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What's the point in mount tokens?
nyxandria
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Personally I think that the money you get is really way too low. You get the mount at level 20 and by that time I only had 3 gold. The mount costs 5 gold.
You do get 3 mount tokens however. I used all mine and I got enough for the mount but what was the point?
Why does the mount cost not get lowered or gold earned from quests increased?
I assume they saw this flaw later on and simply implemented tokens instead of making changes.
You do get 3 mount tokens however. I used all mine and I got enough for the mount but what was the point?
Why does the mount cost not get lowered or gold earned from quests increased?
I assume they saw this flaw later on and simply implemented tokens instead of making changes.
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They are there to give you the sense of emptyness. They are there to tempt you into buying a zen store mount. They know full well you won't have the gold to buy it by the time you reach 20. No, they want you to simmer for an extra 5 levels in the hopes that your anxiety over no longer having a mount, or realizing how slow they are and how insanely easy it is to be knocked off them.... will lure you right into the zen stores arms.
Too real? Oh well.
^^ this.
just trash them, they take up bag space I have ear marked for purples.
waste.of.time.
Yea, this. Everyone I know had time to use the tokens until they had enough gold.
That tale is analogous to what you're going through. I'm here with your pacifier so you can rest easy knowing someone is here for you.
I said there is no point in giving out tokens instead of letting you buy the mount but I guess it's to force you to buy zen.
Maybe because you've never used a +110% speed mount you think it's not worth having. The 5g mounts don't even compare to the +110% mounts. Do you have a GWF? imagine having movement speed slighter faster than GWF's sprint with infinite stamina. Even short trips from the bank to the auction house broker is faster on a mount even with the time it takes to hop on/off your mount. You just have to get use to hitting 6 when you enter zones.
For PVP they are a must have.
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They do not want excessive gold readily available to low level characters or increase the cumulative gold available at endgame, for obvious reasons. You are basically asking to more than double the amount of gold you receive by those low levels...
The mount tokens last a long time and you get many of them. By the time you are done with even a fraction of them, you should definitely have enough gold for your own mount.
And like poster above me said, 110% mount is probably the best single investment you could make in the game (especially the account-wide Zen shop ones) other than an augment class pet. How you make that investment is entirely up to you, which is more than can be said of most freemium games.
Seriously? When I hit level 20 I had 6 gold on my GWF and had 8 gold on my GF.
That is something people don't even realize.. I had 4 gold when I got to 20, and 1 token was enough to get to 5.
That makes no sense. If they wanted to <tinfoilhat>force you to buy zen</tinfoilhat>.... they would leave the mount price at 5g, and NOT give you the mount tokens. Which would leave you without a mount at lv20, trying to find some way to get 2-3 more gold so that you could afford one.....
I have no idea why they decided that mounts should cost 25+ levels of gold rather than 20. But giving you a free mount until you can save up that gold? Isn't forcing you to get a mount some other way. It's just the opposite.
edit: huh, not sure how people have so much gold at 20. I've leveled maybe a dozen characters to that point, and have had 2.5-3g on each of them. Perhaps it because I don't ID every single green item? (except for the lv29-30 range in Neverdeath, when you start getting lv30 items, but haven't started getting t2 ID scroll drops, I've never bought any ID scrolls until greaters at lv60.)
That's not how a company makes expensive sales.
What almost every one of them does is gives you a chance to either test drive it yourself or see someone else use it. This lets you get an appreciation for the item, which makes you want to buy it more. When they give you something good that's time limited, it leaves you wanting for more of it.
One of the best examples of this I have found was in Atlantica Online. They'd give you a free Teleport License for one week. The idea is it let you fast travel to any of the 50 or so towns without having to go into a town first. You also didn't have to pay the fee to fast travel to a different town, which could get pretty expensive sometimes. When that Teleport License expired, people felt really limited. As such, almost every single high level still bought the Teleport License and a bit of a bonus in a pack for like $10 a month. They basically got to keep their Free 2 Play/Micro-transaction description, but also got to collect a subscription fee every month from a lot of their players.
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Because some people feel the need to complain no matter what. *shrug* Call it human nature or whatever you want. Everything could be PERFECT in game and there would still be someone complaining about it.
I thought it was plenty. 50% speed is good especially with GWF
I understand that 3 tokens is kinda have dual purpose. One is to "test drive" a mount. Give you a taste what is like to move around just a little faster than normal. It does entice people to buy a mount (5g or Zen) but I don't feel it force people to buy ZEN. The devs would like you to buy Zen, but this game is design that you don't have, but you can if you want to.
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I wouldn't want to do GG without a mount. Not that I want to do GG at all, but that's a different matter.
Oh no doubt... part of the mission to buy your first mount w/ the token involves talking to the zen vendor, (just so you don't forget that you can buy mounts w/ zen, too).
It's also a way to give players mounts for free, while still providing a reason to want to buy one of the 5G ones.
FYI, the mounts you get w/ tokens only provide a 40% speed buff, whereas the 5G ones provide a 50% speed buff.
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110% speed is downright addictive. I'm so glad I bought Zen with my AD and bought my Heavy Worg.
It not only made leveling my Guardian Fighter a lot faster, it also allows me to run past mobs I really don't feel like fighting, which was the biggest problem I found with the 5 gold horses. You're just not fast enough to outrun them with 50% speed and you get knocked off easily with 3 attacks(since most mobs late game come with 2-3 ranged).
All the T1 mounts are 50% speed increase, rental or not.
I'll have to get a screenshot.. the rental horses were not the same as regular T1's last time I checked.
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Ahh, just checked. Looks like the rental horses got a nerf since I last used them. My apologies.
NP... admittedly, the only time I used them was w/ my first character, which was mid-open beta.
Oh... another thing - the Lord of Waterdeep promo unlocks a "Waterdeep Horse" skin for the 5G horses - it's sort of tan & light grey.
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They really should have *all* the mounts around the area of the vendors, and they should either be targetable w/ their names showing, or have a little plaque w/ the animal's name, so we can see them clearly.
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I have no doubt of it usefulness but if a player can't afford to spend a ton of money (it is ton when it is $40 for it) 5g option is not bad.
$40 mount is nice when you are alt-a-holic (like me) so for me, it is like $5 a character
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In this game, my first toon had enough for a mount by lvl 20 I think. I just didn't want to buy one and clean out my money
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