PSU.com was particularly impressed with Dust 514 during our time at E3 last week, and we’re even more chuffed to find out that spending just $0.24 will net you some of the game’s hottest gear around.
Of course, there is a reason for this. If you die (and let’s face it, you will), you’ll lose your items, so you’ll have to fork out for them each time you get back in the saddle. However, at such a small price to pay, we doubt it’ll present a problem.
Speaking to Eurogamer, CCP’s Morgan Godat commented: “There’s a thing about Dust, which is every time you die, you lose your items, so we’re talking about relatively small amounts of money.”
“You can buy 100 copies of this gun, you can buy 100 copies of this suit of armour. We’ve got to make sure we’re pricing things at the right level, because if you die [you lose these things].”
Godat noted that CCP has yet to finalise pricing details, and that feedback from the forthcoming beta will determine how much the gear will ultimately cost in the final version. Still, the firm sounds pretty confident it’s aiming for the right price.
"We’re still tuning prices – the costs will change according to the feedback we get on the beta – but I believe when I calculated it last, at its most high-end – if you assume that somebody came in and had to buy, with real-world money, the best gear for a serious throw down – (they already had the skills, which by the way you have to build up and work up to be able to use the equipment) it was like a 24-cent thing."
"That’s assuming every piece of your equipment, including your dropsuit, was purchased with real-world money, and every time you died, it was a 24-cent cost to assemble your entire fit."
Dust 514’s open beta kicks off on June 29, 2012.