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Posts by White Rabbit
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Know a friend, possibly get the friend to get you a steam giftcard. If that isn't an option and you are using standalone. RIP is you
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Why spend 20$ for a complete outfit when you could spend 100 and only own 2 out of 5 pieces.
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Wow, and here I thought it was limited to the ingame purchases with their faulty buttons.
Gameforge has no shame
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I failed 50 times to get from +6-7 and I am still not 7
Gitgud scrub
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Panic
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I will not buy it to not support such disrespectful actions. Releasing a costume without the option of buying it alone. Seriously? Though knowing them it'd be 3k soulcoin by itself anyway.
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Releasing expensive tiers of items: Check
Releasing combo packs with items that you literally just released that everyone bought, locking a new outfit behind it: Check
Scummy moves, master license.
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Considering they price the protection tickets at 2USD a pop. This is beyond retarded. Used up all of my freebies in a single go.
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So, failing on a +7 from +6 around 50 times in a row is normal?
Just wondering how these rates compare to others, and to JP.
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Bonus EP is meh for me, I rarely play hard enough to use it all. But, its very good for all involved. Not p2w if everyone can partake in it. Can't afford? buy some soulcash huhuhu
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....But it took me 6 days to reach 55. Without abusing everything that I could.
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Even if VAT taxes, and fees are included into their pricing scheme on top of the exchange rates..It only opens up a more, even worse line of bs.
-Imposing the penalties that are meant for YOU onto the playerbase, rather than keeping it fair for the players at large.
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Time definitely is the make it or break it. If you can score a fast enough time..The rest never really seems to come into play. Prob getting hit less getting a low time anyway
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Display MoreThat's not even a substantial source to back up your statement, okay.
Let's do some math!
Currently, 1 USD is worth 1.28 CAD
$19.99, the "2k" price for SoulCash is supposed to be equivalent to 25.60 CAD, but currently the cost is 28.00 CAD - a 2.40 CAD difference, almost the same in USD surprisingly.
$99.99, the "14k" price for SoulCash is not so simple to convert. Some shops will reward you with more currency based on how high you purchase! Batch purchases! There is a $80 difference between the prices and by $5 intervals, $100 should be 6k SoulCash. What does this mean? You can't size them down by ration, so we'll have to compare them separately.
$99.99 USD is worth $128.07 CAD currently. The last time Gameforge published a game was in April 27th, 2016 (give or take a few units of time, I just did a quick google search.) and back then the CAD was around 1.4 exchange rate to the USD.
Let's do the math!
If you now round up to a proper monetary format, you'll hit 139.99, or $140 CAD if you have some kind of more precise number, as it's not exactly 1.4 because that's just an estimate.
Literally half of what I wrote was pointless, illuminati confirmed.
There is no point in using the conversion rate of CAD to USD since gameforge is based in EU they most likely convert all money made into EUR. (Everything below is based on the currency exchange rate of Apr. 27th, 2016)
With that in mind using what you said about when their last game was published 99.99 EUR would be about $140.00 CAD.
The same can be said about USD to EUR except that USD price is actully equal to about 80 EUR. So i can understand the soul cash being somewhat less for the US since you would need to spend about $115 to hit 99.99 EUR.
So in the end its not the conversion rates of real currency that are the issue its the conversion of real currency and premium currency. It comes down to them not giving the correct amount of soul cash to regions despite spending the same amount in EUR after conversion. Whats even worse is that if prices and premium currency amounts are the same for their other games that means they have been ripping off their non EU customers since 2016 or longer.
Unless phelon was talking about money to soul cash exchange rates in his post i would have to call BS since the exchange rates are technically correct when converting to EUR based on old exchange rates. Also even if they are not up to date there will still be the issue of players in different regions getting less soul cash despite spending the same amount in EUR after conversion. Maybe there are other factors to this but from what i can understand there is something wrong (although no one is really disputing that.)
I used this sites currency converter since it lets you choose the date and uses the rates for that date.
This precisely. Just because USD and CAD equal out to near the same amount, does not excuse the existence of the EU anomaly.
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The most outrageous and outright criminal thing are the extremely fucked, unbalanced exchange rates. Canada is essentially paying DOUBLE of what the rest of NA pays.
Wait, double?
Gameforge does not follow global exchange rates in their pricing policies.
Where did you get that information?
The cash shop prices for purchasing soulcoin. You can see it yourself.
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The most outrageous and outright criminal thing are the extremely fucked, unbalanced exchange rates. Canada is essentially paying DOUBLE of what the rest of NA pays.
Wait, double?
Gameforge does not follow global exchange rates in their pricing policies.
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What is so hard about simply having a static amount of cash for each tier, and adjusting each price based on percentages relative to the global standard?
They do! It's based on an old conversion. You can tell because if you compared the CAD and USD prices and look up the differences to the currencies now, there isn't that huge a gap on the values. Hopefully Pholen will keep his word and update the conversion rates!
Without even factoring the 140 CAD option that has 221% - 13,250 as opposed to 200%, An EU player playing the NA server can buy the same amount with far far less, over 50%. Double is a 'strong word' but it is closer to that than not. Exchange rate - 1 CAD/.63 EU
However, if this WAS the case, that option..Without even factoring the 21% extra, would only bring the CAD purchase to 17,640. Still 2370 off of the price EU gets. - Meaning 100 Euro spent through exchange ON THIS SAME OPTION, as opposed to the gameforge eu option. A 20% (closer to 30% after 21% factored) deficit.
Complete crap it is.
-To make it simpler use the basic option. CAD should be $6.4 for 500 soulcash based on the european rates for NA server. - NA SERVER, not EU. Yet Canada only receives 300 for SEVEN?!?
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It looks like they just set prices in a stem region-specific manner. For example, I can buy a 60$ game for 25$ or even below because I live in Ukraine and steam store is cheap here.
However, this is more like buying 3/4ths of a game in another region for 40$ more. Even after exchanges are factored in.
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Speaking of things that are hard to get in game, is there any other way to get energy converters than spending 28000 BP? It doesn't make sense to spend that much BP on them at that price because it'd be easier to just re-craft your gear.
Nope, it is only that or a potential future event. Nothing else, period.
