Talk:Ace Combat Infinity/@comment-69.112.69.167-20150504001157/@comment-1824272-20160131052457

I think you guys are putting too much "conspiracy" thought into this. It's true, we already have confirmation that the future of the series, i.e. Ace Combat 7, was entirely dependent on Infinity being successful. However, that's not the reason for the upgrade costs of high-level aircraft or the purchase costs for the end-game aircraft.

Infinity is a free-to-play game. There are people who spend, I am not kidding, thousands of dollars every month on Sortie Fuel. These guys may or may not be skilled, but the fact of the matter is, they're sitting on millions of credits with nothing to spend it on. That's why the end-game high-price aircraft and high-price upgrades exist; to give the guys who spend massive amounts of money on the game something to actually do.

For the rest of us, most of us who don't pay so much money or have nearly that kind of fortune in virtual credits, we don't need those upgrades or end-game aircraft. My Lv.10 X-02 Wyvern costs a total of 4.8 million, and that's less than the Lv.1 purchase price of the X-49 Night Raven. And the Lv.10 X-02 completely destroys the Lv.1 X-49, pummels it into the ground and laughs in its face.

The fact is, regular players like us have absolutely no use for the end-game stuff that costs tons of credits. And how many players even own an X-49? How many times do we come across players that have thousands of stocked fuel? It's not common at all, and it doesn't affect us at all.