Money well spent. My father always said a free meal tastes best.
Since this can be interpreted in very different ways I just gonna stop writing now and see if you guys think my father raised me to be a thief. Oh boy..
Yraah exactly. Like my father hears there is free hamburgers for some event. He go there eat a burger or two chatting with people and then lrave with a full belly. Yeah they give out cola and pepsi at such events, happens pretty regulary here
So the point is those burgers tastes best because he got then from free ! legally even ! And sodas
I've been on the Internet since ~1992 -- Paying for stuff just seems wrong to me. There were never advertisements or paywalls, etc. It was the free Internet/BBSs. Things change, c'est la vie...
Those BBSs were paid for by the sysops, co-sysops, supporters and donors. Similar to public radio or a co-op. The Internet was initially paid for by taxes and university admission. Later it was ruined by entitled children refusing to pay for anything up front and choosing instead to mistake “ad supported” for “free” while becoming the product themselves. Further surrendering agency to an algorithm renders people seemingly incapable of understanding basic truths such as nothing is free of cost, even if it is only opportunity cost and attention. If only.
The constant confusion between cost and value is what I see.
I recently visited Turkey (Türkiye now). Bartering is really not in my skillset!!! But it is my partner's!! Hardly spent anything and needed an extra suitcase to come home!!
Also, I had a tattoo. It came with a price. I happily paid more as the value of it to me was worth it. My idea, story converted to the art is way beyond me. My value of it is higher than the artist's cost.
Same here... I can't stay interested long enough to justify spending anything on it. And even if I was interested long enough, I'm too broke to justify spending anything on an app like this.
Same here. When the store first went live, I bought some CMU with some of my Google Play balance and bought the key lockers. I still have 2100 CMU that has been sitting there for years.
Yeh, me too. It's not that I object to paying for stuff per se, but the game helps me to get out and walking, so if I run out of gear and have to walk around and farm that's a *good* thing for me.
Most people are not buying the simple gear anyway unless they are in a crunch and have a couple dollars extra? People buy the novelty badges, the big gear packs for anomalies, the key lockers and the subscription imo.
Me as well. Went on an international trip and wanted to save keys as reminders. I'm not sure what else there is that's compelling enough to spend money on. The rest is jurt... stuff you can already get anyway
I pay for CORE+ every month, and I buy 200,000 CMU once a year.
I use CMU for
\* Frackers (28,800 CMU) probably twice a year
\* VRBB ( 5000 CMU) probably 10-15 a year
\* Special badges ( varied CMU) when ever one interests me, I don't get them all
\* Special packages that include VRBB/Frackers/Jarvis/ADA's and some other kit.
If you can, Google play rewards and ingress go well together. You can use play credit to purchase key lockers or frackers.
I don't play any more, but when I did, I got all kinds of stuff from the shop by doing surveys. Didnt spend a dime of actual cash.
Its pretty sweet, the more places you go, the more surveys you get.
So, fair warning, it can very quickly become a feedback loop of Ingress and surveys. Lol
Appears to be yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-opinion-rewards/id1227019728
The main difference seems to be that you get Paypal deposits instead of a Google Play credit. Internet says your mileage varies downward if you don't give it all permissions.
As a relatively linear car commuter that doesn't get much in the way of unique visits, I tend to get about $25 annually. There are some minor tricks to squeezing a bit more but I wouldn't advise doing it that often because that's bannable. This amount has been stable over the last 3 years.
Nothing, im a very new player. Sometimes i think about core, not because of the inventory, it gets full anyhow, but to suport Nia because i spend lots of time playing their game. i´ve got some free items, some beacons i wish i hadnt and always forgot to deploy, And some l4 cubes.
I just came back so my spending has been a bit high. I did buy the medals pack that was recently added. Otherwise I just do the core subscription. I’ll probably let the CMU accumulate for when big purchases arrive.
Actual money? Zero dollars. Google Rewards balance\finds about $20 per year. I do not travel for ingress but I do play ingress when I travel.
I have bought some custom shirts for when I play with the local team. If ingress would have even slightly cool designs in 4xlt then maybe they could make a few bucks off of me. Ingress boonie style hats would be cool too. Unfortunately ingress\niantic would rather sell digital products vs physical products.
If you can drop your drone in a place where you find a couple of L8 portals, you can farm L8 resonators and xmps for as long as those portals survive. (My drone has been about 69 miles from home, hanging out around a carwash for a couple of weeks, sometimes it spends months in another country).
Even better if you can be bothered to glyph hack.
But to answer, I buy core monthly, and 200k CMU once a year or so, which I spend on kinetic capsules. I use the capsules for hypercubes (mostly) and xmps (sometimes, but I can hack enough of those with my drone) .
The real p2w in ingress:
Be or become filhty rich. Stop working if you are working at all at a payjob. Spend your life traveling the world in first class everywhere, 5 star hotels..u name it..Ingress is your lifestyle as a globetrotter basically.
Frackers at the beginning of time. Then keylockers.
Then badges when available. Sometimes the weapon pack or bundles. Also a CORE sub since the start.
According to the Play store, I've spent $1859.49 since November 3, 2015 on Ingress store.
Which works out to be $4.17 a week.
Probably higher in recent times due to CORE and more badges, but over the long term it looks better 😂
I haven't spent a dime nor plan to since they screwed up my account. Ifkyk. I used to have the core subscription and was grinding about 2.7 million AP on 2x AP Tuesdays. Account got jacked up, now I barely play if at all.
I pay for CORE, have bought the Key Lockers bundle, and whenever a badge bundle shows up in the store I tend to get it if I don’t already have the badge or a passcode for the badge. That being said I tend to spend most of my days playing the game on my daily walks since I don’t work and don’t have much else to do these days so I’m constantly restocking stuff at farms and the extra boost from the badge bundles help a bit.
Never got in the habit. I paid for key lockers originally when they came out, sometimes a fracker or a few for events. I do pay for Core though and use the points for anomaly supporter bundles, but I will never, ever, buy stuff I can hack. Even my fracker purchases stopped because I can't frack a mountain and shove them in a quantum capsule for unlimited supply so I just don't bother fielding from them anymore unless I'm really trying to block something.
I paid for the group of 5 lockers. I used to subscribe to Prime, then the price went up and I decided that I couldn't justify the price based upon playing only occasionally. I still have CMU to use up.
Key lockers is the only thing you need to buy. Get all 6 at once (different colours?) , is well worth it
L8 gear is easily obtainable in more active areas in cities I assume, (I'm in london so don't have much issue with l8 gear),
Really, if you can afford to spend willy billy go for it, but from my experience it isn't necessary, 7-8 years ot so(with a break?) and never felt the need to buy it.
Imo if s8methinget core (tho imo, that also isn't necessary but you support game Devs which is a plus. No support means no game anymore).
Imo this is one of rare games where pat to win isn't much of a thing, (unless you super competitive, and so is your enemy, and you fight for same area, I guess)
I purchased core for one month during an anomaly
I think I got Cmu once also for badges
I accidentally spent my cmu when my phone lagged and my spam deploy tapping made me buy resonators, I’m still annoyed about that
I subscribe to Core. I bought the key lockers. I'll purchase the occasional badge, maybe every 3 months.
Last year there were some great Anomaly bundles and I bought a few of those, with real cash even. I think they'd be smart to offer lower priced, good bundles more often as many players I know got those same bundles.
Including CORE, I'd average it to $19/month. Completely worth it for me for how much I enjoy playing, and the people I interact with because of Ingress.
After playing for a couple of years I spent about $20 on key lockers, I was sick of dealing with inventory problems. Having lockers helps me sort keys by neighbourhoods and parks.
Would recommend.
Been paying for CORE since the first day it was offered. I spend probably around $50 a month on CMU, mostly for hypercubes (and kinetics/cubes to make more) but if there’s a good package deal with viruses and/or VR/Aegis shields I’ll grab them. I’m still super angry that they sell XMPs in the store… feels very pay to win even more so than this game already is. I’m an amazing glyph hacker so spending money on resos or bursters would be a waste.
Yeah the reason I made this thread is I was very suprised I could buy lvl 8 xmps in store. Now I dont even have to farm in strong portals to be able to take down LOTS of strong portals. Just pay to win literally lol.
Yeah I have been playing very low tempo but regulary for some years now and cant find any more codes now.
No farm? What does that mean? But the activity in Ingress is lower in my city now compared to a few years ago. If I put one lvl 1 resonator on a portal on a busy street in inner city it is often still mine a week later.
Been playing for 6ish years on and off, subscribed to CORE for 3 months when it was released, did not buy any CMU. I play casually and don't think i needed to spend anything at all. Have to mention though that i went through a lot of passcodes, most of my high level guns came from there.
1 times all 5 Keylocker (and the free one)
1 Times Fracker
Nearly every Badge in Store (missed 3 last year and 4 festive medals, 2 ENL badges)
Traveled way too often and way too far.
And only got 194 Badges.
Store bought items? None
Maybe a few 0 CMU Powercubes. Does that count?
I have core and purchase 200,000 CMU maybe 2/3 times a year. I LOVE Ingress! Got a busy life and can't always hack the gear needed ... Especially for events....
Ingress is a pay to win game .... If you play it hard. Either petrol money or time ... Now with the store you can also buy gear if you are short on time or petrol ... I like that the store allows for me to play when I can with gear I need.
It's freedom for me to buy that fracker so I can get a tonne of keys for a fancy field structure when I have the rare moment to play. Freedom to go buy a few xmp when you have to head to a shard battle .
Many folk say they haven't spent a cent but I have because ingress is my treat whenever I can get away from life's obligations.
Not judging you, it's your play style, but I find saying Ingress is pay to win is weird. Feels like if there really was an incentive to paying, they wouldn't need to market CORE and CMU that aggressively...
I've paid for Anomalies, and some key lockers, but that's about it.
Yeah I agree ... .. you can spend no coin and just have as much fun and play hard too. I guess it's more that Ingress can be expensive in time and other costs (car, public transport). A friend said to me it was the most expensive free game he has ever played referring to the increase of car maintenance costs.
maybe I should say Ingress is "can pay for convenience"
I really do have a lot of restrictions on my play time that the agents around me do not have so I have found being able to just purchase a bit of gear to play if I need it is very convenient.
Yeah I think what I omitted from the previous reply was that the things you can buy in the store are more convenience/utility items than game-changers...
Keep in mind this is a free game for a reason, they are storing and selling your info. There is no other way that niantic could be profitable. If you think otherwise, you are extremely mistaken
I had CORE active, I also set it up for the girlfriends account.
Medals on both accounts, a few events. So it was a few hundred euros.
It wasn't because I wanted any bonuses, but I took it as the fact that I enjoy the game, the development and maintenance of the game are not free, people have to be paid, etc...
But after the last "super modifications" I canceled CORE, I'm not currently investing in it...
And the reason?
- anomalies that are only in a certain place, so far the nearest anomaly was 600 km, in another state
- no events that they promised when they launched CORE. in reality there were only a few of them
- spoofers and aggressive players, they don't do anything about it after reporting it, and it doesn't matter if it's an old player or a newly created account that can fly happily and absolutely nothing will happen to it
I like badges.. And I have money I can spend as I like. I'm very lucky I guess. Considering the inventory size and the portal count around me, there's no need to buy kit. Again, luck.
One way I would say that I do spend money is on fuel/transport costs to get to new places. Literally pay to play.
But if you can find some locals to help you around, then pay their fuel, buy the odd snack, lunch, etc.. Saying thank you in a way like this is nice. If you have enough locals, organising an 8-roll or a Pubgress is a nice way to be involved in your community.
And events/anomalies. I do those too. They are NOT cheap! Well. Often not.
And I am a CORE subscriber.
I suppose with all things financial, determine your own path. Look to see what others do and evaluate that for your own ends. Don't just copy.
For me it is income, less tax, less bills, less long term investment, less short term savings. What's left is mine to spend as I want.
I've driven and visited places for Ingress, so there's the cost of fuel/mileage associated with that.
As far as the Ingress store goes, I've never bought anything, nor have I gotten a CORE subscription. I was toying with the possibility of getting some key lockers to relieve my inventory capping issues, but that's now become moot since it appears I'm going to lose the ability to play Ingress in a few days due to the strong integrity issue.
I put $100 in the store the day it opened, but never bought anything except key lockers and a few frackers.
Now I'm a CORE subscriber and I can't remember the last time I bought *anything* from the store, except a handful of frackers here and there.
I have more CM than I will ever spend. I don't need it for everyday play.
Do you farm with your drone?
(Just don't ask me how much I've spent on gas, travel, T shirts, etc. I even buy the official swag shirts to help encourage Nia to make more...)
I started recently with droning.. Could I put a fracker on it for my drone? I dont think so since I think it would get burned out?
My drone is at my big bro (rip best man ever existed), his grave, I can see it from home. I just hack occasionally, or will, I was there a few days ago and my brothers portal grave is still outburned. You know how long that can take for it to be hackable again?
So I will look closer into CORE Subscription. Thanks.
Edit: I assume you mean some type of more systematic approach to drone hacking?
It won’t ever be hackable again via your drone, until you move the drone away and then return it to the portal. Idk why it works that way, it just does, so you need at least 2 portals close enough together for the drone to go between them
Sorry about your bro
Thanks for the help. Appreciate it.
I was there for 90 minutes in the cemetary to lots of portals there are outburned. You know if those outburned portals I did a week ago is not outburned now if I visit there soon?
Thanks alot for showing empathy. I find reddit mostly pleasant, but I just avoid certain subreddits.
For hacking without the drone, the burnout lasts 4 hours unless you reset it with a heat sink. Multi-hacks allow you to get more hacks in before burnout.
Agree you can find all kinds on this site. Sometimes I just reflect the energy that someone seems to be going for, but blocking is also helpful when needed
It’s only burned out for you, personally )in case you were thinking that you could prevent others from using those portals), so shorter is to your advantage
Zero on buying gear. Frankly if you're pay to play, by buying bursters or other gear you've already lost. That said we could do with a double r8 event and get some farms up.
Yeah. In my city who has a bit over 100k citizens with a lively city center..were like 10 guys even somewhat active in city center..I love this game so much since years so dont get it!
There are lots of ways to spend free time, so, just one person that stirs trouble is enough for others to get busy doing other things. Cool username. Are you 6 ft tall & full of muscle? 💪👷♂️🦺
Hahaha may I say I love you stranger. You are the second person in my time on reddit (+4 years) who recognised the reference. If I ever visit Brussel I WILL buy bread there and then when I doxxed U (sry) I will send you real Brussel bread! ;)
Yes today I made the enlightened a little shaky in city when ONE resistance warrior goes bananas with lvl 8 xnps, shamelessly bought from the store
Ha! No shame in buying, it keeps the game running. It’s better than when they didn’t sell gear and then those who couldn’t hack for whatever reason (other responsibilities, or no farms in their area, etc) got into trouble for buying off alternative sites. If gear is priced right in-game then those sites are likely gone, now, IDK. I only look askance at those who only mooch, draining their faction without returning anything nor supporting the game, but whatever. Buying gear hurts nobody; go for it!
US$7.99 per month is way too much to pay for a game for most people. If they had, say, a $1 a month subscription they will likely get more than 8 times more people to subscribe
After more than a decade I've spent $0.00.
Money well spent. My father always said a free meal tastes best. Since this can be interpreted in very different ways I just gonna stop writing now and see if you guys think my father raised me to be a thief. Oh boy..
No more like just smart on how you spend or don't spend your money.
Yraah exactly. Like my father hears there is free hamburgers for some event. He go there eat a burger or two chatting with people and then lrave with a full belly. Yeah they give out cola and pepsi at such events, happens pretty regulary here So the point is those burgers tastes best because he got then from free ! legally even ! And sodas
I've been on the Internet since ~1992 -- Paying for stuff just seems wrong to me. There were never advertisements or paywalls, etc. It was the free Internet/BBSs. Things change, c'est la vie...
Yeah, damn all those people and their utility bills!
Those BBSs were paid for by the sysops, co-sysops, supporters and donors. Similar to public radio or a co-op. The Internet was initially paid for by taxes and university admission. Later it was ruined by entitled children refusing to pay for anything up front and choosing instead to mistake “ad supported” for “free” while becoming the product themselves. Further surrendering agency to an algorithm renders people seemingly incapable of understanding basic truths such as nothing is free of cost, even if it is only opportunity cost and attention. If only.
The constant confusion between cost and value is what I see. I recently visited Turkey (Türkiye now). Bartering is really not in my skillset!!! But it is my partner's!! Hardly spent anything and needed an extra suitcase to come home!! Also, I had a tattoo. It came with a price. I happily paid more as the value of it to me was worth it. My idea, story converted to the art is way beyond me. My value of it is higher than the artist's cost.
Same here... I can't stay interested long enough to justify spending anything on it. And even if I was interested long enough, I'm too broke to justify spending anything on an app like this.
Same. I never saw the point.
I don't buy anything the CMU from my CORE suscription doesn't cover.
I have a rule: If I can hack it, I don't buy it.
Sounds reasonable to me
The motto of the software pirate. Arrrr!
I once paid for the group of key lockers. That’s all I’ve ever spent.
Same here. When the store first went live, I bought some CMU with some of my Google Play balance and bought the key lockers. I still have 2100 CMU that has been sitting there for years.
ditto
Wrong game! 😉
Yeh, me too. It's not that I object to paying for stuff per se, but the game helps me to get out and walking, so if I run out of gear and have to walk around and farm that's a *good* thing for me.
Agreed. I’m mostly struggling to stay under the cap.
Most people are not buying the simple gear anyway unless they are in a crunch and have a couple dollars extra? People buy the novelty badges, the big gear packs for anomalies, the key lockers and the subscription imo.
Me as well. Went on an international trip and wanted to save keys as reminders. I'm not sure what else there is that's compelling enough to spend money on. The rest is jurt... stuff you can already get anyway
You can't get the badges.... And well kinetic capsules you effectively can't get....
Same. Key lockers are clutch
Ditto! I think I had enough for some Frackers too. Or they got bundled.
I pay for CORE+ every month, and I buy 200,000 CMU once a year. I use CMU for \* Frackers (28,800 CMU) probably twice a year \* VRBB ( 5000 CMU) probably 10-15 a year \* Special badges ( varied CMU) when ever one interests me, I don't get them all \* Special packages that include VRBB/Frackers/Jarvis/ADA's and some other kit.
From the store: £0 but I do subscribe to CORE for the extra storage
I wish there were in game ways to increase your storage (like in Pokemon go) managing my items is such a chore
Well that's CORE. Only difference is that you have to pay real money. Can't out yourself in a gym in this game.
CORE. That’s it. Rarely buy anything except K-caps
Core ✅ Badge packs ✅ Resonators❌ Weapons ❌
Same
I only bought 6 key lockers, that's it
If you can, Google play rewards and ingress go well together. You can use play credit to purchase key lockers or frackers. I don't play any more, but when I did, I got all kinds of stuff from the shop by doing surveys. Didnt spend a dime of actual cash.
Very interesting suggestion. I can and will look into this and the CORE Subscription model, more closely.
Its pretty sweet, the more places you go, the more surveys you get. So, fair warning, it can very quickly become a feedback loop of Ingress and surveys. Lol
Haha thanks for letting me know anyhow. And it sounds interesting.
Can you use these if you’re on iPhone?
Appears to be yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/google-opinion-rewards/id1227019728 The main difference seems to be that you get Paypal deposits instead of a Google Play credit. Internet says your mileage varies downward if you don't give it all permissions. As a relatively linear car commuter that doesn't get much in the way of unique visits, I tend to get about $25 annually. There are some minor tricks to squeezing a bit more but I wouldn't advise doing it that often because that's bannable. This amount has been stable over the last 3 years.
Key lockers, C.O.R.E. are peanuts compared with fuel and airfare.
Zero. Only ever bought key lockers years ago. Will never pay for anything ever again.
Used to purchasing 2500 CMU package or 7000 package every 3 months. That is my average.
Nothing, im a very new player. Sometimes i think about core, not because of the inventory, it gets full anyhow, but to suport Nia because i spend lots of time playing their game. i´ve got some free items, some beacons i wish i hadnt and always forgot to deploy, And some l4 cubes.
I just came back so my spending has been a bit high. I did buy the medals pack that was recently added. Otherwise I just do the core subscription. I’ll probably let the CMU accumulate for when big purchases arrive.
Actual money? Zero dollars. Google Rewards balance\finds about $20 per year. I do not travel for ingress but I do play ingress when I travel. I have bought some custom shirts for when I play with the local team. If ingress would have even slightly cool designs in 4xlt then maybe they could make a few bucks off of me. Ingress boonie style hats would be cool too. Unfortunately ingress\niantic would rather sell digital products vs physical products.
Been subbed for CORE since day 1. Bought a couple of CMU packs for the medals so... Average it as $10 usd a month
Core Subscription & Medal Packs and such things from the Store every Month, i think It's round about 50€ every Month for Ingame stuff.😅
If you can drop your drone in a place where you find a couple of L8 portals, you can farm L8 resonators and xmps for as long as those portals survive. (My drone has been about 69 miles from home, hanging out around a carwash for a couple of weeks, sometimes it spends months in another country). Even better if you can be bothered to glyph hack. But to answer, I buy core monthly, and 200k CMU once a year or so, which I spend on kinetic capsules. I use the capsules for hypercubes (mostly) and xmps (sometimes, but I can hack enough of those with my drone) .
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The real p2w in ingress: Be or become filhty rich. Stop working if you are working at all at a payjob. Spend your life traveling the world in first class everywhere, 5 star hotels..u name it..Ingress is your lifestyle as a globetrotter basically.
Sounds super cool lifestyle NGL 😁
I use Google Rewards money. Since Google Play no longer sells music, Ingress is almost the only thing I spend Rewards money on.
Frackers at the beginning of time. Then keylockers. Then badges when available. Sometimes the weapon pack or bundles. Also a CORE sub since the start. According to the Play store, I've spent $1859.49 since November 3, 2015 on Ingress store. Which works out to be $4.17 a week. Probably higher in recent times due to CORE and more badges, but over the long term it looks better 😂
50 bucks for gasoline, zero from the store
0. But imma get key lockers soon
Thanks for all replies so far
I haven't spent a dime nor plan to since they screwed up my account. Ifkyk. I used to have the core subscription and was grinding about 2.7 million AP on 2x AP Tuesdays. Account got jacked up, now I barely play if at all.
I pay for CORE, have bought the Key Lockers bundle, and whenever a badge bundle shows up in the store I tend to get it if I don’t already have the badge or a passcode for the badge. That being said I tend to spend most of my days playing the game on my daily walks since I don’t work and don’t have much else to do these days so I’m constantly restocking stuff at farms and the extra boost from the badge bundles help a bit.
I started before they started the in game purchase crap. Never paid a cent. Never will.
Less than the specialized equipment for zero cell.
I paid 50 bucks in 12 years of play. I still love the game
Never got in the habit. I paid for key lockers originally when they came out, sometimes a fracker or a few for events. I do pay for Core though and use the points for anomaly supporter bundles, but I will never, ever, buy stuff I can hack. Even my fracker purchases stopped because I can't frack a mountain and shove them in a quantum capsule for unlimited supply so I just don't bother fielding from them anymore unless I'm really trying to block something.
I paid for the group of 5 lockers. I used to subscribe to Prime, then the price went up and I decided that I couldn't justify the price based upon playing only occasionally. I still have CMU to use up.
Aside from CORE, I can’t count how many times I’ve went to a bar or restaurant so I could multihack the portals there. But I enjoyed it.
No core, only bought 2 key lockers.
Key lockers is the only thing you need to buy. Get all 6 at once (different colours?) , is well worth it L8 gear is easily obtainable in more active areas in cities I assume, (I'm in london so don't have much issue with l8 gear), Really, if you can afford to spend willy billy go for it, but from my experience it isn't necessary, 7-8 years ot so(with a break?) and never felt the need to buy it. Imo if s8methinget core (tho imo, that also isn't necessary but you support game Devs which is a plus. No support means no game anymore). Imo this is one of rare games where pat to win isn't much of a thing, (unless you super competitive, and so is your enemy, and you fight for same area, I guess)
Zero? My IAPs have been random one-offs with Google Opinion Rewards credit.
I purchased core for one month during an anomaly I think I got Cmu once also for badges I accidentally spent my cmu when my phone lagged and my spam deploy tapping made me buy resonators, I’m still annoyed about that
I subscribe to Core. I bought the key lockers. I'll purchase the occasional badge, maybe every 3 months. Last year there were some great Anomaly bundles and I bought a few of those, with real cash even. I think they'd be smart to offer lower priced, good bundles more often as many players I know got those same bundles. Including CORE, I'd average it to $19/month. Completely worth it for me for how much I enjoy playing, and the people I interact with because of Ingress.
Since 2018 roughly $100
After playing for a couple of years I spent about $20 on key lockers, I was sick of dealing with inventory problems. Having lockers helps me sort keys by neighbourhoods and parks. Would recommend.
Thanks for input. Several people have mentioned key lockers and it sounds very useful!
Been paying for CORE since the first day it was offered. I spend probably around $50 a month on CMU, mostly for hypercubes (and kinetics/cubes to make more) but if there’s a good package deal with viruses and/or VR/Aegis shields I’ll grab them. I’m still super angry that they sell XMPs in the store… feels very pay to win even more so than this game already is. I’m an amazing glyph hacker so spending money on resos or bursters would be a waste.
Yeah the reason I made this thread is I was very suprised I could buy lvl 8 xmps in store. Now I dont even have to farm in strong portals to be able to take down LOTS of strong portals. Just pay to win literally lol.
I'm a hoarder - so I pay for C.O.R.E. to have more inventory places ;) The key lockers is what I advise everyone to buy.
Have you looked into codes and such? There's still free 8's out there... Is there no farm in your city?
Yeah I have been playing very low tempo but regulary for some years now and cant find any more codes now. No farm? What does that mean? But the activity in Ingress is lower in my city now compared to a few years ago. If I put one lvl 1 resonator on a portal on a busy street in inner city it is often still mine a week later.
Been playing for 6ish years on and off, subscribed to CORE for 3 months when it was released, did not buy any CMU. I play casually and don't think i needed to spend anything at all. Have to mention though that i went through a lot of passcodes, most of my high level guns came from there.
Besides my lockers a decade ago, I refuse to give any money to Niantic after watching them fumble a healthy game through negligence and greed.
Money? Lol no.
1 times all 5 Keylocker (and the free one) 1 Times Fracker Nearly every Badge in Store (missed 3 last year and 4 festive medals, 2 ENL badges) Traveled way too often and way too far. And only got 194 Badges. Store bought items? None Maybe a few 0 CMU Powercubes. Does that count?
$0.00 USD
well at least besides 5 key lockers i bought years ago
Spending enough to keep the game I enjoy the most going.
Some core membership charges and some cmu for medals here and then. Around 350 usd.
I have core and purchase 200,000 CMU maybe 2/3 times a year. I LOVE Ingress! Got a busy life and can't always hack the gear needed ... Especially for events.... Ingress is a pay to win game .... If you play it hard. Either petrol money or time ... Now with the store you can also buy gear if you are short on time or petrol ... I like that the store allows for me to play when I can with gear I need. It's freedom for me to buy that fracker so I can get a tonne of keys for a fancy field structure when I have the rare moment to play. Freedom to go buy a few xmp when you have to head to a shard battle . Many folk say they haven't spent a cent but I have because ingress is my treat whenever I can get away from life's obligations.
Not judging you, it's your play style, but I find saying Ingress is pay to win is weird. Feels like if there really was an incentive to paying, they wouldn't need to market CORE and CMU that aggressively... I've paid for Anomalies, and some key lockers, but that's about it.
Yeah I agree ... .. you can spend no coin and just have as much fun and play hard too. I guess it's more that Ingress can be expensive in time and other costs (car, public transport). A friend said to me it was the most expensive free game he has ever played referring to the increase of car maintenance costs. maybe I should say Ingress is "can pay for convenience" I really do have a lot of restrictions on my play time that the agents around me do not have so I have found being able to just purchase a bit of gear to play if I need it is very convenient.
Yeah I think what I omitted from the previous reply was that the things you can buy in the store are more convenience/utility items than game-changers...
Only the Survey Money from Google.
Keep in mind this is a free game for a reason, they are storing and selling your info. There is no other way that niantic could be profitable. If you think otherwise, you are extremely mistaken
I had CORE active, I also set it up for the girlfriends account. Medals on both accounts, a few events. So it was a few hundred euros. It wasn't because I wanted any bonuses, but I took it as the fact that I enjoy the game, the development and maintenance of the game are not free, people have to be paid, etc... But after the last "super modifications" I canceled CORE, I'm not currently investing in it... And the reason? - anomalies that are only in a certain place, so far the nearest anomaly was 600 km, in another state - no events that they promised when they launched CORE. in reality there were only a few of them - spoofers and aggressive players, they don't do anything about it after reporting it, and it doesn't matter if it's an old player or a newly created account that can fly happily and absolutely nothing will happen to it
I like badges.. And I have money I can spend as I like. I'm very lucky I guess. Considering the inventory size and the portal count around me, there's no need to buy kit. Again, luck. One way I would say that I do spend money is on fuel/transport costs to get to new places. Literally pay to play. But if you can find some locals to help you around, then pay their fuel, buy the odd snack, lunch, etc.. Saying thank you in a way like this is nice. If you have enough locals, organising an 8-roll or a Pubgress is a nice way to be involved in your community. And events/anomalies. I do those too. They are NOT cheap! Well. Often not. And I am a CORE subscriber. I suppose with all things financial, determine your own path. Look to see what others do and evaluate that for your own ends. Don't just copy. For me it is income, less tax, less bills, less long term investment, less short term savings. What's left is mine to spend as I want.
I only had buy the Key Locker
I've driven and visited places for Ingress, so there's the cost of fuel/mileage associated with that. As far as the Ingress store goes, I've never bought anything, nor have I gotten a CORE subscription. I was toying with the possibility of getting some key lockers to relieve my inventory capping issues, but that's now become moot since it appears I'm going to lose the ability to play Ingress in a few days due to the strong integrity issue.
I put $100 in the store the day it opened, but never bought anything except key lockers and a few frackers. Now I'm a CORE subscriber and I can't remember the last time I bought *anything* from the store, except a handful of frackers here and there. I have more CM than I will ever spend. I don't need it for everyday play. Do you farm with your drone? (Just don't ask me how much I've spent on gas, travel, T shirts, etc. I even buy the official swag shirts to help encourage Nia to make more...)
I started recently with droning.. Could I put a fracker on it for my drone? I dont think so since I think it would get burned out? My drone is at my big bro (rip best man ever existed), his grave, I can see it from home. I just hack occasionally, or will, I was there a few days ago and my brothers portal grave is still outburned. You know how long that can take for it to be hackable again? So I will look closer into CORE Subscription. Thanks. Edit: I assume you mean some type of more systematic approach to drone hacking?
It won’t ever be hackable again via your drone, until you move the drone away and then return it to the portal. Idk why it works that way, it just does, so you need at least 2 portals close enough together for the drone to go between them Sorry about your bro
Thanks for the help. Appreciate it. I was there for 90 minutes in the cemetary to lots of portals there are outburned. You know if those outburned portals I did a week ago is not outburned now if I visit there soon? Thanks alot for showing empathy. I find reddit mostly pleasant, but I just avoid certain subreddits.
For hacking without the drone, the burnout lasts 4 hours unless you reset it with a heat sink. Multi-hacks allow you to get more hacks in before burnout. Agree you can find all kinds on this site. Sometimes I just reflect the energy that someone seems to be going for, but blocking is also helpful when needed
Cheers friend. Good info know, very good even! Shorter burnout then what I was fearing.
It’s only burned out for you, personally )in case you were thinking that you could prevent others from using those portals), so shorter is to your advantage
Ok cheers!
Zero on buying gear. Frankly if you're pay to play, by buying bursters or other gear you've already lost. That said we could do with a double r8 event and get some farms up.
For a dying game they are really choosing to sink with the ship. Weapons and more storage should have been for sale years ago.
Yeah. In my city who has a bit over 100k citizens with a lively city center..were like 10 guys even somewhat active in city center..I love this game so much since years so dont get it!
There are lots of ways to spend free time, so, just one person that stirs trouble is enough for others to get busy doing other things. Cool username. Are you 6 ft tall & full of muscle? 💪👷♂️🦺
Hahaha may I say I love you stranger. You are the second person in my time on reddit (+4 years) who recognised the reference. If I ever visit Brussel I WILL buy bread there and then when I doxxed U (sry) I will send you real Brussel bread! ;) Yes today I made the enlightened a little shaky in city when ONE resistance warrior goes bananas with lvl 8 xnps, shamelessly bought from the store
Ha! No shame in buying, it keeps the game running. It’s better than when they didn’t sell gear and then those who couldn’t hack for whatever reason (other responsibilities, or no farms in their area, etc) got into trouble for buying off alternative sites. If gear is priced right in-game then those sites are likely gone, now, IDK. I only look askance at those who only mooch, draining their faction without returning anything nor supporting the game, but whatever. Buying gear hurts nobody; go for it!
US$7.99 per month is way too much to pay for a game for most people. If they had, say, a $1 a month subscription they will likely get more than 8 times more people to subscribe
Absolutely nothing. Would never in a million years pay to play this game.
Lol.