Bazaar (not about the prices)

[Vonasta]

I don't know how everyone else feels but what I have issue with on the Bazaar is it being set up to where everyone's Bazaar is the same every month week and day. I for one would like to just buy what I want from the store and dip out not having to wait these ridicules timers out only to have something I already owned show back up on the store the next week... Honestly I just wish at bare minimum that owned items didn't show up at all after purchasing them.

I beg of thee can we please change the Bazaar Funcom.

[Abyss]

Originally posted by steventirey:

Originally posted by kiev:

Wait ,am I the only one who can't make bazaar crafts?
I bought Thermae Robe and Pictish Rite Dancer at the bazaar, but I can't make new ones after Authentication Failed.
I can only repair it, so keep using it, but if it dies and loses it, it's over.

I thought this was a playfab error, so I thought everyone was the same.

With bazaar and battlepass stuff, you must have a current connection to Funcoms servers. If you don't, you can't use any bazaar or battlepass stuff. Its their way of making sure you must buy the item, instead of just getting it from a friend.

With the DLCs, you can use the stuff even if you don't own it, or aren't connected to Funcom. You can give the items to others. You used to be able to do that with the building pieces with one person making them and giving the pieces to others to place, but now that everything was moved to the hammer you can't do that anymore.

I am playing in an official server, not offline.
It seems to be a problem only to me.... seems better to report. Thanks

[Pyromaiden]

Originally posted by Vonasta:

Originally posted by steventirey:

And people have been saying it needs to change, all the way back to the very beginning of games putting stores and microtransactions in. It will never change. There will always be more than enough people who just don't care, and no change will ever happen. Its all here to stay.

I get where you are coming from but this is Conan and we have a very niche audience versus most other games. Also If I were a betting man and I was to base my judgement on the communities I'm apart of for Conan Exiles. Then Id say that a great majority of people who play the game don't even buy Bazaar items, and that most just get the battle pass if that.

So the way I see it is If we just say alright who cares no point nothing will ever change. Then nothing will ever get changed. But anyways I hope you have a good one today my bruda.

The mistake you're making here is using your own experiences and assuming the norm from that. Yet if the Bazaar and Battlepass were really so unpopular as to be ignored by most of the player base then it would be making no money at all, meaning Funcom would get rid of it. It's very existence is a testament to the fact that it is drawing in enough money to keep Funcom investing in it.

The idea that if we all just take a stand or whatever against predatory business practices that this will force businesses to correct themselves is very naive. "Vote with your wallet", "the invisible hand", etc. that's all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The market does not bow to the whims of consumers unless that particular market is small. Consumers ruined Atari in the 80s because the gaming industry was smaller back then. It was niche, primarily aimed at children. That kind of stuff doesn't happen today. It's the companies who *don't* engage in predatory practices that end up going under and being bought out by the companies that *do* engage in them. Funcom, like all game devs, is trying to survive in a dog-eat-dog industry; which means either customers get the shaft or the company does.

This is the reality of modern gaming - and really the entire entertainment industry from movies to comic books and so on. Even if you get enough people on board to boycott the Bazaar/Battlepass until Funcom starts losing money they're not going to do a 180 and go back to DLC. They're going to write off CE as no longer profitable, shut down the servers and move on to their next venture. They have investors to please and they take priority. Everything else is always secondary. This is the basic operation of all corporations - Funcom included.

Welcome to Capitalism.

[Abyss]

Bazaar stuff can not be crafting bug fixed when changing language to English to get screenshots to report. The language when I couldn't create it was Japanese, but after fixed, I was able to create even if I changed from English to Japanese. It seemed to be able to fix by changing the language.

It is troublesome to exchange the email of the report, so I will share it here. Share an incident.

[thurgond]

Originally posted by Nightruler:

Then please tell me why this form for rotation is used in so many games?

Several reasons come to mind:
Consolidation in the game industry
Companies all use the same monetization consultant
A harried programmer is told she has two weeks to create a store and copies the first one she finds
Developers are sheep who want to copy who want to be like the cool companies

Fear of missing out isn't the big motivator game companies think it is. Otherwise, more adds would feature "limited time offers" and more commercials would include the phrase "if you call in the next ten minutes."

If making it easy to buy what you want when you want it want wasn't a good strategy, Wal-Mart would be open 10-2 on alternative Tuesdays and Amazon would have a Buy in Ten Clicks button.

[Phnx]

You do not own anything you buy from the Bazaar anyway. As soon as you lose connection to Funcom Live Services you get disowned and all your items, emotes etc. are gone.