So, why is there no Auric Cells in the rift's free pass?

They need to make that money.

But seriously 10$ is not much for the cosmetics you get, my only gripe is having to still work extra hard to complete the pass. Progression should be doubled at least if you bought the battle pass and give auric cells, Iridescent shards, and bloodpoints to the free pass, but with normal progression.

Because you can spend that currency to buy things from the store instead of having to spend real money

Don't you earn those auric cells back anyways? So not only do you earn the cosmetics, you get auric cells you can spend on other things in the store (killers, survivors, cosmetics).

Honestly, I'm completely ok with that. I'm not the type of person to buy abunch of stuff from the store using auric cells, instead opting to use event cosmetics or cosmetics purchasable with shards. The fact that you can upgrade to the paid rift at any point really makes it feel like your not GAMBLING anything since you can just wait to see how far along you get before making that transaction. For the first rift, I waited until I already hit lvl 70 before buying the paid version and immediately getting my money back.

For me, I just see the rift as something thats giving me free cosmetics every now and then on a game that I was planning on playing anyway. I still have the auric cells from the first rift that was refunded to me which I intend on dropping into this rift if I can manage to finish it. I had taken a break from the game for afew months, which is why I didnt get very far at all in the last rift.

Oh I agree, I have the same attitude in general, and the fact that the premium track doesn't contain XP boosters to encourage early purchasing is my favourite thing about the Rift.

At the same time, I think there are some improvements that could be made, if only for the sake of the feature's long-term success. I can manage the grind, because DBD is basically the only game I play and I have a lot of free time, but a lot of people can't, and that kind of thing can get demoralising after a while. If they don't feel like they can get anything worthwhile out of the feature, they'll lose interest in it. In my opinion, it's actually in BHVR's best financial interests to make the Rift a bit more casually accessible than it is, because people are more likely to get enthused about and want to spend money on something that they feel is within their reach.

This logical fallacy ultimately falls apart due to needing the assumption that each of those cells actually results in a direct sales lost.

It doesn't and unless its extremely generous will hardly effect sales according to most satistics on these matters.

if its 200 per free track that is 1 "Free" DLC every FIVE Archives however Hypathetically just like how yours is if people get impatient in waiting theyd' might be MORE likely to spend money on cells(Maybe slightly less but still spending) to get enough to get what they'd want from what they they were planning on earning from the cells instead of having to wait the 2-6 months(If one ends instantly to another) to try to finish it.

The 3rd lines paragraph is to show how easily the logical fallacy can be turned into a positive for the devs instead of a negative.

Grind or no grind, I only see it as a positive. I played plenty of DBD before the rift came out, this is just extra stuff than what I was getting before.

Im one who can let cosmetics go for whatever they wanna charge em for because...its purely cosmetic. They offer no advantage at all, and most of the time offer a DISadvantage. Before DBD I played alot of warframe and grinded premium currency through trading that I went ahead and blew on cosmetics. Swapping to DBD though and seeing that wasnt really an option... I didnt really lose any sleep over that. Most of my characters just stayed in default skins unless I managed to earn a new cosmetic through events. I also went ahead and bought afew cosmetic via iri shards.

All in all, if the devs want to have cosmetics that can only be bought with cash... its whatever. I'd be fuming about it if they were selling Iridescent weapons or something that offered increased stats, but they arnt.

It'd be cool if each rift gave you 200 AC in the free track, which means after 2 rifts you'd have enough for a part of a 3 piece very rare outfit, or enough for a lower grade outfit. After 3 rifts you could buy one character, but that would take half a year, you'd also have to complete the entire rift before it expires to get the full 200. After 5 rifts you could buy a rift pass.

I understand what you're trying to say, and to an extent I agree with it. My point is that I wasn't making any such assumption, I was simply speculating around whether such a monetisation system would actually be financially beneficial for BHVR.

Why can't you earn auric cells in game?

Easy. It's because they want you to give them more money.

Fair point.

If you want additional rank progress just do the challenges if you end up doing them all you should be around rank 60 anyway and with intermittent game play for the other 100 its not too much of a stretch to say play 100 games in 70 days.

also if you only wanted it for less grindy then you should be arguing to be allowed to skip tiers with iridescent shards not give me free premium currency because I dont want to play the game enough to get all of the free stuff.

Except a lot of these things shouldn’t be behind literal paywalls because most games that use such systems are free to play and not games that can cost between 15-30 depending on currency/platform lol