I'm stunned at you guys. What if it was 99¢ to unlock an operator then? Does that make my argument any clearer? You need to look at this with an economist's mindset.
You have two separate economies here. One is in-game, where rewards are tendered in exchange for experience, and out-of-game, where rewards are tendered in exchange for money. When these economies are not in balance, one economy is far cheaper than the other, and the other is depressed.
Just popped onto the store and brought up a random weapon skin on the 556xi priced at 180C/4000R. If we take this exchange rate and apply it here, it simply doesn't translate at all.
For this skin, 1 Rainbow Credit is worth approximately 22 Renown. However, for an operator priced at 600C/25,000R, this exchange rate doubles in favour of the out-of-game economy, with 1 Rainbow Credit worth approximately 42 Renown.
Based on the value they've applied thus far, an operator should be priced at around double the price: $10. At present, they're skewing far too much away from the in-game experience economy. That's how you get imbalance and that's how you break a game.
I don't like micro transactions generally. Up to now, I felt the way Ubisoft is handling them was fine. But once you start charging for non-cosmetic items with an economic grounding greatly skewed in favour to spending real-world money on them, you've got a problem. Why do you think Bungie is charging so much for their level boosts? If they charged less, it would break the game. The player would have an exponentially decreased desire to level up in a conventional sense.
