All I Can Say Is I’m Absolutely Sick at the prices I See In The Weekly Store, 500 Iron For Some Crappy Hivebuster Kait Skin That We Can’t even use in Escape, I Mean Seriously TC what kind of joke is this? You make the most crappy skins , put them in the store and make us pay $4.99 /500 iron for them, TC Sort your prices out , maybe then I’ll buy something from the store. And one more thing "SWARM WINTER SNIPER*- 500 IRON
What A Joke 
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Back when you had to spend $10 for a single pack that might have had a blacksteel kait in it then that was crazy expensive. I did speed runs with a guy who had her and spent over $250 to get her. Makes me dizzy just thinking about spending that much for a skin.
Black Steel Kait was amazing but not $250 worth of amazing.
A lot of things were ridiculously high compared to what things cost in gears 5.
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There would be no complaints if Delivery Driver Mac was in the store every week 
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Yes but the fact that we have to buy all the store content also sucks. I don’t like the monetization in Rainbow Six Siege but at least (outside of season pass and esports stuff) you can grind for stuff.
Gears 5 has no option to grind for Iron outside of 500 in the TOD.
IMO OP is on the right track, but character skins in the store should not go above $30/3,000 (total) Iron in any given operation.
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It’s all just cosmetics. Buy or not. It’s your money.
There is Legendary, Epic and Rare skins which bypass 250 Iron. I think they are 1,000, 750 and 500.
I’m not sure what determines these prices of Iron. It could be how much work and resources put into making these skins. Like animated tend to be more expensive and classified as Epic or Legendary.
It’s normally skins that appeared in Gears 4 go to TOD or are 250 Iron, new skins are 500. They’ve never sold an original Gears 5 skin for less than 500 Iron.
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Few skins in the TOD were old skins. Overwhelming majority are new.
The grindable content IS the TOD. That is why its there. Get skins while playing. Other content in the store costs iron cuz it funds the free DLC we are getting every 3 months.
I do wish there were some “Pay with Scrap” choices or “Pay with extra stars”.
Again there was a huge lash out against the packs in Gears 4. So Gears 5 adopted this model. TOD for those that don’t want to pay. And the Storeis for those that don’t want to grind. Prices are a little higher cuz you are garunteed to get what you pay for (unlike 4 where you could pay 5 bucks and get nothing).
It needs to be there for Iron to fund free DLC (Maps, characters, future campaign DLC, tiles, etc)
I don’t think its a perfect system. I get the frustration. But there needs to be a revenue system to pay for post launch content and this is what Gears 5 has. You do not HAVE to buy it. They are only cosmetics.
He deserved to lose that money, only a fool buys a colour swapped skin.