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Mini-Snow Beast on Sale at Market

Agent White

By Agent White,
Posted on: 2011-12-13 02:26 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Hey, I've been wanting one of these little guys to follow me around for ages. They're cute! ^_^

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Originally Posted by Benchpresser View Post
ok.. the Dog was 500 points but this is only 160?????? Paragon needs to start selling whatever drugs the marketing drones are on- they would make a killing in the recreational pharmacuetical market...

Seriousdly.. this pisses me off even more about that damn dog..
So first your mad about the price of the dog and now your mad because they apparently listened and lowered the price of the next vanity pet. Obviously you're going to be mad no matter what they do, so why shouldn't they ignore everything you say?

 

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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry View Post
Now I'm torn between rolling a new character named DOG BACKLASH or starting a rock band named DOG BACKLASH.
Can't you do both?

 

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Originally Posted by Necrotron_RO View Post
Considering I cannot have another pet out in conjunction with my Wisp pet, I really cannot find myself using vanity pets.

I used to on occassion enjoy spawning a clockwork pet to follow a gadget themed character, along with my Shield Drone pet. But now that we can only spawn one pet, I can't find myself giving up the usefulness of my Wisp pet.

So alas, vanity pets remain on the shelf with no use for me. I like them, but not at the expense of not having a Blue Wisp pet out.
Which to me is where the dev shot themselves in the foot by changing it so you can only have one pet on a toggle. I would have bought all of the vanity pets, but apparently the devs don't want my money on these items....

The development team and this community deserved better than this from NC Soft. Best wishes on your search.

 

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
So first your mad about the price of the dog and now your mad because they apparently listened and lowered the price of the next vanity pet. Obviously you're going to be mad no matter what they do, so why shouldn't they ignore everything you say?
Solution: Get both pets and then the average price is pitched perfectly at 330 Points each.

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Originally Posted by Benchpresser View Post
ok.. the Dog was 500 points but this is only 160?????? Paragon needs to start selling whatever drugs the marketing drones are on- they would make a killing in the recreational pharmacuetical market...

Seriousdly.. this pisses me off even more about that damn dog..
It's called market testing. The dog was something 'new' even if it was just a vanity pet that did nothing like the others we have. They released it, people didn't like the price. Now we have another vanity pet, they lowered the price.

It's just like the thanksgiving sale. If they pick a price and it doesn't work out, they'll test another price on a similar product (See: Enhancement sets on sale). If the new items sell well it dictates a price point for future products and lowering existing products because that price moves them.

 

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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison View Post
The dog was a new model, this was not. It kind of justifies the price difference.
This. The dog skeleton was completely new. As far as the snowman? All they did was shrink an existing model and call it a day.

 

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Why *is* is that we can only have out one pet now? I missed that memo and also miss my little army of midgets.

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Originally Posted by Quantum Evil View Post
Why *is* is that we can only have out one pet now? I missed that memo and also miss my little army of midgets.
Resources. Too many pets strain the system. And if their intention is to keep adding vanity pets this frequently, then somebody who bought them all will eventually be able to fill half of Atlas Park with them.
So a cap makes sense. Whether the cap should be "1" is a matter for debate; but I imagine it was the easiest way to write the code.

 

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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project View Post
So first your mad about the price of the dog and now your mad because they apparently listened and lowered the price of the next vanity pet. Obviously you're going to be mad no matter what they do, so why shouldn't they ignore everything you say?
...i got nothin'.

Well, except i think i'll actually get this Snow Beast.

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Originally Posted by Scarlet Shocker View Post
The limit of one vanity pet - whilst I can see a certain logic to it - rather spoils the effect for me so I'll be passing on this one too
I really do hope they reconsider - 1 vanity and 1 functioning pet please!

But yeah, I'll rarely use this except for some RP downtime I suppose. If then. So I'll hold off for a while but may jump on it before the time runs out on buying it.

Edit - who am I kidding. Boughten.

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For 160 pts. I snatched that up with the quickness It's cute as all getout. Still don't have the dog though Going to wait for it to be on sale. I'd rather have that but just can't justify the 500 to myself.

I REALLY am unhappy with only one at a time. Makes it very hard to justify buying all the pets. Worse than that however, making the pets a toggle is very... annoying. Especially with the combat pets.

They drop with a mean stare and have their own taunt aura, but usually it would be recharged by the time they did crap out. Now they drop quickly and I have to wait for them to recharge. With making it a toggle, they could have at least removed the recharge time...

I really hope that's just a quick fix with a more elegant solution also allowing for more than one pet in the future.

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I couldn't agree more.

 

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Originally Posted by Doc_Reverend View Post
Hey, I've been wanting one of these little guys to follow me around for ages. They're cute! ^_^
I got two of them

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I still want to be able to use *ANY* of my Peacebringers' pets when they're in forms. >_<

(And no, I'm not going to shut up about that until it gets fixed. )

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Originally Posted by EU_Damz View Post
I paid 500 points for a dog and now theres a snowman for 160!?!? RAAGGGEEEEE!!!!!
Yeah, I bought the dog too. Why is the dog 500 pts? It doesn't even bark!!!

What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.

 

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Originally Posted by Jibikao View Post
Yeah, I bought the dog too. Why is the dog 500 pts? It doesn't even bark!!!
Why is the kind of thing not obvious?
The Snowbeast model has been in the game for years. There's nothing new about it.
The German Shepherd involved an entirely new body model. You're paying for the development costs of a brand new feature for the game.
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Originally Posted by Lothic View Post
Why is the kind of thing not obvious?
The Snowbeast model has been in the game for years. There's nothing new about it.
The German Shepherd involved an entirely new body model. You're paying for the development costs of a brand new feature for the game.
*shrugs*
500 VS 160 is quite a bit of difference you know.

And no, it is not that obvious to me because I haven't seen the mini Snowbeast yet, and to those that are new to this game, they probably haven't seen it either.

Those new players, both German Shepard and Snowbeast are just as "new" but one of the price tags is more than 300%. Yeah, try to explain that one to them. You can't just think of this game from the "veteran's" point of view.

What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.

 

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Originally Posted by Jibikao View Post
500 VS 160 is quite a bit of difference you know.
No it isn't, it's $2 dollars vs $6.25. That's a difference of $4.25. If they can't afford it, don't buy it.

It doesn't matter if someone is new to the game or not. Six bucks is a fair price for an animal skeleton that's never been in the game before. Get over it.

 

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I want one so badly but havent gotten monthly points yet. But the only prob is, i have a dog,demon,clockwork,wisp,vanguard mvas, and like one other. i wish we could have them out at once again(all of them) and that they werent toggs

 

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I don't think the dog was priced at 500 solely because of development time, more they thought players would freak for something so new and snap it up in droves. I really really doubt any competent business would model their individual market prices based on recouping development time spent.

 

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Originally Posted by Agent White View Post
I don't think the dog was priced at 500 solely because of development time, more they thought players would freak for something so new and snap it up in droves. I really really doubt any competent business would model their individual market prices based on recouping development time spent.
I'm sure there was more than one reason motivating the price of 500 for the dog. I'm also sure the players did snap the dog up in droves. The complaints about the prices sound no different than the ones made when the Boosters were first put out for sale. Despite the complaints from a vocal minority the company made a killing on the boosters.