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There is a vicious internal cycle with support (eg. More staff) and profit.

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Average Gear Cost:

Armor: 995 (Non Rare)
Primary: 995 (Non Rare)
Sidearm: 995 (Non Rare)
Auxiliary: 995 (None Rare)
Robot: (1200 + 1900)/2 = 1550

995*4 = 3980

Enhancement Cost:

1200*4 (excluding testing phase promo's (founder/delta)) = 4800 -- Enhancements cost 800 more then all the gear itself with an added (very expensive) robot

4800 + 3980 = 8780 -- All non-rare gear (besides Yeti which was averaged) with the standard enhancement price applied.

Then you have enough money for 1 Varium Perk:


10,000 - 8780 = 1,220

Class Change: 1,220 - 900 = 320 (So you get 6 New Varium Style/Color Changes) -- Not able to use you varium for any new equipment
Inventory Space: 1,220 - 775 = 470 (So you get 9 New Varium Style/Color Changes)
Name Change: 1,220 - 1100 = 120 ((So you get 9 New Varium Style/Color Changes)

This is STANDARD cost, roughly at its lowest for a maxed out Varium Player.

How long does this standard issue equipment last? About 3-4 weeks if you are lucky. EpicDuel updates with a rare event every 1-2 Months. Rare/Seasonal rare equipment is considerably more.

Armor: 1250 (Rare/Seasonal)
Primary: 1500 (Promo/Seasonal) (Frosty))
Sidearm: 995 (Seasonal)
Auxiliary: (1500 + 2200)/2 (Rare/Seasonal) = 1,850
Robot: (1900 + 1500)/2 (Rare (2/3)) = 1700


Standard Issue +8 Enhancements = 4800

4800 + 1250 + 1500 + 995 + 1,850 + 1700 = 12,095 (12,100) Varium For a Maxed set of rare Varium Equipement

2 months later better equipement will be released, and a 6 Months later the equipment will be considered outdated.

Please remember 12,100 does not take into account the purchase of ANY varium perk besides equipment.


I also understand not everyone purchases solely rare gear or standard issue varium gear. So an average?

(12,100 + 8,780)/2 = 10,440 -- The average epicduel varium player will pay more then 10,000 varium ($50) for a full set of Varium gear, and will have to pay even more for any kind of Varium perk.

This game really does cost far to much, and as frogbones/gold/andy have already said, this is a 2D web based flash game. Furthermore the staff continually uses the excuse that "we are but a small 2D web based flash game with 2 coders and an artist, don't expect much." The root of this problem is how much you charge. You cannot expect us to "not expect much" when we are paying such a high premium. If you have no control over the prices, you need to change that. Your players are not happy, and until they are you should be doing everything in you power to get that fixed.


Hope I set some things straight, this is outrageous. All of you who disagree will someday come to see ;)