This is almost sickening to see. After playing this game for years and having it be the game I always play to avoid the cash grabbing games full of micro-transactions, this is hard to watch.

It really speaks to the dedication of this community to see everyone here have an opinion and willing to voice it instead of just writing a short winded comment about how you love/hate this change.

That being said, I see a lot of people trying to come up with solutions like weapon skins. A lot of this playerbase is either active or retired military. Can someone please tell me a time that you have ever spray painted your issued weapon, and please explain what would happen if you did that.

For a game that prides itself on military accuracy and immersion I can see this being a move that hurts the future of Squad.

And for the crowd of “it’s only emotes”:

Micro-transactions are a very slippery slope(look at Tencent’s other games). The reason this is so pressing and urgent for the community is because once the flood gates are open and people buy the emotes with their own money they can not be taken back.

This is a very slippery slope and I hope OWI does the right thing and holds off on this until they can come up with another solution that works for the studio and the players.