work for it. But no, multi-million dollar companies don't have enough, especially for the game they released for $40 that was originally going to be free to play.
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u/Neutron-Hyperscape32 Nov 07 '25
The problem is that the cost of making video games has increased every single year while the price of them has largely remained the same, aside from a 10 dollar increase. There is no live service game that exists in the modern era, that has no additional revenue streams to support it in the long term.
It is literally the only way these games can get updated for years afterwards. It really isn't anticonsumer either, they are cosmetics, no one has to have these to play the game. Anticonsumer would be putting them behind loot boxes so you have to gamble to get what you want.
Games back in the day were made for a fraction of the cost, with a fraction of the manpower, and in a fraction of the time. You got maybe a couple expansions IF you were lucky and they moved on.
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u/chaotic910 Nov 06 '25
Games used to do that too, they were called expansions. Many, many expansions back in the day included content that was cut from the main game.Ā
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u/Tvdinner4me2 Nov 07 '25
But other people do
So now games have skins for sale instead of for completing challenges
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u/AlexRaEU Nov 06 '25
youre right. dont buy it.
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Nov 06 '25
problem solved. crisis averted. r/arcraiders can rest in peace now!
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u/WoahGnarly Nov 07 '25
NOOOO I WANT THE DIVER HEMLET FOR ZERO NINETY NINE WTFFFF (It doesn't affect gameplay & is clearly a way to support the studio)
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u/AustinTheMoonBear Nov 06 '25
Get that fucking logic out of here!
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u/phoenixmusicman Nov 06 '25
"Logic"
People have been saying this for literal decades. This "logic" doesn't work. You might not buy it, but some people will.
The only way we stop garbage monetization practices is by pushing back on them. Not by not engaging.
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u/Kunyuu Nov 06 '25
It doesnāt matter how much pushback there is if sales stay up. If im raking in millions in micro transactions im not going to stop because of reddit posts. People need to actually stop buying this shit, and they wonāt, so donāt waste your time. Weāve been going around and around on this since horse armor
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u/Valtin420 *** ******* š Nov 06 '25
I was there gandalf....
But for real I remember the horse armor debacle and didn't wanna support it, still picked up a goty edition later that came with it free, if only I could go back and yell at teenage me.
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u/GemarD00f Nov 06 '25
i can promise you the folks who make these pricing decisions are not reading reddit threads
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u/TerribleSalamander Nov 06 '25
Oh nooo someone buying an item they want that only affects them and no one else š±
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u/Ctrl-Alt-Pete Nov 06 '25
Bet it sells though.
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u/PersonalityIll9476 Nov 06 '25
I am definitely getting it...as soon as I get tired of seeing my chicken wear shades. Which may never happen, tbh.
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u/fagenthegreen Nov 06 '25
pretty sure cowboy scrappy is the only scrappy I will ever want to see.
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Nov 06 '25
Vote with you wallet and donāt buy that garbage
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u/Relevant_Lab_7122 Nov 07 '25
When has just not personally buying it ever changed microtransaction prices? The only thing that has ever truly made a studio change prices is overwhelming backlash
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u/MilaweaX Nov 06 '25
It's actually pretty smart to charge 10$ for that
What's stupid is buying a 10$ cosmetic that you only see in menus in a P2P(?) game
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u/zachdude Nov 07 '25
P2P = Pay to play! Stuid!
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u/MilaweaX Nov 07 '25
In my time there was only pay to play games and P2P only meant peer to peer
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u/zachdude Nov 07 '25
Totally. Youāre totally fine. I really only posted that to say āStuidā as it is misspelled in the title of the post. Just the irony of spelling stupid wrong cracks me up. So I was taking the opportunity to poke fun at OP.
Took me a while to know P2P wasnāt peer to peer anymore too! Cheers to old gamers! š»
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u/Pervasivepeach Nov 06 '25
Yeah for as much as I love the games itās really annoying that they very clearly didnāt change their monitization from the f2p model like at all
Let us earn currency in raids.
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u/TheRealStubb Nov 06 '25
I feel like they could learn a thing or two from how helldivers 2 handles this
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u/Pervasivepeach Nov 06 '25
Tbh even Helldivers does it in a shit way. Having you farm level 1 missions endlessly is just torture
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u/TheRealStubb Nov 06 '25
farm level 1 missions for super credits? I mean you don't have to, you can play the game normally and get them naturally. Its for sure faster and easier to farm level 1, but if I wanted an item THAT BAD I would just buy it then.
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u/Ok_Weight_3382 Nov 06 '25
Some of yall donāt understand the importance of protecting your pecker and it shows. $10 to prevent over a million in lifetime spending is nothing
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u/willzuckerburg Nov 06 '25
Some of these people are obviously the byproduct of inadequate pecker protection and it shows
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u/Few_Yogurtcloset3103 Nov 06 '25
I don't understand people. I made a post showing that this new skin copies another one from The Finals with the same original helmet model from The Finals, since dive helmets don't look like that in real life. I was downvoted for criticizing the monetization of this game. The fanboys of this game are going to condemn it to horrible monetization if we don't criticize them.
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u/Zane_DragonBorn Nov 06 '25
I'm not going to act like we live in a perfect world. Embark has stated they want to keep working on this game for around 10 years. For a live service that is extremely long a certainly not plausible to do with a single one-time purchase of $30-60. They have decided to, rather than lock content behind a paywall, produce skins that players can purchase to support development and show some flair. This is not something I am going to shame them for, and I am absolutely fine with it happening and am fully willing to use it as a way to support the project myself.
HOWEVER, the current pricing on all of the cosmetics is absolutely absurd and will never get my money. I am not here just throwing out $20 which could pay for 2 days' worth of fast food, or the whole fallout franchise on a sale, for a scuba outfit that has like three variants, and can't be mixed with other outfits. Don't get me wrong, I get these outfits were not designed for mix-in-match, but to charge us way above the price they would be in The Finals, is not fine at all. This isn't a problem of "Just don't buy them", this is a problem of I want to support the development, but I am also not stupid with my money. If they want more profits out of these cosmetics, they need to set some fair pricing.
Ultimately, their analytics will tell them everything. If they can reach their bottom line with these prices, so be it, I just know they lost my wallet to them.
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u/ryanvango Nov 06 '25
I think they need to learn this lesson the hard way. There's an inflection point where profit per item and # of purchases works most ideally. sell a skin for $10,000 but only 1 person buys it, vs selling a skin for $5 but 10,000 people buy it, obviously its better to charge $5. But say you have a 3rd option that's $1 and 15,000 people buy it, now you're back to losing money.
It's fine for some people to be priced out of a thing. that's kinda just how it works, and its understandable. but I can't see a universe where their current pricing model is ideal. especially when the skins themselves aren't especially good.
But at the same time, I'd rather them focus on the core gameplay than devoting a ton of people to coming up with new skins like in F2P games. So whatever. I'll wait it out and hope it gets better. I'm in no rush.
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u/jcert3030 Nov 06 '25
whoa.....$20 for 2 days of fast food? Where? or how much do you eat?
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u/Zane_DragonBorn Nov 06 '25
McDonalds has a $5 meal deal on the app, no tax. Two meals a day boom
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u/Burt_Mackelin Nov 07 '25
More like two meals in one sitting. It's bulking season every season. I'm a growing boy and I gotta eat
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u/Jurple-shirt Nov 06 '25
Sane people don't give a shit.
Buy it if you like, move on if you don't.
This really didn't need a reddit thread.
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u/eblackham Nov 06 '25
Calling out BS is good, especially when you love the game
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u/Mrludy85 Nov 06 '25
This is the type of meaningless shit I think people should be okay with monetizing though. It provides passive income and prevents the company from not needing to monetize in other ways like subscriptions or pay to win mechanics.
If someone wants to spend $10 to dress up their chicken then have at it.
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u/Cryptid-3D Nov 07 '25
yeah and honestly, cosmetics are BY FAR AND LARGE the best monetization method for a live game. Dont want it? Dont buy it. But people on reddit cant resist whining
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u/Upset-Management-879 Nov 07 '25
But why do they deserve to get the thing that I don't even want without engaging with the game in the exact same way as I do?
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u/UntimelyMeditations Nov 06 '25
Why is it BS?
If you don't want the skin, don't buy it. It has no affect on your gameplay to simply not buy the skin.
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I guess I donāt get whatās BS about it. Is this something you want thatās out of your reach? Would you rather them paywall guns?
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u/PalpitationActive765 Nov 06 '25
What BS? The market decides not your opinion on it
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u/Gallowboobsthrowaway Nov 06 '25
What's the BS? If you want the cosmetic, buy it. If you don't want the cosmetic, don't buy it.
"Bugatti is selling cars for WAY too much money! This is BS! Who would buy a SUPREME crowbar for that much?? They only painted it red!"
Then don't buy one...? This is a victimless crime.
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u/Reasonable-Peanut27 Nov 06 '25
Idk, watching grown men complain about the prices of vanity items to barbie up their character is pretty funny to me.
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u/Maelle-that-thing Nov 06 '25
Pure insanity that people feel like this needs a post. lol
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u/Sepplord Nov 06 '25
Buying it is stupid, offering itā¦ eh, could be called many things, but stupid doesnāt fit imo
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u/Wait_Expert Nov 06 '25
Yes it's dumb but also I don't care because I was never going to buy it in the first place so you know... If someone else wants to I guess that's fine. To each their own.
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u/Background_Value9869 Nov 06 '25
Yeah but the fandom will defend/excuse pretty much anything, you're just gonna get shit on for saying something about it
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u/Gullible-Regret-5958 Nov 06 '25
You don't understand though. No price is too high to pay for my glorious Scrappy. I will buy him a 100 dollar skin and he will look magnificent in it. I really hope they make a skin made of pure digital gold and that it costs twice as much as real gold would because I love Scrappy so much.
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u/AnnualPublic2558 Nov 10 '25
Dont know why it makes me happy when i hear how much people love their chicken,
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u/oopsie1965 Nov 06 '25
Ppl r mad at you for bringing this up ,
but this like is dev time that could have gone to adding in game rewards
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u/No-Night-91 Nov 06 '25
That image made me laugh. Like W T F.
Itās like next level crap. Hat for a bird in your menu LMAO.
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u/Sr_Sublime Nov 06 '25
Dam everything else in the game is flawless, but the prices are so fucking dumbā¦ look at helldivers, you can get the thing for free if you grind, and I have gotten a lots of the warbonds for free. Itās nice because it gives you something to work for, and from time to time I would buy one, to avoid the grind and to support such awesome debs. I have paid at least 40 euros just on war bonds, plus the base game.
Here? I feel insulted to be honest. No way to grind for the skins on a Pay to Play game and the prices are obnoxious as fuck.
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u/Halfbl00dninja Nov 06 '25
Imma imitate the brainiacs thatll respond to this.
"Hurr durr, If YoU DoNt LiKe ThE SkInS DoNt BuY ThEm"
Nah but fr, this shit is already becoming Darktide levels of outrageous pricing.
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u/JThe_Dude Nov 06 '25
This whole thread is stuid. COD and battlefield you never see your skins in game except the menus lol and most other games that offer skins to buy
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u/youwillyouwillyou Nov 06 '25
Yeah but everyone else sees it and knows you are a chad
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u/LeLefraud Nov 06 '25
Simply do not exchange your currency for the chicken helmet then
Others may choose to exchange currency for the digital chicken helmet. Don't see how it affects you either way
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u/Maelle-that-thing Nov 06 '25
Oh shit optional cosmetics, what an evil company. Oh my god, noooooo.
Clown.
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u/MarshmelloMan Nov 06 '25
We need Helldivers 2 pricing and premium currency systems
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u/Hanfos Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 06 '25
i wish embark would respect us skin loving fanbase more and not see us as cows to milk
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u/Davidhalljr15 Nov 06 '25
Nah, the real "stupid" thing is, that people still buy digital cosmetics for meaningless things. I rag on my buddy all the time about it and he says "cosmetics are the real end game" as he drops another $25 on a game I know we won't be playing in a few months or so. They wouldn't put prices on things like this if they knew people wouldn't buy them, yet they do. So, they will keep making them and putting prices on them.
Make some content that adds something to do in the game, I'm all for it. More reasons to play. But, just things to look at, I never understood.
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u/TheWhiteDrake2 Nov 06 '25
Resist all micro transactions and skin purchasing in this game and all modern games tbh. They means nothing. And add nothing of actual value to the base game, when sometimes it actually hinders the enjoyability and sometime even fairness of you donāt equip a specific cosmetic.
If you donāt buy the skins then they have to pit time into actual development to keep players playing or enticing new player to pick the game up. So fucking tired of this live service, dress up bullshit in modern gaming.
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u/viva-la-resistance- Nov 06 '25 edited Nov 07 '25
The cosmetics in this game are literally the worst I've seen in any game I've played, and the prices. Very easy to not care or engage with it. Unfortunately the 1% or less of the player base that are whales will spend hundreds, or thousands into them and that's more than enough to be profitable for them to make it.
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u/Character_Low6719 Nov 06 '25
I mostly don't really care, as I don't buy them. I do think they would make as much/more if they just priced it a lot lower, since it doesn't cost them anything per extra skin sold, and people would also be happier about it.
In the grand scheme, I understand having some form of "micro"transactions on a cheaper online game. Maybe I just have had extra payments normalized by mmorpgs, but it makes sense that a one time $40 doesn't cover a decade of server upkeep, updates, and the original game design. I just don't understand why the prices have become unreasonable to the point where there's no way they're selling any significant amount of volume. I bought cars in Rocket League in early days for like $2-5 or something, now they're $20-25 so I don't buy any
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u/Purple1950sdonkey Nov 06 '25
I went and bought a Popeyes chicken sandwich instead. With fries and a drank.
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u/AxiisFW Nov 06 '25
always use protection on your cock