Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4436775-20130713014204/@comment-9984046-20130923145923

MidnightWyvern wrote: If they're as open as they say they are to input, I think we may see a change in this.

After all, Hawken recently implemented a model where you can rank mechs up to unlock others, rather than having to buy them with a massive quantity of in-game credits or with MT credits. This is Japan we're talking, though. Japanese game developers' egoes are bigger than Atlas, unless the developer is Nintendo.