The thing is, it's not just $10 or $15, it is the simple fact that I have been playing for 63 months. Now I have gone and paid for the GR expansion (as I havee bought all the booster packs and such). but here you can have someone brand new to the game, never played it at all, get all THREE games for ten dollars more that what I paid for the expansion. They get the item pack and a free month of time. Where I have BOUGHT coh and paid the monthly fee......then I BOUGHT cov when it came out. Stop and figure this for a minute. I spent $30+ for coh when I got it, I spent $30+ for cov and now I just bought GR for another $30. Now count in all those monthly payments for not only me but for my wife as well (and buying the games as well) THEN your going to tell me that someone can spend $40 and get ALL THREE games and an item and a month of play!!!! AND I will have to spend more money to get the item pack and NOT get any more play time to boot! For the VERY first time I feel like I am being ripped off by ncsoft! Depending how they handle this will also depend on IF I keep playing the game or not. Once I have the feeling of unfairness and a company, I never deal with them again. This is the ONLY online game I play and as much as I would hate to leave it, that is just my nature.
Doing some figureing:
COH $45 (when it first came out and I bought, might have been $40 but am pretty sure it was $45)
COV $40 ( I waited a bit for a sale)
Wedding pack $10
science pack $10
Martial arts pack $10
Cyborg pack $10
Monthly fee for 61 months $915 ( I took into consideration the 2 months free for buying coh and cov)
GR $30
That comes to $1060:00 over 5+ years time!
So now you tell me why some noob to the game can spend just $40 and get an item pack and a free month for just $10 more than I spent on the expansion and get access to everything (except vet stuff) that I can and then some? Just not right......not right at all!
It isn't even the fact that they get all 3 games, but the month of free time AND the item pack! Compared to my loyality and time and money in the game and I get no free time and have to pay extra for the item pack?!?!?!? something tells me ncsoft is getting greedy and starting to find ways to put the thumb screws to us old timeres who have been their bread and butter for years.
I would suggest that they watch what they are doing here very closely. Times are hard and while (IMHO) they are the best game in town....they aren't the only one. Last thing they need is for their loyal fan base to start feeling cheated........like I am with the way this is looking at the moment.
I would suggest that those that prepurchased GR get the item pack for free (since they already pard for it basically) and let the complete buyers get the free month and all 3 games for their extra $10 paid.
While I wouldn't turn down a free month it isn't that imprtant. But to make me pay more for something that is (as I and others see it) part of something I have already paid for sems like a rip off to me. If timing is part of the problem, fine don't make them available till GR goes live, but don't punish your customers over your greed.
