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Why force us to buy 100+$ worth of pets per character
banaanc
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with new expansion all active pets giving bonuses anybody who doesnt want to lose 1000+ pt worth in stats is forced to spend 100+$ worth on pets/pet upgrades, and since pets arent account shared its per character, its just horrible, for that kind of money it would take to get pets for my characters i could buy and play sub based game for 2 years
Galeb Duhr is 3k zen alone, and some of the best pets arent available without buying packs
Galeb Duhr is 3k zen alone, and some of the best pets arent available without buying packs
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You mean your desire to have the best possible stats is making you spend money?
That's not the dev's fault that's called self control and is your responsibility. The dev's job is to make it desirable for you to spend money, yet not necessary. Guess if you feel forced to do so they are doing a great job. Personally I don't care that much about my stats beyond a certain point.
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A whole lot of other Obsidian toons as well.
Aieeeee! It's happening again...
If only there was some way I could keep my hand from reaching for my wallet...
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If you think the pets are too expensive, then farm nearly 1 million ADs for a cat or a stone.
But it has to be either time or money.
This pretty much sums it up I guess. The active companion bonuses are just there as an additional boost for players who are willing to purchase them but they are in no way needed to become effective players.
I myself am eyeing quite a few of these companions, but definitely will not be spending for them. You won't have anything to work on if you just straight up buy them.
SO MUCH THIS. It gives you something to work towards. And honestly, if you've been farming the event companions, you don't have to buy any at all.
I m agree with this
Then don't. It's not like you've been suffering without those bonuses, so just keep playing the way you have been and enjoying the game!
However, I do think that making zen store companions an account-wide unlock upon purchase, like mounts, would be a huge boost to their appeal.
When players are deciding whether or not to make a purchase, the perceived value of the transaction is very important. When you ask the equivalent of up to $35 for a single companion of arguable usefulness (outside of their new active bonuses), it's much easier to rationalize the purchase when it includes an unlock for all current and future characters on that account.
Concerned about backlash from players who already bought, say, multiple Ioun Stones for characters on their account? Exclude Augment Companions from the unlock and give them a modest price reduction.
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+1. Would the game be any fun if you could "win" by pressing a single button and call it a day? It's not about the destination, it's about the journey.
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
Conversely, I'm not planning to farm any companions for my TR since my TR will not benefit on any of the companion boosts. It will all boil down to the benefits you'll be getting from the companions, and the build you are using. I personally do not see any reason why I should buy companions that only gives a flat stat bonus. Those are things that I can easily get from gear. But the special effects that some give out are something worth investing on. But then again, those special effects are highly situational, and would only benefit certain builds, but not exactly make or break them.
They are an extra bonus for players who want it, something else to work on, a little more fluff for the game.
the companion price is not a problem if you play a single character, but for altoholics its a serious issue
I'm flat out not bothering. +500GS or w/e isn't going to make any of my alts massively more or less effective. The fact that companions are single use unlocks does annoy me though. If they were accountwide, I would've considered buying companions, but as it is, I have three stones of allure and nothing else.
Eh, I don't know, if you can manage to get 5 purple pets you're talking about +1500 GS. That's not too shabby...
It's not really worth it when you have most of your stats softcapped though. That extra 0.5% recovery speed, 1% DR, etc isn't going to make or break your dungeon run. If the pets gave me 50% reduced ping times or 50% fewer game breaking bugs...
Kaylee Krankenwagen, level 60 GF | Tavandruil Wayfinder, level 49 GWF | Aldith Langley, level 51 HR
Same here. Gives a little utility to collecting pets outside of just being a completionist thing.
Boar - Affects Companion: +50% Critical Severity
Damaran Shepard - Affects Companion: +2% Critical Chance
Jagged Dancing Blade - Affects Companion: 5% (10%) chance to reduce target's Defense
Ghost - Affects Companion: +5% damage bonus
Copied from Dardove's thread. It will be pretty costly though, but it seems like a fun theme to build towards if you like role-playing as a beast master or something.
Sadly, unless I win the lottery, being a companion completionist isn't feasible for me. It'd be less painful if non augment pets at least were account wide.
There are players who feel that the game took a major step to pay to win, even if those bonuses aren't needed to advance through content. The advantages they give are no small benefit and for players who care about the advantages it is a major cash grab so I can't fault the logic in any way...
However I know a large handful of players which are very unhappy with the collection system because while you may be a person who doesn't care what achievements you can get in th game there is an entire set of players who very much do. It's really not ever valid to say something is isn't needed because to a completionist if they can get an achievement, and it's a per character achievement, then those aspects are a requirement to achieve. That's their goal in the game, cross everything off.
You might be a person who doesn't care about getting all of the companions. That's fine.
But there's a lot of people who do care especially after the collection system for no other reason than their goal in any game they play is to check the box next to anything they can possibly achieve. And even if you don't feel like you hagve to those are the customers that a company wants to keep as long as possible as they are the ones willing to devote the most time, effort and likely money to the game.
The companions have always been a thorn in the side of players who are completionists but it was a more ignorable issue. I know a few completionists who outright left because of the companion and other pay walls previously and I know a few more who have at least one foot out the door since the news involving the collections and active companion boosts.
It may be a non-issue to individuals who really don't care about doing everything the game has to offer but it's a much bigger and completely valid issue for those who do try to do everything.
For example, how many of you claiming it is a non-issue only buy and level companions which you feel are useful to advancing in the game? I have bought every free companion and have leveled all the ones I can to their max free rank simply because that is in my nature as a completionist.
I think the prices on the companions are absurd so I try to ignore they exist but if the prices were reduced I would work to buy every single one for no other reason than because as a completionist that's how I enjoy to play the game.
So before you say 'but you don't need to buy them all' consider...
Should be be discouraged from buying them all due to pricing?
and about capping stats - power doesnt have any cap, so u can just stack more power after reaching caps on other stats. or switch for some more defensive slots and stack hp or life steal
If you main a character and want to have all the best buffs on him, you will be more encouraged to get new pets with better buffs. If you can give his old pets away to other characters. With pets being character bound once you get the 5 pets you like you wont work towards another for that character as you dont want to waste the time and/or money you spent on the pets you did get him. A 6th awesome pet is always wasted. unless you can give it to your runner up character.