~Petition to Keep Charms at Sale Price

BUMP i have not forgot about this outrages price in charms.


and release to gold charms already! my silver charm is ticking at lvl 64 as a tank

I'm signing this
~ Kelovar

BUMP for a worthy cause?

What most of you are failing to realize is you are playing right into their hands right now. Notice how over the past 2-3 weeks everyone kinda let the posts about lower overall costs which was in the thousands of views and hundreds and hundreds of replies to now only concentrating on asking to please just let us have our charms back to lower. This is exactly what they wanted. So now when they come back and say hey we will give in to our customers and lower charms SOME but we need to keep everything else extremely high to cover our LOSS in that department. Sad to say this thread proves the PW player base has been played.

As a Barbarian reaching 50 levels or so my guard charms are now ticking so fast that if I play like I did yesterday for a nice relaxing 5 hour session I went through 2 1/2 charms. At current prices that comes out to over 6 bucks a day just for one item. Not even taking into account spirit charms, mounts, materials, or any other perk I might want. And dont forget this is at less than HALF the level cap. They are truely either insane or completely out ot touch if they think I will pay over 180 bucks a month just for charms to play this game and probably more as I level. As proven by the number of players every week migrating away from my friends list and slowly from the guild people just are not gonna be able to afford this game in this very unstable and depressive economy we now have to live with and this game, as much as I do enjoy playing daily, will become not worth the prohibitive cost when I can get the same number of hours of playability from a pay to play game with ALL features available for 15 bucks a month or roughly 1/10 the cost.


Its a sad day as my pointer hovers over DELETE Perfect World International (((((

DEV/ Management team silence is a void in which everyone can fill in their own opinions, generally negative.

Consider that a bump, and a notice someone official needs to say something. And soon.

BUMP~Signed~

Gonna start burning my hp charms pretty quickly soon. -.-"

Blessing - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Quit now while you still can. At the 70s, you are looking at about $10.00 a DAY.

A day? Like $200 p/month, $2400 per year? That would be madness, for that money you can buy a very solid gaming rig every year and more games then you'll have time to play.

I did not buy a single charm from another player when the price was the current one. When the sale was on, I bought a couple. Now that the price is back up I will not buy more.

c'mon guys..
10 million coin for 7 bux vs 1 million for 18 bux ....

Blessing - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I just spent $50 on silver charms today and will be spending another $50 tomorrow.

Hope this shows the mods/devs that I support the price of charms right now at $1.50.

Not everyone has that kind of money to spend daily on a video game though. Be grateful you do. The silver charms should be like 50 cents at the very most. The prices in the cash shop are way too high for everything... Honestly, if they keep it up at this rate and don't lower the prices, especially for things that are so necessary, people will end up going elsewhere. Especially considering the state of the US economy.

I used to never want to play the p2p games because I don't usually play enough to justify the cost. Now I LOVE how you can choose how and when to spend your money in this game, but the problem is when you do that, you spend WAY too much, because the prices in the cash shop are way too INFLATED. I will not spend any more than $20 a month on this game from now on.. whether I get to level 70 or not... I guess I'll have to become a good apothecary or something then? I dunno. I just know there is no way I can afford $50 a day on charms!!!!!!!! LOL!

Even $1.50 is too much if they burn out that quickly.. sorry. If they last me several levels, I might be ok with it. But from what I'm hearing, it doesn't sound good.

<<<<bump>>>>

k, I may have skipped a few pages, but WHY do the prices need to be lowered?

Wouldn't increasing the duration/charges of these charms be the same idea? That way players stay happy and PWI doesn't lose a whole lot of money?

Increasing an ingame attribute would have minimal to zero effect on the makers, after all, its a virtual integer? It can probably be dealt with in some amazing item editor and could be done in seconds.

Profit is already being made from every item being virtual, since we arent subscribed and this is f2p, people are paying far more in virtual objects then they would rake in as subscriptions...

5-10 people pay nothing for their first week or two, 5-10 others spend 50$~ daily, the players who support this game and buy zen likely outweigh the players who play strictly for free by far.

There are 3 servers, with a player capacity which I have no idea, likely 1000's, a dedicated server with a capacity of around 500 as a basic server is maybe 400$ monthly, but with a capacity on this scale, prices increase exponentially along with the power of the processor needed would be quite heavy, so they are paying far more then 400$ a month for server maintenance.

The processor needed to process 10,000's of actions that could potentially happen at the same time is... Well... Alot!

Ultimately they make ALOT of profit, but the cost to get this project going and on its feet wasen't cheap, nor is keeping it maintained.

Skins, 3D objects, animations, network skills, UI art, general art, external tools needed to handle server files, all of this was likely made from scratch to avoid copywrite infringement and minimizing opensource material. (NONE of this **** is cheap)

Since this game started out free... They would have needed alot of capital, or got money on loan. So we don't know if they are even making profit or not yet.

I've spent a little time browsing these forums, a lot of the complaints directed at pricing seem ill-conceived -- Yes items like mounts are expensive, but they are only bought once: compared to a pay-to-play game over a long period of time, this becomes not a major issue.

Charms however, seem very different, creating a cash drain, specific to certain classes and certain situations. Zhen parties are a completely different case, and I won't expel much breath defending them; but barbarians and clerics are definately being short-changed.

Immediately this seems unfair, but giving it some thought, I realize there is a very simple rationale; charms are not intended to be a necessity, they are intended to give an advantage, a luxury to players who buy them. This says to me, that if a compulsion is being placed on tanks and healers to buy them, that the flaw exists within the classes themselves. If a barbarian can not effectively tank without the use of charms (I will define this as tanking content at his own level, in mid range gear, and with low to moderate potion usage, we will take for granted that he has a strong build); then that stems from flaws in the class design. The same goes for clerics with healing. As the problem for tank/healers is linked, this to me says that is would be easily resolved by greatly boosting tank damage mitigation and possibly retuning healing spells as well.

Well-built characters, combatting content at their own level, should not require charms: this in my opinion is where the fix is required.

The pricing of charms may not need to be changed, the compulsion for specific classes to use them does.

(@zhen parties: you are enjoying a luxury that other classes can not afford, it seems reasonable to me that if you choose to level at a super-natural rate you may need to pay for this luxury.)

>.> I went to other PW company forums to look for some info on my character then.... I just saw a screenie of a guy w/ a fking 500 gold charms on his inv.. lol.. wtf was that private server? he can't be that rich to buy a hundred Gold charms on public servers right?.. or can he? lmao.. check this out~ http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q356/motorola0069/2008-07-1313-05-02.jpg