Apex Legends’ Last Fantasy 7 occasion has some cool cosmetics, however one in all them may set you again greater than $300

Apex Legends’ Last Fantasy 7 crossover is kicking issues off tomorrow, however gamers are annoyed over some expensive cosmetics and potential use of AI within the occasion’s adverts.

As of tomorrow, you’ll decide up some fairly cool-looking Last Fantasy 7 themed cosmetics in Apex Legends, the sport’s first collaboration occasion with one other IP, clearly tying into February’s launch of Rebirth. This newest occasion has 36 new objects you possibly can decide up by means of occasion packs, i.e. loot bins, which additionally consists of six “Iconic” skins. Like most loot field objects, you possibly can’t purchase any of them outright.

Usually, occasions additionally characteristic an heirloom merchandise that you simply unlock after getting all the pieces else that is accessible, which might price you round $160, at the very least in most earlier occasions anyway. Nevertheless, this time round, the heirloom merchandise, a pores and skin that appears like the enduring Buster Sword, is out there within the occasion packs. As some followers have labored out, you will in all probability want to purchase at the very least 36 packs, amounting to at the very least $360, as the chances of getting the pores and skin are so low you will want to purchase that many packs (thanks GamesRadar).

There may be really a singular merchandise that you simply solely get after buying all 36 objects, a One-Winged Angel-themed dying field, which means that you’re going to probably must spend fairly a little bit of bob to come back away from the occasion with entry to the pores and skin. One person on TikTok even went as far as to listing the entire issues you might purchase as a substitute of all these occasion packs, like a Nintendo Change, or a few remedy periods.

On high of all that, Respawn can be dealing with criticism over alleged use of AI within the trailer for the collaboration occasion. You’ll be able to see that a number of the characters’ designs look a bit off on nearer inspection, although some recommend that it was simply footage of the sport put by means of some form of AI filter relatively than it being outright AI-generated. Both means, a little bit of a bummer, as using AI is a rising pattern in tech areas that’s actually simply insulting to the laborious work of numerous artists. Possibly let’s not rip off gamers and use expertise that undermines artists, we could EA executives?