Rank 9 Costs 205 Gold more...

spaz95
spaz95 Posts: 110 Arc User
edited August 2015 in General Discussion
So GsT's are put back into the Cash Shop. Better than 60 gold each i do say so myself. But 205 extra gold for rank 9? come on people.

This even means that on sale they will still cost 102.5. Thanks a lot PWE marketing division. its not like it was already hard enough to get rank 9 ay?





Yes. Im feeling rather salty

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  • zoube
    zoube Posts: 179 Arc User
    Nah Chips pack will return sometimes, and you just have to hope they will return half price. Direct GST in boutique are for lazy who prefer pay one extra gold instead of opening chips pack.
  • jabq
    jabq Posts: 821 Arc User
    zoube wrote: »
    Nah Chips pack will return sometimes, and you just have to hope they will return half price. Direct GST in boutique are for lazy who prefer pay one extra gold instead of opening chips pack.

    During chip sale, gst cost = 2.3 (or was it 2.4) gold.​​
  • ayejay101
    ayejay101 Posts: 238 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    We only see that the GST is available for purchase, similar to how Chip Packs were available for purchase at the cost of 5g for one GST. There is a such thing as a convenience fee hence the GST for a bit more at 6g over 5g.

    Now if it were to become on sale, we can see Chip Packs coming at 2.3-2.5g per GST and the straight GST would be at 3g.

    Personally, I think the cash players would be going for the 3g versus the farming players going for the 2.3-2.5g chip packs.

    So certainly R9 is not costing us any more but just gave a convenience to some players.
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  • crazyelf
    crazyelf Posts: 34 Arc User
    Not everything is gonna be Picnics and Rainbows..they were Pricey when it first came out and still are today the PW employee's have to put food on their table somehow
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  • spaz95
    spaz95 Posts: 110 Arc User
    crazyelf said:

    Not everything is gonna be Picnics and Rainbows..they were Pricey when it first came out and still are today the PW employee's have to put food on their table somehow


    I agree they need to put food on their table but, PWI is not losing money as a game. It is now cheaper to run the servers they have and also they are making a killing in pack sales. SoT has around 1 in 6000 drop rate and last week it was averaging 2-3 a day. I seen 7 drop in less than 24 hours. meaning that on average there were over 12k packs being opened per day... That is a lot of gold being spent ingame.

    Also i dont think they realize this, i really hope they do. But if you up the price of rank 9 it will be pushing people to just buy accounts off of people. Yes the buying and selling of an account is a bannable offence but so many r9rr +10-12 characters are now bought. Honestly spending $1,000 to get a character already end game is now easier than spending $1230 on just the GsT's. Not counting the MoG, Rep, D orbs and stones of your choice needed.

    Either they need to crack down on the buying and selling of accounts or do something about r9 mat costs. Because as is now thats pathetic. "new price of a GsT 6g". Id rather save $205 opening Myst. Chip packs than waste it.

    Fastest way to kill a game is make end game harder to get for new players. Looks like its heading that way honestly. I dont want my favourite game to die any time soon honestly.
  • johndoe#4146
    johndoe#4146 Posts: 98 Arc User
    fastest way to kill a game is actually to make end game gear achievable in a month. youre complaining it went up an extra 100+ gold to get r9.. hows about us "old" players complain that when we were farming for it, raps/cannys were 2mil/1.5mil each - which would make one summerwind token over 100mil instead of the measly 16-17mil it is now with NW so farmable and raps/cannys 35k/6k each. Quit complaining just cos they decided R9 was too easily achievable since almost everyone and their pet poodle has it.
    All this time it was on sale and ppl got used to that price. Now its off sale and oh noes! its too expensive! no new player is gonna want to stay cos its 100+ gold higher than they even knew what it used to be since THEY'RE NEW. -.-
  • crazyelf
    crazyelf Posts: 34 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    johndoe069 said:

    youre complaining it went up an extra 100+ gold to get r9.. hows about us "old" players complain that when we were farming for it, raps/cannys were 2mil/1.5mil each - which would make one summerwind token over 100mil instead of the measly 16-17mil it is now with NW so farmable and raps/cannys 35k/6k each. Quit complaining just cos they decided R9 was too easily achievable since almost everyone and their pet poodle has it.
    All this time it was on sale and ppl got used to that price. Now its off sale and oh noes! its too expensive! no new player is gonna want to stay cos its 100+ gold higher than they even knew what it used to be since THEY'RE NEW. -.-

    Exactly Nice worded :wink:
    But I guess you can't please everyone oh well
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  • keihan007#7641
    keihan007#7641 Posts: 1,190 Arc User
    johndoe069 wrote: »
    fastest way to kill a game is actually to make end game gear achievable in a month. youre complaining it went up an extra 100+ gold to get r9.. hows about us "old" players complain that when we were farming for it, raps/cannys were 2mil/1.5mil each - which would make one summerwind token over 100mil instead of the measly 16-17mil it is now with NW so farmable and raps/cannys 35k/6k each. Quit complaining just cos they decided R9 was too easily achievable since almost everyone and their pet poodle has it.
    All this time it was on sale and ppl got used to that price. Now its off sale and oh noes! its too expensive! no new player is gonna want to stay cos its 100+ gold higher than they even knew what it used to be since THEY'RE NEW. -.-

    At your price for raps, the Summerwind value is 23,76m. Now, back in days the cannies were 500kish and raps 1,3mish. At those prices each summerwing token was 990m.

    There was only handful of players across all servers who had the money to get the recast prior to NW update. Because of this, we did not need summerwind tokens and bringing them up like that is only idiotic.

    They are absolutely correct with their concept, making basic steps easier/cheaper so newer players catch older ones is exactly what longevity of this game requires.​​
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  • johndoe#4146
    johndoe#4146 Posts: 98 Arc User
    saxroll said:



    They are absolutely correct with their concept, making basic steps easier/cheaper so newer players catch older ones is exactly what longevity of this game requires.​​

    clearly you have no idea which point you are arguing for...

  • beast21g
    beast21g Posts: 631 Arc User
    after merge NW sucks, Dawnglory has over 500+ players on NW, that means less rewards, you can be 1st Nation and you can get 120 tokens. please max the token share
  • sylenthunder
    sylenthunder Posts: 3,061 Community Moderator
    beast21g wrote: »
    after merge NW sucks, Dawnglory has over 500+ players on NW, that means less rewards, you can be 1st Nation and you can get 120 tokens. please max the token share
    It's working as intended. What's he issue?​​
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  • jabq
    jabq Posts: 821 Arc User
    beast21g wrote: »
    after merge NW sucks, Dawnglory has over 500+ players on NW, that means less rewards, you can be 1st Nation and you can get 120 tokens. please max the token share

    How about this, what ever amount you win in nw, pwi sends you the same amount as a gift via mail? With time the can introduce personalized arc codes sent to your email which can be redeemed in arc with a 2 hour time limit. I think that is a fair idea if they are going to merge all these folks.

    A second idea i had, pwi can give out weekly nation war tokens, 100 tokens per player via an arc code, for all those people who could not attend nw. No one should be left out you know, it is not fair for them.​​
  • demansfairy
    demansfairy Posts: 456 Arc User
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    Ok....
    @jabq you're trolling....r-right? If someone can't attend NW it just means their real life is more important than a game. And how is less tokens for each player when there are more players an issue? Most of the items are tradable anyway and the items that are not won't take many weeks to have tokens for.
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  • jabq
    jabq Posts: 821 Arc User
    demansfairy wrote: »
    @jabq you're trolling....r-right?

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  • razzzza
    razzzza Posts: 456 Arc User
    johndoe069 wrote: »
    fastest way to kill a game is actually to make end game gear achievable in a month. youre complaining it went up an extra 100+ gold to get r9.. hows about us "old" players complain that when we were farming for it, raps/cannys were 2mil/1.5mil each - which would make one summerwind token over 100mil instead of the measly 16-17mil it is now with NW so farmable and raps/cannys 35k/6k each. Quit complaining just cos they decided R9 was too easily achievable since almost everyone and their pet poodle has it.
    All this time it was on sale and ppl got used to that price. Now its off sale and oh noes! its too expensive! no new player is gonna want to stay cos its 100+ gold higher than they even knew what it used to be since THEY'RE NEW. -.-

    you do know that r9 is considered very endgame gear since it came around right?
    Sure there where recasts for it but how many years do we have this now? 3?

    This is the only equipment i know in any game that is very endgame for so long as it is right now and "helping" it now by increasing the price again is just dumb.
    They should lower the price even further and release maybe a new set and a completely new set for farmers.

    I dont think it would hurt PWI any more then r9 does atm when r10 would come around and send r9 to its grave honestly.
    powercreep blabla but increasing the price after we had this equipment for years now is not the right move at all.​​
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  • aeternusdoleo
    aeternusdoleo Posts: 180 Arc User
    edited August 2015
    sylenthunder said:


    SylenThunder wrote: »

    It's working as intended. What's he issue???
    Probably that with the Harshlands PVP crew joining in on the NW, that it's become increasingly difficult to get something worthwhile out of it as a G16 player, or even a lower range R9 toon. Noticed that firsthand - more and more you encounter full R9+10 or better squads on maps which a G16 toon has no hope of doing anything against. On Dawnglory we've had nations being boxed in their bases because of this once or twice. I know it's driving some players out of the NW. Yours truly included - I don't really like PvP, so if the rewards drop off, why bother still?

    As for the R9 price increase - they said that chip sales would return on occasion, so just save up your gold and buy a crapton of tokens once the chipsale hits. Then spend several hours clicking to open all those packs and make the GSTs. The extra cost for base R9 isn't prohibitive for those who either farm or cash it. GSTs have been going for 9-10kk on Dawnglory for a while now.

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  • johndoe#4146
    johndoe#4146 Posts: 98 Arc User
    razzzza said:


    ... but increasing the price after we had this equipment for years now is not the right move at all.​​

    so you want end game gear to actually get cheaper before they release a new set to replace it? there are cube neck pieces in the market/upgraded tomes that cost more than the r9 total set cost but end game gear should be attainable in the first two or three months of playing?

    they broke the game by making r9 cheap to start with.. sure. but maybe increasing the prices now will just help reduce some of the coin floating around so prices drop on everything else, cos come on... 2.5bil for a nw tome is just stupid. Nothing in any game should be worth 1 bil coin let alone 2+. Thats whats driving away new players.- not the price of "end game" gear which lately people have banked before they even reach the req lvl to use it

    Besides, with the new penetration stats, i wouldnt be surprised if they come out with a new set with penetration atribs that cuts holes in r9s anyway.

  • jabq
    jabq Posts: 821 Arc User
    johndoe069 wrote: »
    Besides, with the new penetration stats, i wouldnt be surprised if they come out with a new set with penetration atribs that cuts holes in r9s anyway.

    Problem would be transferring refines and gems. That will cost quite a lot when ever it does happen.​​

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