zen is 3 times the cost of cubi?

i feel robbed...like an idiot i waited until now to check the price of zen..ive spent a lot of money on MY server but the price here is ridiculous.
Im from the UK and i can honestly not see people paying

Since you say you observe user feedback, here is mine:
I want to spend money. I want to play this game. However, I can't see the value in spending 60+ dollars just to max my inventory and storage. Even spent over time, its still too much considering what it is I'm buying. Especially considering how many other items are considered "essential." I understand that this is how the game makes its income, and I respect that. But this pricing is making items that are necessary for players to play your game (or at least play it enjoyably - meditating for half of my game time is NOT fun) unobtainable, at least for those of us with common sense (or without mommy's credit card.) Please make zen affordable. Increase the prices of "fancy" items if that's what it takes, but you're going to lose players if you keep it like this. I don't want to see my friends leave any more than you do, so please fix this soon!

wizzmaster wrote: »

off course PW-MY is cheaper for USA players u cant compare their money with USA dollar or euro

For a player from malasia 1 cubi = 1 Malasia dollar duuuuu
same for PW-INT 1 dollar = 1 Zen

which is why unless something is done this game will fail to attract enough paying customers to remain a viable business

julz wrote: »

we're grinding zen-less in our underwear; refusing to buy fashion/other expensive things. All are welcome to come join the underwear party:)

Count me in. :]

rev wrote: »

http://www.petitiononline.com/g345a165/petition.html

Go sing the petition!

1$per gold,
LOL PVE IS SERIOUS?

Eh, I was dumb and gave away all my **** on MY, I'll stay here regardless of the cash shop prices. It's still a good game and a community. But, I definatly won't be spending a fraction of the money I probably would have had the prices been comparable to MY.

I have the idea that price is in fact not set up by PWI but by PW Beijing itself.
Looking at both english versions, you can see how Beijing likes to control everything, deciding which features will be avalaible for which franchise, when it'll be avalaible; regardless of customers will.
ie people complains everywhere about the security lock, but I bet that neither PWI or Cubi will be able to have it removed/toned down. Beijing says it's like that, like or not. Full stop
I have the idea that europeans soon will have to deal with 1 Zen/Cubi/whatever = 1€

A person that has not played this fun game, with a character that has been built to level 90+, may not have the insight of knowing how much pleasure is available from this mmorpg.

It is true that to get the most fun from Perfect World, one must be able to enjoy cash shop items.

Some items are exclusive to the cash shop. Depending on the price, players, with limited incomes, may be deprived of those items altogether.

Other items, available in the cash shop, have an "in game" alternative. A player, that spends their time getting the "in game' alternative, uses their game time differently than a player that buys the cash shop items.

Some of the cash shop items, exclusive to the cash shop, put players that don't buy and use them, at a significant disavantage, in a game that has PKing in its design.

The end result is players that buy cash shop items, have power over, the ones that don't buy cash shop items, in addition to leveling faster, looking better, and having more fun.

Since "winning" the game, "Perfect World", is defined by owning and keeping territories, the faction, with players, that have the most money to spend on mmorpgs, wins.

I believe there is a marketing stradegy, for Perfect World, that practically removes the disproportionate advantage of money, per your pricing structure.

I hope you figure it out before this server solidifies a reputation of being unrealistically priced.

FYI If I played on this server my typical way, each character, I built, would cost me approximately $150.00 to set it up and $100.00 per month to play.

$10 for a shirt.
Even in real life you may find cheaper.


I intended to play a blademaster and buy hp+mp charms for faster leveling and pvp. But after seeing the prices for zen I may have to consider playing a venomancer instead which is much cheaper to run. Or perhaps quit altogether.

Afterall, I haven't invested much into this game yet so I am free to quit anytime. Maybe I should do that?

tao wrote: »

$10 for a shirt.
Even in real life you may find cheaper.


I intended to play a blademaster and buy hp+mp charms for faster leveling and pvp. But after seeing the prices for zen I may have to consider playing a venomancer instead which is much cheaper to run. Or perhaps quit altogether.

Afterall, I haven't invested much into this game yet so I am free to quit anytime. Maybe I should do that?

lol play runescape, flyff, wow.. ect

u choose xD there all cheaper then this

embl3m wrote: »

Attention to GMs- You make more money by dropping the prices.

What would you rather have? The 100 guys willing to pay 1$ per 1 Gold or the couple thousand willing to pay 25 cents per Gold?

Let me do some math for you guys.


100 Guys buying 100 Gold @ 1 dollar = 10000 $

2000 Guys buying 100 Gold @ 25 cents = 50000 $

50000 > 10000

You're welcome.

QFT
(google it if you don't know what that means)

embl3m wrote: »

Attention to GMs- You make more money by dropping the prices.

What would you rather have? The 100 guys willing to pay 1$ per 1 Gold or the couple thousand willing to pay 25 cents per Gold?

Let me do some math for you guys.


100 Guys buying 100 Gold @ 1 dollar = 10000 $

2000 Guys buying 100 Gold @ 25 cents = 50000 $

50000 > 10000

You're welcome.

QFT!

I put this in the other post and Ill put it here too:

I also agree the price of gold in this game is just crazy. I came from PW Malaysia and was very excited about finally getting some USA servers. I spent alot of money on cubi gold in PWM. I spent all evening busting butt to get to lvl 10 made my profile logged in to go on a gold shopping spree saw the prices, laughed and logged back out.

Theres NO WAY Im paying those prices. $63 to get married? Yeah right, keep dreaming... I can buy 100 cubi gold on PW Malaysia for $30 and on PWI it would cost me $100!. Why in the heck are prices 3x more exspensive here? And the game just started, its just **** to charge that much.

So more than likely I wont be playing long. I wont be paying that much for gold and when the game gets too boring or hard without it, Im out of here if the prices arent lowered.

karmelia wrote: »

Remeber that when you buy from Cubinet :

- The reseller (Offgamers or AsiaPWorld) take a share of the selling price.
- Bejing PW Co take a share of every chas shop sales.


PWE
- You buy directly from them (no middlemen take a cut on the sales)
- PWE is a subsidiary company of Bejing PW Co. They don't need to take a share on cash shop sales since the money goes to them anyway.


Soooooooo... Cubinet is still able to make a profit by selling his cubi 3 times cheaper even if 2 other company takes a share of the profits.

Here, they are selling ZEN 3 times as much as cubis, even if no one have to take a share of the profits.

Go figure.....

very true i agree is a wow prices but just remember is the place where the server are host USA go around other USA company games and you would see their cash shop are almost the same ( not going give examples) I remember paying 10$ for a costume hosted where ( in the land of the free) so go figured. And was dealing with the company directly. ( I not surprise with the prices)

vigor wrote: »

As long as there are stupid rich americans these guys won't be losing business anytime soon. I've seen how much these oblivious guys can spend on games like this :rolleyes:

God bless America! /sarcasm

true but not only Americans I know people from other region of the world spent even more. (97.1 of the population of the world are working salary people 1.9 % are poor and have nothing only 1% have enough money for all those 99% sad but true.