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Adventurer's Friend Packs are available in the Neverwinter Zen Market for a limited time, and come with a free companion! http://nw.perfectworld.com/news/?p=899761
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How much do they cost?
Wait, what ?!?
Cheers guys... if it were April I'd have thought this was a joke.
There, made you a better advertisement graphic.
Or maybe they had already planned out a lot of zen shop additions, without quite anticipating the number and severity of the bugs and exploits that have occurred, and how some people would see it as a waste of time to make small zen shop additions.
Or the zen shop updates are targetted at the more casual players who are not affected by many of the bugs and exploits (because they rarely, if ever, PvP or use the auction house, and still haven't made it to 60, so any oddities in the supply and cost of level 60 gear is irrelevant), don't bother with the forum, and rarely play more than a few hours a day, on the days that they play at all.
There's no question that doing this without having the upgrade books looks like we're being railroaded. But looking at things logically, it's not a bad deal. The package contains a Greater Healthstone (1500 Zen), a green companion (1500 Zen), plus various odds and ends of various value (for example, 10 Greater Scrolls of Identification, theoretically worth 1250 Zen).
Personally, I don't see myself taking advantage of it.
Just because scrolls and healthstones are overpriced doesn't make this pack a good deal, though.
Seriously? You want me to spend $15 on a random chance that I'll get the companion type that I want, just so I can now grind it up an extra few levels?
Thanks, but no thanks. I guess I'll just go back to buying Zen to spend in STO.
Is the companion random or do you get to choose?
How the hell is that supposed to hurt them, or show them that this was a bad idea? You're still buying Zen... just in another game. It seems like they win no matter what you do.
Also, this is... so frelling stupid. I'm seeing now that they released a half finished game on purpose, so they could charge massive rates for things that would come later, and are probably already created (like the upgrade books). Furthermore, I'm fairly certain we'll see upgrade books around the same price as the training books for horses, so... it'll be close to a mill Astral Diamonds just to get a decent companion. This massive swell of greed just keeps driving me back into the arms of Gazillion... who have made most everything in the cash shop (heroes, costumes) for Marvel Heroes as random drops while doing regular content.
I'm really starting to see DCUO in this game. Can't wait for the patch where we have to pay real money to reset our daily allotted glory gain for PvP so we can actually by gear. Or reset instances so we can actually get loot and progress...
It shows PW and Cryptic that players are spending money on their other games, but not Neverwinter.
Cryptic games get money from Perfect World dependant on which game Zen is transferred to. When you buy Zen Perfect World gets the money and then they allocate part of that money to a specific game when you transfer it from your wallet.
If I buy $100 worth of Zen and transfer all of it to Champions Online or Star Trek Online then Neverwinter doesn't see a penny of it.
As a former Champions Online player, I have seen the amount of new content there shrink to a near standstill as their dev team got repurposed around to help finish other games.
It happened with Star Trek Online's launch, and now once more with Neverwinter.
While it would be nice if one's love and investment in a game directly reflected in how much attention and funding it has, in reality things may be a bit less straightforward.
[SIGPIC]Or am I?[/SIGPIC]
This loony is also known as @Derangement.
A city to protect
innocents to save
"Why?" They ask "they hate you"
We're heroes it's what we do.
*patiently waiting on Paragon City*
I was really excited when I first got these companions.
Then notice they are useless after level 30.
I have to pay $20 to be useful for level 40.
What about level 50 or 60?
Bump this one! lol
Just google it, STO is also developed by Cryptic which oh btw Cryptic is a wholly owned Perfect World subsidiary. just a small interesting fact to throw in there.
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Unfortunately, people will buy the packs, even after criticizing them.
Uhh yeah...... How about you guys fix the overwhelmingly glaring issues in this game first , THEN try to sell us overpriced HAMSTER. You know , like go 3 days without a crash, reset, rollback , or exploit. Alternatively make the only healer in the game not be the defacto best tank, that would fix atleast 2 problems your game has. We can discuss your laughable pricing if this game still has a player base after "Open Beta".
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