As I’m sure many of you have seen by others, I think the premium squads are just way to expensive. I was super happy last update to see a bunch of new squads were added, only to find out that some cost the price of a whole game. There are many really nice squads but the price tag is an instant no me for now. It’s not like I don’t buy any premium squads either, I have bought quite a few including the early access for Berlin and Tunisia, but this is just becoming way too much. For those who would say “if you don’t like it, don’t by it”, that is just a dumb way to approach this issue. I want to support Gaijin, but I want to in a way that is reasonable. First of all, nothing should be more than 25 bucks. At first you look at 25$ compared to some of the 60$ squads and you think its not too much, but take a step back from the game and realize that even 25$ can be pretty excessive for one squad. A lot of squads aren’t even that good and most people get them for the exp grind and the cool weapons. I would argue that most people are like me and see a 30$+ price tag and immediately say nope. Gaijin would probably make more money if they lowered the price, just think about how many premium MG squads you saw in Normandy after the sale. Some squads are just not that great either so seeing them expensive is insane if you want people to buy them. They shouldn’t be OP squads because that would be PTW, but they should be somewhat capable weapons if you are going to pay real money for them. Also fix the weird prices, like why are things like 3750 gold or 6100 gold if you don’t have the option for those amounts. Just make them like 2000 instead of some shit like 2135 gold or give us the option to pay the exact amount.
Secondly, I think the current premium squads go against how the base game functions. What I mean by this is that they limit the creative play you see in the base game in which you can have a diverse squad in terms of functions and weapons. It would be great to have multiple payment options for premium squads. The normal system of a squad is that soldiers use all one weapon and you can’t move the soldiers to another squad. In interesting would just be to pay for the weapon itself to be unlocked at like a certain level like level 10 or something. That way you could have them in the base FTP squads. I don’t think that would make them too OP either because they don’t have the benefits of being already fully upgraded and having the level IV or V soldiers immediately. If you still think it is OP then maybe have a limit on how many a squad can get of one premium weapon. The next payment option would be to have half the normal amount of soldiers but be able to move them to any squad. I say half because it would just replace the normal payment option if all of the soldiers could be moved to another squad. There would still be a benefit to having the original payment option as well because they could still be very powerful like the gunner or squads with 9 soldiers. Also they would still have that exp boost that people get them for. Having these options would also give more variety to the gameplay as the squads wouldn’t be restricted by having premium squads taking up space and you can use the squads that you would have normally put aside for the premium squads. I’m not sure how the exp boost would work on these new squads but maybe they have like a 25% boost for the weapons if they had a limit to how many you could have in a squad and like a 50% boost for the soldiers. Overall I think that these changes would give people more accessible and varied payment options which would bring in more money to Gaijin. Sorry for the long post but I really want to support Gaijin but this is just too much.