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[MonkeyDCecil]

Damn that is a good looking badge. I wish I could post a pic of it. but I can't. Anyway it is the best looking of the new badges. To bad it is only for the Gold khan buyers. And I can't bring myself to spend that much. Even though I am a whale. Just not that big of a whale. $5 though, I would pay that.

[Sephlock]

MonkeyDCecil, on 18 June 2014 - 01:05 PM, said:

Damn that is a good looking badge. I wish I could post a pic of it. but I can't. Anyway it is the best looking of the new badges. To bad it is only for the Gold khan buyers. And I can't bring myself to spend that much. Even though I am a whale. Just not that big of a whale. $5 though, I would pay that.

If it had been $500 for the whole set of Gold mechs I bet they'd have had a lot more takers.

How many people bought more than one Gold mech? How many of those bought more than 3? 4?

[Alymbic]

Sephlock, on 18 June 2014 - 01:07 PM, said:

If it had been $500 for the whole set of Gold mechs I bet they'd have had a lot more takers.

How many people bought more than one Gold mech? How many of those bought more than 3? 4?

I've seen screenshots of people who have apparently bought all 8, but I doubt many people would have bought more than one. Would be interested to know if multiple Khan's come with multiple Masakari packs.

[Dazzer]

I would buy a gold NOVA, but the wife tells me the kids have to eat apparently......

Edited by Dazzer, 18 June 2014 - 01:22 PM.

[Mr D One]

I would personally change the badge title to "The Golden Touch" or "Golden One".

I am "the devoted" to MWO, as are many others. I simply can't see the value of a 500 dollar skin.

I think PGI should give the devoted badge to players who are ;

Legendary Founders and Phoenix Overlord and Masakari Clan pack owners who have logged in consistently for the last two years, like myself, deserve the Devoted Badge. (Total spend to date 01/07/14 1234.25 AUD /1165.56 US)

[Sprouticus]

Dar1ng One, on 01 July 2014 - 03:17 AM, said:

I would personally change the badge title to "The Golden Touch" or "Golden One".

I am "the devoted" to MWO, as are many others. I simply can't see the value of a 500 dollar skin.

I think PGI should give the devoted badge to players who are ;

Legendary Founders and Phoenix Overlord and Masakari Clan pack owners who have logged in consistently for the last two years, like myself, deserve the Devoted Badge. (Total spend to date 01/07/14 1234.25 AUD /1165.56 US)

Don't forget the reinforcement pack!

[Mr D One]

Sproutsomepuss, on 01 July 2014 - 03:31 AM, said:

Don't forget the reinforcement pack!

Ah yes, good call my Legendary Founder mech brother.

[Stonefalcon]

Dar1ng One, on 01 July 2014 - 03:17 AM, said:

I would personally change the badge title to "The Golden Touch" or "Golden One".

I am "the devoted" to MWO, as are many others. I simply can't see the value of a 500 dollar skin.

I think PGI should give the devoted badge to players who are ;

Legendary Founders and Phoenix Overlord and Masakari Clan pack owners who have logged in consistently for the last two years, like myself, deserve the Devoted Badge. (Total spend to date 01/07/14 1234.25 AUD /1165.56 US)

Someone around here has a lot of disposable income.

I reckon all the players who didn't buy a Gold Khan mech and rather just purchased the gold paint should be given a "The Smart" badge.

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

You know, if Gold Khan had been like, 300. I'd have bought it.

Paying an additional what, 260 for a gold skin and medal over the 240 top price of the Masakari pack... Yeah no that's insane for a digital item that can be reproduced however many times they wanted. There was literally an arbatrary limit put in place on these to make them seem rare.

If gold Khan was 300, I'd have bought it.

[Mechteric]

its a forum icon

[AlexEss]

Flash Frame, on 01 July 2014 - 04:29 AM, said:

You know, if Gold Khan had been like, 300. I'd have bought it.

Paying an additional what, 260 for a gold skin and medal over the 240 top price of the Masakari pack... Yeah no that's insane for a digital item that can be reproduced however many times they wanted. There was literally an arbatrary limit put in place on these to make them seem rare.

If gold Khan was 300, I'd have bought it.

So what you are saying is that you want the gold mechs to be 60$... That would hardly make them exclusive now would it.

No i fully defend this move. It is complete fluff and does not affect anyone in the slightest. Heck i´d support a gold version of every mech for say 250$ a pop without the added pack. Seems to be working for Chris Roberts after all =P

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

AlexEss, on 01 July 2014 - 04:51 AM, said:

So what you are saying is that you want the gold mechs to be 60$... That would hardly make them exclusive now would it.

No i fully defend this move. It is complete fluff and does not affect anyone in the slightest. Heck i´d support a gold version of every mech for say 250$ a pop without the added pack. Seems to be working for Chris Roberts after all =P

And I say they're only exclusive because they decided to copy the code to make them X amount of times.

It's a digital ******* item. There's nothing exclusive about it except the devlopers decided to put a limit on it. Digital content has nothing exclusive about it.

Remember the whole "Exclusive Digital Signed Art" bit... yeah I could easily get a full collection of that from "owners" of the art that decided to simply pass me a copy of the file.

See how easily the idea of exclusive digital content fails?

[Bilbo]

Flash Frame, on 01 July 2014 - 05:07 AM, said:

And I say they're only exclusive because they decided to copy the code to make them X amount of times.

It's a digital ******* item. There's nothing exclusive about it except the devlopers decided to put a limit on it. Digital content has nothing exclusive about it.

Remember the whole "Exclusive Digital Signed Art" bit... yeah I could easily get a full collection of that from "owners" of the art that decided to simply pass me a copy of the file.

See how easily the idea of exclusive digital content fails?

So....How many owners have passed you a copy of a gold mech?

[CMDR Sunset Shimmer]

Bilbo, on 01 July 2014 - 05:09 AM, said:

So....How many owners have passed you a copy of a gold mech?

The point I'm making is it's an arbatrary decision to sell something way above it's price to create point.

You're honestly defending the idea of selling a gold mech for $260 additional over the 240 top tier price point is a good thing?

The main point of my argument here is, they wanted to sell gold khan packs as a way to make more money right? Few people were willing to shell out 500 for a gold mech when that was ALL you were getting [remember, when gold khan was first announced, ALL you were getting was the golden mech, and it's 2 other variants so you could master it, as well as the title badge. THAT'S IT, till we bitched and they made it include the top tier clan pack as well.]

They would have sold a good few more of those packs, if they had simply priced them at $300-$360, a much more affordable prince point that many of us could have justified and would have been willing to buy over the $500 price point that we currently have.

I've probably, over the time MWO's been out, since I bought my founders pack, spent around $1k on this game over all... that's a LOT of money for a singular person to spend on any game. And frankly, I'd have been more than willing to put odwn the 300-360 to get a gold Khan, but given what we recieved in the packs, the addition of a golden mech to my roster is in no way worth the $260 extra over the $240 already spent for the top tier clan pack.

It's a cost vs worth issue. The cost of the Khan pack is not worth the items included, despite their supposed exclusive nature.

[Bilbo]

Flash Frame, on 01 July 2014 - 05:48 AM, said:

The point I'm making is it's an arbatrary decision to sell something way above it's price to create point.

You're honestly defending the idea of selling a gold mech for $260 additional over the 240 top tier price point is a good thing?

The main point of my argument here is, they wanted to sell gold khan packs as a way to make more money right? Few people were willing to shell out 500 for a gold mech when that was ALL you were getting [remember, when gold khan was first announced, ALL you were getting was the golden mech, and it's 2 other variants so you could master it, as well as the title badge. THAT'S IT, till we bitched and they made it include the top tier clan pack as well.]

They would have sold a good few more of those packs, if they had simply priced them at $300-$360, a much more affordable prince point that many of us could have justified and would have been willing to buy over the $500 price point that we currently have.

I've probably, over the time MWO's been out, since I bought my founders pack, spent around $1k on this game over all... that's a LOT of money for a singular person to spend on any game. And frankly, I'd have been more than willing to put odwn the 300-360 to get a gold Khan, but given what we recieved in the packs, the addition of a golden mech to my roster is in no way worth the $260 extra over the $240 already spent for the top tier clan pack.

It's a cost vs worth issue. The cost of the Khan pack is not worth the items included, despite their supposed exclusive nature.

Since I don't have to buy it in order play and enjoy game, I don't give a rat's ass how much it costs or who buys it. I considered buying it but the gold skin wasn't enough to justify the extra cost to myself. To some the price point is obviously fine.

[SirLANsalot]

Thing is, those of us who ARE the devoted, have put our money were our mouth is, and as such are being rewarded for it.

[Mechteric]

SirLANsalot, on 01 July 2014 - 06:16 AM, said:

Thing is, those of us who ARE the devoted, have put our money were our mouth is, and as such are being rewarded for it.

I love stickers too, especially the scratch n' sniff kind.

Edited by CapperDeluxe, 01 July 2014 - 06:20 AM.

[EyeOne]

SirLANsalot, on 01 July 2014 - 06:16 AM, said:

Thing is, those of us who ARE the devoted, have put our money were our mouth is, and as such are being rewarded for it.

You're not more devoted. You just have more money.

[Livewyr]

Dazzer, on 18 June 2014 - 01:22 PM, said:

I would buy a gold NOVA, but the wife tells me the kids have to eat apparently......

You can have more kids.. those Gold Novas are not going to be around forever.

[Hades Trooper]

i know a bloke in my clan who bought 2 khan packs. PGI did send him an email asking if he wanted to gift the 2nd package minus the gold skin mech to someone else.

Alas he says he didn't get around to replying in time thus ended up with 50 clan mechs