As the others already said, the cosmetics are really just tip of the iceberg, but how can anyone consider these prices reasonable is beyond me. And I don’t see where the problem in stating that these prices are too high is. People don’t want them to give us all of those items for free, we know they have to make money somehow, but charging so much for stuff like haircuts won’t help the game in the long run.
Sighs this happens with every, korean game, just chill and wait to see what they do for us.
And for people like you, that accept this kind of “micro-transactions” it is why Nexon or EA exist at all.
Seriously, I can not believe that anybody consider sane to pay $30 for a “haircut” for a game that it is bugged as hell.
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I don’t care that much…I won’t buy it at worst…but ppl said it’s around 30$ and that is the price I won’t pay for that…
yeah, just because they ■■■■■■ over the KR server within a week of its release doesn’t mean that anything will go wrong here right?
some people here actually care about the game succeeding and not shutting down after a year or two like most kMMO imports, I guess you aren’t one of them.
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Then don’t.
Or think of it as a donation. Would ToS retail at 30$?
And for people like you, who cry the sky is falling and cant use his brain to utilize the human ability of “common sense” I seriously cannot believe you and anyone else whos crying is idiot enough to think they will make these cosmetics cost 20-30 dollars each, when they dont even cost that much on say, VINDICTUS, RUN BY NEXON.
Oh and btw, those hair colors and hair styles in a game like vindictus, would take 10x more work than anything in a 2.5D game like ToS…just sayin.
Sighs, kids these days, never calm about anything, always screaming end of the world.
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Or maybe im just smarter, and more experienced than you are and been playing korean mmos longer than you and 99 percent of this board has.
You think the developers of these games spend 10-14 hours a day jerking off and making idiot decisions? Alot of them are veterans, who knows the western market, wait for them to release what they are gonna give us, then run around screaming its the end of the world.
Korean based mmos usually use their own initial playerbase to further “Beta Test” the games via release, in order to make the fixes and changes needed for the International Version, since that version will yield alot more money.
lol Vindictus, this remind me I bought a pair of virtual underwear for 10 bucks xD
But, if you take a bit more of perspective you’re buying a haircut, but you’re also giving money to the company to pay the server/maintenance/development costs and if they weren’t any people ready to put a bunch of money in f2p. The most probable scenario will be that the company goes bankrupt and the game life ends.
The real good debate here should be more : what kind of pricing would give them more profits. (high price with low sales, medium prices with higher? sales) I think statistics on existing games proved that their model is usually the more profitable. (since most people that are saying it’s too expensive won’t buy anything even if it’s cheaper)
(But we’re getting off topic, since the topic is “Shut up” and let’s talk about real world issues, like polution, human rights or famine…)
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Just seems like alot of the whiners are forgetting lately that no game is ever truly “F2P”. It has to make revenue, and lots of it, somehow, otherwise content updates or localization of content updates get stagnated, GM presence gets reduced, boards get less moderated, server number gets reduced, maintenance of servers get reduced thus causing lag/problems/crashing issues. Cuz lets face it, priority number 1 of where your money is going is to pay the salaries of the developers/publishers. Thats how the world works.
Isnt their a video tutorial on this made by some guy using stick figure drawings on youtube somewhere?
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I understand that but I still think that 30$ for a hairstyle is a lot. The problem is that they need much more stuff in their cash shop imo…but I guess it’s too early for that…Everything seems so rushed on the Korean server…
They should have come up with a strong cash shop with more well thought-out things. I don’t know whose fault is it Nexon or IMC…but IMC themselves seems so unsure about things and not just the cash shop that I’m a bit concerned…
Well… I never thought about the 1st one XD…but maybe the 2nd one went through my mind sometimes… I played with some Korean mmos too and I rly saw a lot of things and I’m not as impressed as you and that doesn’t mean I don’t admire their work but when they make a wrong decision…well…that still is a wrong decision.
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Who is saying this? Where are you getting this speculation? It is complete nonsense.
You don’t invest millions of dollars into creating a massive and majorly hyped game like Tree of Savior and then throw up a cash shop and say “alright, done”. This is idiotic. There have been patches/tweaks/bugfixes literally every single day of open beta for the past 2 weeks.
Look at the changes for open beta for crying out loud. Dozens of new zones, hundreds of new quests, a complete overhaul of the world map. There is so much potential left in this game, and we haven’t even discovered ranks 8-10 yet. Level cap is still ~200 levels below what we have reason to believe the eventual cap will be.
Cash shop and abandon, give me a freaking break. This game is still very much a work in progress. Maybe IMC needed to prove that it could be a legit source of income. Hackers have been caught and stop, exploits have been stopped, exploiters banned and exploits fixed. There are hundreds of man hours being poured into this game every single day. It is very, very clear that IMC has no intention of abandoning it any time soon.
Finally someone who sees one of the most glaring mistakes made in that game, concorod gender / number and degree to what you said.
Thing is alot of players like yourself and others dont realize is, what they charge in the cash shops for the KOREAN VERSION OF THE GAME may be the RIGHT DECISION and is ACCEPTABLE for KOREAS standards. Does not mean they will make the same DECISIONS for the west, nor would they. They know how harsh our critics are on games in the west, and what we view to be fair far as micro-transactions are concerned. Better to wait and see what they offer to us before stressing yourselves out and raising hell over nothing.
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I think they are angry over expensive cosmetics, also angry at the korean version of the cash shop which they believe will copy directly into our version.
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Think ya need it.
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I am not playing on kOBT, so what I say may be inaccurate, but
I will try to tell my point.
The problem is not having cosmetic items sold on the
cash shop, the problem is make an entire feature be sold on the cash shop,
like the ability of changing the player hair.
the game went full release and its the problem.a game cant ask what ever they want for cosmetic items.if its lets say 5$ then 100000 people will get it but if its 25$ then may be 10000 will get it. over pricing is never good. its not help that the game have almost no customization in the first place.
then there is a really big p2w.