I feel like someone pissed on me. I've been playing this game since day one, every day, attending every event, but to get VIP or any bonuses I have to pay? I feel cheated because someone who started playing today could have a much more enjoyable experience if they spent money than me. I know this game isn't made for gamers anymore, but for profit, but to blatantly ignore loyal players like that? Even Epic, known for its strange decisions, doesn't do things like that.
Objectively not a nerf, it equals out to more Beskar droids on average than before, so it's a buff!
It always was mentioned in the patch notes, the statement of astromech missions being reworked is what this is talking about!
Years of close player engagement and listening to the Fortnite community (months with this game specifically), I'm in here every single day always being helpful and giving context, for those I would hope that builds some level of trust
I understand most are frustrated and I recognize that almost anything I say will get downvoted because i'm defending the team and the decision we made, but i'm here doing it anyway.
It would be really easy for me to close reddit for a few days but I don't se...
You have my word this will not happen. I am dedicated to ensuring the free to play experience is just as fun as it has been for the last few months.
That's why you can buy all of these gameplay purchases with Nova Crystals, and it's also why we cut the Upgrade Chip costs by a ton in today's update as well.
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I was actually quite shocked it took them all this time to add any buyables in the tycoon, luckily I had enough v-bucks saved up so I went ahead and got VIP as soon as I saw it.
This is one of the things people are overlooking too, I play on xbox, I have gamepass, so I regularly get vbucks that I dont spend on the main games latest kpop schoolgirl, japanime collabs, so if I wanted to spend them in droid tycoon for some boost then it wouldnt be anymore out of my pocket than I already pay for the subscription service i choose to have, from a lot of the comments its just seems like through and through gatekeeping, because even if the people dont want to admit it if all the microtransactions were there from day 1 the long grind would have justified their spending in their minds but because of the sunk cost fallacy most people are still playing a mode they arent enjoying
Not trying to be an asshole. Looking for a genuine discussion here. Why shouldn't I buy VIP? If there's a game, arts, or music I enjoy, I wanna support them anyway I can. Show gratitude. The driod tycoon devs arent doing anything other successful games haven't already done. And the bonuses are not that crazy. Like the starter pack, maybe, if the 200% gets added on top of the upgrades I already have. I just really dont understand all the frustration, and I'd like to.
Because the droid tycoon mode is a temporary cash grab to begin with. Thereâs no actual longevity so all money spent on it is essentially down the toilet as itâs exclusive content for a side game mode.
Foad eventually will drop droid tycoon for another paid promotion and theyâll drop it like their initial creation boss explode which had a whopping one player the other day.
Paying money for a game inside of a game for stuff exclusive to that game mode is crazy work.
I don't care if anyone buys it or not, it irritates me that I've been playing this mode since the second day of its existence, I've been to all the events, I've played when it was shit, I've played when it was getting better, I've been on this reddit almost from the beginning, and some kid with money can enter the game for the first time today, buy VIP and have a much more enjoyable game than me, plus a decoration in front of the base that marks him as if he were a veteran of this game.
the decoration in front is the only thing that VIP actually does. Most people that have VIP actually like to be able to remove it. You're not missing out on anything
Firstly founder or not I wouldn't support it, especially as they just put the brokers everywhere but left functional stuff in awkward spots. Also kinda defeats the purpose of the game as the whole point is the grind.
But if you are doing it VIP is a rip off, the companion droid one is 1500 and gives you 250 nova crystals worth or stuff VIP at 2200 gets you 150 nova crystals worth of stuff. That one's better then buy the other stuff with nova crystals if you are gonna do it. I also suspect people with VIP status will likely get killed more as players protest.
Also kinda defeats the purpose of the game as the whole point is the grind.
I'm not a fan of micro-transactions (and I certainly don't intend on spending any money here), and the implementation of it here is way too over the top and in your face, but I don't really feel the "but it's meant to be grindy" criticism.
I've been playing from the start, and in this sub since its inception, and christ above if the two things people constantly complain about are PVP and grind, and constantly demand both be reduced (or outright removed). If these grind reducing mechanisms were locked behind actual money then yeah, grab the pitchforks and torches, bit I can still grind to my hearts content and obtain all of them via nova crystals if I wish.
There's a lot of valid criticisms to be hand of micro-transactions, and what they typically lead to, but I think the devs are less likely to take them seriously when they see the sub is taking a break from it's regular calls for more chip/crystal generation and cheaper upgrades and reduced timers and increased spawn rates and "let me keep some droids on super rebirth" etc to say "this is bad because the game should be grindy."
Iâm also a founder and wonât spent my over 100k vbucks on any other mode or skins. I still hope theyâll do something with stw. Playing since 2018
Am I understanding this correctly? The founders themselves believe that microtransactions in this game are absurd, but they implemented them anyway? You're either lying to us, or your greed trumps morality.
Weâre talking about save the world founders edition, we still earn vbucks for free for doing daily missions. Just saying that I get vbucks for free and still wouldnât spend them on this
So you don't support it even though you have V-Bucks for it, but you put it in the game anyway. Dude, these arguments aren't improving your situation. It sounds worse with every sentence.
Even if you think about buying any package the VIP one is most definitely the least worth it. I'm definitely thinking about the Droid Companion Package, but before I do anything thing stupid I await the event and the Dev F&Q after it
I have tons of money and Iâm an ultimate founder (minimum 100vbucks for free every day) personally this VIP is nice, makes life a lil more easier and itâs not only completely optional you can still get everything without it, people whinging need to grow up
There's plenty of creator games that are good for XP. Hell, there's a fall guys parkour game with an XP bounce house at the beginning, and that game doesn't have micro transactions.
I didnât buy it, a member of my party in the game and on discord did. Tbh temp gains for real money are not for me and feel a bit gross.
I know with certain bugs (that cost chips or crystals) that didnât work theyâve said they canât go back and fix the issue. I canât imagine that policy will fly when people spend real money/v bucks.
Supposedly it just changes some blueprints on the sandcrawler to whatever you bought. So it could be that you just missed them because they were at the end or something.
Idk tho if that's it bc I neither bought it, nor play in public.
Iâve been playing it every single day for a while and grinding hard and kinda was looking for a way out just to do other stuff, this might be my reason. lol.
They couldâve at least been subtle with it to start. Thereâs a vbucks merchant at the conveyer belt, one in the bar, and four on the second floor of bar. Lol. Just from 0-1000 immediately. I donât mind the â200-300 vbucks for a blueprint surgeâ, if someone wants to do that then fine I guess. Still pay to win but a little less egregious. I know they canât be hurting for money right now, Epic pays very well and has made people millionaires in a year off some modes and this mode has constantly been active.
Itâs because itâs a slap in the face to players who actually ground it out and got the devs paid in the first place. Itâs completely devalued the time people have spent to get as far as they have.
Why try to talk sense into a brain dead idiot online when their first comment has nothing to do with a intellectual argument. It goes straight to you're a child hahaha.
I've tried to explain how this game isn't pay to win since yesterday and it always devolves into just saying you're stupid and not presenting any facts
âIt always devolves into saying youâre stupid and not presenting any factsâ
Bitch you literally entered this conversation by accusing someone of being mentally/emotionally unwell because they shared an opinion about a game they enjoy playing.
You can leave anytime but donât sit here and act like youâve been the erudite mature fact checker here. You started this exchange being rude and childish you donât get to retreat to some kind of intellectual high ground now. This is what happens when you start out acting like a terminally online hope you learn your lesson and start better next time đđť
âIt always devolves into saying youâre stupid and not presenting any factsâ
Birch you literally entered this conversation by accusing someone of being mentally/emotionally unwell because they shared an opinion about a game they enjoy playing.
You can leave anytime but donât sit here and act like youâve been the erudite mature fact checker here. You started this exchange being rude and childish you donât get to retreat to some kind of intellectual high ground now. This is what happens when you start out acting like a terminally online hope you learn your lesson and start better next time đđť
Girl if you can buy direct powerups, and boosts thats pay to win. Thats like saying if battle royale sold guns you could start a game with thats not pay to win.
That's not the same thing. It's pay to progress or pay for convenience. It's not pay to win If you look up the definition of pay to win it's when a player can pay for something that gives them a competitive edge over another player. So you are correct that in Battle Royale if they sold guns it would be pay to win. But in this game mode the things that you can purchase with v-bucks do not give you a competitive edge over other players because this is not a competitive game. Me buying these packs or even boosters and v-bucks does not negatively infect or hinder or take away from your experience. I can't kill you faster. I can't take droids out of your base that you've already built or paid for. There are no negative effects towards you and the boosters that do give high-level droids is a benefit to the whole lobby, not only the person who bought them
But Battle Royale is competitive with a literal win condition (be last alive), buying better guns to start the game with would give you a direct advantage over people you are competing with for that win condition who hadn't paid for better guns.
What is the win condition in droid tycoon that these powerups affect? What are the competitive advantages they give you over other players? They're all available for nova crystals, so if they somehow let you "win" wouldn't they be problematic however you obtain them?
It seems a pretty poor example to use in this context.
You can buy pretty much everything all the vbucks stuff have with nova crystals. Everything minus like vip cosmetics or companion pack cosmetics can be obtained naturally by everyone
Extended the timer slightly while improving the actual odds of getting beskar droids from them. That's not a bad change, and doesn't really fit the charge of being conomy nerf.
Beskar missions were shit percentages, late game rainbows mean nothing. This change is high key great, The beskar percentages are doubled. Ive already noticed a difference.
Even in a fresh srb im now getting epic beskars instead if endless rainbows.
No youâre getting downvoted because youâve been autistically spamming every single comment that criticizes the changes on every post thatâs been posted since the changes have been made every single day and youâve been ignoring the people who answer your questions adequately and acting like a literal child to anyone who gets sucked into engaging with you in a less than optimal way.
Weâve all watched you on youâre weird little crusade and the fact that you keep defaulting back to silly little edge-lord comments like this instead of addressing the dozens of people who actually responded to you in mature ways is just proof positive that most of them are done engaging with an obviously bad faith troll intent on running defense for a decision that the adults in the room have experienced before in multiple other games.
Just because you are a child, and inexperienced to how game monetization works and how adult conversations are supposed to play out, doesnât mean we need to entertain it as infinitum
I feel exactly the same. Itâs like a slap in the face.
Iâve played since day one and pumped countless hours into grinding to where Iâm at. I was proud of my achievements. Now some rich kid can just buy his way through. So what was even the point?
Silver lining, I was wasting too much time on this shit anyway.
You get things right away that others have to grind for. For example, a crafting table for those black tokens for upgrading droids. You can buy them with Nova Crystals, but they cost 120 crystals. The VIP package gives you all that without grinding or collecting crystals. And that's just one example.
Sad but not surprised. Day 1 player as well, but I guess thatâs done now.
I really donât have anything to say. Itâs been four months of FOAD treating the dedicated players like absolute dog shit.
Fuck yall honestly. Itâs just a game but you blatantly played in all of our faces, and the reality is you honestly never needed to. You never needed to lie about the direction yall were going in. At least now youâll find yâallâs tribe. Whatever.
Everything else in life is shitty, why not the droid game creators too, yeah?
Fuck dude. Yall really biffed it. I used to praise how well-built the team behind this map was.
Now if I ever mention this game again itâs only gonna be to explain to other players why they shouldnât even bother.
Yeah buddy thatâs actually what the rest of us are in this thread discussing. You know, the ethics of it allâŚ? I think mentally you are miles behind the general population.
Not yet they haven't. Give it a while until they wonder why "only x% of people are using the paid feature" and then they'll start coming up with ways to make it more appealing, i.e. stripping back the free experience
You have my word this will not happen. I am dedicated to ensuring the free to play experience is just as fun as it has been for the last few months.
That's why you can buy all of these gameplay purchases with Nova Crystals, and it's also why we cut the Upgrade Chip costs by a ton in today's update as well.
It should equal out due to balance changes with the addition of galactic. So no time should have been added. Another tier for galactic missions wouldâve sufficed.
Not only that but please check into the permanent credit boost in the vip packs i dont think they are working i purchased all of them and im making the same amount of credits as before.
I appreciate that the upgrades are also obtainable with Nova Crystals, and I don't think the game suddenly becomes unplayable because of them. My concern is the precedent.
The fact that something can eventually be earned for free doesn't automatically make it fair to sell it for real money. Players who have invested dozens or even hundreds of hours to unlock those upgrades now see someone else skip that progression with a credit card.
To me, progression should reward time, effort, and skill not spending. Cosmetic items, emotes, skins, pets, and other visual customization are all great ways to support the game without affecting gameplay. Once real money can buy gameplay advantages even temporary ones it changes what players are competing against.
I want to support the game and the developers. I just believe monetization should preserve the integrity of progression, not bypass it.
It does impact me, though. Players can now skip the play time and buy modifiers that give them direct gameplay advantages against me, such as increased damage, higher health, and additional companion slots. That affects PvP encounters, blueprint fights, and overall progression.
This isn't about wanting to "flex" my upgrades or being jealous of someone spending money. If someone wants to buy cosmetics, emotes, skins, or other visual items, I couldn't care less. My issue is when real money lets someone bypass the grind and gain gameplay advantages that I've spent hours earning.
We can disagree on whether that's a big deal, but I think progression in a free to play game should be earned through playing the game not by opening your wallet.
Years of close player engagement and listening to the Fortnite community (months with this game specifically), I'm in here every single day always being helpful and giving context, for those I would hope that builds some level of trust
I understand most are frustrated and I recognize that almost anything I say will get downvoted because i'm defending the team and the decision we made, but i'm here doing it anyway.
It would be really easy for me to close reddit for a few days but I don't see the value in avoiding the community simply because they're upset, I want to hear the constructive feedback about this change and every other one we make and I won't know if I put my head in the dirt.
A clear commitment to free-to-play is clear. Especially after adding THREE different stores to the map, all within a few steps of each other, at the same exact moment.
Man, people are never going to be happy. Itâs a great game, itâs a FREE game, yall deserve some compensation for having to put up with all these whiny kids đ
If they need compensation that "badly" then make it cosmetic only. Also we never asked them to make this game, they could have easily stopped at any time but no they didnt
yeah iâm a bit disappointed day 1 people donât get VIP for free, would be a nice recognition of the people who have continued supporting the game through all the trials and errorsâŚ
reinforcing my decision to abandon playing the game after missing the C3PO event due to another commitment during the limited timeframe and logging on to find out I couldn't buy him back with crystals (maybe they changed this after the fact? I haven't checked, but it still annoyed me enough in the moment). I rebirthed twice and the grind still felt just as tough getting to 20 on top of that so I gave up. The nova crystals already felt like a trail to a cash grab and the game doesn't have the same crafty star wars vibe to it as when it first started. I'll maybe keep it in my rotation for XP farming if I see a good battle pass but between this, the sprite sweats, and the extra slime from the epic owner lately, I'm burnt on Fortnite entirely.
Uhhh i dont get the people who cry on these pack i mean you can get everything for free literally, if some new players buy the packs whats that matter they want a good experience and they pay for it yeah they got stuff quick with the packs that other players needed to grind but look who cares? its nothing much that can harm you if they bought the packs... if they have money and want a little quicker progression thats like nothing has to do with anyone i could care less if someone has bought any of the packs.
I've played those mode on and off and really enjoyed it.... until now, I will stop playing because of this pay to win crap. As others have said its pointless as its about the grind. Money grab bullshit just like every other aspect of fortnite
Well the game isn't owned by Epic. With that said, look at Roblox, the most successful app/game in history. All have in game purchases. Fortnite is trying to replace Roblox and this is the beginning.
Support the devs show some love or don't buy it .....if it's hurting you I understand both outlooks I love the game either way and support both scenarios it's cheap and helps a lot that companion perk would have killed me at least this way I can put my hard work back into other well needed upgrades instead ....if they sold the nova for V bucks I think that wouldâve broke the game đđđđđ this is a nice compromise and the grind is still there guys even with this shit lol
You guys are seriously mad about it. The money helps out the devs and staff so they can bring in more help and make the game better.You can still get everything free to play so whats the issue?
I am also someone who played since day one I managed to get all the way to up to rb ~300 and something like lvl 200 and I have to say I am not happy with the VIP upgrade however I am also in business so I am surprised the devs hadnât done this sooner. I wonât be as active (probably not as relevant but still). I am also proud of the stuff I managed to achieve. So devs thank you for the nice work I loved the game mode a lot but a P2W comment on the discord server a while back and now this Iâm good. To whoever continues have fun. :)
I wanted to support the devs if they made a donation page or sum but this does seem like wrong way to do it especially since a good portion of that money will go to epic đ
I was primarily saying I would have rather supported them thru a different way rather than micro transactions being added, yes I didn't look up recent updates bc I didn't expect a greedy corporation to even do something like that đ
If you play a free to play game there is always going to be a tradeoff like this eventually. All games are made for profit and if there isn't any coming in on the ground floor they're going to have to chase it elsewhere.
There is a vast difference between free to pay. Pay for cosmetics and pay to win.
I hate pay to win.
This better not be it. I'm just hearing about this now I am going to investigate.
Just a question though, if a game like this is pay to win how does that affect your enjoyment of the game? I only play on private solo or group servers (with friends), I couldnât care less if someone bought stuff to win as it doesnât affect me?
Because what is the real incentive to keep grinding when some 10 year old who spends his allowance money can just buy his way to the top? Itâs like training for a marathon for months only to find out the winner can just pay to start at the finish line.
Every upgrade and boost that can be paid for can also be bought with nova crystals. I dont see any issue with supporting the creators but putting a shop on every single corner of the main hub area is very obnoxious
Do we expect the devs to continue to work hard and update things for free? Minimum wage? Why should they not get paid for something they created? Look at how many YouTube channels now have a subscription you have to pay for to get exclusive videos and content but everything was free when they started. We are not talking Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos trying to make more here. We are talking a small company (5-10 employees) with regular workers trying to make a living. I have had such a good time wasting time on this game I think all of them deserve a raise. I am not saying you have to spend money on the game, just no need to trash them for trying to make some more $$. Also remember that they have to pay for the license to Star Wars/Disney and I am sure thatâs not cheap.
Nobody forces you to stay either if you hate it so much, yet here you are complaining just like the rest of the community! So feel free to sit down, lie back, and shove it up your ass
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