Wait, this shit is in horde mode too? What do they sell?
Skill cards. These cards are +Extra Damage, +Extra Ammo, Take less damage, reduce costs to build stuff, those kinds of things.
You literally cannot play hardcore or insane outright because you have no cards, you'll simply die incredibly quickly and do no damage and run out of ammo. Even normal can be seen as a little grindy when you start out.
How many cards can you have on? Depends on the level of your class, you can only start out with 1 card at level 1. 2 cards at level 3, 3 cards at level 5, etc. etc.
How do you get more cards? Playing Horde for the first 10 waves gives you about 400 coins, which then you can spend on a crate. The crate has 5 random skill cards in it that can be for any class AND you can receive duplicates. Playing versus also gives coins but I dont know if its a decent amount, I assume if you suck and lose a lot you won't be getting many coins.
I have to wonder if they aren't breaking some sort of law with this random paid loot box shit.
Wouldn't it be classed as gambling?
Developers have been doing this for years and it started with Valve, they recently got threatened with a lawsuit but nothing changed, the only thing that changed was those skins and cosmetics can't be sold for real life money
as easily. But overall nothings changed. But Valve is the golden child that can do no wrong among the gaming industry, they do this because they get lots of money for it so the numbers are telling them to not stop. Other developers copy these models and get lots of money, I mean why would they leave free money on the table over morals?
The only time I know of that DLC shenanigans hurt a game was Street Fighter x Tekken , where a whole slew of characters were already on the disc and they were planning to sell them to you later. Even then people back then were like "dont tell me how to spend my money. Capcom can charge what they want for whatever they want".