Kitty cat banker for five bucks?
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Davor
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I thought the personal banker and merchant were $50 each. How come the kitty cat banker is only Five bucks? When a deal is too good it must not be true. So what am I missing here?
Not my quote but I love this saying
"I would pay It for support. But since they choosed we are just numbers and not customers, i dont mind if game and zos goes to oblivion"
"I would pay It for support. But since they choosed we are just numbers and not customers, i dont mind if game and zos goes to oblivion"
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Davor✭✭✭✭✭
✭It’s 5000 crowns? Which is like £35
Thank you so much. I guess my brain was reading it as $5.00 for some reason. I swore I only saw 500.Not my quote but I love this saying
"I would pay It for support. But since they choosed we are just numbers and not customers, i dont mind if game and zos goes to oblivion"1 -
LordTareq✭✭✭✭✭It’s 5000 crowns? Which is like £35
Absolutely ridiculous amount lol, but so is pretty much everything in the crown store which is why I'm not buying any.
I do wonder whether they wouldn't make a lot more money with much reduced prices. If these items cost something like 3-6 dollars each I figure a lot more people would buy them. But I assume they put their analysts to work and calculated the most profitable prices.5 -
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✭They need to add the ability to swap them for a reduced price. I'd much prefer the kitties but there is NO way I'd pay another 5k crowns each just for a "skin".Edited by Wildberryjack on June 8, 2019 3:46PMThe purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~Pablo Picasso34 -
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Absolutely ridiculous amount lol, but so is pretty much everything in the crown store which is why I'm not buying any.
Seems like a reasonable understandable price to me, since it's an un-necessary 'convenience' feature. The more actually 'required' something is, the less it should cost. But lazy luxuries like the banker & merchant? Sure, go nuts. /shrug
- for the record, I'd never buy one. I don't need them.
("Convenience" is frequently a high-cost thing. Take soda for instance - a can of soda in your hotel-room minibar costs $4+, a can of soda in the every-few-floors soda machine that you have to walk to costs $2, a can of soda from a convenience store that you had to leave the hotel & go down the block to costs $1, and a can of soda that you went to a distributor & bought by the case costs $0.25)
Edited by Kiralyn2000 on June 8, 2019 4:06PM11 -
Tigerseye✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭It's a lot of money.
Even if you gritted your teeth and paid it the first time, it's very hard to justify paying it again, a second time, when it's no longer a necessity.
I think it should be cheaper for people who already have the function of the banker/vendor and are just buying it as a skin.
However, I guess they are just trying to make sure they get enough for them, overall, given that some people have Crowns saved up.
Sadly, I don't and as a furnisher, am also gold poor these days.7 -
Tigerseye✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
Seems like a reasonable understandable price to me, since it's an un-necessary 'convenience' feature. The more actually 'required' something is, the less it should cost. But lazy luxuries like the banker & merchant? Sure, go nuts. /shrug
- for the record, I'd never buy one. I don't need them.
("Convenience" is frequently a high-cost thing. Take soda for instance - a can of soda in your hotel-room minibar costs $4+, a can of soda in the every-few-floors soda machine that you have to walk to costs $2, a can of soda from a convenience store that you had to leave the hotel & go down the block to costs $1, and a can of soda that you went to a distributor & bought by the case costs $0.25)
Firstly, I disagree with the premise - I think things should cost a reasonable amount, whether they are for convenience, or not.
A lot of people avoid using the minibar.
£70 is a lot of money for a banker and a merchant.
Some people pay it, as they simply couldn't face playing a game like this without them.
Doesn't mean it's OK, or that more people wouldn't buy them if they were half the price.
But, more to the point, they're not even a convenience for those who already have the merchant and banker.
They're just skins.Edited by Tigerseye on June 8, 2019 4:31PM10 -
pilsbury65✭✭✭I bought the last 3 assistants, but not this time. Not pleading poverty but I’m a pensioner on a fixed income and around £30 quid for a cat acting as a banker just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. They get £8.99 a month of me to start with.
Ah but I still love the game and I’m a 68 year old nana 😁
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✭✭✭✭✭Wildberryjack wrote: »They need to add the ability to swap them for a reduced price. I'd much prefer the kitties but there is NO way I'd pay another 5k crowns each just for a "skin".
I agree. Also, I'm sure the current situation does not impress long term players like me who worked hard and saved up my crowns for the huge expense of buying the merchant and banker - only to now see much nicer ones available to newer players. What you propose would go a long way to show appreciation to long term players.
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LordTareq✭✭✭✭✭Kiralyn2000 wrote: »
Seems like a reasonable understandable price to me, since it's an un-necessary 'convenience' feature. The more actually 'required' something is, the less it should cost. But lazy luxuries like the banker & merchant? Sure, go nuts. /shrug
- for the record, I'd never buy one. I don't need them.
("Convenience" is frequently a high-cost thing. Take soda for instance - a can of soda in your hotel-room minibar costs $4+, a can of soda in the every-few-floors soda machine that you have to walk to costs $2, a can of soda from a convenience store that you had to leave the hotel & go down the block to costs $1, and a can of soda that you went to a distributor & bought by the case costs $0.25)
Yes there are plenty of ways to justify it. Doesn't make it right. In a hotel's minibar you pay for convenience yes, but also the small fridge, the employee checking and refilling it i.e. logistics in general, everything together you end up at a fair price perhaps a little higher than fair but usually similar to if you were buying it at a bar. If the can of soda suddenly cost 45$ people would not be happy assuming a normal hotel.
In ESO (and most games) the micro transactions are out of whack. You pay for convenience & to cover the cost of the company making these. And somehow they put those together and arrive at a price over half the cost of a triple A game that took a large team years to make and cost millions.1 -
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Absolutely ridiculous amount lol, but so is pretty much everything in the crown store which is why I'm not buying any.
I do wonder whether they wouldn't make a lot more money with much reduced prices. If these items cost something like 3-6 dollars each I figure a lot more people would buy them. But I assume they put their analysts to work and calculated the most profitable prices.
I think the analysts are wrong, then.
I'm not suggesting they should reduce them to 3-6 dollars, as I think they would probably lose on that, relative to what they could otherwise make; even if almost everyone then bought them.
But, I suspect that if they reduced them to somewhere in the £20 region they would still sell plenty of them and would probably make more money than they currently do.
You have to look at what other games charge for things like store mounts - WoW, for example, charge £19.
Also, you have to look at what percentage of active players buy them at the current price.
If it's only (say) 1 in 5, or less, that seems low to me for such a useful item.Edited by Tigerseye on June 8, 2019 4:52PM1 -
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I think the analysts are wrong, then.
I'm not suggesting they should reduce them to 3-6 dollars, as I think they would probably lose on that, relative to what they could otherwise make; even if almost everyone then bought them.
But, I suspect that if they reduced them to somewhere in the £20 region they would still sell plenty of them and would probably make more money than they currently do.
You have to look at what other games charge for things like store mounts - WoW, for example, charge £19.
Also, you have to look at what percentage of active players buy them at the current price.
If it's only (say) 1 in 5, or less, that seems low to me for such a useful item.
The only thing that matters is how much revenue it generates. And if ZOS gets more (or even just comaprable) revenue from selling "exclusive" high-price items to small amount of players than a bunch of cheap things to more players, they will keep on doing it that way.0 -
Unit117✭✭✭✭✭Wildberryjack wrote: »They need to add the ability to swap them for a reduced price. I'd much prefer the kitties but there is NO way I'd pay another 5k crowns each just for a "skin".
Personally I prefer the actual people. It makes your homes more loved in and not just a crazy cat lady home1 -
Elrond87✭✭✭how can a cat even bank stuff and it being smaller wont helpPC|EU
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david_m_18b16_ESO✭✭✭✭✭Wildberryjack wrote: »They need to add the ability to swap them for a reduced price. I'd much prefer the kitties but there is NO way I'd pay another 5k crowns each just for a "skin".
it should have been a skin for 500 crown. so 5500 crown for those who did not own the alfiq banker.1 -
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✭✭✭Wildberryjack wrote: »They need to add the ability to swap them for a reduced price. I'd much prefer the kitties but there is NO way I'd pay another 5k crowns each just for a "skin".
I'm not trying to be mean when I say I think this misses the point if you feel entitled to a discount or trade-in for a cosmetic change. They don't do it with pets and mounts -- and you can only use one at a time, so every pet or mount you collect is "just a skin change" -- so it's probably not going to happen here. I think the best we can hope for is a discount.
I'm not going to get it right away and not with Crowns just for a skin change. But then I'm probably in some minority demographic ZOS is targeting with this product. The kawaii factor probably had tons of people open their wallets in the very first hour it was available. We just don't understand that demographic but they wouldn't put it out at that price without knowing their market.
It really should be a magic Bag of Storage and Bag of Devouring or Portable Hole instead of invincible no-aggro companions who can run as fast as your skill 60 mount.how can a cat even bank stuff and it being smaller wont help
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The only thing that matters is how much revenue it generates. And if ZOS gets more (or even just comaprable) revenue from selling "exclusive" high-price items to small amount of players than a bunch of cheap things to more players, they will keep on doing it that way.
I know and I am questioning whether that is the case.
I suspect they could make more, on something like this, with more reasonable prices.Edited by Tigerseye on June 8, 2019 7:34PM0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Imo I've always assumed the prices are what they are because of the crowns provided by ESO+
What I mean is, there's very few items someone like me finds interesting in the store, so my crowns build up rather quickly. 5000 crowns is essentially 3 months of subscription. I haven't purchased anything since the last dlc.
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✭5500 crowns is exactly £23.99.... so the kitty banker is under twenty quid.... so.....
Yes.... I already know that’s not cheap....1 -
Lazrael✭✭✭The pricing in general has become fairly classless. Love the game and appreciate the work that goes into it but not offering a deal for older players who spent an already large sum of crowns on the assistants is fairly insulting.Artists and Theives...5 -
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✭✭✭BomblePants wrote: »5500 crowns is exactly £23.99.... so the kitty banker is under twenty quid.... so.....
Yes.... I already know that’s not cheap....
According to the store I'm looking at, 5500 Crowns are £29.99.0 -
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✭✭✭The pricing in general has become fairly classless. Love the game and appreciate the work that goes into it but not offering a deal for older players who spent an already large sum of crowns on the assistants is fairly insulting.
Yeah.
Other f2p games tend to get cheaper, or more-or-less free, the longer you play them.
So, you may start off paying quite a lot, but look at it as an investment, in a way, if you intend to play for a few years.
This one just keeps on asking for more, regardless.
...and the only way you will save enough Crowns from ESO+ is if you don't spend any, on anything else, for over 6 months.
That is quite a long time to wait.1 -
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✭@Tigerseye.... I’m in England, are you? They are £23:99 here...?Edited by BomblePants on June 8, 2019 8:52PM0 -
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✭✭✭BomblePants wrote: »@Tigerseye.... I’m in England, are you? They are £23:99 here...?
Yeah, I'm in the UK, too.
Says £29.99 for me.1 -
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Im not trying to be rude but since the crown store items are always sold via crowns, i dont understand the confusion.Edited by wishlist14 on June 8, 2019 9:01PM0 -
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✭✭✭✭If it was only $5, then everyone who plays the game would have picked it up. Now who want that? Don't be silly.0 -
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Personally I prefer the actual people. It makes your homes more loved in and not just a crazy cat lady home
I'd prefer a crazy cat lady home - I am, after all, a crazy cat lady! RIP Atherton, my beautiful little gentle friend. I will miss you forever. Without you I am a hollow shell.1
