Your opening statement said lockboxes, aka random chance, aka gambling. You never once said microtransaction until challenged on the whole gambling thing. So im curious how you expect to have lockboxes with nearly everything in the zen store...without random chance.
Gotta say, I utterly despise games that stick everything worthwhile into an array of gamble boxes (looking at you, Aeria games.) I've never spent a dollar on a game with that model. Meanwhile, I've happily spent some $ on a number of f2p games, for specific things - storage space, fashion, character slots, stuff like that. Do I avoid random boxes entirely? No, I've done them plenty of times in Cryptic games - with keys I got from exchanging in-game currency.
And yeah - there's lots of mobile games with random gamble packs - all the card games, for instance. Haven't spent a dime on those. I have spent $ on mobile games with specific purchases - like additional game boards in Ticket To Ride, or extra characters & campaigns in Warhammer Quest. Are there some people out there who spend insane amounts on random <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>? Sure, some of the folks I ran into in War of the Fallen would spend absurd amounts.... but they're a small minority (mobile games make almost all their money on "whales" like that.)
It's a terrible model, that most gamers I've seen hate with a passion. Why you would encourage Neverwinter to slit it's wrists like that is beyond me.
...and here's a thought. You know how the zen exchange has a massive backlog of buy orders (1.4m last I saw)? Because people want to spend zen. All those people are desperate to get some zen to spend in the store, otherwise there wouldn't be so many buy orders. So, no - the zen store has plenty of demand. It doesn't need help - especially the kind of "help" you're suggesting.
...and here's a thought. You know how the zen exchange has a massive backlog of buy orders (1.4m last I saw)? Because people want to spend zen. All those people are desperate to get some zen to spend in the store, otherwise there wouldn't be so many buy orders. So, no - the zen store has plenty of demand. It doesn't need help - especially the kind of "help" you're suggesting.
Spot-on.
And here's another thought: every 100 Zen is $1.00 (U.S.) - so that means the current buy orders are totaling $1.4 Million. And that's just the Exchange buy order requests between players. A lot more people won't even bother with that and just buy Zen directly to purchase from the Zen Market.
And all Zen buy orders require someone to actually buy all that Zen at some point.
I could be wrong, but the Zen Market is -probably- doing okay as it is right now, I think.
And here's another thought: every 100 Zen is $1.00 (U.S.) - so that means the current buy orders are totaling $1.4 Million. And that's just the Exchange buy order requests between players. A lot more people won't even bother with that and just buy Zen directly to purchase from the Zen Market.
And all Zen buy orders require someone to actually buy all that Zen at some point.
I could be wrong, but the Zen Market is -probably- doing okay as it is right now, I think.
The only way those requests get filled is if there is the supply to mest the demand. However the imbalance with a large demand and no supply. Since there is no supply of zen, not nearly enough people are buying zen to meet the market.
There is a demand for zen, but not enough demand for it that people are willing to pay real money.
Been looking forward to upgrading my Perfect Sarcasm font, but due to recent changes it seems I will need to grind the Nine Hells for my Pure Sarcasm font... ironic isn't it?
I have to say this is a pooor idea yet again. I spend money regularly on Keys and the other random offerings, professional kits. In all honesty, I have pretty much stopped these types of purchases because I have been burned too often. If the keys and kits did not offer so much basic <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>, i would spend more, but more often than not, i feel little different after buying keys than I do playing keno... should have spent the money on something else.
As for the idea of just trying to sell or trade what you get that you do not want, would you like to buy an alchemist? i think i would need to sell 30 of them to earn enough for a key. I have blue and green chisels, mortars, needles, tongs, tailors, mailsmiths, weaponsmiths and so on... how many times I have put them on the AH, lower than everyone elses posting only to have the sale expire....
Seriously, i think you do not understand what you are suggesting and how poor an idea it truely is.
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Your opening statement said lockboxes, aka random chance, aka gambling. You never once said microtransaction until challenged on the whole gambling thing. So im curious how you expect to have lockboxes with nearly everything in the zen store...without random chance.
And yeah - there's lots of mobile games with random gamble packs - all the card games, for instance. Haven't spent a dime on those. I have spent $ on mobile games with specific purchases - like additional game boards in Ticket To Ride, or extra characters & campaigns in Warhammer Quest. Are there some people out there who spend insane amounts on random <font color="orange">HAMSTER</font>? Sure, some of the folks I ran into in War of the Fallen would spend absurd amounts.... but they're a small minority (mobile games make almost all their money on "whales" like that.)
It's a terrible model, that most gamers I've seen hate with a passion. Why you would encourage Neverwinter to slit it's wrists like that is beyond me.
...and here's a thought. You know how the zen exchange has a massive backlog of buy orders (1.4m last I saw)? Because people want to spend zen. All those people are desperate to get some zen to spend in the store, otherwise there wouldn't be so many buy orders. So, no - the zen store has plenty of demand. It doesn't need help - especially the kind of "help" you're suggesting.
Spot-on.
And here's another thought: every 100 Zen is $1.00 (U.S.) - so that means the current buy orders are totaling $1.4 Million. And that's just the Exchange buy order requests between players. A lot more people won't even bother with that and just buy Zen directly to purchase from the Zen Market.
And all Zen buy orders require someone to actually buy all that Zen at some point.
I could be wrong, but the Zen Market is -probably- doing okay as it is right now, I think.
There is a demand for zen, but not enough demand for it that people are willing to pay real money.
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"WoW was the 1st MMO" anyone???
As for the idea of just trying to sell or trade what you get that you do not want, would you like to buy an alchemist? i think i would need to sell 30 of them to earn enough for a key. I have blue and green chisels, mortars, needles, tongs, tailors, mailsmiths, weaponsmiths and so on... how many times I have put them on the AH, lower than everyone elses posting only to have the sale expire....
Seriously, i think you do not understand what you are suggesting and how poor an idea it truely is.