So this new journey system just screams to be monetized. So how much do you think it will cost when they add new journey steps with sweet new rewards that you can only get if you got the Crom coins for it.
I don’t think that’s how it works. It’s a tutorial. You’re wondering if it’ll cost money to bypass the tutorial stuff? I don’t see that happening as I’ve never seen that on any other game. It would be extremely out of the norm to monetize a tutorial.
They said in the live stream that they can now add new journey steps whenever they want.
Yeah, that would likely be to incorporate new content that needs an explanation.
All they gotta do is make a new journey, put some random things to do in it, put a really sweet piece of armor in there as a reward(1 piece, you gotta do the other paid journeys to get the other pieces) and then slap a Crom Coin requirement to start it.
They could… but must we expect the worst? Basically, at this point, they made the tutorial actually reward you for completing it, much like many other online games. So to monetize it, as I’ve said before, would be extremely out of the norm for online games… or any games for that matter. The only thing I’ve seen closest to that is a time savers purchase for people that don’t wanna put in the effort.
Just got this feeling that there’s gonna be these small Crom Coin Journey Challenges to do to entice you to dip into those battle pass coins so you need to buy a new one next season.
maybe thats how they will bring back the old battle pass items, put them in the Journey and charge Crom Coins.
Always expect Tencent to try to squeeze money out of the players any way they can get away with.
You really think they’re gonna monetize the tutorial? I guess the crazy train’s already left the station
Its not just a tutorial, the first part yes and if you already have a level 60 character it lets you skip the tutorial portion I think they said. The rest are a bunch of quests for each main thing in the game that reward XP and a bonus item at the end if you do all the quests in that category.
That’s cool, but where does monetization fit into that? You just described a perfectly normal game system and yet are so cracked out paranoid you returned from a 9 month hiatus to doomsay it’s going to somehow cost money
That’s what the Battle Pass is.
Here’s a task to perform a basic or more advanced task, if you spend CC, you get more rewards.
Exactly… that’s what the battle pass’ purpose is. He’s basically describing a second, or ongoing, battle pass.
This one would be bemused if another layer of monetization is added.
So far it has been comparatively compartmentalized.
We don’t login thru the in game store, no pop ups with flash sales, ect.
Regardless of some of this one’s mincing over details, it is mostly confined to limited areas.
When they add journey steps to the game after the update, there will be no cost, The New Steps, when added, will only apply to things that are not temporary.