Green Wards in the Z store???

morinox

What on gods green earth is wrong with you guys over at Perfect World Entertainment and your attempts at monetizing EVERYTHING that has to do with progression?

Pres Wards being one of those things. It's simply disgusting how we are being charged real money to progress in these PEW published games. It's even worse than Activision and EA combined!

The Wards, at least the green ones should be sold by VENDORS not in the cash shop.

The Blue Wards, sure, but 1000 Zen? Are you for real? 1000Z for a one time guaranteed upgrade? On an item that will have to be replaced once more content and a higher item level cap has been implemented?

If it had been 250-500Z for the Cwards i wouldn't care but 1000Z is just too much.

Or hell, add the green wards to the daily bloody VIP bonus. 10 per day because you need at least 100 to get anything leg quality with those. At least that way you'd only slow progression down rather than preventing it.

mordekai

Wards are one of the main sources of income.

If they were sold for Gold, because of the high demand for Wards the risk of players swapping cash for gold would sky rocket because gold can be farmed at little to no expense, and this may become an issue when gold becomes so necessary for the upcoming changes to the Professions system. But I'm sure that Cryptic have taken tat into consideration, run the numbers, and scientifically and methodically stress tested it and put measures in place to prevent this. (Just kidding. I woudn't be surprised if it never entered their heads...) Either way I'm sure we'd all prefer to see the cash go to future development and the continued survival of the game and YES profitability that ensures the mega corp that is Perfect World continue to see the game as a viable concern.

You can buy them for Astral Diamonds.
On the Auction House. Earn the AD in game, buy the wards. No cash involved.

And unless you don't mind paying above the odds or feel that you must have whatever it is now and can't wait a while, never pay full price for anything on the Zen market.
Since the XP needed for a post L70 XP reward was slashed by about 90% it never takes too long to get a discount voucher.

BUT... hopefully... one day someone at Cryptic will wake up and have the epiphany that introducing highly desirable AD only items in the Wondrous Bazaar is the way to drive cash rich time poor players into buying Zen to trade for AD. Instead of just dumping old stuff from the Zen market that no one wanted to buy into the WB, use all that imagination that went into "improving" Professions and channel it into coming up with new ideas for goods and services. The ongoing attempts to apply quantitative tightening to the acquisition of Rough Astral Diamonds is both haphazard and dangerous as a means to qrtficially manipulate the economy into doing what they want it to do.
No offence, but Cryptic are not economists, they are game designers... and if the upcoming "Class Balancing" is anything to go by, the last thing they need to be doing is diversifying their "specialism".