Honnestly, that’s the amount of aquila they give that feel like a slap in the face.
I have bought the imperial edition on GP and have got the same bonus as on Steam. I really feel robbed here.
But, the amount given is like taking a thunderhammer in the face… it hurts. I feel like they had spitted on me.
Oh, look, a free aqui- WHAT THE FU-
This makes no sense. Having to collect pick up, and transport costs money. Its not like bananas are immaterial. Aquilas on the other hand are, they serve no purpose but to provide fatshark more money, there is no ”necessity”, banana is a physical object, that has a value. Aquila on the other hand is not, its a piece of code, that cost fatshark nothing to produce or create. Now cosmetics are a product, they cost labor to produce. See the difference?
Aquilas have no necessity nor have any value in-themself. They are merely a mean to instrumentalize and gamify the concept of the store to trick us, so that we do not perceive the monetary value of the ”product” eg. The cosmetics.
There is no ”need” per se cosmetics fulfill.
It’s like a gift card, tbh. If I pay 60 dollars for 14,000 Aquilas, I can get my items and FS gets paid. FS handing out 14,000 Aquilas means that they won’t see that 60 dollars (or even a fraction of it) for… who knows how long.
Sure, some people will spend zero in response to this situation, but there’s plenty of PC players wearing Krieg sets (which they would’ve had to buy at least 400 Aquilas for, if they were saving the Imperial Edition rewards), so money is being spent.
I just think it’s a little naive to say there’s no cost to handing out Aquilas. I can only speculate about FS’ reasoning for doing so, though – my guess being someone buying the game is likely to be more invested than just playing via Game Pass.
+1 Do better Fatshark
So my $80 I paid for Imperial Edition pre-order is only worth 2500 but 50$ xbox darktide gets 14k free, Fatshark has no one to blame but themselves for this you can’t just give new players $60 worth of free stuff and act like the ones who have been here for almost a year now just need to suck it up because we already got 2500 from paying $30 more when we pre-ordered
I’m just trying to point out that handing out premium currency is not without cost for FS, that’s all 
this will never die fatshark please reply and explain your reasoning for absolutely screwing us over so hard
Micros$ft pushing hard their store trying again to f*ck Steam. LMAO
Same sh$t as the Shmepicfail Store.
Imma be real im not a big cosmetics guy but i think even throwing in enough to buy one of the sets would be a nice gesture since it’s literally fake money that Fat Shark could just add as a “thanks for sticking with the game and/or coming back to play again” kind of deal.
If the whole point was X-box exclusivity they probably could have just threw in some exclusive items with an X or something or made a green camo for yee olden days. Even then they could have like given those players a free xp and credit boost curio or something along those lines as a bonus which which imo i would have been happy with first getting into the game.
I just think it could have been handled in a way that didn’t just make everyone upset.
Imagine
I have bought Imperial edition on gamepass and got 2500 aquilas.
Then I realized that GP was empty, then I have bought Darktide + imperial edition on steam.
I have got 2 500 aquilas on my steam account.
Then I have seen that xbox players get 14 000 aquilas for something I have bought a long time ago.
Tbh, it is obvious that developers make sales. For that, they need to make real offers. Actually, GamePass permits to play freely Darktide. Then, if you want guys buying your game while it is free to use, you better have a good offer.
All of this, I can understand.
However, the amount, 14 000 aquilas that’s huge, the fact we cannot opt out to meet console players but THEY CAN however opt out to not meet steam players, the cosmetics recolor (try the mod Dip it and you will understand that cosmetics requires no work if they were created by the past), Brunt never fixed (this “feature” is the one that impact the most my gaming experience, followed by contract system that is also bad)
All of this make me angry at the situation. I don’t want to baby sit console players in damnation. Sure, there are players that like handicaps but I can be my own handicap without needing someone else. Every time I test something, I am this handicap, and I test really often.
So, yes. That’s normal they give them extra aquilas. However, they really have to consider that they delivered us something as finished that was obviously not.
They have to not forget that we WERE NOT part of the internal testing of the game version deployed by patch 13.
A significant part of the steam community doesn’t want to play with console players, but we were forced to.
All the cosmetics system have a problem. Prices are too high (and I can afford them easily, but facts is that prices are too high), we should not have to pay for a recolor when you know how much work it means (no work at all if the texture is ready) and we should had seen models sold (that would permit to apply textures)…
I know we started with the logic of the recolors. However, something like the mod I quoted earlier, would have been great. I would not have problem in buying models (and textures) and be able to apply freely textures to it., Like that, I could also recolor my columnus infantry autogun (no skin using its model).
No seriously FS, you did lot of s*it until now. You also gave us a good game, but it doesn’t explain what happened.
So, you better give us something else than a recolor of the same helmet…
Fr it’s absurd we have to pay close to $20 for bundle of armor skins that are just reskins of other armors already in the game it’s even more absurd when you think about it games like gmod and vr chat have the same level of detail when it comes to models of 40k stuff maybe not visuals because the game is filled with shaders those games don’t have, But that darktide has but like it takes very low effort to make models like that which is why they are able to make more just in time for every new update
I like how for supporting them in Beta that hasn’t finished yet I got a Beta-bitchboy helmet and the console peasants are getting 100s of euros bonus for “buying” the game.
Ya and they didn’t even have to deal with the lack of content or updates fatshark promised would be in the game from the start, They then made us wait almost a full 8 months to add to the game with the last two big updates while they also jacked up the cost of premium skins like no one would notice, But the xbox players get to come in to a nice updated less buggy game that we didn’t have at the start and they get the free 14k while us 2nd class pc peasants just get a low effort helmet with red B on it for bit*t no doubt
It’s downright shameful that skins are sold for a THIRD of the game’s price when it’s litterally printing money.
Like… really?
If the game was F2P, sure? But here?
Angry french pitchfork sharpening noises
It’s even more annoying when you go look at vermintide 2 models and realized they have 10x the details darktide skins have and are one third the price cheaper than darktide, The only difference between the two is that darktide has shaders that make the game look like it has better graphics and lighting than it actually does at the cost of a more laggy game you could full on make gmod have the same lighting as darktide and probably make a better game as well at this point
