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proudfurry
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 22 Arc User
Neverwinter is a completely f2p game there prices for cosmetics don't matter at all that's how they make money instead of charging us 60$ for the game. The only thing i disagree with in the cash shop is re-specing costs 6$ there should be 1 free re-spec every month or 2 times maximum on a character. who cares if mounts are 20-40$ if you really enjoy the game and you want to support the dev's you will buy it. if you don't wanna buy anything at all you don't have to the game is f2p.... you don't have to pay a dime but you should be thanking the players that actually help support the game and servers while you play for free. stop whining about the shop prices.
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Oh wait, I don't agree with this and this and this and this.......
Vanity items and very small perks are the only things that should ever be buyable by real money
that! (rubbish so the forum lets me post)
I don't understand your comment. Why 180? 60 at release and 13 each month, like any mmo.
Or microtransactions, but without making ingame progression worthless by selling power
because the mounts are purely cosmetic and have no affect on game play but if you mess up on your spec for pvp it will leave u at a huge disadvantage with other players.
Price of wow is 14.99 each month i used that as an example and even with those prices u pay every month they have mounts and pets* you can only buy with 25$
Tell that to the person on the horse looking for mats, while I am on my hound going 110%
Be respectful, remember, you PLAY the game at your convenience, they WORK at no ones."
I said 13 bc I was talking about euros.
wow, good example. Yes, you can pay some things with money..... vanity things. The mounts you get with money aren't faster. The pets you can buy are non combat pets.
You can't charge for power. Not because I don't want to spend money, but because it will make the game boring fast. You pay to be powerful, instead of playing
Mounts do make a big difference in pvp cause of the speed, champions do a big difference in pve, then there are enchantments after you fuse the lvl 5 you end up with a 1% chance of success with only way to upgrade it is by buying wards for 10$ each from cash shop.
But most cash shop items are trade able to other players. so you dont have to spend any real money in order to get it.
My definition of Pay to Win (P2W)
If a person gets a direct advantage over another person by spending real $$ it is 100% P2W. MMOs are competitions amongst others. Gamers are meant to play an avatar and make it increasingly powerful/unique over time. When one gamer can spend $$ and receive the immediate benefit of becoming more powerful over another gamer who merely plays the game and earns his or her achievements then there is an issue at hand!
*The argument that all items can be achieved by "playing the game" and earning AD is completely removed from NW reality. The AD daily cap is so low that It would take an eternity to earn enough AD to obtain viable items. AD stat gear costs 2.1 million Astral Diamonds. Yeah. So that's, what, 86 days of maxing out your AD counter, which trust me, is not easy. You'd have to play the game as a fulltime job to get that much AD. From what I gather, selling found items on the AH will net you the most AD per time invested.
So yes, theoretically you can get everything in the game without paying a dime. Realistically, that's not going to happen and you'll always be behind the cash shop whales in some form or manner. They will always have a faster mount, more inventory space, OP healing potions, max level enchants, or simply cooler looking stuff. To many casuals, these differences are OK and acceptable. To the competitive MMORPG player who likes to min/max, these differences are game changing. My 2 cents!
1. No you can't. Not only are the AD prices astronomic if you could farm it, but you can't really farm it. Since it's limited.
2. Even if you could, beeing able to be powerful by paying, takes the progression feeling (important in an mmo) away.
This is not their first trip around the block. It's working in STO and COH.
And from the look of the forum it's working here.
Ya that's soooo much fun. Grinding for AD! I just can't wait to do the same sh*t over and over everday!! WEEEEEEE
Yes i know the game has been out longer and they have had alot to expand on but their ships do not cost as much as out mounts and you can grind the dilithium alot better and trade off for zen alot better than on this game.
I am not some little rich kid or someone who has no life, i work i have alot of bills to pay which sucks my bank dry every month and the spare cash i do get i have to save i have little fubds to play about and this game is a downer on that.
Dont get me wrong though i am truly enjoying this game but unlike star trek you cant really grind properly from the get go
Or you could get a job and buy the ****ing AD. Stop whining like five year olds.
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why buy when you can create it out of thin air right now?
This argument is flimsy. The zen and astral diamond ratio is so ridiculous that the "grind" simply isn't practical. If it was more reasonable it would be so much better. People would either spend a fair amount of time farming and enjoying the content of the game naturally, or pay for the convenience of having the items immediately. They can make an item next week which cost 1 million zen and then claim, "hey you can earn it in game!", which is technically true but completely disingenuous.