How can you call something an event only to beg people to open their wallets to give you roughly 162 usd to get the axe that you tease people with? You give us 1 event badge, 30 crowns and 2 packs for playing the game, sick items for a 2 week event! After we reached level 100 you stopped giving us anything of worth so I do not really see why giving us 2 more boxes is something to defend this event with.
What I find exceptionally dirty about this is that you already have the season pass that you also wanted money for, but you put lame looking things in to the season pass and saved the absolute best things in to the Iron Crown event. There is not a single player skin that looks good in the season pass, what is that telling us?
This event is in reality just a way for you to grab more money from players with a large wallet or players with a gambling addiction.
All you did was to finally add more skins to the store, but there is a twist, you made them all cost roughly 10 usd AND do not let us buy what we want, we have to gamble since it is a 1/24 or 1/22 chance that we get what we want. You also still have normal skins in the store and they are just as boring as they were before. Lets say that I want the Centurion skin, are you telling me that I might need to pay 22x700 = 15,400 coins for 1 skin? + 3,500 if I also want the axe.
You have a few good looking skins in the new event boxes. but most of the items are just fill items to allow you to get more money and you can not deny that.
I really wanted to come back and play this game some more but your business model makes it hard to support this game. I am currently studying and can not afford spending nowhere close to 100+ usd on a game, but your business model is telling me that I either gamble to maybe spend 100+ usd for a skin or 162 usd to get the axe, or spend nothing at all.
You can not tell me that my post is breaking any rules because it is 100% true.
This game is not worth 100+ or 162 usd or whatever, but that is what the players are asked to pay if they want to buy something.
I know that I do not have to buy anything to play this game, but that is not the problem, the problem is that EA is doing this OVER and OVER AGAIN, destroying games that we really like. EA did the exact same bull with Battlefront 2 and Battlefield 1 and it nearly killed those games. The''non-gamer business people in suits'' that set the prices for EA's greedy in-game stores are trying to grab as much money as they can and they do not care about the players, at all, all they see are dollar-signs when they see somebody registrating to a game.
Sure, you gave the solo players a taste of what they wanted, but the real reason for adding this ''event'' was most likely just a bad excuse to add mega expensive things to the store, why would you otherwise sell each event box for 7x the amount of a normal box? I would bet EA FORCED you to add this event for ''reasons''.
Is this event ''really'' meant to be fun for the players? I think not!
