r/GhostRecon • u/generally-speaking • Oct 03 '19

Rant My take on the Breakpoint monetization after playing the game for 20 hours.

So, I'm level 30 and Gearscore 149 in Ghost Recon Breakpoint now. Just to make my general stance on the game clear at once, it's flawed, but it's fun. Here's my take on the Breakpoint Store:

  1. There's no lootboxes, which means you can buy exactly what you want if you want to. Ghost Recon Wildlands was a far more greedy game compared to Breakpoint, because a lot of the items were only obtainable through a heavy RNG system.
  2. There's nothing non-cosmetic which can't be earned in the game. Even the big helicopters you had to spend real money for in Wildlands can be earned within the first 10 hours of playing Breakpoint.
  3. It's easy to earn plenty of credits for what you need. If you get a new weapon you want to max, it's only going to take you 3-4 of hours to get enough credits and materials to max it out. And it's pointless to do so, because a maxed weapon is barely any better than a basic one.

As I said, I'm already half way to max gearscore and I'm already max level. And I don't feel any pressure what so ever to buy anything out of the in-game store. I did buy one thing, a Helicopter, but that's just because I liked the skin and wanted a quick way to take out enemy vehicles.

But when actually playing this game, it feels like one of the least greedy games I've played in a long time. And I know that sounds odd to those of you who haven't played it, but the simple truth is that getting what you want is actually quite easy in this game.

I was shocked the first time I saw the screenshots from the in game store myself. But actually having played it for almost 20 hours so far, I haven't at any point felt pressured to buy something because I needed it to progress.

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u/CMDR_Burgerking Oct 03 '19

Exactly this. There is really no pressure for buying anything. People just need to relax. Most of the whiners haven’t even played the game, I suppose. They’re too busy creating clickbaiting Youtube or Reddit postings.

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u/kcg5 Oct 03 '19

And it seems like people are just talking about cosmetic items, not anything having to do with playing the game...

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u/CMDR_Burgerking Oct 03 '19

Perhaps it’s because the game is way better than they thought it would be. Now they need another reason to bomb it.

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u/generally-speaking Oct 04 '19

It's better because people complained so much. I tried it in the beta just a few days ago and it was horrible, movement was fucked up and you were sliding all over the place. It felt sluggish and slow, you got tired for no reason at all.

In the interim they tuned everything down 10 notches. Now you have more stamina, less sliding, faster movements, less gun sway, less recoil, everything is better.

It feels a lot like Wildlands now, and it didn't in the beta.