Marthenil wrote: »

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

Alright, purchasing power.

What we know so far:

• a month subscription equals 1500 crowns

What this suggests:

• 15$=1500 crowns

Taking into account what we know from other MMOs

• they never pay the subs worth in cash shop currency

This leads to

• 1$ =/= 100 crowns, probably much less

and offers the insight of

• your part folks, I'm runnin' outta booze

Wait, if 15$=1500 ♕
and given that from other mmos they never pay the subs worth in cash shop currency
wouldn't that make 1$>100 ♕ ?

Edit: I mean, one dollar giving more than 100♕

nope

Marthenil wrote: »

Nazon_Katts wrote: »

Alright, purchasing power.

What we know so far:

• a month subscription equals 1500 crowns

What this suggests:

• 15$=1500 crowns

Taking into account what we know from other MMOs

• they never pay the subs worth in cash shop currency

This leads to

• 1$ =/= 100 crowns, probably much less

and offers the insight of

• your part folks, I'm runnin' outta booze

Wait, if 15$=1500 ♕
and given that from other mmos they never pay the subs worth in cash shop currency
wouldn't that make 1$>100 ♕ ?

Edit: I mean, one dollar giving more than 100♕

Yes. If 1$ = 150 ♕, then 1500 would = $10.

But, there's a weirdness with the ♕s.

So, normally, real money currencies in games are a fantastic way to screw up your ability to associate prices.

When you have physical currency in your hand, your brain can process, "this is here, it's real, and I can get X for it." With virtual currency, and even just with credit cards, this gets a lot harder. You can still sit there and rationally think, "yeah, I'm paying this amount for a thing," but it's a little harder to track.

Artificial currencies, like ♕s short circuit this a little more, because now you're dealing with numbers that don't even relate to real currency values anymore.

So, when you look at something that costs, say, 1600 Microsoft points, you're not instantly thinking, oh, that's $20 bucks. It looks like it's less than that. And, yes, with practice this gets easier.

Even when it's 100 to the dollar, there's still a level of disconnect. "This isn't 15 bucks, it's 1500 whatevers." Even though, you'd never actually think that consciously.

At least for someone used to dealing with Dollars, pushing the points per dollar above 100 creates an illusion where you're looking at the actual point purchase as a great deal... but then you look at the actual purchase costs and loose your mind.

You'll see this behavior in mobile games all the time. Where it's 400+ points to the dollar, but people lose their minds because suddenly a quarter looks like a full dollar. There the goal is just to get you to buy the points, the developer couldn't care less what you do with them once you've got them.

So... here... I don't know. I really don't. Funcom pulled a similar stunt, as I recall, with Secret World. The subscribers get 1200 points a month, which works out to about 10 bucks.

Given what I know about Elder Scrolls Online, and what I've pieced together about why the Buy to Play transition happened... it's possible this will be $15 in store currency, but I would be surprised if that's the case.