Whilst developers do need to keep making money not every feature needs to be about making money, some need to be for the good of the game. Thankfully it got changed in beta before hitting the live game but should be noted as a monetisation strategy that SGG attempted to bring to the game. The first iteration of Raid Tournaments in beta was implemented as pay-to-play requiring the payment of an entry fee to even play in the tournament.
Much has been said about loot box style mechanics (including by myself critically for this game) and wider to the point regulators worldwide are examining the issue but generally speaking more of these mechanics I feel are negative overall, especially without controls to help protect vulnerable user groups or to ensure people actually understand odds and probability (even with published odds people don’t grasp things like cumulative odds) before they pull. We also saw with the re-vamped Challenge Events the introduction of new limited edition heroes without any change to summoning odds or a featuring summon odds bonus to now make them the heroes with the lowest odds of pulling in the game. In the last year we’ve seen efforts to introduce or seen implemented further examples of the following:Ĭostumes are set to arrive in the next month in which we see getting buffs/re-balances for your existing Classic heroes subject to yet more RNG summons. For developers to continue supporting their games they need to have some way of continuing to make money from the game even as players advance further in the game and begin to need less of what they may previously have been spending for (such as hero summons, AM deals and some time in the future emblem deals etc) as such the question isn’t whether there will be more features looking to monetise but on the nature of those monetisation strategies. Generally speaking I see the Valor Pass as a step in a more positive direction for SGGs monetization strategy within the game. OK I’m expecting this will be controversial but I thought I should give my two cents on my reaction to what I’ve seen so far and the idea in principle but as I’m currently pressed for time I’m unlikely to be able to engage in debate with any one who wants to take issue with anything I write, let’s just agree now to disagree – your opinion is just as valid as mine and all I’m doing here is stating mine.