Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare has been free of microtransactions since launch, but we recently learned they would be coming.
Eurogamer is reporting the official pricing for purchasable coin packs now that they're available in-game, though the values are not in US dollars. The prices are as follows:
- 13,500 coins: £0.79
- 30,000 coins: £1.59
- 85,000 coins: £3.99
- 200,000 coins: £7.99
You could spend quite a bit on coins! You can earn them simply by playing Garden Warfare a lot, so these microstransactions aren't game-breaking. Players who have invested a lot of time into the game may feel hard done by if people are simply purchasing coins in large bundles, but such is the way of modern games--especially when Garden Warfare came at a reduced price.
If I were to directly convert the British pricing into USD, the costs of the coin packs would look like this:
- 13,500 coins: $1.33
- 30,000 coins: $2.68
- 85,000 coins: $6.73
- 200,000 coins: $13.48
Those represent the exact currency exchange rate values, but are almost surely not the actual prices. Converting directly is not often how prices are decided--even though it would correlate to the same profit margins for the developers, different regions have a varying range of price tags they'd be willing to pay $2.68 might be rounded down to $2.50, for example, to appear more acceptable to an American audience. It's also unlikely EA would leave the exact change as it, such as $6.73, rather than rounding to something more even.
The coins can be spent in-game on items and character packs, with the most expensive costing 40,000 coins. The microtransactions have been added to the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of the game.
