Question about the MTX for you fellas and ladies.

[Kashra Fall]

Are you really ok with the price point of some of this stuff? Granted, it's just cosmetic, but one of the cosmetics for JUST the armor, is 86 dollars. That's just, insane, no?

[Critical]

the game is free to play on release. How else do you think they're gonna make their money if they price it at a relatively normal rate? It's definitely expensive, but when you consider not having to pay for future seasons as well it seems pretty fair to me.

[wererabbit]

F2P with microtransactions is not a new concept.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Critical:

the game is free to play on release. How else do you think they're gonna make their money if they price it at a relatively normal rate? It's definitely expensive, but when you consider not having to pay for future seasons as well it seems pretty fair to me.

When you price something at a reasonable price, more people buy it vs few. How many you seen in that 86 armor? I've seen none. How many crab/lobsters you seen at the 45 dollar price tag? I've seen very few, etc. It's marketing 101. You make something readily available to the masses NOT the chosen few.

I just can't in all respects support the idea of paying nearly 100 dollars for an outfit I might wear once, hence the question of "Are you really ok with this?"

[radekim]

Chinese overlords need to eat. And they like to eat alot.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I just can't in all respects support the idea of paying nearly 100 dollars for an outfit I might wear once, hence the question of "Are you really ok with this?"

then don't buy it?

It's still insane how people can go full bananas on something thats purely cosmetic in a f2p game.
I can understand it more if it was a fully priced AAA price where stuff was locked behind massive paywalls.

[NaRf]

Choice is a thing, people tend to exercise it.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I just can't in all respects support the idea of paying nearly 100 dollars for an outfit I might wear once, hence the question of "Are you really ok with this?"

then don't buy it?

It's still insane how people can go full bananas on something thats purely cosmetic in a f2p game.
I can understand it more if it was a fully priced AAA price where stuff was locked behind massive paywalls.

Not entirely sure how you think this is "Full bananas." it's a question, as I stated in my OP. I wanted to know what people's thoughts were on it and I'm starting to get the picture of this community.

[Critical]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by Critical:

the game is free to play on release. How else do you think they're gonna make their money if they price it at a relatively normal rate? It's definitely expensive, but when you consider not having to pay for future seasons as well it seems pretty fair to me.

When you price something at a reasonable price, more people buy it vs few. How many you seen in that 86 armor? I've seen none. How many crab/lobsters you seen at the 45 dollar price tag? I've seen very few, etc. It's marketing 101. You make something readily available to the masses NOT the chosen few.

I just can't in all respects support the idea of paying nearly 100 dollars for an outfit I might wear once, hence the question of "Are you really ok with this?"

i'm sure they know what they're doing. POE 1 has seen great success with their pricing strategy and it'll probably be a similar case in this game.

[Willard]

Considering I don´t buy cosmetics and others who buy don´t influence my gameplay at all I really don´t care. They can cost 500 and I still won´t care.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

then don't buy it?

It's still insane how people can go full bananas on something thats purely cosmetic in a f2p game.
I can understand it more if it was a fully priced AAA price where stuff was locked behind massive paywalls.

Not entirely sure how you think this is "Full bananas." it's a question, as I stated in my OP. I wanted to know what people's thoughts were on it and I'm starting to get the picture of this community.

ofc you might not have gone full tantrum mode.
But I have seen plenty of people going crazy over it.

Btw im not "that community", I have never bought any cosmetics in any game and i wont buy it in this.
The stash tabs are fairly priced and thats the only things i have bought in this game.

I see the cosmetics more as a supporting thing, for the company. Since if you didn't know, its not cheap to have servers running, have offices and pay people for working at the company.
For a company that release free games with new content/new league every few months, they do need some kind of income.
this is how they have chosen to earn money.

would you rather have them release a 60-70 USD priced game with paid season passes every few months and lock content behind DLCs/expansions?

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Not entirely sure how you think this is "Full bananas." it's a question, as I stated in my OP. I wanted to know what people's thoughts were on it and I'm starting to get the picture of this community.

ofc you might not have gone full tantrum mode.
But I have seen plenty of people going crazy over it.

Btw im not "that community", I have never bought any cosmetics in any game and i wont buy it in this.
The stash tabs are fairly priced and thats the only things i have bought in this game.

I see the cosmetics more as a supporting thing, for the company. Since if you didn't know, its not cheap to have servers running, have offices and pay people for working at the company.
For a company that release free games with new content/new league every few months, they do need some kind of income.
this is how they have chosen to earn money.

would you rather have them release a 60-70 USD priced game with paid season passes every few months and lock content behind DLCs/expansions?

I'd rather them not charge the price of a triple A game for a skin in a game that is free, yeah. I think that's a pretty easy thing to understand. I don't care if people are buying them, kudos to them if they are. I was asking if people were ok with it, or are they simply being complacent because they don't have any other choice but to be? Meaning "PoE 1 did it, might as well have 2 do it." because Poe2 is supposedly targeting an entirely different genre of gamers (Hence the ARPG being mixed with a souls like appeal, not my words, simply what people say.) and as it progresses through early access and nears release, this will be brought up again (Not by me.)

Why? Because price is always a relevant subject and simply put, some of this stuff is outrageously tagged.

[phlegmo]

I exchanged money for early access key and currency to buy stash tabs. I look at it as a fair trade.

Couldn't care less about the cosmetics or the price of the cosmetics.

[ChuTheMan]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Originally posted by ChuTheMan:

ofc you might not have gone full tantrum mode.
But I have seen plenty of people going crazy over it.

Btw im not "that community", I have never bought any cosmetics in any game and i wont buy it in this.
The stash tabs are fairly priced and thats the only things i have bought in this game.

I see the cosmetics more as a supporting thing, for the company. Since if you didn't know, its not cheap to have servers running, have offices and pay people for working at the company.
For a company that release free games with new content/new league every few months, they do need some kind of income.
this is how they have chosen to earn money.

would you rather have them release a 60-70 USD priced game with paid season passes every few months and lock content behind DLCs/expansions?

I'd rather them not charge the price of a triple A game for a skin in a game that is free, yeah. I think that's a pretty easy thing to understand. I don't care if people are buying them, kudos to them if they are. I was asking if people were ok with it, or are they simply being complacent because they don't have any other choice but to be? Meaning "PoE 1 did it, might as well have 2 do it." because Poe2 is supposedly targeting an entirely different genre of gamers (Hence the ARPG being mixed with a souls like appeal, not my words, simply what people say.) and as it progresses through early access and nears release, this will be brought up again (Not by me.)

Why? Because price is always a relevant subject and simply put, some of this stuff is outrageously tagged.

some people like to support the hobby they have. If someone wanna give 100 USD or even 5000 USD to a company they like, let them do it.
If you dont feel like buying a skin in a game, don't buy it. its not the end of the world.

I also agree, some of the stuff seems highly priced, you know what i do? simply not buying it and im not losing any sleep over it.

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

I was asking if people were ok with it, or are they simply being complacent because they don't have any other choice but to be?

there is always a choice, like said a billion times. If you don't like the price of stuff, be it ingame or real life stuff.. don't buy it and just move on.
you're not gonna have a worse experience by not buying a cosmetic skin. + it worked fine in PoE1, why would they change?
they have fans that buys it and fans that do not buy it.

Personally, my opinion, in a game thats free, I couldn't care less about the prices for purely cosmetic things because im not ever gonna buy them. Could cost 1.000.000 USD and i still wouldn't care.

[D.A.R.K.]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Question about the MTX for you fellas and ladies.
Are you really ok with the price point of some of this stuff? Granted, it's just cosmetic, but one of the cosmetics for JUST the armor, is 86 dollars. That's just, insane, no?

No because, as you point out, it's just cosmetic. If you really care about cosmetic price you have issues, deal with them first. As you know, cosmetic doesn't matter, they are there to fill up any pathetic need of looking people have, which is an issue to deal with.

[Ｍａｔｅｚ]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

Are you really ok with the price point of some of this stuff? Granted, it's just cosmetic, but one of the cosmetics for JUST the armor, is 86 dollars. That's just, insane, no?

just buy crates instead