i agree, microtransactions are too expensive.

[g ō s t n ō t e]

was looking at the cosmetics and i saw the average price for ONE weapon cosmetic was $20. not in the actual amount, but the only way you can get the correct amount of currency is by buying $20 worth of it. wont be buying anything until these ridiculous prices go down, and im not alone.

[Abstract]

The game is free, its always been free, and it'll remain online as long as those things still sell to 1 in every 20 players. The money goes directly to supporting the staff and server costs. The prices are a bit out there, but realistically, they are optional.

Most games in the same era this was released, were charging outrageous prices for in-game game breaking items. PoE took the route of in game reskins, storage tabs, and character slots. I personally only bought tabs, because I enjoy the game, and they are the most useful item in the bunch. Tabs are worth it by the way.

[NordicNorseGuy]

buy a suprize box for 30 coins and hope your lucky

[Multi. Track. Drifter.]

if you are totally the cheapest bludger out there i could see why you would think micro transactions are expensive, would you rather that they charged to play the game? subscribe lke wow? or just a once of 100 buck like d3? seriously moaning about the price of un necessary cosmetics or a stash tab is both cheap and lame.

[Vaagur]

There are cheaper ones, look at the Classic effects.

Also you can gamble with boxes or wait for sales.

[Lagwin1980]

here is an idea...lets go pay to win

2 character slots before you need to pay $5 for another one

half the inventory size, with an optional payment to unlock the other half...but thats on a per character basis.

1 or 2 stash tabs, need more? flash the cash...character bound

Want a cosmetic? character bound...will be a bit cheaper

There is so much ♥♥♥♥ that they don't do that other games will and you moan becuase to make money they need to price a bit higher for something YOU DO NOT NEED

ignoring the fact that THEY GIVE SOME AWAY during the temp leagues

[[IHRB] (P)(R)oland]

free to play? buhahahahaha, yeah, for 30 hours maybe untill ur strash gets flooded with currency/essences/maps/sacrifice fragmetn/offerrings/gems etc etc, and its not even 1 piece of gear there. Lets add selling tabs, lets add recipes for chaos/regal tabs/, tabs for chances, lets add different characters and their gear, lets add different builds even for 1 character, hundreds of unique items, dozens of yellow items with decent rols that can be upgraded and are too good to throw them away.... and I didn't even mention HC mode, which requires players to make constant backup on their gear in case of perma death.

Check out streamers for POE, they have HUNDREDS of stashes to be able to efficiently maintain game content.

And all of this further increases with every single league basically, which adds new content to the game.

Like this league? 50 legendaries alone, new gems, breach fragments if there are any (dont play this league so am not sure about it). The problem is, seeing content being added every league, which requires more and more space in out inventory, I dont see stash tabs being added for free to balance it, or am I missing something?

So, if soemone overwhelmed with items after several hours of play, decides to buy let's say 20 stash tabs to have space for all the items they need at this moment, they face another problem - how the f*** navigate through 25 tabs of loot that don't even have options to name them properly???? ofc GGG have a solution to this, u can upgrade ur standard stash tabs to premium ones, which can be named by the user - but guess how you can upgrade them....I only say that 6 premium stashes bundle cost 200 coins (if you would like to buy them separately, it's 240 coins for six stashes), and this 200 coins is exactly 20 USD....20 USD for 6 inventory stashes. There are whole really amazing games being released cheaper than 20 USD....

So yeah, basically its free to play as a demo for first hours, ofc some masochists play it further without paying for anything, treat characters as mules etc, but lets be honest, if anyone wants normal, smooth, and comfortable gaming experience for longer period, this game is not free to play at all.

Important thing to add, in diablo 3 mentioned, which costs like 100 usd, u get basically all the content in the game. In POE, if u want any kind of skin change possibiliteis on your gear, u must buy it - AND IT COSTS A LOT, trust me.

I play POE for like half a year, and already spent around 100 EUR (and this is only spent during sales, which happens only periodicly), maybe a bit more. So, someone may ask, wtf did you pay 100 EUR for, on a free to play game, you #@#@$#$ idiot ?!?!??!?!?!
Let's see:
-Stash tabs for my inventory, 27 total I believe (with the free ones), about 20-22 are premium so that I don't get lost in this maze
- and I bought one supporter pack for one league, which gave me one portal effect cosmetic change, one foot print effect and 1 cosmetic change for all pieces of my gear (without jewellry ofc, they are not customisable as far as I know). I will repeat, ONE cosmetic effect on my gear for about 40 EUR.... and as far as I know, this effect can only be used on ONE character only at the same time, so you can't get like 20 charactrs using this effect.

How ppl can even compare such situation to diablo 3, in which if you pay 100 USD for the game, you get everything, hundreds of transmogs, all characters that you have can have all possible looks, etc etc.

If someone would want to have all the content in POE, only in terms of visual skins for their gear, which in diablo you get for the game price at 100-150 USD or something, in POE they would have to spend probably around 10000 USD or even more! I just dont have time to add up all the items from poe shop, but I'm sure we speak about 5 digits number here.

POE is better game, thats for sure, but stop this idiotic arguments that this game is free to play and diablo is more expensive - its total bull***.

[[IHRB] (P)(R)oland]

EDIT: just loaded POE, and what I see? :)

Quote:
"As Path of Exile grows, so too does the desire for new ways to store and organise your items. To help reduce the clutter, we've created three new types of Stash Tabs! Divination Stash Tabs, Essence Stash Tabs and Quad Stash Tabs are now available in the microtransaction store! We've also created a discounted bundle that includes all three new stash tabs!"

TY GGG, u guys are too kind!

[Radioaktivist]

their prices are and always were ridiculous...

[OZ]

omfg, i cant understand most of u guys, we (as gaming comunity) are always wanting a fair game, if the dev says it free, we hope its really free, no pay2win no nothing... and yet.. we are complaining that the cosmetics are too expensive? so what ? dont f**in buy them if its expensive, but keep in mind this is what keeps the game totally free. But hey, if u want PAY2WIN "free to play" games, there are plenty out there

[OZ]

and, u dont even have to buy stash tabs... POE encourages u to multibox, u can have mules. and hey... imagine 2 or 3 accounts full of exalts ? sounds cool...

[Radioaktivist]

Originally posted by oyZ'G:

omfg, i cant understand most of u guys, we (as gaming comunity) are always wanting a fair game, if the dev says it free, we hope its really free, no pay2win no nothing... and yet.. we are complaining that the cosmetics are too expensive? so what ? dont f**in buy them if its expensive, but keep in mind this is what keeps the game totally free. But hey, if u want PAY2WIN "free to play" games, there are plenty out there

so funny how easily ppl are offended by posting your opinion. go buy those supporter packs for 400 bucks then. i dont care at all. i expressed my opinion in this thread what i am free to do.

[[IHRB] (P)(R)oland]

ok, so i challenge u to play only on free to play version of the game, hf

[OZ]

been doing it... started on late essence... now on breach... its ok so far... if i neeed inventory space i'll make other char.. or acc.. no prob.... what do u mean then?

[OZ]

Originally posted by ZzZleepy@Music:

Originally posted by oyZ'G:

omfg, i cant understand most of u guys, we (as gaming comunity) are always wanting a fair game, if the dev says it free, we hope its really free, no pay2win no nothing... and yet.. we are complaining that the cosmetics are too expensive? so what ? dont f**in buy them if its expensive, but keep in mind this is what keeps the game totally free. But hey, if u want PAY2WIN "free to play" games, there are plenty out there

so funny how easily ppl are offended by posting your opinion. go buy those supporter packs for 400 bucks then. i dont care at all. i expressed my opinion in this thread what i am free to do.

its still MY opinion too... no?

[FearJudge]

The MTX prices are expensive, but seeing as they are optional I never really get the hate around them. Yes, Stash tabs are important if you plan on playing a lot or plan on storing lots of stuff in standard but other than that you can get by with just 4 tabs still, it's getting harder each expansion for sure, but for now, it's doable. And the cosmetic MTX, while bloody expensive, are just cosmetics which for most players are just a symbol that they support the game.

There's also daily deals on PoE and on most weekends the sale items are stash tabs, so you can get them a bit cheaper. It's not ideal, but it has never really come off as super greedy to me. If they were to do something about the situation to be more generous, they could add 1 extra tab for all players due to the surplus of new mechanics but I still don't see that as mandatory.

I've been playing for a decent while now and have not payed anything, on the other hand I know a couple persons who have spent so much time on it, they felt obligated to support the devs so they now have some stash tabs and cosmetic items... seems fair to me.