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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 7.2 hrs on record
Posted: 4 Mar, 2020 @ 5:14am
Updated: 4 Mar, 2020 @ 5:37am

Making people pay for changing RGB color on a screen:
You can BUY paints for 0.5$ to 1$. You get only ONE pain item and it is SINGLE USE.

Remember, you have to PAY to play this game. You pay to get all basic features and a GOOD TIME. For the Guns Of Icarus, GOOD TIME means frustrating the player to get more money.

While selling intricate/special cosmetics items 'might' be acceptable, in the current state, it is clearly meant to mess with you, as the ammount of outfits and cosmetics you start with is extremely limited and most of those cosmetics are absolutely lame. At the end of every game, you'll have a full on zoom on the winning team, taking a lot of time for you to linger, to see how more elegent than you they are, so that you might be tempted to buy more and more.

Worse, the Guns Of Icarus team found that it would be a great idea to divide the already small player base by creating a new 'improved' PvE extension. They will harass you so that you buy their new extension pack, Guns Of Icarus ALLIANCE. You will be remembered of the existance of this ALLIANCE extension at every corners. The main menu's FIRST button is bigger, brighter, shiny and flishing, squirting for your love... The world map and the faction menu are there ONLY for those who own the extension, buy you'll be able to see it all and, if you don't understand it yet, pay in game coins to participate to the war... war that you can not take part, because you don't have the ALLIANCE extension... so I just waisted all of my money to support a region, by adding a buff that would allow me to contribute 20% as much for every games I play in this region... except that I can NOT play in it, because I do not own the ALLIANCE extension...

How to confuse, mess with and trap your player into spending more and more money... THANKS GUNS OF ICARUS, I WILL REMEMBER YOU!

GO TO HELL!
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Rensen 8 Mar, 2020 @ 5:00am 
This discussion does not make any sense. Cheers.
Pyro 8 Mar, 2020 @ 4:53am 
Good or bad is a judgment of us, my opinion is valid wheter or not you like it.

Seeing the BUY ALLIANCE everytime I'm on the main menu is tiring. Having to worry everytime I apply a paint is painful. This is game time, this is part of the experience.

When you start, you have access to the strategic map to help in the war effort. You can spend a lot of money only to discover you can not take part of this war, because it is part of the ALLIANCE extension. This is not told to the player, you discover it when asking others about "how to join the war". Gameplay wise, this money is used to buy new ships... now you get to grind again. Ever heard of abusing the sunken cost fallacy to get players to buy something?

This game gave me a bad time, this game will give a bad time to others, therefore this game is bad.
Rensen 8 Mar, 2020 @ 4:32am 
It might matter for some people but that does not mean that that's gonna decide whether the game is bad or not. That point you are trying to push or whatever, it's too narrow. Once again, you cannot judge the game and call it not well designed while pulling only one aspect of it as a proof, this does not make any sense.
Pyro 7 Mar, 2020 @ 12:30pm 
@Rensen For some people, it is. But you don't care about anything but gameplay, right?

Did you know that some premium games already asked for money for the ability to save a game? 2nd save slot for $$$? Do you get my point yet?
Rensen 7 Mar, 2020 @ 11:13am 
I dont see how this makes the game worse. Find proper reasons to accuse the game in being not well designed?
Pyro 7 Mar, 2020 @ 8:49am 
@Rensen : Read again, read better.

I never talked about dyes modifying the gameplay.

This is not a free to play game, you have to pay to play it. Micro-transactions shouldn't be handled in such a way.

TL;DR If you buy 0.5-1$ a single use dye, you are an idiot.
Rensen 7 Mar, 2020 @ 5:59am 
Hmm, i dont see how the customisation can mess with your gameplay experience. Moreover, you are getting some really cool costumes on levelling up and doing achievements. The game is pretty well designed, unless you really care about how your character looks in comparison to others. I dont think that accusing the game in triviality of its in-game purchases makes any sense as long as it does not give you some sort of an advantage over other players. Frankly speaking, this game is just one of hundreds of other games that offer some cool skins and different colours of default skins for real money, its normal. Anyways, calling the game raw or a self-sabbotaged product according only to its in-game purchases does not make any sense as there are a lot more topics to discuss that make customisation insignificantly inportant.
Pyro 7 Mar, 2020 @ 2:40am 
@Rensen Yes, I know. I'm not a monkey! I know that and never said anything that goes against this idea.

But everytime you change the color of a hat, you have to pay for a new dye.

Do you know how easy it is to change RGB values? Do you know how trivial such an action is?

"You can play the game for free, but everytime you want to test a new loadout, you have to pay 0.5$". How does this sounds? Because a dye is certainly more trivial than a loadout selection.

I don't pay to have my minde messed with, I don't pay for contrived artificial frustration to "increase consumer spending".

I pay for a well designed game. A "basic experience" is not a well designed game, it's a corporate jargon for a self-sabbotaged product for the sake of making more money.
Rensen 6 Mar, 2020 @ 7:19pm 
You don't need to pay to play this game. The only things you pay for are costumes and dyes and you can perfectly play without those.