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Guys I know you might not care about call of duty that much, but black ops 1 and 2 have been re released on PSN for the ps4 and PS5 systems. It's $40 per each game and the season pass costs $30 per game, BUT right now there is a PS plus discount going on with the game.


If you have PlayStation Plus, each game is $20 and the season pass is $10 per game. In total, that's $60 for both games. I think I'm getting the games.

 

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So EverQuest Legends announced their cash shop, and people are freaking out.

https://www.everquestlegends.com/news/eqlegends-producers-letter-july-2026

EverQuest Legends will use an in-game virtual currency called Iridium (IR):

$4.99 | 500 IR
$9.98 | 1,000 IR
$24.99 | 2,750 IR (+10%)
$49.99 | 5,750 IR (+15%)
$99.99 | 12,000 (+20%)

The following items will be available in the in-game shop (pricing is subject to change):

• Deity Unlock Token | 500 IR
• Race Unlock Token | 1000 IR
• Class Unlock Token | 1500 IR
• Additional Loadout Slot | 500 IR
• Alternate Storage Increase | 500 IR (provides additional slots to one type of storage in the increments shown above)
• Additional Inventory Slot | 500 IR
• Weight Reduction Bags
  • 12-slot 100% WR Bag | 500 IR
  • 24-slot 80% WR Bag | 750 IR
  • 50-slot 0% WR 100 Weight Bag |1000 IR
• AA potion | 500 IR (provides double points for the next five AAs and does not expire)
• Name Change Potion | 1000 IR
• Token of Reclamation (restore a lost item) | 100 IR
• Various cosmetic items | Pricing TBD

Items may be added or removed from the in-game shop, and pricing may change.

This is pretty much identical to the cash shop in EQ Live with the exception that you can't buy XP potions, level skips, et cetera. But boy howdy everyone's freaking out because in the closed beta everyone got like 5000 tradeskill bank slots for free and infinite number of Loadouts (which are literally just bookmarks for a specific race/class combo you've selected, you can edit them in town at any time).

Everything in the list is basically a convenience item or of limited use. Like, the bags are nice, but you can get 10 slot 100% wr bags in game by endgame, and you don't really run out of inventory space. The deity/race/class unlocks are meant to be done by maxxing faction with a given race (e.g., once you max your faction with the Euridites, you can switch race to the Euridites) or finishing the endgame questline for a given class -- and since there's no difference between primary and secondary classes, there's no reason to worry about it unless you want to do something really weird like an Ogre Bard/Wizard/Paladin or something without finishing 50 as something else.

5 AAs at double speed is a bit iffy, but you're swimming in AAs by the end of the current level treadmill.

Since it's still published by DayBreakGames, this was kinda expected, but, yeah. I wonder how many people freaking out are THJ server refugees that were just looking for something to be mad about?