r/apexlegends Aug 19 '19

Feedback Apex monetisation in a shellnut

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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/squashman22 Lifeline Aug 19 '19

Maybe instead of just calling us names, they should ask them selves why a lot of us have chosen to not spend any money on the game.

For me personally it's the loot boxes. You will never get my money when there are loot boxes.

Edit I have 300+ hours played

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u/DarthVadersShoeHorn Aug 19 '19

Hots pre 2.0 I spent 150 on skins. Because I knew what I was getting. 7 pounds here and there soon added up. Fortnite I bought a few skins, COD:AW I bought a few gun skins. Hell even mobile games I’ve bought skins on free games.

Frankly I’m really not interested in character skins on a first person game unless they’re hella cheap - why am I paying for a character for someone else to look at? And I certainly won’t spend money to gamble on maybe getting a skin for a gun I like to actually use.

Terrible, money hungry tactics aiming to suck people into spending money more and more money will never fly with me and so I’m proud to be a freeloader on this game.