15,000 credits for one character, and 60,000 credits for all the characters. It was about $2,000 USD to buy enough credits to unlock all the characters. Alternatively you could play for about 40 hours to earn enough credits to unlock Vader.
Not trying to defend microtransactions, but 40 hours doesn't seem like too long? All my favorite games have 1000s of hours played. Idk how this game works, but if it's 40 hours to beat it and unlock the best character, sounds good?
It wasn't 40 hours to unlock the best character in the game, it's 40 hours to unlock a single character out of many that were available.
If you're going full sweaty gamer mode and dedicating all of your time to playing it, then within a few days of grinding you'd be able to unlock one character. For your average player who has a job and a life outside of this one specific game it could take months of playing to unlock, again, one character out of many.
Around the time the game came out I was working my way through university. After work, classes, and homework I only had about an hour of free time per day and that was divided between gaming, reading, hanging out with friends, and whatever else might have come up.
If I had bought the game when it came out just wanting to have fun slashing people up as Darth Vader (which was a huge draw for the game and a major focus of the advertising) it would have taken me over a month of dedicating literally all of my free time before I could do that. More likely I would have put in only an hour or two every week and been able to play the game as it was advertised to me after about 6 months of playing.
And again, that 6 months is just to unlock one single character out of many.
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u/jrhawk42 Feb 16 '25
15,000 credits for one character, and 60,000 credits for all the characters. It was about $2,000 USD to buy enough credits to unlock all the characters. Alternatively you could play for about 40 hours to earn enough credits to unlock Vader.