The Artifact subreddit is melting down over Valve’s monetization structure

Artifact goes into beta tomorrow, with the game set to officially launch November 28, but some potential players are already upset about the planned pricing scheme for Valve’s forthcoming CCG. The major complaint, it seems, is that there are very few ways to earn cards by simply playing the game. After the initial buy-in cost of $19.99 USD, each additional pack of cards costs $2. To earn packs in the game, you can’t play Artifact in casual competition. Instead, you have to play in expert, which costs tickets, and to get tickets beyond the initial five you get with the base purchase, you’ve got to spend money on ticket packs. In a thread that’s received around 2,600 upvotes, user Ac3Zer0 explains their frustration with the pricing scheme. “Here are the ways to get cards,” Ac3Zer0 says. “Pay 2 dollars for a card pack, pay for cards on the market, or play expert. Every time you play expert you have to spend a ticket, which is a dollar” since a pack of five tickets costs $4.95.

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