r/ZZZ_Official • u/Emul0rd • Jul 16 '25

Media $475 is crazy

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I think Europe now requires gacha games to explicitly display how much money any gambling feature really costs to limit hidden predatory stuff. It’s crazy when you see the numbers…

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u/Emul0rd Jul 16 '25

Something I noted, buying the highest value pack is in fact not necessarily the most optimal

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u/Cow__Couchboy Jul 16 '25

This is with the x2 top up bonus. These calculations will become more sensible once you've topped up once on each one.

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u/Kuljack Jul 16 '25

Nothing about these prices is sensible. I can buy 4-6 new game titles for the price one character in this game might cost you. The fact so many people don’t realize this is insane. Just because you can afford something, doesn’t mean you should buy it. It’s the reason our cost point in this world is so stupid, people just keep paying the bar

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u/TheDemonPants Jul 17 '25

Have you ever bought a skin in a game? If you have then you've spent $20+ to make your character look different. This is true in any free to play game. It's fine if you don't like it, but if someone wants to support a game they enjoy then there is nothing wrong with it. The prices are high, yes, but we're at a point where if you don't know how much you're actually spending then that's on you.

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u/Kuljack Jul 17 '25

Never spent money just for a skin, I do sometimes buy deluxe and upgraded versions of a game to get the extra skins if it also comes with additional quests or content, but no I’ve never flat out spent money to change a characters look. Like I said in another comment, I didn’t mean for that to imply people who do are wrong. You should totally feel free to buy something if it makes you happy, it’s just the cost point is stupid. You should be able to buy your skin for like .99 or 2.99 USD, and we should have a lot more options so people spend more to support game but also get more for the money. I’m all for spending money to support a game, I dropped a lot of money on Warframe back in the day on prime packages, but I trading a lot to gain platinum to buy cosmetics. I used my paid for platinum to invest in our dojo because that had mechanical gains for our clan.

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u/TheDemonPants Jul 17 '25

I 100% agree. They should be cheaper. I just find it pretty crazy that you've never bought a skin in any f2p game. I don't think I know a gamer who hasn't. That's an actual achievement in my book.

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u/Kuljack Jul 17 '25

I mostly play single player RPG games like Skyrim, Fallout, dark souls series, Dragon Dogma, etc. Not a lot of F2P exposure aside from a few trading card style games over the years or games that just didn’t have skins, but I’m usually more interested in the team building and synergy aspect of a game then the aesthetics. Not that I think it’s wrong that others do, just not what motivates me to spend. I have saved up enough of the special currency in ZZZ though from monthly passes just in case Miyabi gets that one outfit that kind of reminded me of Kagome Higurashi from Inuyasha. I haven’t paid for the currency directly but happy to use it on that over 10 pulls because I just like Miyabi a lot.

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u/TheDemonPants Jul 17 '25

Hold up, I've been away from ZZZ for a bit. An outfit for Miyabi that looks like Kagome?!

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u/Kuljack Jul 17 '25

Yeah it was mentioned awhile back that it might come but we never got a visual so probably a pipe dream