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Junior Member
Free to play model needs to go!
I spent £35 on the premium edition of the game when it was new. I spent my acorns on cosmetics as this was all that was available at the time and I didn't think that a fully priced game would include non cosmetics for premium currency, I also didn't know there was an acorn cap. Now there's bikes and track packs available (non cosmetic game changing items) and I can't get them without pumping dozens of hours into ninja league for extra acorns which I just don't want to do. I absolutely despise this free to play model being present in expensive games and I for one refuse to get my wallet out again after buying the premium edition! I've been playing trials since 2009 and I'm absolutely disgusted to see it fall victim to ubisofts sick marketing strategies to try to exploit us gamers for all we're worth. I got in touch with the support team who literally just said that this is how it is and they told me to post this on the forums. Additionally I feel like I've been punished for buying the game new because if I waited until it was cheap I would have known that there were game changing items available through premium currency and would have spent my acorns on that instead of cosmetic bull faeces. If you feel the same as me please drop a comment so the Devs know how many loyal customers they're losing through this money grabbing exploitation of the trials community. We have to say enough is enough!
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Junior Member
PS. If acorns were much cheaper, say £5 for enough to purchase all the track packs, I would have already bought it, as would thousands of others. Please sort it out REDLYNX, stop exploiting us. I now have no faith in the next trials and will 100% wait until it's at least a year old before I buy for fear of being exploited again.
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Gotta say, I'm new(ish) to the game and really love it, but I agree. I find it frustrating that so much of the content I will never use because I'm not into making multiple online transactions and spent most of my acorns before realizing there would come a time when if I wanted more, I would have to make another purchase.
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Senior Member
not that big of a deal actually, since the game was cheaper than most to begin with.
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I actually agree with that Lionden. To be clear, for me, it's not so much the money but the online transaction that I am against. I know most people have no problem with it, but every online transaction comes with risks, thus I tend to make as few as possible. I honestly would have rather paid $50 up front and had unlimited content. Games are cheaper these days because companies can make more profit by getting people to pay more later for content.
I would probably buy a large acorn pack if the content you purchase with them cost about 25% less (and I mean on top of the so called discounts that everything is already at). For example: A new bike is like 70 acorns I think, but is always discounted to 45 acorns. Great deal? Not in my opinion. 10 would be good deal to me. 20 I would find acceptable. I figured out once that for me to buy all the content I'd like to have I would have to spend about $125 more than I've already spent buying the gold edition bringing my total to around $150. This in my opinion is way too much for a game and it's content even for a game that I would (and do) call my favorite game.
I really don't like to come across as negative but the bottom line for me is that I really, really despise feelin like I'm being manipulated and will often push hard against these things.
I actually feel the same way about launchers. Don't like being targeted with adds before I can play something I've already paid for.
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Junior Member
Did the prices of acorns just go up on Ubisoft store? They are much higher than they have been on the PS store but I can't find them there.
I was going to say they were reasonably priced but not anymore. I checked thinking they might have gone down.
I don't mind throwing a bit of cash down for extra content on an otherwise cheap game that I love. It's the amount of money for cosmetic stuff. I don't need a new bike to compete but it sure would be nice to try them out without spending a ton of money.
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Junior Member
To the fanboys saying this despicable business practice of tricking and punishing those who bought the game new is ok: you are the reason the suits who run the gaming industry implement these systems. Stop being suck-up fan boys and grow a pair! Cosmetics being added for additional real money / premium currency is ok but when you add game changing items a year after a games release when everyone has already hit the limit of free premium currency that's just plain disgraceful. Is this really how u want the gaming industry to be? You buy a game then you have to wait a year for everything to be added just incase they try to trick u out of more hard earned cash? You're probably just kids and don't know any different but I lived through the 90s and 2000s when the gaming industry was at its peak, nothing like this ever happened and it was great. Please for the sake of the industry just grow a pair and tell the suits to play fair!
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Senior Member
did they add anything that will make you a better rider or make you go faster?
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Member
Problem is, the last generation of gamer's (last 20 years or so) have accepted this model without question along with game launchers that are loaded with target marketing.
Use to be you could buy a game, put it in whatever system you had, and play it...
... But, like anything, sooner or later someone will find a way to milk more money out of just about anything.