One has to wonder how long Multiversus will last in its second run, given all the controversy it’s going through. Sure, if you pay attention to only the positives, then you’ll think the recent relaunch of the game went off without a hitch. Not only did they bring in new characters like The Joker, Banana Guard, and Jason Voorhees, but they also introduced new in-game mechanics and tried to expand how people played in meaningful ways. However, once you look deeper into some of those new items and mechanics, you’ll start to see why many are frustrated. One excellent example happened recently with the arrival of toast.
You know, as in bread? Yes, Multiversus put special toast in the game to be used for certain things, like sending a “greeting” to others they just played, and fans immediately had a problem with it when the mechanic returned in the relaunch. No, it wasn’t that it was useless, but rather, it was hard to get. It took quite a lot of work to get the toast, and so they asked developer Player First Games for a better way to “more reliably” get it.
So, they did so by making it purchasable via the currency of Gleamium. What’s the problem with that? Well, as a Reddit thread notes, that’s the currency you have to spend real money to get! You can get a pack of toast, yes, but it’ll cost you basically two cents per single piece of toast. As some Redditors noted, this is taking “nickel and diming” folks to a new level!
Just as bad, when you look at the previous version of the toast system, you could purchase it with the in-game gold, which you didn’t need to spend real money on to get. Or, you could get it via the battle pass, which obviously had more things within it to justify the price of getting said pass.
As you can imagine, players are making their voices heard not just on Reddit but on Twitter, and they’re asking Player First Games to change this once again so that they can get toast WITHOUT having to spend real money to get it. Remember, it’s meant to send a greeting to another player. So why should they have to spend real money just to do that?
It also should be noted that Player First Games has been in the habit of pushing microtransactions hard in its fighting title, which is why the game has been embroiled in controversy in the past.
