February 2019 - last edited February 2019
Is atrocious and offensive. I bought the founder's pack. Used the coins on 20 packs (and got ~20 more packs from leveling). Haven't broke 1200 (not even close, 775). It could be a case of "bad luck" whilst gambling, but I imagine it's a usual result.
Too bad I like to collect stuff in games. This anti-consumer loot system is a huge turn off.
Charge me $40 for the game, please, and give me a less offensive OW-esque loot system. I know private flights and three houses don't come free for shareholders, but this is too much.
I'm not going to spend another cent otherwise.
February 2019
IMO Founder pack and starter pack are really bad as I don't even play the 3 heroes you get skins for nor do I like the hemlock so the only good part of it, for me, is the Apex Coins. Thing is, for 40$, getting a low amount of 2000 coins is half of what I could be getting if I simply purchased 40$ worth of AC (4000+350 AC total to be precise).
And yeah, the game is AWESOME. Really love it, but holy hell, the fact you can't even directly buy skins without having to get it via gambling-huh I mean loot boxes really turns me off from getting AC. Also, the "featured" skins have a ridiculously high price... 1100 AC minimum for a single legendary skin... really? By getting the 23.99$ CAD pack of AC (2000+150 AC) I can't even get 2 of those! I'd be missing 50 god damm AC. Almost like it's all planned hey?
About the skins on the right side of the "featured" page, yeah those skins you can get for Legend Tokens. You can't actually purchase them unless you get their corresponding skins on the left side using AC! So you are forced to spend real life money on said skins before you can get a worse version of essentially the same skins using Legend Tokens. Right...
So yeah, we are left with Crafting Metals as the only way to "reliably" gain any skins (without having to pay ridiculously high prices or go through loot boxes) thing is we are drop fed them, we only get them via loot boxes and you can only have a finite number of loot boxes unless you buy them with real life money because you don't get them anymore once you reach the lvl cap. This wouldn't be an issue if Crafting Metals were rewarded for top squads (like top 5 squads in a round) or if we continued to get more boxes at a regular pace, like in overwatch, even past the lvl cap.
February 2019
Probably should've went with 4000 Apex Coins. I was going to buy the founders pack yesterday, but after looking up the contents, the weapon skin was the only item that looked appealing, but I don't use that gun.
I got 4000 Apex Coin instead, was pleased with the outcome. I got 5 legendary drops, one of them was 600 crafting materials. That allowed me to unlock the cool dragon gun camo for the Eva-8 Auto Shotgun for 1200 crafting materials.