Look, if Mythic skins are truly amazing, then ok

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If Mythic skins are truly and undoubtedly worth the prices you’ve been naming through these surveys, if they’re really THAT customizable with many many different effects and sounds that are unique and true to that skin, then fine, 45$ sounds about right.

BUT… On the other hand, if it doesn’t meet any of the standards I just mentioned above, I wouldn’t give more than a 17$ price.

You need to meet our expectations here if you want our money, and a couple of shiny effects and a few customizations here and there won’t do.

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Yes and no. All they really need to do is find the right price point that will yield the most profit for the invested development.

Basically they just need to find the best price:buyer ratio, as any business does with any item theyre selling.

Not everyone has the same expectations, so the price they settle on will naturally be fine for some and cause others to complain.

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i see it similar to an heirloom from apex legends but i would say an heirloom is worth more because with heirlooms you can see it pretty much all the time, that said i dont know how much a Mythic skin is in comparison to what an heirloom would cost(i am pretty sure its about half the price but i dont know never bought an heirloom) but then again you can get heirloom’s for free

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You’re either really rich, really young, or have access to some especially potent pharmaceuticals.

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I quite honestly can’t think of a way to create a skin so good that it makes me think:
“That looks like it is worth to blow 50 bucks on it!”

I get why people don’t like Loot Boxes and I agree that they needed to go, but at this point it seems like OW2 monetization will become a complete dumpster fire of heavily overpriced fomo stuff that preys on people with poor impulse control - which is not a single bit better than milking people with gambling elements.

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It may not be any of those.

I wouldn’t be surprised if you didn’t truly think these were the only options. But they could be a gamer that makes 50k a year, is 27 years old, has a partner, and doesn’t consume any substances, but gaming is important enough to them to spend some of their money on it for entertainment.

There’s no real point in speculating because we all value things we spend money on in different ways.

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My take:

10 bucks for legedary skin (like the OWL ones)? Fine

25-30 bucks for a mythic (very special, one every 9 weeks)? Fine

Anything else over 30? Nope you can keep it.

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The problem with mythic skins is tho they are so special you want them to buy for your mains… Many people are not going to care about considering buying all of them… So they kinda need to make them expensive to milk players.

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Very literal take on a joke. The joke was that I don’t think they have a $45 value :neutral_face:

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Making them expensive also will make them more rare, which will make people feel more justified in the purchase.

Either way, the majority of players probably will spend somewhere between 0-10 total on ow2, and don’t care at all about these prices.

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So many people seem to forget that these skins will be optional and won’t affect gameplay at all.

Don’t like how expensive they are? Don’t buy them lol.

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How can I remove someone else comment on this forum? This is one of the most anti-consumer take you can take.

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So telling people that they don’t have to buy optional cosmetics is “anti consumer?” Lol

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Yes, you don’t have to play video game too and yet I don’t advocate for companies to raise game prices because I don’t have to buy them.

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I want everything, but I’m not willing to pay for it.
You don’t like it? Then go find another customer who will buy the basegame. That’s my position. :fire:

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When did I advocate for them to raise prices? Stop putting words that I never said in my mouth.

All I said is if you don’t like how expensive something is in a video game you don’t have to buy it. It’s not hard.

50 dollars is way too much for me, I’m not going to buy something this expensive unless I absolutely love it.

Some people might consider even a couple of dollars as too much, to each their own.

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Remember before f2p and micro transactions when you’d pay $15-20 for a map pack, and then you didn’t get to play on those maps because most people didn’t buy the pack? Oh and you also only had like 4 total skins to choose from.

Yeah, this is better.

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45$ is basically a whole game. Or a whole bunch of indie games. Yea… that doesn’t sound right at all.

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You are implicitely telling that it is ok for companies to be aggressive on their prices because I just have to “don’t buy them lol”. This is the reason why gachas are everywhere nowadays, because you only need some addicts to make the most profitable games on the market.

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No it doesn’t sound right, imagine dropping £45 on a cosmetic skin…
Jesus Christ :man_facepalming:t3:

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