How much are you willing to spend on cash shop?

prosper
prosper Posts: 335 Arc User
edited August 2008 in General Discussion
So there have been a couple of threads on how expensive cubis (or whatever they're called now) are in this version. My question: How much is everyone willing to spend per month on them? $10? $40?

When I played EP before, I was burning at least one gold MP heiro per day at lvl 80ish. Those cost about $1 for me, so it wasn't exactly horrible. :S However, my budget for games is pretty small and I can only really spend like 20-30 dollars monthly, including fashion, mounts, stones, etc. If the price for cubis goes up by a lot, I don't think I'll be buying much -- or any at all, for that matter.
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  • lipe124
    lipe124 Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    My plan would be to do a minimun donation.. or maybe if there is a afordable vlaue for money one.. do that. Then start selling and buying cubi in game to try and work my way up to a good amount of money. It just takes a LOT longer than simply buying a few 1000.
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  • tofu
    tofu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    idk depends on how i like the game :)
    i might get heiro, thats for sure.. makes life easier haha ;D
    but i'd rather spend my money on real things... like SHOES!!! hahah ;)
  • ren
    ren Posts: 662 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I need a $220 pair of headphones, and then an ESI juli@ soundcard, good luck getting any cash out of this furf**.
    And yeah, if the shop is more expensive... fail. If it's more expensive than MY i might not even play at all.
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  • koz
    koz Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    The more expensive the cash shop, the less I'm willing to buy. So if it's same/near the MY version, probably nothing.
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  • showharu
    showharu Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Most people think spending money is only way to get cubi, but its too early to talk about that.
    For the other PW servers you have no choice but to buy cubi with real money because of the economy.
    This server I dont think the economy will be too bad in the beginning. So i jus perfer to get rich from selling HH, herb, molders,and War money.
    After that I will buy from auction mall.
    Well to answer your question if the economy got bad in my point of view I would spend 50$ for the game each month.
  • kuailiang
    kuailiang Posts: 119 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I would probably burn 30$ a month but make that 60$ if you can buy gold directly. I can't stand farming, I'll take the easy way out anyday.
  • jamsan
    jamsan Posts: 73 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Planning on buying nothing with real life cash, too much of a hassle to setup paypal or whatever. Call me a freeloader but in order for the cash shop to work, the items sold must have real (virtual) value... so some people need to be buying them second hand :)
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  • kamina
    kamina Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I would pay if the prices are close to MY-EN, around $30 for 100cubi/zen.
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  • arcane
    arcane Posts: 1,084 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Ill RageQuit if the prices suck.
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  • prosper
    prosper Posts: 335 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Ingame cubi buying is really unreliable, I find. Sometimes the economy is really horrible and prices jump and drop randomly. I've seen cubi selling for more than 800k apiece. (Mind you, this was on a money-drop enhanced server, but it was still beyond affordable.) Here's hoping the pricing on this server isn't gonna be so ****ed up.
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  • karmelia
    karmelia Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    jamsan wrote: »
    Planning on buying nothing with real life cash, too much of a hassle to setup paypal or whatever. Call me a freeloader ...

    Nothing wrong with that. The game IS free to play afterall.

    I will definitely buy what I consider essential : a pet mount, inventory and storage extensions, pet cages, life hieorgrams. The rest, it will depends of the relative value of the ZEN vs the prices in the cash shop.
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  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    0$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Never used real money for MMO's and never will ^.^

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  • zezix
    zezix Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I dunno. Probably like.. 1-3 grand?
  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    zezix wrote: »
    I dunno. Probably like.. 1-3 grand?

    WTF, are you talking about monthly??

    Where do you get that kind of money from >.<

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  • zezix
    zezix Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    No I mean in all.
  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    Thats still a lot, you plan on sharing that with me D:

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  • zezix
    zezix Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Lol :P

    What will you do for it? *gives naughty look*
  • hong
    hong Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, I usually don't spend more than $25 on MMORPGs unless the cash shop is cheap. I tend to spend a lot more cause it's so tempting to buy more cause prices are so cheap =( But if they're expensive, I'm like "Hmm, pizza or a piece of usable item..." or "Get a PSP or this..." lol yeah...

    I never had a problem catching up to Cash Shop players though, unless it's incredibly unbalance.

    If prices are cheap - I'd spend a lot more in this game that's for sure.
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  • koz
    koz Posts: 465 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    hong wrote: »
    Yeah, I usually don't spend more than $25 on MMORPGs unless the cash shop is cheap. I tend to spend a lot more cause it's so tempting to buy more cause prices are so cheap =( But if they're expensive, I'm like "Hmm, pizza or a piece of usable item..." or "Get a PSP or this..." lol yeah...

    I never had a problem catching up to Cash Shop players though, unless it's incredibly unbalance.


    It's pretty cash shop heavy. You might have a problem in this game, unless you have a lot of gold.
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  • hong
    hong Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Gold shouldn't be an issue in this game.

    Let's just hope the CS is cheap, even cheaper than MY-EN and I'll love International. But that is doubtful.
    RoC.
  • sealed
    sealed Posts: 781
    edited August 2008
    zezix wrote: »
    Lol :P

    What will you do for it? *gives naughty look*

    Haha I like Naughty looks, you should read my Public Profile xD

    *Gives naughty look back to zezix*:p

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  • ambie
    ambie Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I don't know, i guess, nothing? I rarely buy in game stuff.
    Though this time I may.
  • hong
    hong Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    Trust me, if Cash Shop items are cheap as well. Anyone that has not ever spend a penny in MMORPG will start spending a **** load for this MMO. Cheap prices and good benefits = huge profit. It's way too tempting to buy stuff, it's like shopping iRL, but extra cheap and last long enough to enjoy your gaming life. No idea why International versions never thought about that, no International version so far that is.
    RoC.
  • zezix
    zezix Posts: 337 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    sealed wrote: »
    Haha I like Naughty looks, you should read my Public Profile xD

    *Gives naughty look back to zezix*:p

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  • lena
    lena Posts: 243 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I will no doubt spend what I do in the MY server $150+ per month thats how much it costs me for 300 cubits
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  • desirai
    desirai Posts: 51 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    maybe 10-15$, depending on how much items are and how much USD gets cash shop currency.
  • dagas
    dagas Posts: 4 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I thought I paid much for my two EVE Online subscriptions, but you guys seem to spend more money a month on this supposedly free game. I played the MY-EN version for a couple of hours and it seemed okey, but if I have to pay that much I'm not going to play this game. I don't understand how anyone could spend 150 dollars a month on a game, any game...:eek:

    Is it possible to enjoy the game without buying coins or at least spend less than 10 dollars a month?
  • leo
    leo Posts: 15 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    I'm a sucker for buying cash shop items. Sigh, I'm not gonna say how much i've spent on other Free2play mmos....
  • prosper
    prosper Posts: 335 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    dagas wrote: »
    Is it possible to enjoy the game without buying coins or at least spend less than 10 dollars a month?

    Yes. However, you will have a slightly harder time. You can also buy cash items with ingame gold, so real-life money isn't a necessity.
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  • whodfmi
    whodfmi Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited August 2008
    prosper wrote: »
    So there have been a couple of threads on how expensive cubis (or whatever they're called now) are in this version. My question: How much is everyone willing to spend per month on them? $10? $40?

    When I played EP before, I was burning at least one gold MP heiro per day at lvl 80ish. Those cost about $1 for me, so it wasn't exactly horrible. :S However, my budget for games is pretty small and I can only really spend like 20-30 dollars monthly, including fashion, mounts, stones, etc. If the price for cubis goes up by a lot, I don't think I'll be buying much -- or any at all, for that matter.

    True it is getting expencive to buy any more they keep upping the price and not every one can afford to much to would be nice to lower the CUBI if you can in the long reun you will make more off of it.
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