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    Cost of Collection 2

    Is it just me or is the cost for Collection 2 way to high.
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    Not just you, I actually logged in here for the first time in a long time to write the same.

    They're asking far too much for the digital items individually and $60 for the Collection 2 (or $50 on Switch [$62 if you buy it AND all the Starfox content]) is patently ridiculous. They want the same price as a full game for digital ships, weapons, and pilots, and many of those weapons are not "new" but just upgraded versions of the old ones. Startail isn't new either, just region 'locked' (sorta) until now.

    For $60, I could soon buy the full content of Rage 2. Or Borderlands 3. Or Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Or Astral Chain. There's no way these bits of digital 'content' are worth the same price, and they can't lean on Crimson Moon as an excuse since that's free to everyone regardless of what version they have. It's as if Ubisoft failed to learn their lesson from the commercial flop of Starlink. People didn't buy it because Toys to LIfe had run its course and, for those who didn't know about the digital versions, the value proposition just was not there. Yet here we are again: Ubisoft has taken steps to try to expand the game beyond its niche audience by ditching the toys but then drops the ball by overpricing their DLC.

    I will get Collection 2 when I see it drop by 50% or more and not a moment before.
    $30 would have been an instant purchase, $60 is just a joke.
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    I firmly agree that $50 for some ships and weapons is way too much lol I wish those were all unlockable like if they threw in some super bosses, paints, major quests, secret stuff then $50 would do it but that's like buying a whole new game.
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    No, I think it's too high too.

    I bought the Deluxe version for the Switch and that's already relatively pretty expensive.
    Although most of UBI's deluxe versions tend to be priced around that range, so that I can still accept.
    And I'm okay with the few extra bucks for the extra Star Fox characters too..

    But 50-60 for a few more ships, weapons and characters is a bit too much.
    Especially when switching weapons is essential in this game.
    (And personally, there weren't a huge number of weapons to begin with in the original game)

    $20 or $30 would have been a definite buy for me and I would have paid 50-60 if collection 2 came with a substantial expansion to the end game with more missions, story and whatnot.
    But the current content of collection 2 seems to be too much on the "let's see how far we can push to milk the fans until they can't take it anymore" side.

    I would like to see them drop the price for the DLC but...have DLCs ever gone on sale?
    I've seen the download games being sold for discounts during the sales, but I'm not too sure about the DLCs.
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    Originally Posted by Tet2 Go to original post
    personally, there weren't a huge number of weapons to begin with in the original game
    You should have 15 weapons in the Digital Deluxe version. I don't know how many you need, especially when switching them out unnecessarily will slow your pilot's experience with the weapons.

    There's also the dual-mode laser cannons on the Arwing wings (Switch only), and now there's shield ramming, although neither of those is a mountable weapon.

    Personally, I use about four weapons most of the time -- one hot, one cold, one kinetic, and one stasis. I do play around with other weapons, but I don't consider them as part of the "switching weapons is essential in this game." For those other weapons, it's mainly for fun or for expedience.

    The new paid weapon add-ons don't seem all that compelling, from my understanding of their descriptions:
    • Fury Cannon (from a prior toy pack) -- cannon with flaming projectiles
    • Ice Mine -- freezing projectiles with a large target zone
    • Tidal Wave -- a stasis version of Shockwave
    • Jaunt -- a stasis version of Meteor (I could be way off on what this one does)
    • Mk2 versions of Levitator, Volcano, Imploder, and Nullifier -- one more mod slot
    • Non-Mk2 versions of Gauss Gun, Freeze Ray, and Meteor -- one less mod slot (why?)

    $20 or $30 would have been a definite buy for me
    That's the price point I'd been expecting. I'm waffling over whether to just go ahead and buy it, calling it $30 for the DLC and $20 as a goodwill contribution for the Crimson Moon update.

    Added 18 May: I received some gift cards for my birthday, so I treated myself to the Collection 2 DLC. I've only started playing with it, but so far my "meh" reaction (above) to Fury Cannon and Ice Mine has been dispelled. Both are very powerful, able to dispatch most targets with one or two hits. The Fury Cannon requires precise aiming, while the Ice Mine covers an area (about ship-sized) and can take out a cluster of three bog-standard Cyclops with a single hit.
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    I'm thinking the issue here is how the original pricing was decided.

    The original pricing for the game was based on trying to come up with prices that would work for both physical and digital versions of components. They apparently decided at the time that they'd price the digital versions of weapon packs, pilot packs, and ship packs as approximately 50% the price of the physical ones. $8 pilot packs became $4 digitally, $10 weapon packs became $5, and $25 ships became $13. At the time, the idea seems to have been that having digital versions at half the price of physical items was a hell of a deal.

    Now that the toys are no longer being produced, they have kept the same pricing setup for ships, pilots, and weapons. Now there's nothing to compare those digital prices against for these items, so the prices are judged on their own merits and are found to be rather overpriced for what you get with each individual piece of DLC, and even the collected means of purchaing at a slight discount is still something many will balk at when deciding whether to purchase.
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    No, the prices are way too high, in fact, the prices are downright insulting.

    Both DLC packs together should be $30, $40 max, and there's no way I'm paying $75 for pilots, ships, and weapons. That's the cost of a "Digital Deluxe" version of a AAA game with bonuses and the season pass just for DLC alone. Outrageous.
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  8. #8
    Very much so $80 for a dlc is insane.
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