Introducing Kirac's Vault Pass

This is absolutely disgusting as far am I am concerned. I have never felt such a slime logging into this game before today. I have always disagreed with the use of loot boxes and seen them as one step too far, but I was able to justify them in my mind because the game is free. This is now the 2nd step of me needing to put this game down because I lack the impulse control to engage with a game that pushes this kind of fomo.
I am also extremely frustrated that this made it in before hard mode, ui improvements, boss health bars, etc. While I do realize that the artists that made these assets probably could not have done that work, it still feels so disingenuous that this is what made it in instead of even meaningful improvements to the archenemies ui(just giving us an automated search function basically).
Honestly the only way you make this up is by refunding anyone who bought this and just give everyone access to this, which I have not even the faintest hope of you doing.
Unfortunately we are at a point where one more form of insidious mtx will push me out of this game forever, and while I was excited to get the new supporter packs after my new computer, I don't know when I will feel clean enough to monetize with you again.

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Like.... Make a cool Skin, a cool bundle... Smthing that is rly valuable... but this is just a very cheap and fast move to make some extra cash.. SOME.... 30$...

im glad i dont use any of the items that have specific skins... just remove this system its stupid lol

So my question is if I buy this pass will I have to pay again when they make another round of cosmetics for the pass or is it a one time thing like a real pass?

Every league a new Pass

No, thanks. I don't like this at all. Maybe if it was 5$.

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Cheesiecake wrote:

Legit saw this and closed POE. Start of a slippery slope that I'm not going to be a part of. I thought GGG had values, I guess money really does ruin everything. Thank you Tencent, ruined a beloved game. All those who're going to claim I'm over reacting are clueless. early warning alarms like this have been ignored and numerous games have died over greedy monetization. Remember people, we have the power, vote with your wallet.

Same for me.. I was planning to play the rest of the night but I closed the game out of disgust. I was even more disgusted at how few players were talking about the pass. Seems like everyone was just going about their usual business.

Are people really that blind? I honestly can't believe that these same players that talked so much trash about games like Diablo 3 still have absolutely no ability to see where these kinds of business decisions VERY quickly lead.

We need this rectified SOON, GGG, if you want dedicated players to not quit your game.

This is scratching the surface of GGG induced RMT.

Not gonna lie, with full atlas completion required for something you need to spend 30$ on, the rarity of Doryani's Machinarium alone is basically RMT inducing.
If I spend 30$ on something I need full atlas completion for, and I am not able to find the map the entire league, I would be forced to buy the map. And those selling the maps make the price. As a result, prices may or may not rise.

I don't have an issue with the pricing itself, it runs for roughly 3 months and comes down to about 30 cents a day for 8 mtx. Being rewarded for playing the game feels good, spending money on something exclusive, I can get behind that.

But spending money on something I might have to trade for is absolutely not compelling in any way. It's not nearly as bad as a Dota 2 battle pass, but it doesn't make it great either.

As far as I understand this 'Vault Pass' is item-bound skill effects, some of which make visibility much better. My first thought was 'I can finally distinguish my consecrated ground from that in maps or dropped by mobs'. If this is also visible through Delirium fog and tons of other ground effects, this gets very iffy and would stand in direct contrast to 'Not pay to win'. Because I win against the game if I can actually see what the f is going on.

I have read, watched and listened to a good number of different takes on this and my conclusion is that this is a risk GGG has taken and it might backfire horrendously.