The new battle pass has its pros and cons: free-to-play players can easily get new benefits, but consumers are dissatisfied with the removal of Prayer Stones.

The game developers finally revealed the future direction of the game during the live stream. The new content is undoubtedly about the changes to Season 42. The new season must introduce new mechanisms, reorganize the game environment, and improve the game experience. New heroes, new skins, and new collaborations have high expectations. However, the news of the battle pass revamp, which is the most important benefit for ordinary players, has left consumers frowning. Some are happy, some are sad. The happy ones are the beneficiaries, even free-to-play players, who can exchange activity for high rewards. But it's the players who have spent money to buy the advanced version who are suffering. What exactly happened that caused so many complaints on the forums?

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It sounds quite novel. The battle pass system in the Chinese server has always been different from that in the international server. The former is divided into three types: free version, advanced version, and collector's edition. The free version only gives you items when you upgrade. The advanced version costs 388 points and includes a level 1 hero and an 80-level epic. The collector's edition adds an epic star set, giving the appearance and effects a new color. The international server battle pass is more valuable. Even free-to-play players can occasionally get a new skin. It even launched a simplified version that costs 10 points and allows players to get a hero as a guarantee. All other rules remain the same.

The operating methods are completely different. However, this time, the season skin has been incorporated into the battle pass rewards for the first time. Don't worry, the season mission rewards that should have been there have not been eliminated. The purpose of this is to upgrade the skin. In other words, if you reach level 40 in the battle pass, the season skin can be upgraded to epic quality. This is a welfare adjustment, allowing you to get it for free without spending money. It has nothing to do with consumer rights.

Prayer for Light and Collection Cancelled

The new battle pass rule is clever in that it improves the cost-effectiveness and usage rate of season skins. Legendary and peerless skins are everywhere, and the brave quality skins are no longer valued. People won't want to use them even if they get them. After upgrading, at least they will consider wearing them. The addition of independent voice lines, independent entrance animations, and gorgeous special effects will make many people spend money to buy them. The difficulty of obtaining them is lower than that of the monthly gift book.

Regarding the price, the advanced version has been adjusted to 188 points. As expected, you get what you pay for. The new regulations have directly canceled the Brave Skin and Prayer Stones, and confiscated the Collector's Edition. In the future, the battle pass will essentially be just buying an Epic Skin. It's just that the Prayer Stone lottery has been removed, which is equivalent to taking away another channel to redeem a free old Epic Skin. Losing an Epic Skin in one season, do you think that's a huge loss?

Perhaps this approach is to accelerate the consumption of other items. Without the Collector's Edition New Yuan, you are forced to spend Star Coins to buy it. Without Prayer of Light, you are forced to spend Fragments to exchange for it.