Just wanted to put this out here with the intents of positively reinforcing fatshark. I see the new event as a HUGE win for all parties, it’s not only a decently fun event, it has a reward players will actually want (500 aquilas). Since the in-game events only happen about once a month, Fatshark is in no danger of spoiling the economy for themselves by overindulging players. There are plenty of things to spend on, AND having a little change in your pocket might make you want to buy a little something extra. My favorite game economies are Warframe and Helldivers 2, as they both allow pathways to generate currency albeit slowly just by playing.
Darktide should do the same. The +1000 melk bucks (for completing all weekly tasks) should be converted into an account-wide reward of like, 100 aquilas. HAVOC should reward Aquilas based on the highest level completed for the week or the average level you completed for the month. It’s literal fake money to Fatshark, and pennies to players; but for many, it’s an actual, REAL incentive. Do I NEED 500 aquilas? No. Am I going to play the event for 8 hours to get them? Damn straight.
Also please enlarge the selection at the premium shop, or at least keep it as large as it is since skulls update.
This event has pulled in the highest peak concurrent players in 5 months, and did it without a seasonal content update. I think FS are going to get the message, although I suspect they’ll keep Aquilas tied to events (rather than doing it like HD2).
We’ll never know if this is a net positive for revenue (which matters), but I hope it is!
if anything it should be a net neutral, some people will spend more to round up to a larger buy, and for some this 500 will round them up so they don’t need to buy. Either way it’s gonna drive sales because there’s more players playing.
It should also be repeatable with diminishing returns.
If you can get 500 AQ in 8 hours, I’m not seeing an issue if we can get an extra 250 AQ for another 40 hours.
Make the total payout an s-curve. To begin with, the more you play the more you get, but after you hit a certain point, you earn less and less per hour until it’s basically a drip.
If a few dozen players want to grind out 200 hours during an event, and get 750, or maybe 1000 AQ, it’s only going to improve the player base.
I can live with that. I’ve finally spent my IE Aquilas, with the 500 from the event persuading me to grab the Elysian uniform for my Veteran.* If we had a somewhat reasonable amount of Aquilas come in every once in a while via an event, I would actually start spending real money on the store to make up the difference.
It was mostly FOMO as to why I had not spent my IE ones before now, because I was too reluctant to part with them in case something really good come up later. Also, it is so expensive to buy Aquilas (£11 for an outfit can be a little or a lot depending on the person and their perspective), that I didn’t want to begrudgingly pay them for the slop we’ve mostly had.
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It is so pretty in grey. HRRRRRNNN. Thank you, ‘For The Drip!’
There are fits I would buy right now but can’t, and I’m very hopeful the shop will change at some point.
I personally don’t buy the whole “they sell ugly versions so they can sell cool reskins later” thought, and I just don’t buy any crap I think is ugly. But pretty regularly they drop one or two things I think would look cool with one or too other things…sadly, those other things are out of rotational…so maybe not “sadly” because I save a couple bucks. Still annoying!
Hopefully we get a full catalog soon. It’s been nothing but improvements over the last 2.5 years. Addressing player concerns from top to bottom, and now even doling out Aquilas for play. I think the shop will get unkarked eventually. In the meantime, my wife is happier without me spending our monies!
The mode needs something other than bragging rights
Oh wow diamantine let me just add it to my big pile of diamantine I’ll hardly spend a fraction of. Another rework that needs to come at some point is some sort of actual reason to spend the plasteel and diamantine veterans have accumulated. As for dockets they can UPDATE THE COMMISSARY
Yeah before announcement teaser and skull event we were heading for a big drop in players for the monthly avg. peak went from 5k to 10 now 13k too… 15.5k
Some Aquila’s drops are prob beneficial for sales as well, numbers to be debated. Think suggested numbers maybe a bit high and should probably keep it out of Havoc unless you want to add more frustration to the mode.
I really want events and honestly melk as well to both drop aquilas. It’d make me play more overall.
I don’t trust Fatshark to make this more than a one-time thing, though they did good with the weapon skin discounts (yes, they’re recolors. I get the intent of forestalling complaints about the reward being worthless). If this is how events are gonna go going forward, more power to them.
I would like a Melk drop of 100-200 aquilas for contract completion, though, if future events aren’t gonna bump the rewards a bit.
I want to see colors packs like we had by the past.
And I want every color pack proposed again in the store (I have all of them, but I like that everybody has a chance to get them).
And I want new weapons that get also their skin color with these packs.
which ironically they then spoil not only for themselves but for those taking the whole approach seriously, no matter the bling or portrait or whatever it entails.
carrying in maelstrom is becoming normal monday morning, 3 peeps in havoc in for the aquilas…
geez, “rejected” would reach an all time high
if we dont want to draw unwanted attention the saying around here is :“hör auf die enten anzufüttern”
Yeah if they wanted to tie aquila gains to in-game acquisition they started off right with event and could expand to 1st weekly completion before even thinking about Havoc… and what a terrible choice it would be.
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