Defiance Store: Grossly overpriced and quite absurd.

[HanPL]

I don't really have problem with micro transactions and if someone want to spend 12$ for new set of clothes etc they can it's their money.
But paying for social animations is kinda weird since in all other mmo's I played since 2000 they where free lol.

[Sparahawk]

Emotes should be free. Thats all I got for this one the price is up to them and I dont care if I got the money tonspend on it then I got the money. If not no harm to the game when others have the money

[Hummy]

People say things like 'they have to make their money somewhere' but then ... if they really are selling emotes how are they going to make money? No one at present moment in this game anywhere in the world will buy those emotes because there is near zero social interaction in the game save for a couple insults, playing with your friends pre-organized and the occasional rage at peoples microphones.

[Colteran]

Still don't understand where you all are getting the idea they are selling emotes. Sledge himself has said they aren't in the store.

[Cruxdaca]

While I'm not against micro-transactions because you can generally ignore them I did find a few things that are quite absurd with the system Defiance has in place. Let's take a quick stroll through some of the various Defiance Store features shall we?





Emotes. We are now paying for Emotes ladies and gentlemen. These used to be fun little animations to improve social aspects of the game. Now they strip them away, slap a price tag on them and say "Look, if you want to shake our hand your going to have to put $5 in it first."


Brand new set of.. clothes. That's right! For only $12 (USD), just 1/5th the price of the game itself, you can have a new t-shirt to run around in. Let me say that one more time in a sexy Canadian accent: Twelve dollars for a T-shirt...eh!





Want to make the ladies really turn their heads? By simply pouring gasoline on another dollar bill you can paint your vehicle another predefined color. For only $13 (USD) you can be the proud owner of the same vehicle painted slightly different which you may not even like. But never fear! With our "no refund" policy you're only stuck with your overpriced blunder.. forever!


Defiance: "You may have avoided paying $40 for our deluxe edition but don't worry; were gonna get'cha!"

Wow, so wouldnt be the first game to charge for emotes, actually quite a few have popped up for a while, another late one would be queens blade, though I havent seen any in the shop, hell in swotor cant you buy emote packs?

you think $12 dollars is expensive for clothing? you must really be a noob, oh wait or are youe one of those weak *** "console players"

Btw those vehicles are actually another separate ride, not the same one repainted, and you can also buy many of the colors in game at shop term with ingame Scrit.

you the joke here bud, you cant say tnx for the no sub game. go look at another no sub game such as GW2 to see expensive.

[Nosada]

The prices for boosts and inventory slots are not bad, but the prices for outfits are ridiculous. The outfits don't do anything in game, so no outfit should ever be more than $5 really. most should be less than $3.

[AZAG0TH]

I agree with OP
I will not pay more than $5 for an outfit (and that includes the hat). I am still running around in my starter clothes (as I wasn't rally that huge a fan of the mission reward clothing thus far).
I am voting with my wallet here. The more people that don't buy the overpriced cosmetic armor.. the more likely Trion will re-think their prices a little. They'd sell a lot more of them if the prices were lower. $15 for different pixels is not an 'impulse buy' for most people.
I am ok with the pricing of the inventory expansions (if they are account wide - if they are not - then I am not)

[Orich]

So your gripeing because you can buy "Fashion" items that have no bearing on game play what so ever ? WTF ......

First reply to the OP, and also my favorite comment here.

[ten4]

Well good thing, even though I can afford this; I won't be buying any more CS stuff. 12 bucks for a set of clothes is stupidly over priced. You want to see value in a shooter MMO in a CS? Check out PS2. Nothing costs over 3 bucks and the best part is....you can earn these by playing the game which I might add is F2p. Defiance is such a mediocre game, gouging this much more is pretty sad. Well all you people who love to burn money, go right ahead. I will be laughing at you though. /point /laugh

[Snaloe]

I have not spent a penny in the Defiance Store so far.. I still have the 1000 Bits left from the pre-order, and I am not going to spend it until i can get a Jeep