I’m nonetheless urgent ahead with The First Descendant, which does have first rate sufficient fight and buildcrafting I’ve discovered, for what it lacks in story and mission range.
However the extra I play the extra I maintain getting slammed within the face with issues I hate, specifically all of which should do with microtransactions. And ones pulled immediately from the sport its emulating in primarily each single method, Warframe.
The issue right here is that The First Descendant has taken virtually each unhealthy microtransaction idea from Warframe and made them costlier, and worse. On daily basis I discover some new absurd factor the sport has monetized, and whereas sure, there are paths to grind out a lot of this, they make it so absurdly irritating a number of the time that you just’re simply going to wish to throw within the towel and pay. Which is after all, the purpose.
I’m not anti-microtransactions in free-to-play video games. I imply, they want some, or the sport couldn’t exist in any respect. However that’s normally non-compulsory cosmetics, and that is that and method, far more. We’ve:
- Paid Descendants, simply shopping for the character themselves, for $3-6 on common, skipping doubtlessly dozens of hours of grinding.
- Frequent skins which are nothing however recolors for current skins.
- Premium skins that promote usually promote hair and make-up individually, and common skins should be rebought for every character.
- Final skins that may run for $100 and require an much more insane degree of grinding and RNG to assemble.
- Paint that doesn’t work on free skins, and are one-time use.
- Restricted Descendant slots so it’s a must to buy extra to maintain increasing your assortment with out “dismissing” any.
- A battle cross that doesn’t comprise any character skins in any respect.
- The sport placing “construct timers” on the stuff you have grinded for, which might be hours to days, except you pay to skip the wait.
- Paid boosts for XP, gold acquisition, weapon mastery, shard technology.
- Paid supplies for crafting prices.
Once more, you’ll certainly discover virtually all of those microtransactions inside Warframe, however many listed below are costlier and/or offer you much less for the worth. That is additionally one thing that turned me off from Warframe, however right here it’s simply much more transparently horrible and I very a lot don’t like a sport that throws up annoying roadblocks at each flip as a way to get you to open your pockets to keep away from them.
At this level I’ve few issues paying $10-20 for a beauty pores and skin in a free-to-play sport if I’m actually digging it or a selected character I’m utilizing. However a sport that decreases its drop charges for the sake of claiming you’ll be able to “grind” twenty hours for one thing you might simply purchase for $6 rubs me the fallacious method. And so does doing that grind and being hit with a days-long wait timer except you pay to take away it. It’s gross.
Once more, it’s Warframe, nevertheless it’s positively worse and it positively has not earned the goodwill to monetize to this excessive degree, providing gamers so little in return. It could find yourself making me throw within the towel altogether rely on how this continues to really feel as the sport presses on.
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