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New items in the Neverwinter Zen Market!
sominator
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Find out what new items are available in the Neverwinter Zen Market this week! http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=882091
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I can go play your sister game STO and buy a brand new Tier 5 end game star ship for $20 - $25 that's unlocked for all my characters of the same faction. STO requires a ship to play and they do give you perfectly good ones for free. And almost every ship can be customized. In Neverwinter mounts get you from point A to point B faster, are static in appearance, and are purely optional.
For $20 I can buy 4 bridge officers (their versions of companions) per character, each as customizable as my player character and it doesn't cost me Zen to change thier appearance (nor my player character). Plus each has 8 powers (4 ground, 4 space) that I can choose compared to your store companions set 3. Again, admittedly STO bridge officers are required to play the game and the game literally throws more free ones at you than you can use, where as Neverwinter companions are optional.
So Neverwinter, I ask you this: Why should I spend $60 on you when my money will go farther in Star Trek Online (and even farther in your other sister game Champions Online)?
Also you can't fight from your mount so it is probably the most overpriced convenience item i have seen.
It was **** that already existed (I owned both during BWE1&2). They're just rotating the stuff in.
I'm gold in STO and I thought that the extra's in the C - Store were a tad expensive,but after buying a founders pack and glancing in the Zen store here,it's like they want the moon on a stick :rolleyes: I for one will not be buying a **** thing till they sort out those extortionate prices.
If it is zen that is connected to another game, you will not be able to transfer it to neverwinter.
I'd totally spend money in this game, but all of the stuff I can buy is either 40 bucks (not sure I like the game that much yet, or ever will) or of no point whatsoever.
"Micro" transaction, guys. 40 bucks isn't micro.
RIP Caine
Do the same with red.
Then add a kangaroo mount for 50$ and no color, then after a week add a colored version for 80$.
Also, is there anywhere I can apply to get a job with your How to make money division? I can tell you my qualification for 5$.
You shouldn't. So don't; they're optional.
I have three.
The reason? The zen store. It is simply too much money for what you get. End game is really about rune collecting, leveling up pets and runing them and your gear. You don't make astral diamonds fast enough to buy most of the big ticket items off the auction house, though in a year I think that will be easier to accomplish. The failsafe wards...cost ten dollars a pop. Every week per character, you can get a box that gives you a slim chance of getting one.
This leave me with the following things to purchase, none of which are really worth the cost:
Tradeskill packs, to speed up trade skills: -12 Dollars for random stuff. No
Nightmare keys - 12 dollars for ten keys, the boxes are easy to find so no real cost there: I already have a Pheora and Nightmare, the rest of the stuff is junk to me, except for trade bars.
Ascetic costumes: I have all three but no jester costume; they cost trade bars, which I wont be seeing for a while as you only get them from the nightmare boxes.
Mounts: I have a bunch of purple ones, I want the bear and the wolf but neither are worth 40 bucks to me. I actually want the unarmored bear and the wolf too but turning them into level 3....more astral diamonds than I'm like to see in a while.
Pets: The same thing as mounts, but a little cheaper. I've got all of the purple pets except the fire archon. My Galeb Dur is decked out, except for his runes and to rune another one....too much money because of the wards, and it's not as simple as removing the runes from him and adding them to other pets because the pets all have different rune and gear slots. (And all of the other purple pets are strikers which die in seconds :P)
Runes: You can farm these in epic runs, or the shards for them, but ultimately you have to spend ten dollars a run to fuse them with a ward to get them to the next level. You have to do this twice a ward. It gets...insanely expensive here and the wards are the only way to do it. You have two options to get the wards: 10 dollars a fuse or one week of logging on cashing in celestial coins and hoping you score one from the box you get. (I have no idea what the odds are for this) Or you can buy them off the auction house for astral diamonds, which you just don't make fast enough to pay for these. (And this is one item that is going to stay at a static price for a while, because of the demand for them)
Now on planetside 2: This is also a free game in which people dislike the costs but at least when you spend oney here you get about three times the value you do with this game. Ten dollars...you get a big ticket item. Boom! ten bucks, new rocket launcher. Its yours for good, no better than anyone else's you just paid to get it quicker then the fre player who still can get it with about three weeks of game time. Camouflage and helmets: These run from 5 to 10 dollars. Not really a great bang for your buck in some cases but....let's see. I have a camouflage I can use for all my classes for five dollars. Or one I can stick on ALL of my weapons.
Go take a gander at one time use cost for dye for one item in this game...
TLDR: Free to play model is already expensive (Too expensive for many) for premium content on one game. Free to play model on this game is....insane to the point i've just become a free player.
Elf Control Wizard - Dragon
wtf, i play planetside also. Why would you want to spend more than 100 bucks there? Well i am NC and all sniper rifles are nearly the same there for example.
If you do like spending money on items. I suggest you play War / Battle of Immortals. Zen store there is much more fun since it contains alot of gambling and it is pay to win there.
This game has a boring store and overpriced garbage.
Inclined to agree here, I've felt the prices are crazy from the start. Even though I can dish out the money, I really won't for the amount they are charging. I was expecting reasonable prices.
GAMING GENERATION
Personally, the thing that bugs me most is the monochromatic gear and the silliness with dyes. A single use dye that can't be bought for anything but Zen or 15 days of Ardents? Really? They can't be crafted and as far as I can tell never drop off mobs. Heck, if there were more colors and they used the GW2 unlock model I'd probably be spending stacks of cash on dye packs. I have spent more money on dye packs in GW2 than anything else.
I am seriously not complaining about the cash shop its just that it seems so blatantly gougey in this game compared to others.
You appreciate it so much, that despite overwhelming complaints about your pricing, you've decided to go ahead and ignore all of it!
No, sominator, thank you, for deciding banking on immediate, quick high cost sales, is far more important than maintaining a long term relationship with customers, based on confidence and trust! Thanks for being patronizing, and apathetic!