(XBOX)BeastKing KO

There seem to be a lot of people on here confused about why a lot of us take issue with this Heirloom collection and the pricing/FOMO practices surrounding it. There have been a lot of good points raised and even I posted earlier outlining several major reasons this business practice is predatory and unfair. That said, I want to make some additional points. By no means are these the only issues, but I think the following are worth mentioning for those who struggle to empathize, in the hopes they might at least see how this situation could upset folks: This Heirloom collection is touted as a "thank you" to players who supported the game over the last ten years. They aren't selling it at random, they're very clear about it being a way of "saying thanks." So, to address the monetization issue: If someone can say "Thank you!" to me and my only available response is "no, I can't afford that right now" then they weren't really saying thank you at all. To address the FOMO issue: Even if you're of the opinion that FOMO practices aren't problematic (they are and always have been) you should be able to see a little tone-deafness in calling something a "thank you" for ten years of support but charging new money and only keeping it available for a limited time. Certainly when you consider that is an arbitrary decision they never had to make. To simply dismiss it as "businesses need to make money" is to ignore the label DE themselves has tried to put on it. So it seems weird to have a problem with people calling them out for trying to put a different label on it than that. I'm genuinely one of the old whales in this game, if I wanted these skins I could buy them. I don't because the practice is predatory. Also worth noting, if your response to these complaints is "just don't buy them, just don't play the game, quit complaining etc." just do us a favor and take that energy, apply it to your need to gripe about our opinions on this post and make that same choice; stop engaging here and go enjoy your cool new skins. You're a hypocrite if you're taking to this thread just to complain about people complaining. Not that you didn't all already know that.

Followed a link on my Facebook feed to this thread, and as a veteran who had to walk away from the game for exactly this reason I feel like it is important to voice my thoughts here. This game used to be what I considered to be the ideal model for free-to-play, and I consistently dumped what I would say is too much money for any game, into this one. I was more or less happy to do it knowing the money went toward a game I found quite enjoyable and a community that is unique in the industry (being a Tenno is a whole thing and I love it.) That all said, I literally put this game down because of the FOMO practices being implemented by Digital Extremes and these heirloom collections just take the cake. Years ago content creators started dropping off and that should have been the first sign that the direction Warframe was moving was not going to be friendly to veteran players. I remember Shy moving away as a pretty big red flag and I still chose to play for years following that. The heirloom collection is supposed to be a celebration of 10 years of this game, but by repeating these predatory FOMO practices you're sort of de-valuing your own attempt to celebrate the legacy of this game. It seems like a bit of a red flag that you expect players to stick around but cosmetics intended as a celebration of those players (new players obviously haven't played for ten years) will be limited time only. To address the point of "fairness" for people who thought it would be limited time: it is very flawed logic to assume you should not fix a problem because it doesn't seem fair to those who already suffered from it. I hope Digital Extremes will consider this moving forward as it becomes obvious that player engagement is also moving into the realm of "limited time before they're gone."