329 replies to this topic

[Koningswulf]

The prices for colour and useless trinkets are ridicoulous high!
I for one will not buy anything for MC with these prices thats for sure!
PGI all you are doing now is making your clients very angry and making yourself look very greedy!
Make trinkets and colours cheap so all can and will buy it instead!

Thats what the spirit of Christmas is all about !!!!!

[VarietyOfCells]

I'll admit that I bought a couple Christmas items and the new hero mech, but I only spent the MC I had from my founders pack. I don't think I would have added that much more money for Christmas lights, despite how much I enjoy them.

[Zozzer]

I had a look at the Christmas items and at first I thought they may be cool. But after seeing the prices, no way. 1000 MC for the Santa was way to much. I was thinking more like 100 or so would be reasonable for a desk item that can really be used about 3 weeks a year. So nice idea, just much to pricey for all of them.

[Farmer]

Seven bucks for the lights is more than a little steep.

[Ulvar]

so all the 228 posts here basically are saying the same thing.

PGI should seriously think about this because we are the people who play this game.

[Bob the Mech Pilot]

Prices are far too high. But....they can't change the prices now without causing a bigger firestorm from the people who have already bought these items. PGI can't win here.

[nephilimUK]

as a reward for paying to get into closed beta, a thank you for contributing and bug finding in open beta PGI thereby, in the season of giving and goodwill allow you to buy ugly useless virtual items for more than they cost in real life. PGI would like to ask that you go out on xmas eve for at least 4 hours as now that you have been r aped they wish a quick go on your partner too.

merry xmas

ps coal LOL
(can be reskinned to a t u r d for 500MC next patch ?)

Edited by nephilimUK, 05 December 2012 - 11:34 PM.

[Ulvar]

Bob the Mech Pilot, on 05 December 2012 - 11:15 PM, said:

Prices are far too high. But....they can't change the prices now without causing a bigger firestorm from the people who have already bought these items. PGI can't win here.

wargaming once stated a simple thing: if they change things ingame they will never disatvantage the player. this way you dont have to feel like a christmas goose.

PGI can still do something about it. if they change prices they could refund the difference to the players who allready bought something.

[Herrmann van Hinden]

To be honest, when I saw the items I just thought "cool, I will buy them all!"... then I saw the Prices..... and bought 3. I would have expected that they, all together, cost around what I have payed for those 3..... And yes, I absolute agree with those who say that there should have been a bundle-Price for all of them. But I totally disagree that These things are overpriced that much (10 times, like some People say). The Settlers Online is about to earn as many revenues as the retail-games earned, in half the time. So this model obviously works. And PGI Needs to get a Feeling about pricing. Not only at this Topic.......

Edited by Herrmann van Hinden, 05 December 2012 - 11:55 PM.

[Phelan PK Kell]

Feedback? Yeah FIX THE BUGS AND THE LAG FIRST! Seriously if you want to give us something to put in our cockpit.....give us a targetting computer...I'd even settle for a passive radar/magscan/seismic sensor suite!

Edited by Phelan PK Kell, 06 December 2012 - 12:37 AM.

[Dukarriope]

Pendraco, on 05 December 2012 - 02:40 PM, said:

You know you can move these items from 'Mech to 'Mech don't you?

Yes, you can, but it's irritating to repeatedly do for simple cosmetics. I can understand it perfectly for C-Bill funded items that must be inventory contained such as engines, but when you're just wanting to switch a mech quickly, a two second operation becomes thirty.

[Wizard Steve]

I've spent a metric shitton of money on this game and I won't be paying for cockpit items at anything like these prices. I'll pay for mechs, mech bays, paint, xp-to-gxp conversions and premium time but the prices for this tat are a joke. Knock off a zero please then maybe I'll think about it.

[DaZur]

1.) Items offered for sale thus far will not have their pricing adjusted (Unless they have a post-season clearance sale). Doing so would severely insult anyone who purchased said items for the pricing they did.

2.) PGI / IGP will review the sale metrics of this first official round of useless in-game fluff and make pricing adjustments going forward.

3.) The next round of fluff-content offered for sale will likely have a better value-to-cost ratio... That said, they still may be higher than similar offerings in other F2P play games.

Why?

Let's be clear PGI is not intentionally trying to pick our wallets... They are however using these non-relevant fluff items to determine what the MW:O user base will support / accept in regards to micro-transactions.

I know everyone likes to compare MW:O to other F2P models but the harsh reality is we do not have the player-base the majority of these other F2P models have and the pricing structure will ultimately be slightly higher to offset the difference in potential sales... Long and short, the "micro" micro-transactions will not work in MW:O or more accurately, it will not provide a reasonable net profit ratio and thusly pricing has to be higher...

Edited by DaZur, 06 December 2012 - 06:33 AM.

[Hammer Hands]

Final concept on the items.

mech pricing is fine as far as I am concerned. World of Tanks has been doing micro transcation for in game vehicles since it began. Same concept, spend real money : Make more in game money. The more powerful the vehicle the more expensive. People readily buy 51 dollar tanks in WoT all the time because they are stinking good and make you in-game currency hand over fist to fund the other tanks that cost more. Fact is they have a MARKED impact on the game. I have friends who say the new hero mech is a VERY solid and good variant and like it alot. So keep you pricing on mechs.

Your fluffy cockpit stuff that only my teammates can see when they are dead or I make a video of my game play. You really have fallen out of the mark on how this should be priced. Even the cosmetic things in WoT that cost RL money have a game impact and EVERYONE can see them. They are also CHEAPER! Now if you are tryign to drum up money to continue to fund the development of the game, find something worth a crap to do it with not holiday trinkets that have no impact on the game at all.

*edit* In fact if you really need to drum up more money to keep the game funded and developing the way it should. Allow Founders to upgrade their founder's packages.

Edited by Hammer Hands, 06 December 2012 - 06:49 AM.

[Dieselpunk]

Hammer Hands, on 06 December 2012 - 06:48 AM, said:

*edit* In fact if you really need to drum up more money to keep the game funded and developing the way it should. Allow Founders to upgrade their founder's packages.

I emailed Support about this very thing a few weeks ago and they said they aren't going to do that.


Also, has there been an official response concerning this thread? After 12 pages, I imagine we've attracted some attention.

[Utnapishtim]

yes, the prices are a bit high, i had been saving my MC since open beta dropped, so that 6.95$ purchase of Xmas lights irked me a bit after i pressed "save" and realized the price in actual currency. i can get 2.5 coffees for that much, but 7 dollars for an intangible decoration object in a game is a bit crazy. let's chalk it up to working out the kinks eh? because i am willing to bet that most of the community agrees that 7 dollars for cockpit lights is a bit silly.

you'd have received 2 more purchases from me if my lights weren't so damned expensive.
(that being said, the lights look awesome, and it's good that they can be switched between Mechs'... but i'm just trying to find a silver lining after having 7 dollars of my closed beta donation money siphoned away)

won't get fooled again, the lights will be my last decor purchase if the prices remain the same. eventually i'd like to buy a hero Mech' and put stuff in the cockpit without completely depleting my MC in one go.

thanks, i hope the feedback helps.

[King Phoenix]

Well, it's mostly all been said but just to reinforce the point for the community here is my two cents. The Christmas items as well as the premium colors for camouflage are too expensive. Now back to the game (alas, without awesome multicolored lights).

[DegeneratePervert]

The prices are unfair, since the items in question can only be used on one mech. That's what's keeping my wallet closed. And this is coming from a guy who thinks that the Hero Mech's prices are fair.

[Aym]

HighGround, on 04 December 2012 - 06:21 PM, said:

I noticed the new hood ornaments in the Mechlab for this Christmas holiday season and noticed 4 ornaments in there, one called an "XMAS" tree and one called an "XMAS" elf, XMAS wreath and XMAS lights. Now the last time I checked, the only holiday in December that those could refer to is CHRISTMAS.

I am a Christian and am very offended when people "X" Christ out of Christmas. "But it's just an acronym" but no one ever writes it CHRISTX, always XMAS crossing out the most important name in the holiday word.

For those of you who need an education, Christmas is a religious holiday, where people all over the world celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, God's gift to mankind. I am a Christian, not an Xian, I celebrate Christmas, not Xmas. "CHRISTMAS" is the name of the holiday that falls on Dec. 25th, not "XMAS." It's like taking the "THANKS" out of Thanksgiving or the "NEW" out of New Years. "Xgiving" "Xyears" etc.

The name of the holiday or "holy day" is Christmas, and we need to use the proper name.

The irony of a guy named "HighGround" taking the low-ground on offense over Xmas is pretty rich!
Also, since you're very Christian I thought you might like a Sunday School lesson. The X in christianity dates back to the conversion of Constantine who reportedly had a vision of Jesus who would give him victory over his enemies if he put the symbol of Christ on his shields (The Chi Rho is formed by superimposing the first two (capital) letters chi and rho (ΧΡ) of the Greek word "ΧΡΙΣΤΟΣ" =Christ in such a way to produce the monogram. Widespread in ancient Christianity, it was the symbol used by the Roman emperor Constantine I as vexillum (named Labarum).) This led to the conversion of the Western Roman empire to Christianity. Thus abbreviating Christmas as Xmas ought not be so insulting to you, unless Pedestrian Crossing signs greatly offend you when they "X" out the "Cross."

[Gemeinagent]

DegeneratePervert, on 06 December 2012 - 07:57 AM, said:

The prices are unfair, since the items in question can only be used on one mech. That's what's keeping my wallet closed. And this is coming from a guy who thinks that the Hero Mech's prices are fair.

Maybe the Devs could add an option "keep item" so this item would "stay" with you in every cockpit. Already equipped items get temporarily removed. Of course, this would only work with one item of each category...

Can you even buy more than one of the same item? If I wanted to have the santa in every cockpit?