Frontier Coin Shop Update - Alexander Eddie Debut!

[Unwon]

quite expensive packs I'd say. I would've bought if it was 50 +- pounds.

[Patrice-1201]

One thing to consider is that the Assassin and Gunner packs will guarantee a 5* Eddie 🙂 so all in all a pretty good deal considering you get 5k ironite was well

[blade685]

2500 coins no comment, the game go in the wall............

[scott-5496]

Blimey this was a bolt out of the blue - or was it? LOL. Anyway, I see this as a fine addition and goes with the flow of the way the game is changing. We all need long-term goals and this is juts another one. The price is really steep and I could buy loads of them if I wanted as I am not short of cash but I am not that kind of person in life - I never chuck money much at anything unless I know what I am getting - here you do know and yes it will take ages but then so does almost eveything else in the game.

I do agree with a few others though that the game does really need new playable content - the events are great, keep them coming like you have been. That soldier event was superb - my fave in a long time and more of that would be great for all of us. I think patience is the key for me anyway. Sometimes I am and sometimes I am not - my own personal RNG! Will I buy this or not - maybe, maybe not.

The big thing for me is what will buying this character do for me - that is what I ask myself everytime I consider a purchase or a toon or ironite or whatever it is in life. I could buy the strongest roster in the game no problem, but in the end what would it do for me. I might get eternal is the only answer and really that does not mean anything to me in terms of the title or what you win for that (my roster is as complete as it can be with RNG and the recent sac event got me a few new Eds which was great) but being number one in the world while it sounds cool would mean a massive, massive time commitment (which I am not willing to do) and a cash/ironite investment and maybe the hope that another player is not big time going for it which is of course outwith my control - well it might make me feel good to be the number one player in the world for a week but really that is it. With the prizes at the moment in PVP being what they are I think it is people playing for the number one spot only and the title eternal - certainly not the loot.

As ever I am rambling!

The main thing of all of this revolves around patience or not. We all have a degree of patience or else we would not still be here playing this game - right? So lets wait a bit longer with this long term goal - as other s have said new a middle stage players still have goals in the game as they still have content to beat/play against. The rest of us doent but we do I suppose have events to make things a little more interesting...oh and I forogt the main thing.....

NF is a BUSINESS mostly owned by Iron Maiden Holdings Ltd - while they are in it for the fans and making new music (and winning new fans) they are also in it for the money - they have to be, they have shareholders that need dividend for their investment. They have to make money or there is no game for us to play and collect characters. So lets not be suprised with a free to play game looking to make money - it has to or no more game. We dont even know it makes any money - maybe Iron Maiden Holdings are doing this to give something back to the fans to do when not listening to Maiden music - I am not sure the online accounts (Companies House) can really tell us that either way but the company seems to be reasonably healthy in a money sense but it has accounts that are not that different in size to the smallish consultancy company I work for every day here in the UK. So I guess that at the moment the game is not making loads of money for Maiden - one nights takings from a gig and merch would likely be more than a month of income from the game, maybe a lot more than a month. So part of me thinks that the game is for the long run for the band or it would have been gone by now. Clearly the new tour is a massive push for the brand of the game - named after it and very heavily referenced in promo material - the band need to develop new revenue streams as they get older and maybe stop touring as much or make less music they need to be able to get income from elsewhere and to keep the brand relevant and making money.

Shit, I really do ramble!

Anyway, I am all good with it.....just please give us some real new content or a timeline for it that we can be sure will happen. Other then these new toons there is nothing to do for us of any meaning - the arena is a relic zone. Most likely I will keep digging away for relics but at the moment I just do not have the time or energy to battle the top 50 or so. It is just not worth it as 'entertainment' to me - getting owned in one round or hardly getting a shot away - is just a bit boring. I like a challenge but some of the teams (while strong no doubt about it) have a defence bonus and/or RNG on their side most of the time and/or characters I dont have so what is entertaining about that?

I wonder if we could ever have the leagues I have mentioned elsewhere - leagues/divisions within a league or something like that?

Anyway, ramble over.

[MrFreeze]

See, I respect everyone's concerns and complaints, but this just makes it seem like we can't win.

• Lilith: We're transparent about being able to get the character later via FC coins and fragment grinding? Totally evil.
• The Beast: We indicate the character won't be available for a while at a bare minimum and not have it available soon after for FC coins or fragment grinding? Still evil.
• Alexander Eddie: Add a new, long term goal that people can work towards while providing people an option to short cut it without everyone just getting that long term goal for free immediately? Straight evil.

Like, I can't look at any of the above approaches and see how we could have handled Alexander Eddie better (without making him basically a joke to get for our most engaged players, which I'll touch on in the other half of my post).

The worst part is that if we were any more transparent and then anything changed (such as reconsidering Lilith drop rate, FC prices, or future availability), people would still call us evil.

Legacy of the Beast is a live game that is constantly evolving. We do our best to help make players a part of that journey and to provide clarity for that, but the roadmap (clearly) isn't set in stone. Things change, new additions are sometimes added at the last minute, and sometimes things we hope come out by a certain time end up slipping.



There are many people that still have north of 1000 Frontier Coins, and I'm pretty sure anyone who's active enough to be on top of collecting Trooper, Eternity, and Lilith souls can easily see that they can get Alexander Eddie well short of the 12 months that someone else theorized (who even also theorized that they weren't accounting for Lilith Souls... of which many people have collected so many they already have all 5...). And all of that assumes no Frontier Coins earned from events, future features, etc.

And while I understand wanting to be able to get long term goals immediately... if you could without any real effort, they wouldn't be long term goals, and that defeats the point of us adding them as such. Like, if you wanted to add a cool Eddie as a great long term reward for amassing Frontier Coins, and you wanted it to take longer than just 2-3 months to get... what would you realistically price it at?

I don’t see the point of long term goals while everything concerning new playable content sits idle. We’ve all got our longterm goals already. Waiting for NC, SP, etc. It honestly makes me kind of sad that I’m so close to deleting this game.

[natasar]

One thing to consider is that the Assassin and Gunner packs will guarantee a 5* Eddie

True for the Assassin pack but not the Gunner one (Prisoner is a potential pull as a 5* Gunner).

[Blade]

True for the Assassin pack but not the Gunner one (Prisoner is a potential pull as a 5* Gunner).

There is a 5* Child of the Damned in purple!

Anyway, I would never ever spend that money on a game! But feel free to do so, as we need more servers, more NF employees for new content and bug fixes. Someone has to pay for that!

[blade685]

109€ for a character in a game and possible a dupe
It is the price for 1 year of one of the most expensive "real game" WOW
They are so funny, they must return in the real world

[hold]

Legacy of the Beast is a live game that is constantly evolving.

Thanks for the laugh - I needed that today. But in the last few months:

evolving = cash grabs

and not

evolving = new content

Sorry, but constantly evolving is not even evil - that's plain ridiculous. Painting chars in a new colour and deliver FOMO for overpriced stuff isn't evolving - it is indeed evil.

[blade685]

Thanks for the laugh - I needed that today. But in the last few months:

evolving = cash grabs

and not

evolving = new content

Sorry, but constantly evolving is not even evil - that's plain ridiculous. Painting chars in a new colour and deliver FOMO for overpriced stuff isn't evolving - it is indeed evil.

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