Choose your Destiny

This poll is an insult to my intelligence.
It excludes the things that people really wants, do you actually think we're a bunch of 12 year old kids that's so easily fooled?

I think that inherently the problem is this. Gaming companies hear about the few die-hard F2P players who happily fork out hundreds a month for CS and instantly hear 'ching' sounds and not much else. The few successful CS games I have seen price themselves very moderately and gain a steady and stable flow from a much larger pool of players. Granted this might not be the huge wet-dream of income that was expected, but over-all it provides a much larger total gain than over-pricing for just the few richer than the gods types who throw bucks around like leaves in autumn.
I have no problem spending around 15-20 a month in a F2P CS if what I am getting feel worth the price paid. In PW-MY version I felt satisfied in that regard and spent often and happily. Given the occasional special deals or sales they might have I could even spend more up to maybe 30 a month. (considering that is roughly the cost of 2 fully supported and all content included subscription games, that's saying quite a bit about a game) An MMO has to be real amazing to be worth paying more than you would for the content and support offered by two P2P games for the same cost.
I won't even go into what it would take for a game to get me paying 150 bucks all at once. I don't even do that for games guaranteed to be freely playable forever after, such as Guild Wars as one example. PW is a great game and having one local is awesome. But to be honest I never had any real problem playing the MY version and considering the price difference would just deal with the Engrish and play there instead knowing I am getting a good deal for my money.

I hope staff actually reads all these. Pay attention to your competition and players and you will do great. Otherwise you will go the same route as the other failing F2Ps released lately. Currently you need to adjust a fair degree down to compete with the MY prices which I believe offer a far more up to date CS as well. They have things over there that you don't offer presently at cheaper prices to boot. I hope you plan to update CS with more item and lower the prices to at least a competative rate. Honestly I think a majority of us coming over from MY version will end up going back to our long established characters there if the prices here do not improve within a short period of time.
Thus far the staff seems very friendly, active, and reasonable. Your actions on this issue will show if our continued patronage is warranted.

"We will adjust our prices based on the MY-Version. The reason is simple. A lot of you played the MY-Version before. So said it is not a new product for you. From a view of a customer: Why paying more for a product when you can have it cheaper somewhere else?" - Posted By GM Kru


Source: http://forum.perfectworld.ms/showthread.php?t=454&page=6

You should follow his example, I'm not saying its the only solution, but he has provided a valid point, and is making me really want the European Server to start now..

kick123 wrote: »

This poll is an insult to my intelligence.
It excludes the things that people really wants, do you actually think we're a bunch of 12 year old kids that's so easily fooled?

I do have to agree here, this poll does seem a bit like a bait & switch tactic. I have seen similar things done by other MMOs in an effort to appease their customers without actually making the changes that were asked for. And in every case that I have witnessed, this tactic has epically failed, leading to even more dissent among the customers. Not only does it not resolve the situation, it foments distrust and suspicion from the playerbase towards the game company, GMs, mods ect. Usually leading to them (the company) being called liars, greedy and a few even worse things I won't repeat here.

So I would urge caution from the powers that be. Not only will you be making a change to the pricing, whatever you do, but you will also be setting a tone with the majority of your players who are aware of this situation -- Burn them here at your peril, because once trust is lost, its very difficult to regain. More to the point a bad reputation will spread across the internet, affecting the opinions of other would be players not to mention their wallets. If you doubt this take a look at SoE, many MMO players simply won't give Sony MMOs the time of day because they have such a bad reputation as a MMO company (deserved or not).

if we can't have a 'lower zen price' option. can we atleast get a 'none of the above/other' x_o

russel wrote: »

Didn't PWI made promises they didn't keep?
Really wait till PW MS goes live before you judge.....
PWI promised 4 servers and now there are 2. PW MS promises competitive prices, wait till it get released before you jump in the air out of excitement.
It is easy to promise something, keeping a promise is harder....

Based on the angry responses here and how many I have seen on the PW-MS forums who have jumped ship from PWI (here). I seriously doubt PW-MS would lie, or not follow through as they realize they are pulling players from PWI left and right and those same players would be just as angry (if not more so) if they did with the cash shop, what is being done here.

Also to hazard a guess, and its only that. We may not see any changes here until PW-MS reveals their pricing structure, because they are the place most North American players will flee too who are dissatisfied here. Once PWI sees their (PW-MS) prices they match match them, or go lower to pull players back.

PWI, you have it backwards. It's Choose your destiny. Do you want to stay in business and competition with other games? Or do you want to dry up like a leaf that's fallen from a tree?
It's your choice and your destiny, not ours. WE have plenty of options.

Useless Thread~

This thread reminds me of this song: Smashing Pumpkins - Rat in a Cage. Thanks, PW, for the endless months of nothingness that I've spent wanting you to provide a good service. First, you shafted Cubinet by not giving them updates... ever. Now, you've shafted your players. Nice job.

Time for me to put my money where my mouth is... er... time for me to put my money back in my purse.

I love the game, but I need more Zen. I'm level 43 and love to solo and I need MP heiro's, but not again. I did purchase Zen the day the game came out and I have regretted it. I have pretty butterfly wings, so that makes me happy. I even played the Malaysia version of the game, but I really didn't pay attention to the difference in zen per dollar. That was my error.

See, you people inc harge just don't get it because you think these are just words. I have been fighting with myself all day because I want more Zen, but I just won the battle. I'm not going to do it. If you want more OF my money I want more FOR my money, and a little bonus for what I already spent.

I'm just glad you only gave us a partial Cash Shop or I'd have been tmepted by clothes and shoes!

So, I am not leaving, I'm just going to hang around and play for free.. I'll just have to play less as the slowness of recouping mana makes it less fun to grind.

You have stuff I want, but not at those prices

I have money.. do you want it?

Take it.. I dare ya!

There is nothing here about the issue you guys are hearing about. So, i take it you don't care what we are saying. You are just pretending to do something here to get more useless statistics to throw at us like "20,000 of you players said this so........" USELESS

dagny wrote: »

All I can say is there must be a **** load of people still paying for Zen at these prices for them to continue to turn down our money.

From what I've seen some of the big spenders are leaving too though, they'll either change at some point or go out of business, hopefully it's the first before PW Europe steals us away.

What if my Destiny is not in this Poll:(

sealed~

beachlover I won't be supprised when you are banned. That is against the rules. Please go read them.

balthazar wrote: »

Where is the Equal or Near-to price range of MY Option


These options are too vague....

+1

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