Yesterday, Helldivers 2 has officially announced its first crossover skins collaboration: Killzone 2. But gamers immediately balked at the $20 price tag, and now the sci-fi shooter's developers are trying to quell fan rebellion with a holiday free offer.
The Helghast-inspired one Killzone Sets cost $20 each, more than anything else currently available in the paid game. While Arrowhead Game Studios won't confirm that future collaborations will be offered at lower prices, it is giving away the second set in the crossover to try and win back fans before the year-end break.
“Firstly, we are giving everyone the planned second wave Hell diver X Killzone Collaboration articles free today,” said the developers wrote in a new blog post. “The distribution of these items will begin soon in two waves. That’s why we’ll also be extending the life of items currently available at Superstore from 5 to 10 days, giving you the chance to snap them up and reducing the risk of missing out.”
It's about the fact that Helldivers 2 is a $40 game that is charging free-to-play prices for new skins as part of a potential shakeup as part of its expanding post-launch monetization strategy. Arrowhead's CEO argued that premium sets like that Killzone By working together, the company can afford to maintain important updates such as the recent launch the enemy faction Illuminate, completely free.
But many players felt that this crossed a line and was inconsistent with the game's previous pattern of releasing new items as unlockables in $10 Battle Passes (which are paid for in part using the currency slowly accumulated in the game can). Actually it is Killzone The set was originally intended to be part of a warbond, but the studio decided against it due to concerns about backlash. “Some of you are not satisfied with the prices of the items and we will review this again,” the company responded in its latest update.
In addition to extending the length of time new crossover items stay in the store's monthly rotation, Arrowhead also appears to be looking for a way to create a secondary store with items that never change, so latecomers always have a chance to purchase the more desirable items. for crossover merch. Some fans feared that this latest economic intervention was due to publisher Sony's interference, but CEO Shams Jorjani said in the Helldivers 2 Discord that that wasn't the case. “It is a partnership, but we are behind the decisions,” he wrote. “That’s on us.”
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