Justifying hair prices.

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    This post confuses me so much. I can't think of any mmo that doesnt let me keep the hairstyle i bought. And i've tried my hand at a fair amount of MMOs in my time.

    Black Desert Online, Dragon Nest, and now Blade and Soul come to mind, now that NTR mentioned it.

    The prices could have a number of factors included- Valve (Steam platform)profit cut, VAT re-adjustments, weird European tax adjustments. Who knows really.


    What i do know is GameForge is first and foremost a European publisher, and my personal experience with EU publisher cashshop prices- is that they have been higher then NA-based publishing cashshop prices.


    I'm really speculating here, because i honestly don't know what GameForge wants in terms of economic revenue, i just know what I've experienced in the past.


    Here is one thing i do know for certain, the Euro is super-duper unstable and even people in the UK dread it's existence, or so I've read and been told by some fellow gamers/friends who are UK residents.

    It was just off the top of my head earlier, but just to name a few others. Tera, FF XIV (although in that one you can change hairstyles with ingame currency), Archeage, PSO2 all don't let you keep hairstyles AFAIK. Could be wrong on like one of them.


    There are just as many popular MMOs that let you keep your hair as those who don't so, either way that argument is moot.

    That provides some nice insight. If that is true, the situation is a little more forgivable, but if it IS true, that also means the prices technically shouldn't be as high as they are, since it is unstable anyways.

    I guess bns doesn't have a dedicated slot to change hairstyles, but you still can change them since they're released with costumes. Hairstyle costumes are never more than $10 btw.


    Even assuming you want to change the base hairstyle with a character customization ticket, it costs a bit over $10 to do that, and that's changing your entire character appearance, not just the hair.


    I get what you're trying to say with this post, but $25 minimum for a decent hairstyle is nonsense.

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    It was just off the top of my head earlier, but just to name a few others. Tera, FF XIV (although in that one you can change hairstyles with ingame currency), Archeage, PSO2 all don't let you keep hairstyles.


    There are just as many popular MMOs that let you keep your hair as those who don't so, either way that argument is moot.

    But at the end of the day, none as expensive as 20$. But yeah, you're right.

    while i can't allow my self to buy one xD


    but i see it's a good call

    in the end soulworker for me is all about the look


    and it's better that they win using costumes rather than thing make the game p2w

    but i agree about that if you bought it once you should own it no need to extra to switch back to your old one


    i know it's a little expensive for me and others

    but you have to think about how the company need to win $$

    the game for us is business for them :P and i totally understand their point :P


    but hay , that's my opinion it could be different from yours :P

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    It was just off the top of my head earlier, but just to name a few others. Tera, FF XIV (although in that one you can change hairstyles with ingame currency), Archeage, PSO2 all don't let you keep hairstyles.


    There are just as many popular MMOs that let you keep your hair as those who don't so, either way that argument is moot.

    But at the end of the day, none as expensive as 20$. But yeah, you're right.

    I suppose it's not for some people. OP is just trying to justify it a little, but most people don't really care what the reasoning is.


    Either way, F2P players always have a way to get cash shop items anyways, because cash shop users need DZ too.

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    Black Desert, arguably one of the more popular "recent" MMOs don't let you keep any hairstyle you want. It is about 8USD a pop. Probably more than that since you can't buy an exact 8 dollars worth of pearls, so just say 10 dollars per change.


    Black desert lets you change your complete appearance from hairstyle to body and face sliders at will as long as you have their value pack, basically a subscription package ($15/month).


    Alternatively they give out free currency every day (loyalties) and you can buy a 1 day value pack for 2 weeks worth of loyalties.


    So if you were so extremely inclined, you could change your entire character's appearance completely at will as long as you have the package, which you can get either by buying with real money, buying the 1-day one from free currency, or getting lucky and winning one off the marketplace with in-game currency. I would hardly call it "$8-10 per change" when for $15 you can change it as many times as you could possibly want for 30 days, with that $15 including a huge amount of other ingame benefits.

    This wasn't a discussion to compare entire different companies and how much you get for your money on totally different games. It was listing games that do and do not give a "slot" for hair since people were claiming that nearly all MMOs let you keep your hair.


    But for arguments sake not everyone has a value pack or buys the value pack in BDO. Just like some people here can't see themselves spending/can't afford spending 20 dollars. So technically, despite the value pack and these other options EXISTING, people are still buying single change coupons every now and again.


    Also the value pack didn't always exist in BDO, so who knows. Maybe something similar/in the middle will come to Soul Worker. Some type of "subscription".