I have to say you are honestly *** mad if you pay this much outright for a digital house.

Zos are pushing the limits of spending up and up and up, They obviously pull a report on average crown hoard that people with relatively high game time have and add like 5k crowns to it and voila there is the price for the latest desirable.

But this is just plain nuts now. People said I was nuts for paying £899 for a carbon air feed for my motor....

Turelus wrote: »

Sheva I 7 I wrote: »

wont buy anything till text chat/vmaw are fixed

You probably won't be buying any exclusives for a while then.

Totally doing what I said in my previous post.

Tbh don't care, in fact reflecting back on my purchases I shouldn't of spent 7k crowns on crates to get those atronarch/wild hunt mounts. Don't even notice them anymore tbh, cosmetics are for people who didn't play enough minecraft,

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

I have to say you are honestly *** mad if you pay this much outright for a digital house.

Zos are pushing the limits of spending up and up and up, They obviously pull a report on average crown hoard that people with relatively high game time have and add like 5k crowns to it and voila there is the price for the latest desirable.

But this is just plain nuts now. People said I was nuts for paying £899 for a carbon air feed for my motor....

People might have found the same value in that Island that you did in your feeder for your motor. Not a justification or anything, but different strokes for different folks.

ThePaleItalian wrote: »

DRXHarbinger wrote: »

I have to say you are honestly *** mad if you pay this much outright for a digital house.

Zos are pushing the limits of spending up and up and up, They obviously pull a report on average crown hoard that people with relatively high game time have and add like 5k crowns to it and voila there is the price for the latest desirable.

But this is just plain nuts now. People said I was nuts for paying £899 for a carbon air feed for my motor....

People might have found the same value in that Island that you did in your feeder for your motor. Not a justification or anything, but different strokes for different folks.

The difference is though, these purchases have a limited life span. All these items and money spent are gone once the population dies and the game gets winded down (remember ZOS only mentioned they have a 5 year plan) and some people have spent myself for instance well over £700 on playing this game, yes it's been enjoyable until homestead *** us console players over, But I don't see the appeal to this. Again I understand horses for courses but this is getting ridiculous now with this pricing. especially now it's proven that ZOS make no effort to fix what is paid for content ( see Earthtear cavern lags you out, not fixed) Trials on console not fixed. these purchases are doing nothing but showing ZOS we don't care how they treat us. And they are taking the *** with it.

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Kiralyn2000 wrote: »

Nifty2g wrote: »

$160 AUD. For something that is purely cosmetic.

Interesting.

See, I'm fine with high prices on "purely cosmetic" things... because they're exactly that. Purely cosmetic. Not required or needed in any way. Luxuries.

Personally, I think the 5k crowns for the assistants is much more annoying. Since they actually serve some function.


(I mean, people spend extra $ on getting "designer" jeans instead of Levis. Or getting a Lexus instead of a Honda. Or a platinum ring instead of a silver one. Etc, etc, etc. Doesn't seem that different to me. They're paying for logo, or appearance, or "conspicuous consumption". Do the people railing against expensive MMO cosmetics also wander through life yelling about this, too?)

Off-topic but there can be good reasons for getting a platinum ring over a silver one. Platinum is much harder wearing, meaning it will last longer. For something you're only going to wear occasionally it probably doesn't matter but for something like a wedding ring that's going to be worn all day every day for years (or decades if everything goes to plan) it's important.

Although in that case you can get palladium which has almost identical properties and is much cheaper. Or titanium which is even more durable, often cheaper and lighter weight.

Likewise some people may feel there are good reasons for buying this house over any of the others. Unless it's been changed since it was on the PTS it's the only one that doesn't have an insanely low invisible ceiling on the instance, meaning you can build very tall structures, and its probably got more outside space than most.

Sure the price is extremely high, but if you were looking at buying one of the other notable homes with crowns anyway it may be worth it for you to pay the extra.

(But I'm happy with my medium house. I don't know what I'd do with all the space anyway.)

This is the equal to buying a car for $100 ($12 for base game) and then the dealer asking you to pay $2000 ($160 for the house) for a visor. It's nearly 20x more expensive for an item to be an accessory to the main purchase, which is why all the out rage.

I used to be a whale. I have 30+ mounts, and at approx $25 each, even those are absurdly priced.

But $160 for a house that is nothing but an accessory - that doesn't even help you, and in reality hurts you by forcing you to do more work to maintain and upkeep, is just insane to me. You could buy 4 games for this price (games are $48 at Amazon and Best Buy)

To each his own, but again, the entire game is $12 and the house is $160. Crazy crazy.

They have no shame. 160 US dollars. Come on now haha

N0TPLAYER2 wrote: »

This is the equal to buying a car for $100 ($12 for base game) and then the dealer asking you to pay $2000 ($160 for the house) for a visor. It's nearly 20x more expensive for an item to be an accessory to the main purchase, which is why all the out rage.

I used to be a whale. I have 30+ mounts, and at approx $25 each, even those are absurdly priced.

But $160 for a house that is nothing but an accessory - that doesn't even help you, and in reality hurts you by forcing you to do more work to maintain and upkeep, is just insane to me. You could buy 4 games for this price (games are $48 at Amazon and Best Buy)

To each his own, but again, the entire game is $12 and the house is $160. Crazy crazy.

Except that when I bought the game it was $60 and more for the imperial edition. And the island can be bought for $82 if using crowns bought on sale. But either way it is irrelevant as this is a luxury that some will but and others will not based on their own priorities and discretionary income.

N0TPLAYER2 wrote: »

But $160 for a house that is nothing but an accessory - that doesn't even help you

Now, see.... if it did "help you", then I'd have a problem with it. Because then that would be coercing people to "need" it. As a purely cosmetic item, that does nothing game-wise? It's perfectly fine, because it's 110% entirely totally OPTIONAL.

Just like I don't care (to think of another "ZOMG WHY!?!?" forum panic I saw elsewhere) that they've released $1k+ in costumes for DOA5. The "OMG DLC IS A RIPOFF/MONEYGRUBBERS!" crowd gets all panicy about stuff like that, but I don't see the issue - it's entirely cosmetic and un-necessary. No skin off my nose if they do that, or if some people choose to buy it. Doesn't effect the actual game in the slightest.

/shrug

I love these threads

No real incentive to buy a house so....failed marketing attempt... Unless you're into decorating but you can do that by just drawing on a paper.

I'm glad it has water so all the whales can swim.

kyle.wilson wrote: »

5500Crowns is $39.99 in USD (the best value)
So each crown is 0.727 cents
.727*15,000(unfurnished)= $109.05 USD
.727*18,800(furnished)= $136.68 USD

On sale 5500 crown packs are $23.99

×3 (unfurnished ) = $71.97 before tax
×4 (furnished) = $95.96 before tax