Forum:MW3 Purchase system

Personally, I was very disapointed with the way you aquire guns in Black Ops. When I heard that you earned guns with a purchase system, I got exited and thought that that meant that the guns would be very balanced and that the only guns that were overall "better" than the other guns would be the ones at the bottom of the list that required the purchase of all other guns before being available, or that maybe some guns would be more expensive than others. I think that that is what should happen for MW3 rather than the butchered half level and half purchase system that we have now. It would be sweet if you could buy any gun you wanted at level 1, so long as you managed to gain the points, and I think that the game would be more balanced if you could have the same guns as higher levels, or could choose a different one for a different style of play.

I think it would also be interesting to make many other things reliant on purchases rather than levels, like starting with one custom class, and then having to buy the ability to use the other ones. They would obviously have to be scaled so that the earlier classes are less expensive than the later ones, but it would be an interesting and fun way to earn new classes, rather than grinding through prestige after prestige. As a matter of fact, almost every aspect of the game could come from purchases, from extra custom classes to hardcore gamemodes.

Black Ops also lacked a way to sell weapons and perks that you no longer wished to use, which I thought would have been a fun way of deciding to change your game style and try new things. Players would still have done it if they realized the gun they bought wasn't for them even if they only got back 3/4s of what they paid.

Overall, I'm very exited for the new guns, perks, and equipment, I just hope that they make the aquisition of those things more like really buying a gun, rather than the leveling thing that they do now. If you have any other ideas on what should be done for purchases or the level system in the next game, go for it.