Pandorii wrote: »

@RomansXXI I'm expecting it for an exclusive in the RNG boxes. = (

Do not waste time and start play Allods. There's a lot of £@#$&£¥₩ boxes.

I'm gonna be pretty sad if the Kagouti costs 4k

I am excited for next months crown store. Wished they would release the outfits and hair even sooner plus the flying snake can't forget about that.

MissBizz wrote: »

@MornaBaine LOOK! THE DRESSES!

OMG and a pocket mammoth! YES!

{edit} OMG THE DRUNK PERSONALITY

Yes! AT LAST! And the eye lashes! And ONE of the few hairstyles I liked! And I know some folks who are gonna be excited about the epic beard! LOL Glad to see none of this went into the RNGesus boxes.

Another round, innkeeper—it'sh party time! Thish personality ish gonna make you wobble an' weave like you're intoxit … inebriash … drunk ash a skunk. It even worksh on High Elves!

Good to know High Elves aren't left out then .

I do quite like the Cyrod Patrician Formal Gown, that Infernal Sep Adder looks pretty neat too!

NIce costumes !

Rosveen wrote: »

Only I'm ever so slightly worried about the kagouti's price if even the first basic one is a limited time offer.

Also, don't forget, every post on the forums where someone drools and swoons over one of the new crown store offerings makes the cost of that item go up by another 500 crowns.

A smart business doesn't charge what an item is worth, they charge what they think people will pay. The more people express those "OMG it's awesome and I HAVE to have it" feelings, the higher they will make the price.

Remember the Dro-m'Athra mount?

Daraugh wrote: »

Divinius wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Only I'm ever so slightly worried about the kagouti's price if even the first basic one is a limited time offer.

Also, don't forget, every post on the forums where someone drools and swoons over one of the new crown store offerings makes the cost of that item go up by another 500 crowns.

A smart business doesn't charge what an item is worth, they charge what they think people will pay. The more people express those "OMG it's awesome and I HAVE to have it" feelings, the higher they will make the price.

Remember the Dro-m'Athra mount?

The prices have certainly gone up since the store was introduced! I wanted that dro-m'Athra senche so much but the price tag was just too much to justify blue smoke.

To be fair, it also had a new animation, the summoning animation, which is what I think that actually got the price up.

And items of the same kind are still the same price:

Simple recolored limited time mounts - 2500
Low cultural outfit - 500
Mid cultural outfit - 700
High cultural outfit - 1000
Special standalone outfit - 1000
Bundle of three themed outfits - 700

Rosveen wrote: »

Abeille wrote: »

Daraugh wrote: »

Divinius wrote: »

Rosveen wrote: »

Only I'm ever so slightly worried about the kagouti's price if even the first basic one is a limited time offer.

Also, don't forget, every post on the forums where someone drools and swoons over one of the new crown store offerings makes the cost of that item go up by another 500 crowns.

A smart business doesn't charge what an item is worth, they charge what they think people will pay. The more people express those "OMG it's awesome and I HAVE to have it" feelings, the higher they will make the price.

Remember the Dro-m'Athra mount?

The prices have certainly gone up since the store was introduced! I wanted that dro-m'Athra senche so much but the price tag was just too much to justify blue smoke.

To be fair, it also had a new animation, the summoning animation, which is what I think that actually got the price up.

And items of the same kind are still the same price:

Simple recolored limited time mounts - 2500
Low cultural outfit - 500
Mid cultural outfit - 700
High cultural outfit - 1000
Special standalone outfit - 1000
Bundle of three themed outfits - 700

For the most part, but there is some wiggle room:

As mentioned, Dro-m'Athra was 4000 crowns. Frostmare was 3000, Mind-Shriven fell out the default price range both times it was offered (though it wasn't a typical limited time offer either time, so it isn't the best example).
Dark Shaman was 1200, not 1000. The hero armors were 2000.
Ordinator pack was 1000, not 700.

On one hand, many of these oddly priced items were released in 2015, so can't be a proof of prices going up - but on the other, we didn't even have a "special standalone outfit" category at the beginning. I don't mind though, I think the default prices are fine, especially if you buy discounted crowns. I love the cultural outfits, they're all unique while the tripacks are usually the same design recolored or with minor alterations.

The Frost Mare only had special effects, but not a different summoning animation like the Dro-m'athra senche. I don't think they can be considered the same kind of item. And as you said, the Mind-Shriven wasn't on a 4-days time limit, it is also not directly comparable to other mounts.

Hero Armors were out of the norm for being the marketing armors, and they were also available for limited time. Dark Shaman was the first and so far the only special standalone outfit other than the Hero Armors to be on a 4-days time limit so it set the price (I expect any limited time costume that isn't related to the marketing of the game to cost the same). And Ordinator Pack was one of the first costume packs to be released, too, so if anything you can say that the price for costume packs had a spike and then dropped back to normal.

Overall, I don't think we can say that the prices are being raised. Things that are of the same kind cost the same, generally. But yeah, there is some wiggly room when the item is being offered on similar but not quite identical circumstances. Saying that the prices have gone up since the store was introduced... I can't really agree with that, looking at the history of the Crown Store.

Before anyone complains that the Malacath shields are undyeable, they are but the Dye Station UI doesn't have the 3 slots active for the shield.

Using dye all on at least 1 dyeable item allows you to set:

Left - Outer and main color of shield
Middle - Inner and secondary color of shield
Right - No visible effect, dye all channel may not be bonded to shield channel.

They should really have fixed this before releasing the motif to the masses...

(N.B. I gained my Malacath motif parts ingame.)

I was excited about the Kagouti, until i saw that it is "LIMITED TIME ONLY".

Which generally means expensive, as well... :-(