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Catalysts Sale for Black Friday

trailturtletrailturtle Posts: 5,496 Perfect World Employee
edited November 2012 in Super News Network
Psst ? we've got one more sale for this week, and it's going to be a Black Friday blowout on Catalysts!

Catalysts help you upgrade your MODs, both those that boost your hero's own gear and those that grant vehicle powers. Depending on whether you use a Safeguard catalyst or a regular catalyst, they have one of two effects: Either they'll guarantee a rank-upgrade, or they'll keep you from losing MODs if the fusion-upgrade fails.

These upgrade supplements will be discounted 15% on Black Friday, running from 10 AM (Pacific) on 11/25 until 10 AM on 11/24. If you want better stats on your gear, make sure to get your catalysts on Friday!


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  • jasinblazejasinblaze Posts: 1,360 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I'm very curious how well these sell at current or even discounted prices.
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  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    trailturtle wrote: »
    ...These upgrade supplements will be discounted 15% on Black Friday, running from 10 AM (Pacific) on 11/25 until 10 AM on 11/24...
    So the Catalysts also cause the sale to enter a time warp?!?
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  • amarillonmcamarillonmc Posts: 189 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    trailturtle wrote: »

    These upgrade supplements will be discounted 15% on Black Friday, running from 10 AM (Pacific) on 11/25 until 10 AM on 11/24. If you want better stats on your gear, make sure to get your catalysts on Friday!

    Time is going backwards!!!
    2012 is REAL!!!!

    (lol, I believe that's a typo...)

    oh shoot, got ninja'd.

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  • jasinblazejasinblaze Posts: 1,360 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    be nice to trail he always tries hard, and does the best work with whats given to him
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  • serendipitynowserendipitynow Posts: 554 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    LOL 15% sale on catalysts? they are so RIDICULOUSLY over priced a 90% sale would STILL be way overpriced (especially for rank 2-4 catalysts)

    A lvl 40 spending a few minutes doing a burst alert gets 2 lvl 3 and 1 lvl 4 mods.

    Buying catalysts to turn lvl 1s (for example) into 2 lvl 3s and a lvl 4 would take 3 rank 2 catalysts, 3 rank 3 catalysts and 1 rank 4 catalyst, or a cost of 5500 zen ($55) to save a few minutes of effort!

    Even higher catalysts (ranks 5 to 9) though a lot more value for money are still ridiculously overpriced. To turn 1 rank 4 to a rank 9 would cost 10,200 zen ($102!!!)

    If anyone pays these prices for catalysts they should be ashamed at wasting so much money!

    I mean 600 zen ($6) to turn a rank 1 mod into a rank 2? REALLY??

    Even if you never did anything to get mods yourself, anything under rank 5 costs peanuts on the ah, were talking a few gs tops.

    SO a rank 4, a few gs, a few minutes of 'effort', or a rank 1 and $25 worth of catalysts... tough choice!
  • trailturtletrailturtle Posts: 5,496 Perfect World Employee
    edited November 2012
    Derp, fixed.
  • lokikinlokikin Posts: 624 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    ^^^^what Serendipity said...

    The Catalysts are certainly the most grossly overpriced items in the C-Store. 15% off of ridiculous is still ridiculous...

    However, I just may grab myself a stack of Safeguards...
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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,620 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Put them on sale at a 90% discount forever and we just may talk business.
  • jasinblazejasinblaze Posts: 1,360 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    i think it would be in PWE/cryptics best interest to reevaluate pricing
    they would make money from quanity than single purchases, in a game that encourages alts
    players will buy more and spend mor money if pricing is fair
    personally i think grabbags and freeform slots are acceptable
    LTS is also a bargain considering what you get
    al catalysts should be changed inro a single rank up catalyst for 400zen
    this catalyst would rank any catalyst up 1 rank
    retcons should sell for 500 zen as well as retrains
    i think TP should be 500 even and costume sets 400 for ease purposes
    the boosts are ridicules how much for a mere 20% after so many 2x XP boosts in the game these boosters seem silly, other boosts just seem pointless
    your largest demographic in this game are adults that know the value of their dollars.
    i think it would be advantageous to play to that.
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  • underchickenunderchicken Posts: 259 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    To echo what everyone else has already pointed out, and what Cryptic/PW themselves already KNOW but refuse to budge on out of pure greed, these prices are a ridiculous and this sale is ridiculous.

    Should I purchase groceries that will last me for an entire month, or enough catalyst to rank up JUST ONE MOD to rank 9? This is the most outrageous joke I think I've ever seen pulled. It's just shameful, nothing more can be said. *shakes head in disbelief*

    We expect better and we deserve better.:mad:
  • cptmillenniumcptmillennium Posts: 451 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    I gotta agree that the prices of catalysts are way out of whack. I'd never pay for anything but an 8 or 9, and with each of those adding only 2 to a stat I wouldn't even consider those.

    Cut the price in half and make 8 give +10 and 9 give +20, then I'd start seriously considering it.
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  • atompenguinatompenguin Posts: 93 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Oh man! Let me pay a bunch of money for these so I can rank up for all that challenging co... bahahaahaha!

    No. Just... no. Maybe if I had a bunch of money to burn and a head injury, but not right now.
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  • crypticbuxomcrypticbuxom Posts: 4,620 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    What if the cost for getting nine R9 mods was the price of getting a become device? It certainly wouldn't be pay to win either since the power choices, advantage points and how you play that build determines if you win and not. No matter how much money you put into the game.

    I'd certainly spend my Zen more frequently if it cost $10 to fix my character up with all R9 mods. Then with my character all geared out I can work on another, get them to 40 and spend Zen again to get R9 mods on that one too.
  • crashdragoncrashdragon Posts: 31 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    lordhavelock wrote: »
    So the Catalysts also cause the sale to enter a time warp?!?

    No.

    The high price and lame sale of the Catalysts caused outrage from players, that power of epic rage then caused a Quantum flux to shoot out from the server, passed from our dimension through to the Cosmic String Fragment area, causing a Black Hole to change course, which passed at right angles to our star system, shifting the Earth 2.6 degrees to the left causing the Moon to shake a bit, which sent a Gravity Wave Pulse that altered the Earth's gravity field shifting it towards a speck of dust, that was catapulted across the room into Turtles coffee and thus causing a epic time warp at Cryptic.

    That is if he was drinking coffee at the time, otherwise, it was just a typo. :biggrin:
    I like to hang around laundromats and steal hero's tights for ransom. =3
  • lordhavelocklordhavelock Posts: 2,461 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    trailturtle wrote: »
    Derp, fixed.
    ...What was fixed? :tongue:
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  • jasinblazejasinblaze Posts: 1,360 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    original post date typos not the catalyst prices
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  • theravenforcetheravenforce Posts: 7,132 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Just saying I agree with everyone, I looked at Catalyst prices and my purse ran away and I was like this:

    [~Edited by TrailTurtle, little too close to swearing for my tastes.]

    I reckon the current prices on everything on sale should remain that way to increase buying.

    But Catalysts are just insanely Overpriced, a business can only function when people are motivated to buy stuff, 15% sale may see a rise in safeguards but that would be about it I'd imagine. I can understand R8-R9 Catalyst Mods being high, but atm I can buy 1 FF slot + 2 Retcon Tokens for the price of 2 R9 Catalysts...wow, no deal IMO and thats based off current sale values.

    PWE/Cryptic, whilst this sale is a good move, consider reviewing the prices on items, they tend to dissuade ppl from buying items which are useful.

    If I said;

    "Prices in Z-Store are quite steep"

    I think I'd get my own Alert :

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  • neojin777neojin777 Posts: 100 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    The catalyst prices for r1 - r6 are too high, agreed. The price for r7 - r9 catalysts is ok,
    i would not want everybody to run around with full r9 mods. I've read that somebody mentioned 10 bucks per r9 "set", which is totally bs. If you go out and actually farm at least 1 r9 by yourself, you will notice that the price for it is too low. Besides, some of us have paid for their r9's already and it would be unfair to throw diamonds at pigs. If you like to get r9's fast try the harmon grab bags for 100z a pop, or as a wise man once said "Less QQ more, pew, pew."
  • underchickenunderchicken Posts: 259 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    neojin777 wrote: »
    The catalyst prices for r1 - r6 are too high, agreed. The price for r7 - r9 catalysts is ok,
    i would not want everybody to run around with full r9 mods. I've read that somebody mentioned 10 bucks per r9 "set", which is totally bs. If you go out and actually farm at least 1 r9 by yourself, you will notice that the price for it is too low. Besides, some of us have paid for their r9's already and it would be unfair to throw diamonds at pigs. If you like to get r9's fast try the harmon grab bags for 100z a pop, or as a wise man once said "Less QQ more, pew, pew."

    Wow, must be nice to be a rich arrogant prick. Enjoying those 5 extra stat pts that you get from a rank 9 over a rank 5? Money well spent eh? Pfft.:rolleyes:

    Yeah Yeah, I'm banned. Go ahead, I don't even care anymore. When people start spewing this nonsense I don't even want to be apart of the community anymore. You sir made me sick, and I just ate a ton of Turkey too. :frown:
  • jasinblazejasinblaze Posts: 1,360 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    rank 9s give a small small bonus over rank 7s
    personal you want rank 7s spend your money on keys instead
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  • akirasanbeerakirasanbeer Posts: 215 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    Someone...actually...bought...these?
    Not even gonna bother with the Farnsworth link.
  • theravenforcetheravenforce Posts: 7,132 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    jasinblaze wrote: »
    rank 9s give a small small bonus over rank 7s
    personal you want rank 7s spend your money on keys instead

    So...its just better to be rank 7'd out? LOL
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  • mijjesticmijjestic Posts: 481 Arc User
    edited November 2012
    neojin777 wrote: »
    If you like to get r9's fast try the harmon grab bags for 100z a pop, or as a wise man once said "Less QQ more, pew, pew."

    As far as I know, they removed the Harmon Catalyst Grab Bags.

    As to the rest of your point, actually there is every reason to decrease the price IF they aren't selling anymore. But who knows, really. I think a permanent decrease or a more substantial and lengthy sale would make them more accessible and tempting to those who have been resistant to the idea so far.

    If I had to guess, I'd say the sale was testing the waters a bit, and that sales on the catalysts had probably gone down some due to the over-inflation of the mod market caused by the Tako lockboxes. Since buying rank 7s, even 8s, became much less expensive, and the sudden extremely valuable Legion items and legacy devices brought out a lot of horded Globals, not to mention create opportunity for saavy marketeers to profit via bartering skills, buying low, selling high, etcetera, thereby giving them even more G to pour into mods.

    If they continue to make mods as accessible as represented by those times, even with erratic events, then the value of these store catalysts basically goes down, and they really should look into reducing the prices.
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