Most people aren’t buying their virtual currency 1:1 in the path of exile shop, they buy it through FOMO bundles which distorts its value just the same. For example right now you can buy into the early access, but here’s the kicker at 30$ it also comes with 300 points, so what’s the value of the early access or the points?
Path of exile has other positives aspects going for it, you can finish it without spending any money and it’s not P2W, although there’s a pay for convenience buy-in that costs about the same as a regular game. But its micro transactions and virtual currencies are as predatory as everyone else with overpriced items, rotating sales and gambling boxes.
All of the packages always give you points at exactly the $10 = 100 points ratio. You can’t buy points anywhere that is more or less than that. The supporter packs give bonus mtx on top of the points, but if you spend any money you’re getting exactly 10 points per dollar.
PoE definitely has some predatory aspects, but price transparency isn’t one of them. 100 points is always $10 so it’s trivial to understand the actual cost of an mtx. An 80 point item is $8, very transparent.
Compare to Fortnite, where 1000 vbucks is $8.99, so how much is an mtx that costs 1200 vbucks? You need a calculator.
1$ = 10 points only works for dollars, here’s the german version for example, you still need a calculator.
The moment you can buy more shit with the same amount of money it derides the 1 dollar = 10 points. Btw if you buy the more expensive packs you can forego physical items for more poe vbucks.
Most people aren’t buying their virtual currency 1:1 in the path of exile shop, they buy it through FOMO bundles which distorts its value just the same. For example right now you can buy into the early access, but here’s the kicker at 30$ it also comes with 300 points, so what’s the value of the early access or the points?
Path of exile has other positives aspects going for it, you can finish it without spending any money and it’s not P2W, although there’s a pay for convenience buy-in that costs about the same as a regular game. But its micro transactions and virtual currencies are as predatory as everyone else with overpriced items, rotating sales and gambling boxes.
All of the packages always give you points at exactly the $10 = 100 points ratio. You can’t buy points anywhere that is more or less than that. The supporter packs give bonus mtx on top of the points, but if you spend any money you’re getting exactly 10 points per dollar.
PoE definitely has some predatory aspects, but price transparency isn’t one of them. 100 points is always $10 so it’s trivial to understand the actual cost of an mtx. An 80 point item is $8, very transparent.
Compare to Fortnite, where 1000 vbucks is $8.99, so how much is an mtx that costs 1200 vbucks? You need a calculator.
1$ = 10 points only works for dollars, here’s the german version for example, you still need a calculator.
The moment you can buy more shit with the same amount of money it derides the 1 dollar = 10 points. Btw if you buy the more expensive packs you can forego physical items for more poe vbucks.
Fair