Who got the 350 shop points?

[21's bitch]

I saw some people playing the new update and they had 350 shop points given to them.

i thought this was just some generosity to early access buyers, however i just logged in for the first time since the update and i have 0 points.

Any clarification pls?

Edit: i bought the game 1 month before the 0.9.1 update.

[oldschooldiablo]

By buying the game in EA u get 350 EP.

Not sure if it's bugged but I did get my 350EP. I could be wrong but I think sence the shop is live now. Buying the game doesn't give 350 ep anymore.

Like I said could be wrong about that.

[21's bitch]

Originally posted by bnawrocki01988:

By buying the game in EA u get 350 EP.

Not sure if it's bugged but I did get my 350EP. I could be wrong but I think sence the shop is live now. Buying the game doesn't give 350 ep anymore.

Like I said could be wrong about that.

I should've clarified i bought the game way before the update, roughly 1 month ago.

[RhodosGuard]

I got the points, just to reinforce that it was a thing at some point

[Demonsouls1993]

Originally posted by 21's ♥♥♥♥♥:

Originally posted by bnawrocki01988:

By buying the game in EA u get 350 EP.

Not sure if it's bugged but I did get my 350EP. I could be wrong but I think sence the shop is live now. Buying the game doesn't give 350 ep anymore.

Like I said could be wrong about that.

I should've clarified i bought the game way before the update, roughly 1 month ago.

I think that rule only applied to before update 0.9.0 your best bet is to make a support ticket on their site

[🐺Blue Wolf]

I just saw the article from a few months ago, but now cannot find it for whatever reason, but more or less what Demonsouls1993 said. I'm pretty sure you had to buy the game before a certain date (iirc it was in March) to get the points.

[ninakoru]

I got the points, not sure the conditions, bought the game one year ago.

[21's bitch]

Ah that's really dumb...

Ty for the info tho.

[tiamats4esgares]

I got the game about 3+ years ago, but yeah I got it.

The cutoff might have been before 0.9.0, which was over a month ago.

[RodHull]

If memory serves it was done when the game was originally planned to have a price drop at launch, it was a whole different access / finance plan at that point. So when it changed over they said people who backed it early (date escapes me) would get some free cosmetic points.

I may be mixing some of that up in my head though

[Metadigital]

It's basically $35 worth of points. The price of the game, and about $15 less than one of the packs that contains 3 cosmetic items. Looks like the prices are going to vary wildly and with no apparent connection to quality or quantity.

Looking at what's available now, I can't imagine any of the stuff coming close to worth the asking price. The cheapest items are 50 points or roughly $5.

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by Metadigital:

Looks like the prices are going to vary wildly and with no apparent connection to quality or quantity.

According to mike the lead developer over on the discord:

"The ones we put more oomph and pizzaz into end up being priced higher. So for example, the top pack has a back slot which has these nice animations that go with it and is much more over the top than the Traveler pack which looks super cool but doesn’t have an animation that goes with it and is relatively less flashy."

Really strange because according to Judd the CEO:

"As with all things, art and design are subjective in nature, so what’s fantastic and exciting to one person may not be to the next. There can be some levels of understanding of “This item is more grandiose than this item,” but at its core, humans are so varied and unique in their perceptions that we’re never perfectly aligned in what we think is “cool” or “worth it”."

Seems like EHG used an objective measure to determine "subjective" value.

[DARKSYDE]

no points

[RhodosGuard]

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

Originally posted by Metadigital:

Looks like the prices are going to vary wildly and with no apparent connection to quality or quantity.

According to mike the lead developer over on the discord:

"The ones we put more oomph and pizzaz into end up being priced higher. So for example, the top pack has a back slot which has these nice animations that go with it and is much more over the top than the Traveler pack which looks super cool but doesn’t have an animation that goes with it and is relatively less flashy."

Really strange because according to Judd the CEO:

"As with all things, art and design are subjective in nature, so what’s fantastic and exciting to one person may not be to the next. There can be some levels of understanding of “This item is more grandiose than this item,” but at its core, humans are so varied and unique in their perceptions that we’re never perfectly aligned in what we think is “cool” or “worth it”."

Seems like EHG used an objective measure to determine "subjective" value.

At the end of the day, there are 2 options:
Prices are arbitrary
Things are priced based on how much time was spent creating them

As always the problem with online cosmetics is, that once created, they can be sold infinitely, so effectively, they could sell it for 1$ if they assume their entire playerbase buys it at this price

[Ravenkid9266]

Originally posted by RhodosGuard:

Originally posted by Ravenkid9266:

Seems like EHG used an objective measure to determine "subjective" value.

At the end of the day, there are 2 options:
Prices are arbitrary
Things are priced based on how much time was spent creating them

According to EHG it is both arbitrary and based on the time spend creating them, because words only have as much meaning as we give them.

[Metadigital]

There is no way 3 assets require a $50 investment in a $35 game that contains thousands of assets.