And I quote (from TC Octus via the Reddit link above);
"As it stands today, Iron is not intended to be earnable - just a limited amount given through Tour. The intention is for Store content (cosmetics only) to be paid content, and Tour / Supply content to not be purchasable. We talk a little about that here: https://www.gears5.com/characters-explained
Meanwhile, future Tours, Supply Drops and gameplay post-launch content - Modes, Maps, Characters, Skills, New Tiles and so on - are all entirely free. Tour is where weāll bring in the most cosmetic earnable content, as well as Special Events and so on.
Iām saying that only for context only just to explain the why. We are passing all feedback to the team around Store and Iron, including this post."
Well, let them keep digging their own grave then. I have never seen a AAA title drop off this fast . Itās kind of hard to get people to come back when you act the way they have. Liking tweets calling fans toxic, the slow fix of issueās, greed over quality the list goes on and on. TC has practically killed this franchise and continues to drive it further In the ground. UE was amazing, 4 was meh, and 5 is just trash.
As long they wonāt mess with the tour content Iām totally fine.
This also mean;
Do not start being lazy and make skins uglier or low the quality of characters just to push me to buy iron.
Give incomplete sets to get them fully via store
(Like they did with the Jack O Lantern event)
The store barely offer anything good, and the prices are ridiculous .
Itās just a matter of time, especially since we canāt earn a decent amount of iron just by playing. Sucks, but it will happen eventually. If developers feel they need to up the ante and try to subtly push they will. Iāve seen it before. Sometimes there will be skins not worth the effor and more āpremiumā skins. So tastless.
I saw how meh the imago looked. Iām still going to earn it, because itās free, but it isnāt great. Iām not going to buy Kait, nope, especially since sheās currency driven. Let me earn iron, damnit. Itās not that hard to do.
I think you should be able to buy iron, say 500 scrap for 100 iron, still take an age to collect, but iron is for skill cards, donāt spend mine on anything else
Well technically you are earning Iron through the ToD, so this thread seems a bit misleading.
Maybe he meant outside of the ToD, wich is fine. That is how most Battle Passes work. It would be nice if they can add more Iron sections in the ToD or increase the amounts.
Either way Iām fine with store exclusive content as long as the prices are fair and they add more quality to ToD.
Its ok if TC doesnt want to give iron so we can have more stuff, at the end of the day , if the game doesnt deliver what point there is to have a cool skin on the lancer or gnasherā¦ people no longer are going to play it.