I was thinking of laying down some cash on this game for cosmetics, but it’s just discouraging to have to deal with the RNG system of Elite Cases and trade-ups. This is especially considering how there’s different skin variants for Silver/Gold/Cobalt cards, nine different loadouts per Merc that are all subject to RNG for acquisition at high rarities, and how the color that you get differs solely with scaling rarity. Blue only accessible at Cobalt? The rarest and potentially most expensive of them all? No thanks.
Until I can buy a desired rare card directly with cash, and until the rarity system is revised to include different color variations within a single rarity, I don’t think I’ll be spending money on this game any time soon. Ideally, Silver/Gold/Cobalt should be just as rare as each other to resolve the “color scaling with rarity” issue, and then that will leave room for future card types (ex. Crimson for red skins, Irradiated for green skins, etc.). Seriously, cosmetic purchases are the bread and butter of humane F2P models; just look at Warframe and how its playerbase practically BEGS for bling to buy! Locking these things behind RNG and scaling rarities isn’t gonna convince any sane person to lay down cash on this game for cosmetics.