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Really? Seriously? 10euro for respeccing powers?
mrfalrinth
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You do realise that it is a fail microtransaction model right?
Its better to gain 1euro from 90% of the playerbase with a lot of respecialisations (what mmorpg players do a lot in normal conditions), than get 10 euro per respecialisation from 0.1% once in a while...
Just think of what you are doing... Its like giving unpolished, 2nd grade mmorpg with most of its features disabled unless you pay 10 times more than for 1st grade subscription based game.
Fail.
Its better to gain 1euro from 90% of the playerbase with a lot of respecialisations (what mmorpg players do a lot in normal conditions), than get 10 euro per respecialisation from 0.1% once in a while...
Just think of what you are doing... Its like giving unpolished, 2nd grade mmorpg with most of its features disabled unless you pay 10 times more than for 1st grade subscription based game.
Fail.
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Respec should open up other paragon paths? Maybe they give a free respec when they release more paragon paths?
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PWE is so deep in the F2P grey zone they may as well be P2P.
GW2 made money upfront from box sales and I'd wager money from the packs hasn't made up for development costs yet.
Better game = more players.
Cheaper prices = more payments
more players + more payments > less players + less, expensive payments.
Look at Dota and other games that are based on cosmetic only microtransactions - they have solid game, enjoyable by everyone which results in HUGE playerbases, and they are making tones of money. Much more than any amount of limited expensive half-disabled games PW will ever populate with enough players to get even close to competition who do things right.
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Spend 200 euro on 2nd grade mmorpg to enojy it untill you get bored, or dont pay at all and turn into mindless zombie who will work in the game instead of having fun - definition of succesfull microtransaction of an ignorant producer.
What next? "An awesome COMPLETLY FREE mmorpg! Play it right now!" and then after level 58 call for 100euro payment for unlocking access to login screen? Yeah i bet some % would fall for it for some reason aswell. This is scam, not microtransactions. If you are not going to change it, people will leave.
How big chunk of your playerbase is from countries that were ****ed up by history some way? In Poland after we were first to fight n.germany when whole world looked the other way communists installed their puppet goverment that lingers to this day and socialism is ****ing up people so much that their median income is around 400euro (more than 70% is being robbed on various taxes). And you expect them to pay for respecialising powers on their character after they tested them cause they had ****ed up illogical tooltips 10euros? A 1/10 of what they have left after paying bills? For a respecialisation powers with missguiding half-baked tooltips?
This aint a game, its a freaking sociotechnical scam. Scam just 1% of whole playerbase with overpriced nonsense, and get profits?
Come on, be fair: Post a complete list of each paid, by default disabled game's feature for everyone who attempts to create an account. So they dont waste their time and be left with a bad taste in their mouth when they realise they cant afford the whole "free" game.
You cant call a game "free" if its fundamental features are paid. Optional things can be paid. And hell make them awesome looking, to distinguish the funders. Hell i will even buy one sometimes to pay for my enjoyment and get extra stuff.
Or make a "membership" based on subscription that enables everything that is paid. And i will get it. Otherwise, give me whole list of paid stuff so i can decide to play it or quit wasting my time.
Please do yourself a favour and step away from the keyboard
Yes, but "selling" someone something for free or very low and then asking for high price when the other party realised the stuff is not what the description said is illegal and classified as scam. Free market is not anarchistic market. There are rules you know. The rules are there to ensure that always both parties involved in trade of product or service are satisfied. Fake advertisement and hidden payments are domain of scam artists like big corporations with army of lawyers bending the oversized, socialistic law (that plenty of times negates each others) so much that it becomes its counterpart.
Its what the drag dealers do. They create in their victims's brains an image of joy and happiness for free, and then BAM! you have to choose pay for more or get yourself a detox.... or just keep suffering.
Detox in this case is uninstalling the game and never looking back at the immoral dealer.
Im starting to think its premeditated, that those powers have such a useless tooltips. First i thought they were made in hurry, but then i saw respec cost
no, it standard PWE business.
if you looked at PWI, ES, FW, etc., you'd see the respec costs (at least when i played) were around the $20 margin. what i think they should do is make skill respecs cost astral diamonds like powers, but, make the character ability scores cost zen... or, give us free dual spec... or let us get a token or two in the level-up boxes.
A person with more time to play who doesn't want to spend cash can just start over whereas a whiny person with a job will pay the $10. Makes sense to me.
Don't want to pay for a basic feature? START OVER! You have to kidding me, you rabid fanboy.
I have a better idea, you go and start over in a completely new game! If you find something completely free...
God I hate kids
Nothing is free cause nobody work for free. Honest producers make either subscription or cosmetic, distinguishing options as microtransactions as a way of earning money for their work. Immoral scam artists makes an expensive "free game" you cant play unless you pay amount you get to know when you waste so much time that it feels sorry for you to not to pay. As i said... drag dealers are perfect example. There is a reason why "MICROtransactions" are called that way.
In before you write "but you dont have to pay":
Sure, you can as someone suggested start over doing exactly same thing, and then again if tested power is nothing like tooltip said. But then, you run out of character slots so you have to pay, unless you delete the character and start over... like a robot. Where is the "fun" that is as producer want to communicate an integral part of that "free game"?
But no one is forcing you to play this "scam artis free game", you see? So go play something else that allows you to respec freely 100 times a day. I really don't see the problem. Or better I see it, too many people who don't have the minimal idea of how RL works
Just don't waste your precious diamonds on useless stuff you'll be throwing away in a few levels while you crawl through the quests, do the dailies, etc, and you'll be able to afford it easily enough. There are plenty of perfectly legitimate ways to earn diamonds if you just think about it. Opening up your wallet is far from being necessary.
These so called "nerds" are paying for the game which allows you to play for free. Soon you'll be complaining that airplanes have 1st class because your fundamental understanding of economics is flawed.
Since when it's 10$? It's 600ZEN, right? That's 6 bucks... Why are people saying 10 bucks? For the rest I agree with you, no one is forcing them to pay or play
I have spent over 100€ in this game and I am going to email PWE, saying that I will not spend nothing till they have removed from the forums these people who spend the day offending paying customers
Tbh it is silly. For pve you are forced to spec +% stats to boost your GS significantly.
You must be sarcastic here. Cause I can almost imagine you asking "and yet you complain that you have to pay 50$ to enter the endgame dungeons?!"
Well it's not free then is it? It's a monetization pit that you can potentially be spending a lot on. I'm pretty sure I've respecced more then 10 times on a character in WoW so that's $100. Then consider I'm switching specs constantly and since this game doesn't have dual specs that's also extra money.
At $15 a month that's $180 a year. I could easily be spending more then subscription with respecs.