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How much does the Dragonborn race cost?
ixalmaris
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There has been some disagreement about how much the dragonborn race does cost, mainly because there are several different ways to calculate the cost.
One way, which I also subscribe to, is to take the minimum amount of money you need to spend to get the race which is $70
The other way is to say that, because dragonborn are only part of the pack they only make up a part of the price.
Which way do you think is the correct way to determine the cost of dragonborn and if it is the second one, how much do you think the race alone costs?
One way, which I also subscribe to, is to take the minimum amount of money you need to spend to get the race which is $70
The other way is to say that, because dragonborn are only part of the pack they only make up a part of the price.
Which way do you think is the correct way to determine the cost of dragonborn and if it is the second one, how much do you think the race alone costs?
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But the 2nd way is correct. They are marketed as the main part of the pack, but still they are part of the pack.
This exactly. I have the pack and have zero interest in playing or making a lizard
For me the race is nice, but the major draws were the bag and Artifact.
With the bag being account wide it really suits people like myself who play characters of every class. The pack will (probably) only gain in value as Cryptic will (probably) add more classes to the game in future modules - personally I'm hoping for a Divine themed module with Paladin or more Combat-oriented Clericsas well as a a playable Deva race, however I wouldn't expect that for Module 5.The Artifact also makes it easier for me to level any future characters to 60, thus removing some of that part of the grind.
Whilst I did make my Warlock a Dragonborn, thus was partly due to the fact that the race was new and I would have probably been making a Human otherwise since he's a Temptation Warlock. I have no intention of converting any of my existing characters to be a Dragonborn (or any other race for that matter) since I spent a lot of time when creating them and I've grown very attached to them since the open beta started and so whilst I probably won't use much else from the pack, it's nice to have the stuff there should I want to use them.
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The bottom line however is that no one is paying for anything physical or even digital. What we are paying is access to the game's services. Nothing more, nothing less.
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Edit: people claiming the race is free because they bought the pack for the goodies, aren't actually buying the race. For anyone looking to buy the dragonborn race, it will cost them $75 whether they want the goodies or not.
Not entirely true. You can buy it with Zen, meaning, you can get the Dragonborn race for 'free' if you have enough AD and are willing to wait for the exchange to go through. It takes about one day per million zen in the backlog, so at 11.5 million, it'll take about 11-12 days.
Because you can buy it with Zen, you can technically get it for free, or pay any amount up to 75 dollars.
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When/If they add an option to buy the race by itself my opinion will change. But for now, that is what you must pay to play a Dragonborn, so that is how much the race costs.
But there is not an option for that.
I would love to use this tatic in real life, "I have some magic beans. With a bunch of other stuff, for 75 dollars. The magic beans do not cost 75 dollars. But they only way to get them? Is to buy the other stuff too, that costs 75 dollars. But I repeat again the magic beans do not cost 75 dollars. Sorry for the confusion."
Having said that I did end up getting it but it was a pretty tough decision and I didn't purchase it until the last minute. Not that it matters I guess since they extended the sale price and maybe made it the regular price now? If not they should at least give an indication of a new date for the discounted price on the page. It still says "The Dragonborn Legend Pack is discounted for a limited time only! The discount will end on August 14, 2014 at 7 AM PDT" which obviously wasn't the case.
Regardless, the main motivator for me was the bag being claimable for every character on that account since I have a level 60 character of every class now. I started a Dragonborn SW character up and got to level 60 by the Sunday after release, so 3-4 days of play basically, and it was nice starting with a 30 slot bag. If I only played 1-2 characters I definitely wouldn't have purchased it since the value wouldn't have been there for me.
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It still costs $75, just someone else paid it for you.
I waited to the very last minute. Electing to pull the trigger, because I did not want to decide later I wanted the pack, and see the price at 100 dollars. I would have most likely passed on it and missed out on the "sale".
Not only do they keep the pack, the price of the sale, but the sale from the begining should have been 50 dollars. You offer something on "sale" and then after the sale, it is the same price.
It was a pretty dirty trick, to push product.
I have spent, a good deal on this game (Love the game itself), and my spending has to stop.
Will not reward Cyrptic for this behavior. Along with, "The Dragonborn race is not 75 dollars."
Cheap political speak.
^^ This. I have 8 toons, so getting a 30 slots bag + artifact for them all as well as 1 character slot and other goodies is good enough for me. The race and the token come as a bonus. I really doubt I'll polymorph any of my characters, but in case I want to do it, the token will be useful.
This.
There is no way around the fact that $75 winds up being paid to PW as a result of someone deciding to acquire a Dragonborn race option. Period.
That I paid $500 (for example) for my wife's iPad instead of her in no way changes the fact that $500 was spent in the process of acquiring it. If I put $75 worth of Zen into the AD exchange and someone else uses it to buy the Dragonborn pack then $75 has been paid for that pack.
The Dragonborn race costs $75. Until it is sold unbundled from the pack at a lower price point, saying otherwise is just (failed) semantics, no matter who says it.
That can be said for any items in the pack, it all depends on what you bought the pack for... for example if there were two packs one that contained only the race and one contained all the other items in the pack which would you have bought. Personally i wouldn't have bought the pack with the race as i don't really have any aspirations to play a lizard, but it differs depending on your preference. Is a race worth $75 - no, is a 30 slot bag on ever char ($10/char) and artifact on ever char ($35/char based on book of thayan dead sale) worth $75 yes. The race is worthless/priceless since you can't equate the cost unlike the other items that can be equated to something that already has a cost associated with it. In the end it comes down to what you wanted out of the pack and that is what you paid for, if you only have say one foot (left) and you only need one shoe you can't you have to buy the pair so the guy with one left foot bought both shoes for the left where as a person with only a right foot buys the shoes for the right one.
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That's a female Dragonborn Control Wizard in one of the included in the pack fashion outfits standing still.
You could have stopped right there. What is the title question of the thread again? Oh yes; "How Much Does the Dragonborn Race Cost?"
It costs $75.
If I want to play as a Dragonborn it costs $75.
Some people are paying $75 for an item pack to buy 30 slot bags and an artifact, a pack that happens to come with a Dragonborn option.
Some people are paying $75 to to unlock Dragonborn and they happen to get some other things along with it.
Neither of those things changes the answer to the question; playing Dragonborn costs $75.
To you maybe for me its free, but alas you won't get it. Enough has been said on this topic though good luck with it.
Let's not confuse refusing to play semantics with being stupid, shall we? You can make this personal if you want, surfer dude...and I'm totally ok with that if it's where you want to take this.
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The cost of the account 30 slot bag is also $75. As is the account artifact. The reason is they are not sold separately. If you only care about the fashion item? $75. Everything else in the pack is a toss in package deal that comes with whichever particular item(s) you are willing to pay $75 for.
See game systems at launch where they force you to buy bundles to get the system. Those games may be worthless to you, but you have no other choice. It doesnt matter that the system price is theoretically $ x, because there is no way to buy it for $ x.
But it also doesn't change that getting the dragonborn costs $75.
Ask yourself, when someone who does not play the game asks you how dragonborns cost, what do you answer him? That they are free or that they cost $75?
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So you said it yourself, it (meaning the dragonborn) costs $75.00
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It's wordplay, ixalmaris, pure and simple. You know, zebular knows, we all know, that the answer to the thread's title is "It costs $75 to play the Dragonborn race".
A new player, or a player not sitting on millions of AD and willing to wait two weeks, is going to have to pay $75 themselves. The AD/Zen converter who get the pack that way has someone else paying their $75 for them. I'm going to refrain from spending too much time on telling a prospective player that AD are earned in plenty when we are talking about 3,750,000 AD being accumulated just for this buy...with no other AD spending at all...being a little disingenuous. But think for a minute about that. Starting at day one, without being a dedicated AH player, how long would it be before you had a spare 4 mil AD?
No matter what verbal gymnastics are employed, the question only has one answer; it costs $75 to play a Dragonborn. The only variable, and the one being used the most often in this discussion, is who pays PW that $75.