$30 for a mythic skin?

Just got a survey from Blizzard asking about my knowledge of f2p monetization and potential price points for cosmetics in OW2.

Suggested prices were:
$9.99 for epic skins, $18.99 for legendary and $29.99 for mythic.

They then asked what I would pay for a bundle of items, one of the bundles was a 14.99 bundle that included a mythic skin and some other items.

Who is paying $9.99 for an epic skin?

If these are indeed the prices I will likely not be playing this game.

This company is getting greedier and greedier.

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It’s a survey. They’re looking for feedback. So did you tell them that?

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I don’t care about cosmetics, they could charge $100 for all I cared, I only care about the game play. The only thing I could see myself actually being tempted to buy are taunt emotes.

That said, not sure I’ll continue playing anyways once OW2 rolls out. Not a fan of the 5v5 game play.

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Yeah of course I did.

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Are you sure that’s a legit email? Might be a fishing scam.

I’d pay 100$ for that hyper rare Dva mythic++ skin lol.

Depends on the skin design but I for one would have zero issue paying 30-40$ on a mythic skin.

Unless you’re a collector of all skins, it shouldn’t matter much given you’re likely to buy one skin for the hero you main and maybe one more tops.

No way I’d be buying them just to have them in general.
Got to save it for the important characters you play.

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Not really - it’s all optional. Don’t like it don’t buy it.

Btw $9.99 for an epic is fine, the one we just got is an epic. I’d have to decide if a Legendary to Mythic would have to be good for me to buy them though.

Don’t forget you are not supposed to own everything in live-service model…

Let the crying begin.

This guy/gal gets it.

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30$ for a Mythic tier skin?

Not bad, I was willing to pay more

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why?

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OW1: $40 for the whole game, including hundreds of epic skins.
OW2: $40 for 4 epic skins.

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Pshhh. I said no. I was trying to get that price down.

I don’t think I would spend more than $20 on a skin, mythic or not.

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With OWL legendary skins set at $10, and the only other more expensive skins being the Mercy Pink skin ($15 charity) and Brig’s Medic skin ($12-15), I’m sure there’ll be some sticker shock if they try to get away with a $19 price tag for the same quality.

$19-20 seems more fitting for a Mythic skin given the pricing structure already set by OW1 standards, and with one Mythic skin per battle pass, that’s roughly $116/year or just under $10/month for those skins. The $30 price tag puts it at $173/year or $14/month, and that’s not including the cost of the premium battle pass or any other cosmetics they’ll put on sale.

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$10 for a recolors is really expensive if you ask me.

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Apex legends mythic tier items come at 120$ at its CHEAPEST

Normally you will get them for 500$

You should consider yourself lucky that the skins are at such a low price considering they’re following apex’s marketing strategies

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This i a part to make you go “oh i know that” it doesn’t matter if anyone does or not

was this it?

this was the list for 1 set of options?

cause if so this is super loaded.

So basically the goal here is to set a bad option intentionally, a second option like meh, so when you get to the new thing their price point doesn’t seem so bad.

this is normal in predatory systems, you make a crap option look like a good option by surrounding it with worse options. they are only tracking people who clicked their goal and who didn’t, thats it.

It didn’t ask you several prices for 1 tier? like epic at 2.99, 5.99, 9.99?

if anyone is surprised at this point…

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I never played Apex but decided to try it out, opened up 3 lootboxes, got heirloom shards lol

No damn way XD

Always the ones who never play it

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I just think that less can be more.

There’s a perfect price point somewhere. If you set the price to $100 and only 10 people buy it, it’s a lot less than if you charged $10 and 1000 buy it.

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That’s fair but why stop playing because of it? You can just not get the skin.

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they normally send out multiple surveys with different price points, so I wouldn’t read too much into this one data point