Oh I absolutely agree with that. Just saying that the destiny prices were too high is a bit unfair when it's actually pretty comparable to most other free to play games.
Honestly I feel their in game destiny prices probably drove people off. I won (not played, won) 100 matches and had only unlocked 2 extra dudes. That's a long grind
This is pretty much League's pricing. With the only difference being that they didn't have a set of lower tiers (which is likely due to the smaller pool).
Man this is the excuse people use to defend heroes of the storms pricing but like, that lower tier is PRETTY IMPORTANT. People forget how good it is to have some characters unlocked after just a few games in league because they did it years ago but it's a big part of customer retention. Some of those 450 champs easily become people's favourites. Ignoring that seems like a huge mistake. Sure it's a smaller pool but league launched with 40 dudes and had dick all for money, these also-rans with company backing should be able to figure something out.
Totally agree. People seem to forget how big a deal the lower cost champs are in getting people invested in the game and getting them a pool of varied champions they can pick from right away. Not to mention the fact that LoL sold bundles of like 20 champions for a pretty fair price if you wanted to get a jump start.
Blizzard and EA seem to want to skip that step and go right to heavy handed champion throttling. I am in the HotS alpha and I've already written it off because I'm locked into picking from a pool of about 5 champions. I literally have a quest I can't complete because they don't have a free champion of that type to play as.
Obvious cash grab and grind up front = no buy in. I'll just continue to play LoL where I have all champs unlocked.
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Honestly I feel their in game destiny prices probably drove people off. I won (not played, won) 100 matches and had only unlocked 2 extra dudes. That's a long grind
This is pretty much League's pricing. With the only difference being that they didn't have a set of lower tiers (which is likely due to the smaller pool).
Man this is the excuse people use to defend heroes of the storms pricing but like, that lower tier is PRETTY IMPORTANT. People forget how good it is to have some characters unlocked after just a few games in league because they did it years ago but it's a big part of customer retention. Some of those 450 champs easily become people's favourites. Ignoring that seems like a huge mistake. Sure it's a smaller pool but league launched with 40 dudes and had dick all for money, these also-rans with company backing should be able to figure something out.
Totally agree. People seem to forget how big a deal the lower cost champs are in getting people invested in the game and getting them a pool of varied champions they can pick from right away. Not to mention the fact that LoL sold bundles of like 20 champions for a pretty fair price if you wanted to get a jump start.
Blizzard and EA seem to want to skip that step and go right to heavy handed champion throttling. I am in the HotS alpha and I've already written it off because I'm locked into picking from a pool of about 5 champions. I literally have a quest I can't complete because they don't have a free champion of that type to play as.
Obvious cash grab and grind up front = no buy in. I'll just continue to play LoL where I have all champs unlocked.
I mean, in fairness to Waystone, the guy-unlock-as-reward idea was a good one. It was just that the not-random options got calibrated to unbearably tedious or expensive for most people.
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I think a champ unlock token would have been a better idea.
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I need this man to do more stuff in other games.
PS: The slow clapping STILL gets me every time.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
Totally agree. People seem to forget how big a deal the lower cost champs are in getting people invested in the game and getting them a pool of varied champions they can pick from right away. Not to mention the fact that LoL sold bundles of like 20 champions for a pretty fair price if you wanted to get a jump start.
Blizzard and EA seem to want to skip that step and go right to heavy handed champion throttling. I am in the HotS alpha and I've already written it off because I'm locked into picking from a pool of about 5 champions. I literally have a quest I can't complete because they don't have a free champion of that type to play as.
Obvious cash grab and grind up front = no buy in. I'll just continue to play LoL where I have all champs unlocked.
I mean, in fairness to Waystone, the guy-unlock-as-reward idea was a good one. It was just that the not-random options got calibrated to unbearably tedious or expensive for most people.
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I agree, but I think they were going for "hey, play X guy, you might like him!" as a result.
And sadly it will not stay around. ;_;
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