STEAM MARKETPLACE IN JANUARY

(bgyoshi) #21

Sell every case

EVERY SINGLE CASE

Oh wait… that means people need to actually want to BUY cases too

Welp… there goes that plan. Poor house it is.

(GatoCommodore) #22

@doxjq said:
I’m tempted to reinstall the game after this update just so I can feel the satisfaction of uninstalling it again.

Sell your shinies so you dont have any reason to come back at all

(Press E) #23

@Ptiloui said:

@STARRYSOCK said:

@TheWickedsin said:
Still no help with duplicate se cards? Stuck with them forever I guess. At least I can cover them with useless and real money coatings skins.

I think SD mentioned they have plans to expand the marketplace for loadout cards too, weapon skins are just the first part.

But i don’t want to trade those hard earned SE cards. For some events, we’d have to play for hours and open 100/200+ cases to just got ONE special skin card. And im sure that some players even bought elite cases bundle to got them. What we want, is a reliable way to use them without being screwed. And trading those cards is NOT a reliable way to solve this issue.

My lasting hope is that the future loadout system they’re working on will offer a way to use skins with whatever loadout we want.

EDIT : The only issue steam trading will solve is the duplicate problem, when you get the same skin with the same loadout.

Well I mean, you can always trade it for another special edition.

Like, I just got a duplicate nuclear winter sparks. In theory I could trade that, or any other special edition card I didn’t like, for one that I did in the same skin. The nice thing about loadout cards is that very few of them are actually bad, just different, and everyone has different preferences.
Sure, it might be difficult to set up that trade and find someone who would trade actually tolen sparks for an empire 9, but there are people out there who would be happy to do so. Keep in mind there are lots of people in the same boat as you.
In fact, I already have a few trades set up already, I’m just waiting until the system goes live.

Don’t get me wrong, the loadout system still kinda sucks, but at least they’re finally doing something that can at least help.

(aminuseternal) #24

So SD’s response to this massive public outcry against rng loot boxes is to… add more rng loot boxes…

(hurgya) #25

@aminuseternal said:
So SD’s response to this massive public outcry against rng loot boxes is to… add more rng loot boxes…

It’s clearly not (if it is, I don’t know what to think), it’s their response to the requests for more customization. And (as they stated many times) they will release obsidian weapon skins, which are direct buy. Plus event weapon skins have a wider usability than loadouts.

Don’t get me wrong I wasn’t too happy with the reveal either, but I’m fed up with the negativity

(aminuseternal) #26

@hurgya dont get me wrong, i like db, i sunk a lot of time into it. I came back after a uear and saw all of this content with new maps and mercs and it got me back into the game. They have come a long ways from the horrors of the containment war, but i am just so sick of anti consumer practices.

What are they going to do on release? Anyone who has some semblance of influence that might look at db again, only to see that its full of not only lootboxes but locked weaponskin crates is not going to cast it in a good light.

Angry Joe’s video is still one of the first things that pops up when you search for anything db related on youtube. So what is Splash Damage going to expect? Sure you have a dedicated playerbase right now, but how is that going to grow in a post ea battlefront 2/call of duty ww2 world where lootboxes are the prime evil?

Anyways the most egregious for me is the ranked skins, because there is nothing like putting all of this time to get good at a select few mercs for ranked, only to get a card for a merc you dont even use.

(Teflon Love) #27

@aminuseternal said:
What are they going to do on release? Anyone who has some semblance of influence that might look at db again, only to see that its full of not only lootboxes but locked weaponskin crates is not going to cast it in a good light.

If they’d be fair the verdict should be that it’s a fun game without pay to win where bronze loadouts are easy to get without money and weapon skins are unneeded. However, it has an amoral RNG based business model where people with a lack of self control are tricked into wasting large amounts of money for a small chance to get the cosmetic they desire.

They have come a long ways from the horrors of the containment war, but i am just so sick of anti consumer practices.
While SD could have stepped up and derived a business model that does not abuse consumers, they apparently decided to go with the flow. Their game, their choice. Hopefully this will eventually be solved by laws that just forbid FPS themed online casinos.

So all you can do right now is just don’t buy RNG crap and vote for people that try to introduce laws against it.

(aminuseternal) #28

Yeah its just a shame that you have this pretty decent game here, that could be so much better, but whenever anything new happens its always more rng boxes. So instead of having these cool new things they come out with, its “oh look more boxes I have to grind for or spend a crapton of money on to get what I want”

It couldn’t be that big of a hit to db’s income right? ITs just frustrating because I want to support the game, but I am not going to support these anti-consumer practices anymore. I put money into event boxes before, and I am not doing that again.

(TheWickedsin) #29

Having played a bit on the update I can’t say I’m a fan. The decks appear to be a money grab. I love DB, it’s the one game I play but I can’t say I’ll support the skins at all. You can’t apply a skin to multiple decks, or trinkets for that matter, so if you have multiple mercs with the same primary you have to have a unique card for each. While I get the purpose I can’t say that I support it. I have three of four cards I utilize that have the blish and I would have to purchase that many skins, praying to rnjesus the whole time, give me a break. I’ll play, but I don’t care at all for the skins, aesthetically or in concept, and won’t be investing any capital into them and will likely not invest any more real money into the game. I just feel they went overboard. While events and such are great, they lose the specialness when it’s event after event after event with SE after Se.

(_milla) #30

@doxjq said:
I’m tempted to reinstall the game after this update just so I can feel the satisfaction of uninstalling it again.

the time has come.

(Sorotia) #31

@aminuseternal said:
So SD’s response to this massive public outcry against rng loot boxes is to… add more rng loot boxes…

It’s better than Paladins? They basically are replicating the loot system SWBF2 has, only making it a even bigger grind.

(Boory Marks) #32

@Sorotia Yeah, OB64 for Paladins is honestly going to kill the game for me. Some characters I like to have only one point for one of the cards, like the fire spit card for Drogoz and others I have 4 points dedicated to one card like the reduction to restore soul card for Seris. Now, every card can go up to 10 levels which is leveled up by RNG via radiant and/or champion chests.

Also, the cards in ranked are just all set to a certain level, which is unacceptable still because you cannot edit like you can with the 12 point system.

This basically just removes all the customization I loved about Paladins and replaces it for a grind style system. Hell, essence was not this bad when it first came out, and now it isn’t even that hard to get essence.

At least in Dirty Bomb, the new RNG system is purely cosmetic. I’d like that there was less RNG involved, still, but it’s better than killing off your free game before it comes out of beta cough cough(you can argue DB is dead, but for me it isn’t, sorry)

Side note: Also DB could use more optimization like in the menus and there’s also the crashing issues.

(B_Montiel) #33

This already sums up what’s coming up next :

(doxjq) #34

@_milla still have the game uninstalled. Have little to 0 interest in returning at this stage, at least until they revert the weapon balance changes or maybe at the very least remove the horizontal recoil. To me the game will remain a joke while it is still in the game. I can’t support SD at the moment haha.

(aminuseternal) #35

@Sorotia is that even possible?

(Sorotia) #36

@aminuseternal said:
@Sorotia is that even possible?

From what I’ve seen and heard it’s going to be even worse…more levels to grind for cards.