VaranisArano wrote: »I feel like specifics would help your cause a lot, or at least help me understand your objections better.
I mean, what convenience items are you buying from the Crown Store because you don't have time to craft them yourself?
You can also earn Storage Chests in game, if you object to paying for them. I got mine from Crafting Vouchers, but you can get them with Tel Var if you prefer PVP.
I mean, I understand the appeal of lowered prices and fun cosmetics (that aren't locked into the extremely profitable Crown Crates, natch.)
But without clarification, I confess this looks to me like a case of "I don't want to play the game to get the convenience item for free, so can you please hugely discount the price for me?"
VaranisArano wrote: »I feel like specifics would help your cause a lot, or at least help me understand your objections better.
I mean, what convenience items are you buying from the Crown Store because you don't have time to craft them yourself?
You can also earn Storage Chests in game, if you object to paying for them. I got mine from Crafting Vouchers, but you can get them with Tel Var if you prefer PVP.
I mean, I understand the appeal of lowered prices and fun cosmetics (that aren't locked into the extremely profitable Crown Crates, natch.)
But without clarification, I confess this looks to me like a case of "I don't want to play the game to get the convenience item for free, so can you please hugely discount the price for me?"
Storage chests are one of the convenience items to which I'm referring. I normally have about 2 to 4 hours a week to spend gaming. I don't enjoy crafting or PvP, so I don't want to waste my time on those activities.
These are some of the items I would buy were they not ridiculously priced (assuming you buy crowns in 1,500 chunks):
- $15 -- Extra armory slot
- $20 -- 60-slot chest (x3)
- $50 -- Cool armor skin
- $50 -- A nice house
- $30 -- A cooler mount
- $50 -- A few assistants (x3)
I don't understand how anyone could look at these prices and think they're reasonable. And this is coming from someone with a 6-figure salary. The prices are absurd. The cost of a single luxury home is more than a new AAA game in its entirety.
VaranisArano wrote: »I feel like specifics would help your cause a lot, or at least help me understand your objections better.
I mean, what convenience items are you buying from the Crown Store because you don't have time to craft them yourself?
You can also earn Storage Chests in game, if you object to paying for them. I got mine from Crafting Vouchers, but you can get them with Tel Var if you prefer PVP.
I mean, I understand the appeal of lowered prices and fun cosmetics (that aren't locked into the extremely profitable Crown Crates, natch.)
But without clarification, I confess this looks to me like a case of "I don't want to play the game to get the convenience item for free, so can you please hugely discount the price for me?"
Storage chests are one of the convenience items to which I'm referring. I normally have about 2 to 4 hours a week to spend gaming. I don't enjoy crafting or PvP, so I don't want to waste my time on those activities.
These are some of the items I would buy were they not ridiculously priced (assuming you buy crowns in 1,500 chunks):
- $15 -- Extra armory slot
- $20 -- 60-slot chest (x3)
- $50 -- Cool armor skin
- $50 -- A nice house
- $30 -- A cooler mount
- $50 -- A few assistants (x3)
I don't understand how anyone could look at these prices and think they're reasonable. And this is coming from someone with a 6-figure salary. The prices are absurd. The cost of a single luxury home is more than a new AAA game in its entirety.
VaranisArano wrote: »VaranisArano wrote: »I feel like specifics would help your cause a lot, or at least help me understand your objections better.
I mean, what convenience items are you buying from the Crown Store because you don't have time to craft them yourself?
You can also earn Storage Chests in game, if you object to paying for them. I got mine from Crafting Vouchers, but you can get them with Tel Var if you prefer PVP.
I mean, I understand the appeal of lowered prices and fun cosmetics (that aren't locked into the extremely profitable Crown Crates, natch.)
But without clarification, I confess this looks to me like a case of "I don't want to play the game to get the convenience item for free, so can you please hugely discount the price for me?"
Storage chests are one of the convenience items to which I'm referring. I normally have about 2 to 4 hours a week to spend gaming. I don't enjoy crafting or PvP, so I don't want to waste my time on those activities.
These are some of the items I would buy were they not ridiculously priced (assuming you buy crowns in 1,500 chunks):
- $15 -- Extra armory slot
- $20 -- 60-slot chest (x3)
- $50 -- Cool armor skin
- $50 -- A nice house
- $30 -- A cooler mount
- $50 -- A few assistants (x3)
I don't understand how anyone could look at these prices and think they're reasonable. And this is coming from someone with a 6-figure salary. The prices are absurd. The cost of a single luxury home is more than a new AAA game in its entirety.
Edited to add: thanks for the clarification! That did help me understand better where you were coming from, I think.
Well, here's one of the things about playing an MMO. You either spend your time playing to get stuff for free, or you pay for the convenience of getting them now. MMOs are not a particularly friendly genre for people with limited time who want all the things quickly.
You could spend the time doing crafting writs.
You could spend the time doing PVP.
You could spend the time earning the gold in your favorite way to trade so someone will gift you those items.
And if you won't spend the time, that's your choice to either buy them for $$$ or do without those items. Theoretically, there's at least three entertaining options that only cost time, not money.
The prices are not aimed at selling many items to the majority of players. The items clearly sell sufficiently that Marketing has not lowered the prices to your preferred level, so you must consider why not.
After all, you aren't buying them, so you aren't the target audience. The target audience is the people who are buying.
No judgement: The target audience for those items are primarily people with the disposable income or time to make purchases in a video game. Some of them are people with the time to make gold for crown gift/gold trading. These are people who want those storage chests and would rather pay $20 than do without or spend the time playing the game. These are people who may have a stack of gold acquired through trading or a stack of crowns from years of subscribing who can afford something that catches their eye. These are people who'll see that limited time house up for sale in their favorite style and buy it, no matter how expensive. It's people who stocked up on Crowns during a 50% off sale and now are slowly spending them. There are even some people for whom the "exclusivity" of certain items due to their high price is a big draw.
It's not just selling to "whales" who will spend a large chunk of disposable income on a game, though that's certainly a part of the general strategy.
So, no offense, but if you aren't part of the target audience of people who are actually buying the items, ZOS doesn't have a ton of incentive to lower prices. These items sell satisfactorily at the current prices and during sales.
You can ask, but I highly doubt we'll see ZOS slash prices by 75%.