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Re: $15 per month
@Noaani I may have muddied the waters, but hopefully I can clear this up.
@JONTA
In the USA (and Canada) items are stated pre-tax. This means that everyone in the USA expects to pay a little more than $15 for a $15 item. This can be mind blowing to Europeans, who are used to seeing tax included in a stated price.
$15 USD is currently £10.88 GBP, but your bank often won't give you a competitive exchange rate so by the time you've paid a bank transaction fee and 20% VAT(*), $15 USD (pre-taxes) could cost ~£13.50 GBP (including taxes).
(*) I'm not sure where the name 'Value Added Tax' comes from - the taxman isn't adding any value, just making the item more expensive!
Following the same logic $20 USD (pre-taxes) could cost ~£18 GBP (including taxes).
I offer this by way of explanation for my previous post.
@JONTA
In the USA (and Canada) items are stated pre-tax. This means that everyone in the USA expects to pay a little more than $15 for a $15 item. This can be mind blowing to Europeans, who are used to seeing tax included in a stated price.
$15 USD is currently £10.88 GBP, but your bank often won't give you a competitive exchange rate so by the time you've paid a bank transaction fee and 20% VAT(*), $15 USD (pre-taxes) could cost ~£13.50 GBP (including taxes).
(*) I'm not sure where the name 'Value Added Tax' comes from - the taxman isn't adding any value, just making the item more expensive!
Following the same logic $20 USD (pre-taxes) could cost ~£18 GBP (including taxes).
I offer this by way of explanation for my previous post.
Re: Guide to Alpha One
hefty paywall for testing the game, i look forward to release though! me and a few friends of course, gotta bring the homies
Hefty pay wall is not a bad thing. It discourages trolls and encourages serious gamers to test the game.
I love to see people not paying attention to what they pay for. You can go to your account to see what alpha you have access to.
Thanks.
proxiy
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Re: Gear Drops
It is a virtual world after all, so in a back-end kind of way it makes sense calling it a (digital) certificate. A digital certificate is a string of characters, as is that deer pelt in the game. In the game, to the characters, they are very real items.
If our world is indeed a simulation as well (fun rabbithole to go down as a thought experiment), the carrots we grow or buy at the store are nothing but digital certificates as well, but they still nourish us in the simulation we call real life.
I like to think of carrots as more of a digital array of atoms... When I eat them, I transfer some of that array into my own array. Later on, I dump some of the less useful data from the carrot...
Vhaeyne
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Re: $15 per month
Sure, profit is profit, but what's the use of short term profit when you want the game to have as many players as possible.
It isn't short term profit, that is why we are talking about subscription price and not adding a box cost.
Adding a box cost would have the effect you are talking about, an I creased subscription would not.
Most people don't have a problem with paying £50 for a game with the first month sub included then £10,,$15 a month. But that £20,,$20 a month even with the game free to download is still double the cost every month, and that is what people will see .
Any ways I 've put my points across and at the end of the day they will charge as they want and people with either sub or not..
Who said anything about £20?
We are talking about going from $15 to $20, an increase of 33%. Take what ever currency you pay in and increase it by 33%, and that is what we are talking about.
If you currently pay £10, then we are talking about £13.33. Not £20.
Noaani
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Re: Gathering Events
I think the first five minutes after a node siege ends should be a massive gathering and salvage event. It's not grave-robbing if they haven't been buried yet.
CROW3
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Re: Gear Drops
Enigmatic Sage wrote: »It sounds weird saying hunting certificate. Why even call it a certificate if it implies items such as pelts. Even if it's unique to the economic region(s) it still seems out of place. By definition, a certificate is not a pelt unless the document is forged on the pelt? Considering it will be used for other anatomical parts pertaining hunting it seems off.
I am sure it's just jargon for us to overthink and endlessly debate. Like tank as a base class name...
I can't wait to load my tank full of hunting certificates.
What if you name your tank "tank"? or something contradictory to being a tank?
Maybe "TankTank" the guardian?
lol...
Re: Gear Drops
Enigmatic Sage wrote: »It sounds weird saying hunting certificate. Why even call it a certificate if it implies items such as pelts. Even if it's unique to the economic region(s) it still seems out of place. By definition, a certificate is not a pelt unless the document is forged on the pelt? Considering it will be used for other anatomical parts pertaining hunting it seems off.
I am sure it's just jargon for us to overthink and endlessly debate. Like tank as a base class name...
I can't wait to load my tank full of hunting certificates.
Vhaeyne
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Re: OCE Server - Expectations, Reality
The promise of OCE servers is the reason I backed this game. I look forward to finally being able to play an MMO without lag.
I for one am not worried about population. I would without hesitation, doubt or regret (or even complaint!) always play on a dead server with no lag, than on a populated server with lag.
I for one am not worried about population. I would without hesitation, doubt or regret (or even complaint!) always play on a dead server with no lag, than on a populated server with lag.
Re: If it came down to it: The 1 Thing You'd Choose to Cut from Development, for Time's Sake?
The stock exchange system https://ashesofcreation.wiki/Stock_exchange
Seems like a part of the game that could easily be added in a later patch instead of being a launch feature.
Seems like a part of the game that could easily be added in a later patch instead of being a launch feature.
Talents
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Re: If it came down to it: The 1 Thing You'd Choose to Cut from Development, for Time's Sake?
Perhaps there are a dozen or more tunnels between the continents, making trade between them fairly easy, and ships not really necessary. Then perhaps those tunnels collapse for "reasons", cutting off that easy trade, and creating the need for ships where before there was no need.
I like this idea. would be really cool and an ambush in the darkness would be an awesome experience with the blooms, particles and flares disrupting the darkness. I doubt the under realm would be pitch black but in my head the Mage's old orb skill would be very useful if the darkness compounds or if the Mage's orb skill returns.
Neurath
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