So, this game just released and is being sold as a premium $40 experience. It also had a large free playtest on offer where people tried the game out. What wasn’t in the playtest was the mtx, but Bungie had assured people that it was only cosmetics. Good news – it’s only cosmetics. Bad news, it’s about as predatory as most gachas. Featuring: currency packs worth $10, which give you 1100 currency coins, but items in the store costs 1120. That’s a gacha classic.
The skins? They’re currently on “sale” in the store, and cost $15. Otherwise, they’re $20. These are mostly recolors though. And then comes the premium battle pass, which has only one skin- which is again more of a recolor.
I went to check if any reviews had addressed this – went to metacritic, turns out there’s no reviews out. Apparently, Bungie has asked reviewers to wait until the content drop at the end of the month, which is another weird thing.