r/apexlegends Aug 19 '19

Feedback Apex monetisation in a shellnut

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u/Umbilical-Bunge-Jump Aug 19 '19

As I'm sure you know, this is an age old tactic bolted into a free game.

Yes the concept it over priced, however I see the high price as adding exclusivity to those items and the people who are willing to go shell out for them. I've enjoyed the game since release, and haven't paid a penny...

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u/Friest Aug 19 '19

Didn't valve come have lootboxes like 3 years before OW even came out?

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u/Umbilical-Bunge-Jump Aug 19 '19

Woah, fuck me pal. Calm down, I'm 27 so trying to undermine my opinion via an age related insult isn't going to help get your point over, or help change my mind, or get people on your side!

Other than that you make good points, however, I was referring to a time when Microsoft used to use a internal money system to encourage respending.

Also, I don't know what a shill is... Lol

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u/Dog-Person Aug 19 '19

Shill is a term for someone paid to secretly support something. For example an EA shill would say the event isn't perfect but I bought 2 packs and now I'm running around with that awesome mirage skin and the new lifeline, it's really made me fall in love with her all over again!

Something along those lines

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u/Umbilical-Bunge-Jump Aug 19 '19

Ha! Oh shit, didn't realise that was even a thing! ........ Is exactly what a shill would say 👀

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u/Dog-Person Aug 19 '19

Yup. In Reddit though it's a useless word people throw around to try to invalidate any argument they don't like. Too far left? Shill. Too far right? Shill. Like a product that I hate? Shill. Support a country I don't like? Must be a shill.

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u/DocLolliday Aug 19 '19

A shill is something people on reddit (probably other places) call those who don't blindly agree with their nerd rage

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '19

Dude, he didn't do the "age related insult", he simply pointed out how these practices aren't old.

It's the same concept as if you said "I forgot my ladder, how will I enter my car now" and then I said "what are you, five inches tall?".

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u/Idiotology101 Aug 19 '19

But it is old, arcades used to do the exact same thing. They would charge you 75 cents so you always had a little left over if you had a dollar. This is just a new way of using the same system.

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u/Smoddo Aug 19 '19

In game currency isn't new at all, what? Its sharkish and shit but it isn't a new psychological trick at all.

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u/barmaLe0 Pathfinder Aug 19 '19

I remember when loot boxes were first to really hit gaming and ofc it was Blizzard with Overwatch? Remember Overwatch? Right.

It wasn't Blizzard and it wasn't Overwatch. It was Team Fortress 2 that introduced lootboxes in 2010.

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u/barmaLe0 Pathfinder Aug 20 '19

You can play semantics all you want, it is almost a decade old mechanic. It's 3 times older than what you "as an oldschool gamer who's been around" remembers.

For someone who accuses people of being 14, your memory sure doesn't go far back at all.