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600 GEMS for ICE CAT MOUNT??
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tactx✭✭✭✭✭N0TPLAYER2 wrote: »
@N0TPLAYER2 Not really. That is only true if the only reason I spent that money was to convert to gems. In actuality I had the gems already from previous crate seasons. And I've gifted much more than $270 to kind people and complete strangers I've met in the game as a surprise because it's refreshing to encounter selfless and enjoyable people.
For example:- Someone gave something in a Trial pug that most charge exorbitant amounts of money for, but she was purely being super nice and was clearly a good person. So the next day I gifted a 2500 crown troll weapon pack.
- I ran into a guy that had a very well done outfit. We had a good chat, he was on a break from college, liked what I had done said he was going to do it, etc. I gifted him the skin to get him started since I remember being broke in college.
- I've gifted many others extra outfit slots because they can't afford it and keep changing their current outfit. One even regretted changing their outfit, but liked to try different things out.
- I've gifted several 15 crate packs.
- Someone helped me when I first started the game that didn't have to, explained crafting and just lots of things I didn't know about. I send them an Ilambris weapon pack as a thank you.
- I gifted a 4 crate pack to a tank that insisted on staying in group, going through awful healers until we got a good one.
- etc.
I gift my wife a lot too. She enjoys it. I just like deserving people to enjoy a surprise and have a better day.
Some people think it's crazy, some people don't. If I have the ability to surprise someone and make their day better, whether in game or in real life, I try to do it. It's important to enjoy every day and try to help others enjoy their time as well.
I leave you with one of my favorite quotes:"Unfortunately, the lucky never realize they are lucky until it's too late. Consider yourself for instance; yesterday you were better off than you were today, but it took today for you to realize it. But, today has arrived, and it's too late, you see? People are never happy with what they have. They always want what they had...what someone else has..."“No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.” - John Galt, Atlas Shrugged1 -
Bruccius✭✭✭✭✭
What? This is a horrible analogy.
Caviar is expensive because most wild sturgeon are endangered and thus sturgeon must be farm-raised for the roe. Additionally, a lot of the higher quality come from rarer sturgeon species which take years to produce roe compared to some of the "lesser" qualities that produce at a faster rate. That's not even taking into account the milking/harvesting and packing processes.
However, all crown items (crates, gems, straight purchase) all are only artificially scarce at ZOS's whim. Once the assets are produced, they're there (and indeed some/most 'new' content utilizes existing assets in some way). There is no bottleneck at the supply source, no cost of materials or labor beyond additional production, etc.
While ZOS can choose (whether I agree with it or not) at what price, currency, and window in which to offer items, let's not pretend crown items are something they're not.
Caviar is expensive as hell, even the ones that are farmed. One fish can provide literal kilos of caviar, but the packages are insanely small.
Crown items have the cost that they have because people are willing to pay for it. The same reason caviar is overpriced as hell while tasting like trash.0 -
Bruccius✭✭✭✭✭
Caviar costs what it does due its extreme rarity, difficulty to farm and the fact it takes years to cultivate. There's a legitimate reason why it costs so much - it's a finite resource. Kind of a bad comparison when putting it up against something digital which can be indefinitely generated after its been made.
Ever been involved in the caviar business?
Plenty of ways to get the caviar without killing the fish. One fish can provide enough caviar for at least a hundred packages of caviar; the price does not fit in with that at all.0
