Nethergoat

I'm not.

Ten bucks is just chump change.
As noted, it's one movie ticket, or a paperback, or a couple of comic books, or a meal at a fast food joint.

I can afford the infrastructure necessary to run the game, I can afford the subscription, and I can afford to periodically drop a few dollars on fun perks for my characters. Not because I'm Bill Gates, because ten bucks is cheap.

Anyone who defines "wealth and leisure" as having a spare ten bucks to drop on a video game has bigger issues than the price point of this booster.

Good luck out there!

That isn't what I said.

Here, I'll elaborate:

There has never been a time in the history of the game where we got all these awesome free costume parts, in contrast to the dark current regime where we get nothing free and have to pay for everything.


We've pretty much always gotten a mix of free and premium costume bits.

The pretense that we've ever played in some sort of Free Costume Utopia and that paying for stuff is some grotesque modern invention is patently untrue.

oh you mean never?

This imaginary golden age of a rainbow in every pot and free ponies for everyone sure would've been awesome.....if it ever existed.

oh snap!~

except the people who aren't able to unlock them, or who don't consider tedious grinding a fair 'price' to pay for said pieces.

I'd rather drop a few bucks on something I want than waste my valuable game time grinding for it.

yeah, giving players the option to buy cool stuff if they want- HOW DARE THEY!

Welcome to Capitalism, comrade!

You mean how they made plenty of money off a simple booster?

yeah, why on earth would they want to do THAT again.

Yah, those eight whole quarters are really a dealbreaker- I feel ya.

They're aiming these at players who don't mind spending the equivalent of a movie ticket, six pack or frozen pizza to spruce up their characters, not people who think ten bucks constitutes a "pile of money".


Opt in, opt out, your choice.
But please don't pretend the price tag represents some kind of undue financial burden.

Have fun with that!




This pack rocks, can't wait to buy it.

you may well have- I forget most of my marketeering discoveries almost before I make them! =P

Fulmens isn't just a member of the Eeeebil Genius Cartel, he's the PRESIDENT!

Wow, you definitely showed us!

/snark


But on the real, dawg...you're talking about a group of players who think building a prestige bonfire out of tens of billions of inf is just silly fun.

So, uh, keep on vending?

I've got (basically) all the boosters and (basically) all the vet powers, and I agree.


I have *all* my vet powers on my tray, and use most of them all the time.
They are especially excellent at the lower levels. Run on a team of lowbies most of who have the vet powers and one without, the difference is striking. The attacks also make soloing 'support classes' much, much less tedious in the early going.

Booster powers, I have Ninja Run on most of my lowbies, I have the Mutation one for everybody, and that's about it.

Obitus for the win!

so what you really want is a special zone for costume contests?


0.o

variation on Option 2: find someone else's niche and 'cut in line' so to speak.

10,000,000
3,001,100
3,001,100
10,000,000
3,001,100


someones buying stacks at 3,001,110.
You can't know what they're doing with them, but it is safe to assume theres PROFIT involved.

Place a stack of bids at 3,001,101 (I like to go one over so they know someone's messing with them) and figure out what to do with them later. =P

(in the hypothetical case above, I'd probably just re-list them at 5m or so for quick, mindless profit)

that's interesting, I didn't realize anyone had actually done it.

Nobody does it because the whining would be too epic- witness the geyser of nerdrage we've had over their temerity in charging for optional booster packs.

But that's not relevant to my point, which is we're paying less in real terms to play now than we were in 2004.
That's added value.

Given the impracticality of increasing sub fees (if they thought it would work someone would've tried it by now) they have to find profit somewhere else. All MMOs do this in various ways, either through microtransactions or regular expansions or whatever.

I guess I understand why people gripe about this (who doesn't want something for nothing?), but it isn't reasonable or realistic.

only in your imagination.

what previous super booster powers have you observed that make such a concern legitimate?

/em throwconfetti?
Shadowy Presence?


There's exactly one power in any of the boosters that qualifies as "good" on an objective scale, and it's just a QOL improvement for low level travel.

it isn't a valid worry.

I'm worried they might hike the sub fee to 30 bucks a month!

I mean, given the track record of the game there's no reason to think they will and every reason to think they won't, but IT IS A CONCERN.


They're both concerns, but neither one is valid based on observable history.