Apex Legends’ Final Fantasy VII Crossover Prompts Fan Outcry

EA’s popular battle royale shooter will kick off a brand new crossover with on January 9. The event brings inspired by the upcoming RPG sequel, including the iconic Buster Sword. However, fans are pretty pissed about the price of the in game items, particularly one that will reportedly cost up to $360.

Developer Respawn Entertainment on the game’s official website on January 4, detailing everything that will be available from January 9 30. This includes a new game mode centered around , materia that comes with its own buffs (like HP absorption and summoning capabilities), character skins inspired by Aerith and Yuffie, Twitch drops, and more.

It’s a cool looking collab, one that sees Cloud Strife’s Buster Sword slice and dice the various Legends with a limit break that looks like . Unfortunately, despite how dope this all looks, fans aren’t too pleased with how much they’d have to spend to access the many cosmetics. According to , individual packs of the event’s items cost roughly 1000 coins ( ).

That’s already bad enough, . The in is exactly what you might expect. They’re caches of equipment a player had before they were gunned down on the battlefield. The death box is inspired by Sephiroth’s One Winged Angel look from the original game’s final battle, which looks pretty badass. There’s only one way to get it, though.

You must and since packs run you $10, this little coffin of sorts is approximately $360 to unlock. , with quite a few of them about instead. The on the official channel is inundated with criticism of the pricing. “I loved the part where they gave us a chance to earn the heirloom for free and the chance is 0.00001%, and the entire event costing 360$ [sic],” user PatentPending47 wrote.

“Truly an apex experience.” reached out to EA and Respawn Entertainment for comment..