Just to clear things up for anyone who buys the IAP from the main menu. You have to continue your game then go into the settings and choose additional content, then it will give you the option to add the legendary weapons to your stash. I had purchased all the IAP from the main menu, there is does not give you the option to add the legendary weapons to your stash and that is why I thought you had to earn the weapons from a drop.
Exactly. Right or wrong, and typical or atypical for the app store, Games Workshop's business model is based upon player inequality and the deliberate sense of unfair competition that brings. Any of their table top franchises could have been sold as complete player kits for one-fifth of the cost they ask... but then they wouldn't seem like such nerd-Gucci class products People unhappy at the pricing model here should just be glad it's a single player only experience where the only impetus to have everything comes from your own compulsiveness, not the fact that your $200 worth of second hand miniatures you scrimped and saved for over 2 summers were just unceremoniously smoked by some guy sporting over $1000 worth of miniatures. If you can live without the extra characters (after all, you can only play with 4 at a time anyhow), it's a very good value considering the amount of world based content you get with the expansions. The extra characters and, now, the IAP weapons is just GW being GW
Can't fault them, really. I'm happy to give the devs some more cash if it means that they will continue to support and expand the game.
Took three of my level six hardcore into a dungeon to train the rookie Shadow Warrior...only one came out alive. Brutal! Time to start anew...I love this game. edit: to be clear, I wasn't exactly loving it as my well trained warriors and their high level gear was vanishing before my eyes...the love didn't return until later upon much reflection.
I tried...game loaded back up right where I had left off with their little piles of bones looking at me accusingly. But honestly, I wouldn't want it any other way...if resurrection was just an app close away, hardcore wouldn't be all that hardcore.
Do the IAP character offer experiences that are THAT different from the included characters? Because those prices are just nuts. For that matter, do the expansions offer anything THAT new?
Personally I'm digging the IAP characters. I never bought the original ones but these new guys are quite fun. I'm enjoying the the different strategies involved with all new characters and their unique abilities. I agree the characters are 100% optional, but they do enhance the experience by mixing things up.
I've bought a new wizard staff and it just add -1to casting cost. Totally useless thing. Really a dissappoinment.
Thats entirely subjective. I'll say this though, if you have already run through all the dungeons and wish there was more to it, I'd say pick up the expansion. If you haven't done so, you're probably just wasting your money. Remember it takes a party of level 6 and up for survival chances to be above 0%. The new wizard seems quite offensively powerful, as well as the ogre with his single melee attacks. Good times so far.
I think that's the key point: mix things up. If you're only going to play through the content once or twice, or treat it like a "endless" RPG as some in this thread have where they keep grinding at the same save, the value is suspect. If you're going to revisit the content for multiple fresh playthroughs as though it were a board game, the value goes up a lot. I prefer treating it like an extended board game so enjoy trying different characters, plus after that first play through, have done nothing but hardcore, so that also extends the value of having the class choice.
Loving the new content. Started a new Hardcore game for the new characters. Managed to keep everyone alive so far but have had a couple of close calls.
