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soditallover
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Why is this pack Twice the price of the others?
yes it has two rank 15's but that doesn't seem to make up for the 20k zen price (15k early bird)
the other packs came out at 10k (7.5k early bird) with about the same in value of items
im happy to be corrected but it looks to me and others in my guild a very over priced pack
yes it has two rank 15's but that doesn't seem to make up for the 20k zen price (15k early bird)
the other packs came out at 10k (7.5k early bird) with about the same in value of items
im happy to be corrected but it looks to me and others in my guild a very over priced pack
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So you could argue it's a worse value than even buying a single 3500 Zen mount (at full price) through the Zen store, as those ARE account wide unlocks. I have 15 characters in my account - all have equal access to mounts purchased 1 time through the Zen store.
To get even half of my alts the new worm mount then, I'd have to shell out upwards of 100,000 Zen ($1000 US) to get the number of mounts I wanted, were I to go through the Zen store to get them...
If you add up the value of the other items offered in older packs still offered in the Zen store, this new one really, really suffers in comparison...unless you believe those 2 level 15 enchants are worth all that extra Zen.
I suggest "Halaster A" (Storm) and "Halaster B" (MoF) and "Halaster C" (a mini-me Halaster augment).
Most previous packs included account wide unlocks for the mount and/or companion. The Mod 16 pack looks like both the mount and companion are NOT account wide unlocks - you get one of each.
and the other packs came with x5 coal wards and this one only has x2
The Mountaineer Weapon Set contains one of our new level 80 Artifact weapons. This pack contains both a Primary and Secondary weapon that is appropriate for the class that opens it. Notes: Weapon Pack is bind on account, weapons themselves will become bound to character when picked up. Only one weapon pack per account but weapons will be available at the Trade Bar store at a later date.
[If you have too much money and dont know how to get rid of it, maybe. But then you might as well burn it and watch the nice display at your fireside]
I would consider buying it, if it contained:
- account wide 30 slot bag
- account wide purple mount
- account wide purple companion
- plus the other char-bound stuff
Pack is utterly useless and the two tier-15 enchants dont really cut it, if you take into account that you need 30+ enchants per character...
The money grab is just too obvious. They are obviously desperate, because ZEN sales are likely down by 70-80%, maybe even more than that. Before MOD 16: ~1 million ZEN / day. Now probably 0.2 million or less. That's a loss in income of ~7000-8000$ per day, roughly 1/4 million $ per month. They should not have released MOD 16 in such a bad state, that it takes almost 2 months to go live (and live will likely be plagued with catastrophic bugs and glitches, that will take another 2-3 months to fix). If they had released preview in a state, that they could have gone live 2 weeks later, losses could have been contained. They would not have lost any money from holding back preview, because ZEN sales were stable at ~1M ZEN/day before MOD 16 was announced.
The dev's have to do something about this economy system in the game, it's made for those players that have unlimited money. I do not have that option, I like this game, but I understand that to continue developing the game money has to come from somewhere
Make a system where players can choose from 2 different types of the game:
1. A new player can choose free to play system (as it is now), and has to buy everything for zen in-game. But the prices have to go down here, 20 - 25% if they want to keep those players on the game.
2. A subscription system, where the player pays $12/month and can buy from zen-market for 80% of.
This is just a thought, and it could work. Arc gets an monthly flow of income and hopefully lots of happy players hmmm.
I beleave a promotional zen sale "welcome to Undermountain "will help the problem by added more zen to the games economy it won't fix the economic problem over night but its a start..
To help boost the zen sale they could also offer digital rewards as good marketing plan..Digital rewards cost them nothing as they are just code in a program and will add another layer of incentive to buy zen..
example
buy 7500 Zen
100% Off Any Companion Coupon (BoAoP)
Stronghold Chest of Power (BoAoP)
buy 10000 Zen
Epic Experience Booster (BoAoP)
Stronghold Starter Pack(BoAoP)
buy 20000 Zen
[Sigil of the Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn](BoE)
Coalescent Ward x5 (BoE)
Race Reroll Token (BoE)
Greater Stone of Health x2 (BoE)
I beleave this will also help boost the sales of the Delver's Expedition Pack!
So providing digital zen rewards would be a cost effective way to boost sales and add more zen to the economy.
Almost everyone could use stronghold supplys and i would be willing to bet 75% if not more of the player base would love to get the Metallic Ancestry Dragonborn unlocked..
Just my two cents ...
A example of how this would work is to look at the boost to twich prime members when he Twitch Prime Rewards bundle went live..
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So, it would be interesting to see if the dev's listen to the players or just advance on and do as they want.