Talk:XFA-33 Fenrir/@comment-3522837-20150514173334/@comment-177.206.253.133-20150518225004

Endgame, son.

This is not the kind of plane you just climb quickly into the last levels. No, that's what you do with the Wyvern, T-50, Shinden and others of similar tier.

The Fenrir (along with the OSEA, the XFA-27 and so on) are pure endgame planes. That means they're aimed at people who have MRs of over 2000, S-rank almost everything they run, and have most of (if nother all) their Aircraft Tree already unlocked. They're expensive because they're long-term goals, for people who already achieved a lot with the mid-high tier planes.

The other side of this is the slot expansion on the low-tier planes. Don't have time or resources for endgame planes or for the full tree? Unlock slots in a low-to-mid tier plane and make it better.

This last update was surprisingly interesting, in the sense it gave more endgame-focused planes (for the rich and/or full-tree people) and more potential for the (once expendable) low-tier planes, since they expand slots a lot more easily and then can fit better parts.

TL;DR: Calm down. Namco-Bandai and Project Aces are indeed learning how to deal with the freemium model for Infinity. Baby steps, but they're learning.