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Are the Heaven weapon skins and wings being released today?
Just wondering when the Heaven weapon skins and wings are being released today.
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I guess not. :S The news post only mentions the hell weapon skins. That's unfortunate.
At least there's a direct buy version of the fancy hell skin!5
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Considering the typical odds, it's probably about the average of what you'd have to buy in lootboxes, but you're right: it doesn't come with the consumables or anything you'd get from the lootboxes, but it eliminates the RNG. Still, though, I'd much prefer to have this option for direct buy, so I am happy that they are doing it. I hope they will always do it going forward.
I'm not a fan of the $50USD price tag - I think no item (account-bounds notwithstanding) should cost more than 3495EMP. Even the coveted dragons and flightsuits weren't that much.
Well, the common weapon skin is 1695 EMP. I'm pretty sure the rare dragons and flightsuits would have been way more than that, if they had been for direct sale (because the average spend to get it via lootbox was probably at least $75 for the rare flightsuit, and $100 or more for the dragon). Of course I think the prices are too damn high all around, but I'd still rather have a direct buy option than not. (It's what a lot of people have been clamoring for for a very long time.)
While you both bring up a good point (the dragons), my counterargument is that the lootbox versions had an in-game buff outside of the usual health and mana regen (phoenixes and chocobos thrushes as well). In those cases, I think higher price tags would be justified (as I mentioned here, and yes, I noticed the price difference between then and now).
The only major difference between the lootbox(?) Hellweapons and the basic ones is that the former is shinier and has weird feathers. And considering that's per character, I feel the price therein is pretty steep.