Talk:Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown/@comment-26406891-20170324041813

Let's not get super excited about AC7. Just because they say it takes place in Strangereal and seems to be a Campaign-based game, I HIGHLY doubt NAMCO will settle for selling us a $60 game one time. We will still get nickle and dimed into paying hundreds if not thousands of dollars to get the experience we had in AC4, 5, Zero, etc. I have a feeling the taste of $$$ they got from ACI will be too strong to resist. Remember, ACI has a campaign mode also and you have to earn ridiculous amounts of points to move up so most of us bought the $20 (I think) pack).  Now I don't mind paying $10-20/month to support a server that will allow me to play alone or multiplayer as much as I want, but after (stupidly, but I had fun) spending about $3000 on ACI since it was released, I resolved that I will not do that again.  After about $1000 I was having fun, sometimes I played enough to get into the top 200, but after seeing the SAME PERSON win almost EVERY contest (#1) and the same groups of people with a ton of money and time on their hands win all the best planes, it gets old.  Now they won't even give some of the stuff away or let you earn it by challenges.  I get that they want to protect the "investment" people like tanakaichirousan (sp?) spent, but they got to enjoy those planes a lot and it isn't like the planes are that much better. People would have more fun if they had a real chance of getting all the stuff. I don't know how many times I played through AC4 and 5 to get and fully load ALL the planes. that was the challenge. But when I have a limited amount of time, have to spend on 3 fuels and sortie 20hrs a day, that's impossible. The groups I played with also started to feel like the tanaka guy was a group of different Namco people that would play a lot (for free) to make the carrot on the stick that the others would strive to follow. I tried to calculate based on the max points and sortie/waiting time and figured he had to play 12-16 hrs/day every day of the contests. Seems impossible. Anyway, lets not get our hopes up until they reveal more about any DLC or other hidden money making features they put into the game.