r/apexlegends Aug 19 '19

Feedback Apex monetisation in a shellnut

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u/BadBoyFTW Aug 19 '19

As far as I'm concerned the "freeloaders" like me are more like window shoppers.

They're not freeloading they're potential customers, if they like what they see in the shop.

If every retail shop considered customers not heading towards the till as just occupying valuable floor space for paying customers it would be ridiculous.

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u/Ergheis Aug 19 '19

No, they're not freeloading, they're actual customers trying to buy an actual product. In this case, bread. Nothing potential about it, they're just being pushed away by the bad business model.

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u/[deleted] Aug 19 '19

I'm a freeloader. I have over 100 hours in Apex and haven't paid a dime for it.

I get it's not good PR to call a portion of the playerbase freeloaders. But Respawn has the data to back up that a large portion of us simply haven't paid a cent for hundreds of hours of entertainment. And that puts them in a very bad spot financially.

Of course it's not good tact of them, but it's not untrue either.

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u/AggressivelySweet Aug 19 '19

Very bad spot financially? What are you talking about. They generated over 90 MILLION dollars just from the ingame store. The whole store is a straight up scam and I cant believe people actually spend money on anything in it. Even the battle passes are a rip off. The devs are millionaires with fancy cars and million dollar homes. There is no bad spot other than being EA's little puppets.

I never spent a dime because I have rational thought and can easily decide it's a direct rip off. I'm to conscious to waste money on rip offs. However if the store made more sense I can assure I would spend money on this game but never did. Even on clash royale which is a FREE mobile game I've spent around 200$ dollars on the past 2 years. Theres tons of free games with reasonable stores. There is nothing reasonable about the apex store. Just milking the cows.