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zen shop items, too expencive? or no
okottekoneko
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i have spent some time looking through the ream money item mall, and while i like supporting micro transactions games i feel that the price on almost all items are over priced, keep in mind 1000 zen is about $10 USD and most decent items are well above that price. making new bags cosmetics and mounts close to $30 USD.
personally i think the prices should all be dropped my at least 20% and have more of it added, i understand this is OB but after about 3yrs of development they havent got much there.
if it wasnt for the exorbitant prices asked for the zen market i would have already bought a new mount a bag and some cosmetics but atm i feel that the items are not worth the price asked.
i used to play a few aeria games namely grand fantasia for $20 you would get a full set of leveling gear that scaled for your level without overpowering you, also i spent probably easy $200 on boosts for XP and gold, i bought a ton of cosmetic gear and a heap of random chance items similar to lock boxs, over the period of 12 months playing that game i probably spent about 1500 on points for it, and the prices where very cheap and i felt i was getting great value, but looking at NW's item mall and $30 for a mount? thats far too much $20 is a more fair ask.
imho cryptic would make many more sales on their item mall if they asked a more reasonable price, and added more items in the way of cosmetics and boosts.
what do you people think? is cryptic asking too much?
or am i expecting too much value for money from cryptic?
put your opinions below and vote in the poll.
personally i think the prices should all be dropped my at least 20% and have more of it added, i understand this is OB but after about 3yrs of development they havent got much there.
if it wasnt for the exorbitant prices asked for the zen market i would have already bought a new mount a bag and some cosmetics but atm i feel that the items are not worth the price asked.
i used to play a few aeria games namely grand fantasia for $20 you would get a full set of leveling gear that scaled for your level without overpowering you, also i spent probably easy $200 on boosts for XP and gold, i bought a ton of cosmetic gear and a heap of random chance items similar to lock boxs, over the period of 12 months playing that game i probably spent about 1500 on points for it, and the prices where very cheap and i felt i was getting great value, but looking at NW's item mall and $30 for a mount? thats far too much $20 is a more fair ask.
imho cryptic would make many more sales on their item mall if they asked a more reasonable price, and added more items in the way of cosmetics and boosts.
what do you people think? is cryptic asking too much?
or am i expecting too much value for money from cryptic?
put your opinions below and vote in the poll.
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Why not run a poll asking if taxes are too high? The poll that matters is the sales information that Cryptic has.
But yes i did vote yes.
That's the kind of language I'd expect from someone who spends $200 for a forum title.
Yes, many items are vastly overpriced and some items don't belong in the cash shop, namely re-specs.A few are pretty fairly and competitively priced such as the extra character slots.
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i agree with this, chara slots and bags arent too badly priced, the respecs should be 200 at most and the mounts and cosmetics should be much lower, and keys should be a bit cheaper too maybe 100 per key considering you would need a ton of them before you actually got from the box what you wanted.
I've spent $300+ on Zen and I think the prices are too high. This Poll is good.
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What? It's a poll asking if the prices are too high, not that there shouldn't be prices at all. Also calling free players "freeloaders" is stupid when the game is advertised as free to play. This is the audience they wanted.
Use your head before posting.
Yes, wanting to give a company my money but not being able to because $40 for a mount is stupid makes me a freeloader. Let me go pick up a brand new game for $40, or get a mount in a game for $40, hmm tough decision.
If prices were lower I would GLADLY spend much more money on things, I want to get what I pay for, the prices right now do not provide me with enough value for my money. It needs fixed.
Well, I bought a founder pack to support the game the day I started. But I voted yes. I also stopped playing the game already, and so did my friend. We actually both bought founders packs, but once we learned how rubbish the end-game enchants were we hit the road.
I'll support any F2P game, and have been doing so for years now with my wallet. But I won't just throw my wallet at a raging fire.
In my opinion, in a game like this, you should be able to get away with spending roughly subscription fee cash ($15-20 monthly) and get enough extras to be happy. That is simply not possible with this F2P model.
For the record, Im a retired police officer who now owns his own business so I have plenty of disposable income. I can imagine how it is for the folks who DONT have a lot of money to waste on a video game.
Im not sure if you are just a troll or what. Having extra cash or not has NOTHING to do with overpriced sales. Would you have to be poor to buy a product from one place that offered the exact same product for less than another place? Nope. In fact, that is an intelligent and mature decision that can help keep you from being poor by living outside of your means.
I also bought the guardian pack to support the company when OB started, however i don't support the prices in the ZEN store for certain items as they are right now.
The only ones who will side with PWE/Cryptic in this matter are either working for them, or family members etc or fanboys with their noses stuck up PWE/Cryptic's rear end and with more money than common sense.
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Yes, because economics is that simple. So, why not charge a penny for a thousand zen? (/sarcasm)
Sarcasm aside, I don't believe anyone is asking or expecting them to offer 1k zen for a penny :rolleyes:
Perhaps simply lowered closer to a target that people feel is reasonable and competitive within the f2p market.
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actually the ecenomics in this case is that simple, many people are refusing to buy because they dont want to support cryptics greed, if the prices where lowered they would find revenue rise significantly.