September 2019 - last edited September 2019
As the title says. Are the Pharoah's Curse (Longbow), Rule of Law (R99), and The Pioneer (Kraber) gun skins Voidwalker Event Exclusive or not? Or are they regular legendary skins that got added to their respective gun pools?
The reason Im asking is because I spent 3600 Apex Coins and 1200 Crafting Materials THINKING these are Voidwalker Event Skins and would like a refund on what I spent if this is not the case. They are even on the Voidwalker banner news page and in the Voidwalker Store Tab. But when actaully checking them out in my inventory they DO NOT have the voidwalker symbol. I wouldn't mind, whoever is in charge, if these guns are removed from my inventory.
If these are not Voidwalker event skins then I basically got duped/played. I NEVER buy legenedary skins from the ingame store since theres is no point in doing so if you can get them in regular (100 Coin) Apex Packs unless they are event exclusive. I have all the event guns since launch (yes even all Iron Crown Guns).
Is recompensation at all possible if this is the case?
September 2019
They have been added to the regular loot-pool and they will be available in packs forever. But I don't understand how that makes you want a refund.
September 2019
I bought these skins thinking they were Voidwalker Event skins, not just regular legendary skins. For example, right now there's the G7 The Gold Dragon and the Wingmans' The Death Ray gun (regular legendary skins) that you "pay to get now" which I see no point in at all. Hence the refund.
September 2019
Yeah, these are new additions to the standard loot box pool. I've been sitting on ~1800 crafting metal waiting for either a nice-looking alternate or a brand new skin to come out. Seeing some of this new stuff, I went ahead and snagged the Rule of Law for the R-99 since it matches The Lone Star for the Peacekeeper.
But, honestly, it's all about attention to detail. In the case of Apex Legends' cruddy monetization: if you can't buy an item with crafting metal, then it's definitely an event-exclusive item (because what better way is there to fleece your consumers than restricting an item to the one currency type that requires real money). If you can buy an item with metal then it's not event-exclusive. Seeing as how they changed nothing from the last event as far as cosmetics are concerned, I don't see this situation changing anytime soon.
To be perfectly blunt here, this one is on you. It's not entirely your fault but you still fell for one of the classic ploys of monetization. You have to pay attention when they do stuff like this because this is yet another way that developers trick their players. Open a new event and right next to the event items, add these shiny new standard items right next to them. It's all a trick to make you spend money on the standard items thinking they're for the event, but they're not. But we have to be smart enough to know better than that. We can't trust these developers to look out for us, especially when they're being controlled by publisher monopolies like EA who have proven numerous times that self-regulation is the last thing on their minds.