Introduction of “free” aquilas would triple prices of cosmetics easily. Don’t give them more excuses for their greed.
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I am against any reward… it will attract players that will see this mode as something that has to be done to unlock penances.
If they make it really a hard mode, this is seriously a bad move.
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I play for the challenge and for the fun
But I do have an interesting thread going about incentivization
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Then you’d just end up with people whining about how little they got.
The bottom line is that Aquilas are the only real way that Darktide makes any money. There is no Battle Pass. Giving them away is basically asking FS to pay gamers.
The game is already pretty cheap and Steam takes a 30% cut every time someone buys it or Aquilas.
If you think the content drops are slow now, imagine giving away your only source of monetization and then having to pay your devs with smiles and handshakes.
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I mostly agree.
Cosmetics to show off is alright, if the goal for the mode is to be challenging. If it’s supposed to be fun and not an even harder endgame playlist, it needs something to insentivise playtime.
I just hope it’s not as f*cked as weaves got.
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It probably will die, or at least be severely under-utilized, for a variety of reasons. Most of the sweatiest players who can’t ever get enough difficulty also generally play solo, and anything that isn’t pressing “quickplay” and requires putting effort into grouping with other players is going put a huge barrier to engaging with that mode.
That said, the people wanting the hardest insane difficulties are also usually the first to say they don’t want enhanced rewards for them because they don’t want it incentivizing people who aren’t up to par into those game modes, same way Auric missions don’t reward more Plasteel than regular Damnation does.
It’s primarily the challenge, but implemented in the most obtuse Fatshark style possible, as is tradition.
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I play to have fun, couldnt care less about any rewards, aquillas or not.
If they gave out aquillas for playing ventilation purge/pox gas mutations i still wouldnt play it.
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Chaos Wastes has no real rewards, those extra chest or two were nothing really, as most of the players had everything they wanted already. And yet, it was praised as best update ever happened to ratclick. Not only praised, by played a lot as well.
Don’t be brain-sizzeled zoomer that just can’t play for fun fake itself.
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if you need to pay people to do a game mode the mode shouldn’t be.
and if you make the rewards anything good your just making it “must do” and your going to end up with a lot of people who perhaps shouldn’t be in their yet looking for the rewards.
and do we really want power leveling services flooding chat and group finder?
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don’t know what you’re on about, even if it weren’t for cosmetics i’d play for the challenge
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The pure white cosmetics and class specific cata frames were reward enough honestly, but even before that the sheer novelty of each run and absolute insane builds you could get were enough to try it on every class multiple times.
I miss it dearly in darktide.
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