A full outfit in the premium shop costs something around $15USD. Pretty raw deal for freaks like me who love collecting all the cosmetics and playing dress up with my characters all day. I’d spend way more money on Aquilas if I could also earn them through gameplay, it’s way easier to justify $5 here and there to close the gap when I get tired of grinding.
I propose changing the reward for Grims and Tomes to Aquilas, the existing rewards for them don’t make going out of your way to collect them worth the time imo, I often join Grim/Tome runs only to find nobody is even bothering to look for them. Giving players a drip feed of premium bucks would make collecting them much more worthwhile.
They will not do this, I can’t even dream of them doing this, there’s not even a possibility of them even thinking about giving Aquilas for free even if it’s in literal 0.0000001 values, there is just no way
Idk, speaking for myself obviously but I straight up don’t want to spend the amount of money they’re asking for most of these cosmetics, just not worth it even if the game weren’t in such a bad state, and I doubt I’m the only person who thinks that way. $5 from me here and there when we’re able to earn Aquilas is more money than $0 from me ever when we have no way to earn Aquilas, do the math, FS.
I am sorry that I sounded mad at you. I actually think that’ll be cool, but there’s just no way with their history.
People have wanted this since launch, some wanted a compensation in Aquilas for pretty much lost money due to the state of the game in that time, but they didn’t even send a 100 Aquilas so you could buy a hat, not even 10 or 1, instead they posted an Open letter to the community, which costed them at max around 2 hours to make if we will not count them meeting around and saying AIR (sorry CMs, but it does feel like this)
And there’s Vermintide, which also didn’t have anything like earnable premium cosmetics.
Also, I need to say that they planned premium cosmetics to be their long term source of money, that is why they made like a thousand premium cosmetics.
I don’t think it would work for them to do so. But I would expect some event where we could earn like 100-300 aquila with some success (or maybe a small aquila reward for connecting daily for a week, even if I’m not fan of that system).
I wouldn’t expect anything close to earnable Aquilas if I were you, but perhaps an event like this may bring back some people and kinda reintroduce them to the game
This is also why they should reconsider how they price these things imo. I don’t mind shelling out for VT2 cosmetics because they’ve released what, one pack a year, if that? There would have been no reason to include earnable premium currency if you’re releasing premium items so infrequently (pretty much how Deep Rock Galactic does it afaik). The goal with DT is to rotate new cosmetics in every month or so iirc, they really must be counting on hooking the whales if this is the long term strategy. Wouldn’t the better move be hooking the player long term (especially considering how time consuming the rest of the game’s systems are) with a drip feed of premium bucks so they’re incentivized to close the gap eventually?
Again, I would throw money at this game on the regular if we could also earn Aquilas, I won’t if we can’t.
That would be a great addition because some premium cosmetics (most of them actually) are definitely not worth their price tag in $
Still didn’t spend my 2500 because there was nothing to catch my eye on, and yet trying to save them because there’s no way to gain it in any other way but by paying again.
This would basically make book runs mandatory.
It would also allow for an unlimited farm of aquilas, which is not a good idea.
When ever i am in a mission that has books, and i want them to be collected, i simply ask “We take books?”.
Around 9/10 times, the others agree to bring them.
I assume that you are talking about the € prices.
In V2, a five class skin set costs 24.49€.
In Darktide, 25€ get you 4500 (19.99€) + 1000 (4.99€) = 5500 Aquilas.
Two full sets cost 2 x 2400 = 4800 Aquilas.
indeed, I guess I used the wrong value when looking for the aquila price. The point still stand tho.
And, but that’s fully personnal, I find Vt2 skin gloably above the DT one (some are worst, mainly on sienna, but most have a truly unic look that is lacking in many of DT premium).
I can’t remember off the top of my head what this was in response to but I believe it was about Aquilas pricing around launch, Hedge definitely mentioned that they had planned for giving out Aquilas redemption codes for like Twitch Drops and stuff
You don’t actually want this. Tying Aquilas into gameplay rewards inevitably taints the gameplay experience now that there is a perception that real money is on the line.
At the moment people in higher difficulties are pretty chill when things go badly because the rewards barely matter. If missions rewarded Aquilas, they would need to be balanced such that they don’t negatively effect the performance of the MTX model too badly which means it needs to be a mega grind.
This does two things, you get more and more people that are sinking tons of hours into the game for some specific reward they want long after they have started to burn out on the game, and you get way more degenerate min/maxing to assure wins.
Also IMO the best part of Grims and Scriputes is that they are useless and I can ignore them. Both are uninteresting unfun chores that don’t add to gameplay. Stacking rewards on top of bad content doesn’t make bad content into good content, it just makes people feel like they are forced to engage with the bad content. If Grims and Scriptures were designed better people would already be collecting them because they make the game more fun, but they don’t because they suck.
They’d probably only give away aquilas/premium cosmetics either if they were doing really well or enough time has past for cosmetic sales to become non-existent. If they’re not doing well companies tend to double down on the more dodgier RMT stuff trying to extract as much blood from their dwindling player base as possible.