Poll | Cash Shop Prices (will probably end up merged into other topics)

    Should the prices for reduced? 42

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    I understand this is a free to play game and you need to make money but the prices on some of these items are completely outrageous. To buy a hairstyle.... a HAIRSTYLE! Is 1850 SoulCash, it costs $20 to get 1800 SoulCash (that's WITH the 150% bonus), so you need to spend $25 minimum to buy a single hairstyle for a single character. That's completely ridiculous! Even Vindictus, known for being a notoriously bad cash shop, doesn't have prices this crazy.

    I love buying cosmetics for my characters, I spent close to $500 (probably more!) in League of Legends back when I played just on skins alone! They cost $5-10 for an average skin, with the Exotic tier skins being about $20. If you lowered the prices of the cosmetic items to $5 for color/hair and $10 for outfits, you would sell so many more items to people who wouldn't justify spending $25+ on a single item but would justify spending $50+ on 5-10 items. It's simple economics.

    And just to see how everyone else feels, I put a poll in.

    Yeah its a business for that reason i'm saying no, these prices are very standard for this type of game anddd seeing as they took out the only basically arguable p2w items in the cash shop just now I think they need something to keep going lol.

    But back on topic other mmorpgs (I use black desert as an example a lot but i guess I could also use closers now), closers has packs that are $120 dollars WITH stats that boost your character by a lot. As far as I can see I have no problem with outfits and hair costing $20ish dollars AS LONG as they keep the cash shop non p2w. Also I will state (I have said this before) that black desert online is a buy to play game with outfits that can cost up to $40.

    Anyways TL;DR i'm fine with the prices since their pretty standard for this type of game lol.

    I think the main problem is not being able to preview any of the cash shop items as of now, which is why most people refuse to buy anything.

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    Quote from MiahNil

    Yeah its a business for that reason i'm saying no, these prices are very standard for this type of game anddd seeing as they took out the only basically arguable p2w items in the cash shop just now I think they need something to keep going lol.

    But back on topic other mmorpgs (I use black desert as an example a lot but i guess I could also use closers now), closers has packs that are $120 dollars WITH stats that boost your character by a lot. As far as I can see I have no problem with outfits and hair costing $20ish dollars AS LONG as they keep the cash shop non p2w. Also I will state (I have said this before) that black desert online is a buy to play game with outfits that can cost up to $40.

    Anyways TL;DR i'm fine with the prices since their pretty standard for this type of game lol.

    While you're not wrong, it shouldn't be standard. As I said in the main post it's simple economics, you could have 100 whales buying 50 outfits each for 25 dollars per outfit and that's $125,000. If you had 150,000 players (SoulWorker had 208,136 players in the last two weeks) buy 2 items each for $15 total, that's $2,250,000. Let's lower that to a 5th of the players (41,627) spending $5 each, that's $208,135. What about a 10th of the player base (20,813) spending $5 each, that's $104,068. That's finally lower than the first example, which was already an extreme example. There's a higher chance of 20,000 people spending $5 each than there is for 100 people spending $1,250 each.

    Quote from Scipo0419

    If you lowered the prices of the cosmetic items to $5 for color/hair and $10 for outfits, you would sell so many more items to people who wouldn't justify spending $25+ on a single item but would justify spending $50+ on 5-10 items. It's simple economics.

    Couldn't agree more with you. Well its their loss in the end, I Just feel bad for everyone spending tons of cash on the tier 1 costumes/cosmetics right now that are overpriced af for their quality and cosmetic value. The only valuable reason to buy a costume now is to rush for a full brooch set to gain some more power, At least in my opinion.

    Quote from Scipo0419
    Quote from MiahNil

    Yeah its a business for that reason i'm saying no, these prices are very standard for this type of game anddd seeing as they took out the only basically arguable p2w items in the cash shop just now I think they need something to keep going lol.

    But back on topic other mmorpgs (I use black desert as an example a lot but i guess I could also use closers now), closers has packs that are $120 dollars WITH stats that boost your character by a lot. As far as I can see I have no problem with outfits and hair costing $20ish dollars AS LONG as they keep the cash shop non p2w. Also I will state (I have said this before) that black desert online is a buy to play game with outfits that can cost up to $40.

    Anyways TL;DR i'm fine with the prices since their pretty standard for this type of game lol.

    While you're not wrong, it shouldn't be standard. As I said in the main post it's simple economics, you could have 100 whales buying 50 outfits each for 25 dollars per outfit and that's $125,000. If you had 150,000 players (SoulWorker had 208,136 players in the last two weeks) buy 2 items each for $15 total, that's $2,250,000. Let's lower that to a 5th of the players (41,627) spending $5 each, that's $208,135. What about a 10th of the player base (20,813) spending $5 each, that's $104,068. That's finally lower than the first example, which was already an extreme example. There's a higher chance of 20,000 people spending $5 each than there is for 100 people spending $1,250 each.

    Yes you have a valid point, I just was kinda prepared for this since I have seen a lot of mmorpgs have inflated prices on their english release. I don't know if it has to do with legal matters or simply just because the united states has a lot of money compared to other countries? Either way in my opinion as long as they keep the game non p2w its completely fine with the prices, unless they go all bdo on us and start charging more and more lol. But yes I agree with you completely if less and less people buy it would be more logical for them to change their prices for the community XD.

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