Why is Fragger so expensive?

(artfulSedan) #1

Apart from the obvious unbalanced income - price relations…

Why is fragger so expensive? he is like 80% more expensive than the rest. Why?

(einstyle) #2

cause he’s like 80% better than the rest

(Kroad) #3

why bother balancing when you can make people pay more

(Szakalot) #4

no matter what type of balancing you will use, some mercs will be more versatile/powerful/useful than others. I don’t see that as a problem.

(Zenity) #5

I guess he’s a popular choice? He promises easy kills with little effort. That’s not really true of course, but perception matters.

(Tomme) #6

Mercs prices can be changed and adjusted, just look at other, including extremely successful F2P games, where purchasable items/items vary in prices for all sorts of reasons. Seen as more versatile, newer release, hard or easy to play ect.

(Kroad) #7

yeah he requires a lot of effort, having to hold down the ability button for 2 seconds is really hard

(insaneCylinder) #8

From my understanding all the current mercs are “tier 1”. I think that Fragger might be classified as “tier 2” and this is why he is more expensive.

(subtleChain) #9

Which doesn’t make it any less bullshit. Having “tier 2” and “tier 1” mercs acknowledges the fact that some mercs are better than others, it encourages an extremely bad mentality of “I keep losing to this guy because he has a 50.000C character”, which is only one step apart from “I keep losing to people who pay more money than me, this game is freaking pay to win”.
Having mercs cost more than others is wrong because it seems to acknowledge there is a structural imbalance between mercs: “if you pay more money, you’ll gain access to more powerful mercs” which actually isn’t true right now (aside from a handful of balance issues), and which shouldn’t be true.

(evuze) #10

Do agree all mercs should be the same price.

(ev1ldarks) #11

Agree, all mercs should be balanced and selled at the same price… unless it is a desperate try to make players play anything else than this boring standard merc ? :stuck_out_tongue:

(Meat) #12

[quote=“artfulSedan;1894”]Apart from the obvious unbalanced income - price relations…

Why is fragger so expensive? he is like 80% more expensive than the rest. Why?
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First of all check your math he is only 40% more expensive than the other mercs.

Secondly, while you might complain about the price, remember that this game is F2P, which doesn’t mean the DEVs don’t need to make money, no they are just making this game to make us all happy!

More powerful mercs cost more probably in the hope that players will want them right away and will actually drop real $ for them.

If you don’t want to pay the real $, then wait and build up your credits and pick up Fragger.

(Zenity) #13

He is not more powerful though. Remember it’s the shotguns which are OP. Or was it the sniper? Everything is equally OP. Sorry Arty, not you!

(appreciativeBuster) #14

I pwn with arty :>

(god1) #15

If they wanted people to drop more real $ for the mercs they should drop the price to like 3€, the current one is way too high. With the current 6,99€ you can buy full triple A games from Steam sales, I don’t see how unlocking just one character in DB competes with that.

All mercs should have the same pricetag on them, maybe put them on sale when they’re on the free rotation. When introducing new mercs to the game give them a couple bucks higher price for the first week or two.

(B_Montiel) #16

Which doesn’t make it any less bullshit. Having “tier 2” and “tier 1” mercs acknowledges the fact that some mercs are better than others, it encourages an extremely bad mentality of “I keep losing to this guy because he has a 50.000C character”, which is only one step apart from “I keep losing to people who pay more money than me, this game is freaking pay to win”.
Having mercs cost more than others is wrong because it seems to acknowledge there is a structural imbalance between mercs: “if you pay more money, you’ll gain access to more powerful mercs” which actually isn’t true right now (aside from a handful of balance issues), and which shouldn’t be true.[/quote]
Huh, no. League of legends has implemented similar system with no relationship between champion prices and how they perform in-game. IMO, I’ve always seen this as a “to buy first” incentive. 30k mercs should be the pool of mercs everyone should have for a good overall vision of the game.

(intenseRuby) #17

Your logic might work out if the core characters (core healer, core objective player, etc.) were cheaper than niche specialty characters, but Fragger is essentially the core player killing merc. The problem with charging more money for the merc that is best at racking up frags is going to be frighteningly apparent once Fragger isn’t free merc of the week annymore.

(Amerika) #18

Yeah, tell me about it. I bought Fragger before I knew you could get the Merc pack and I spent 50k credits I can’t get back. It’s crazy how expensive he is.

(Reddeadcap) #19

My only thought is that its because he’s an assault so he’d be more resistant and powerful in a head to head fight, still don’t think that making his price higher worth it.

(flameChicken) #20

He’s more resistant, his machine gun takes less shots to kill, and his grenades have a short cooldown… what more do you want in a K/D merc that overpowers most other mercs?