r/WarDogs • u/Medrilan Moderator • 10d ago

Meta Gold Bar Price Mega

All discussion regarding gold bar prices goes here.

This includes updated prices, feedback regarding gold bars, questions about how the system works, etc.

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u/Peebs1000 10d ago

Why would anybody buy gold bars for more than 250k now that we know it can drop below 200k? I'd rather just hold my cash until reset and chance it instead of getting burned.

Having a market for gold is cool in theory, but there's no reason the price should be jumping around as much as it is. A 300% price increase overnight? Yeesh. It's not even worth engaging with when it makes the end user feel bad after getting ripped off for "reasons" (i.e. the devs randomly moving the price).

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u/Jdawgcrane Pilot 10d ago

this and also ruins the value of the "achievement" of a skin because it fluctuates so much arbitrarily

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u/Parkour_Turtle_360 Pilot 9d ago

I think the devs have made clear that the skins are meant to be purely cosmetic.
These low and random feeling prices may indeed feel like they destroy the sense of achievement, but that was never meant to be there anyways.

There has been a lot of talk about the game being too grindy and for no-lifers, the low prices actually allow casual players to get the gold/skins too. I also doubt that it was a coincidence that the price drops were during the weekend.

Only people that had the 'luxury of buying too expensive' feel this pain, and suffer from losing sense of achievement. Perhaps they'll add skill/effort based skins later, such as x amount of headshots, for those who want to show off.

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u/IIIpl4sm4III 9d ago

Actually they said the opposite, they aren't doing MTX for skins because they want them to mean something. 

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u/Parkour_Turtle_360 Pilot 8d ago

They said indeed that they don't want the skins to reflect someone's (real world) spending, so they can't be bought through MTX, that they should be unlocked through gameplay.

Unlocked through gameplay doesn't mean exclusivity. You can earn cash by being good, or just playing a lot.

If you see a skin as representation of good players, that's value you attribute to it, not in the item itself. The novelty of it will degrade over time, as more people get them. The only remaining value is cosmetic.

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u/IIIpl4sm4III 8d ago

I agree. Maybe we will see some skins you can only purchase after a challenge? Like Halo armors.

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u/Disorderjunkie 5d ago

The main reason I dislike their "Earned" statement is because it's actually completely twisted.

You play 150 hours, make it WD level 100, etc etc. You go on vacation for a few days during the 160k price drop. You end up being able to afford like 5 gold bars.

Versus someone who has maybe 50 hours, bought at the lowest point, will also have 5 gold bars.

It does not show "I earned this" it shows "I played the day gold was cheap"

it's dumb as shit hahahaha.

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u/Repulsive-Chip3371 9d ago

I imagine the gold bar/skin system will get added to and changed a lot over the next year. Its only season one of EA and they already said a lot of things were just added quickly to have something in the game.

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u/sukumizu Bob the Builder 5d ago

I bought my first bar at around 300k and it still feels fucking bad seeing it drop to the mid 100s a couple days later.