Why Is The Game So Expensive And Totally Overpriced

This game has been in alpha for 3 years, and the company is still charging ridiculous prices for an MMO RPG that hasn't even released yet. Other popular MMO RPG's such as World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, Albion Online, etc, cower in price compared to this game. I see people requesting that they bring out the $500 USD package again and this is probably the craziest thing i have ever read in my entire life. The developers for this game are clearly greedy scum that only wish to take peoples money and don't have any intentions of releasing a good game. Frankly i was excited to invest and enjoy this game but as soon as i registered and account and looked into the price i almost passed out, $15 USD usually converts to about $30 AUD amounting to approximately $360 AUD a year. I could roughly purchase 3 streaming services each month for the sole price of this games ALPHA! I saw people in the forums agreeing to pay double for a life time subscription and this astounds me, this game could amount to many small bills and i cannot imagine why anyone would invest in a venture like this.

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Ne0

USD i mean

Luent

Ne0 wrote: »

As i have stated the usual conversion is $25 (not 30 mb) not 20.95 which is $10 more than WoW

Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch for a Monthly subscription game... there's gonna need to be a change with that because that sums up to around $300 AUD a year, bit much for an upcoming MMORPG? and just to help all of you simple-minders WOW has always been $15 AUD monthly subscription so don't tell me that they have always been able to support that price because they haven't, they've managed the game properly because I'm telling you if WOW had a price such as this it would no way have as near players playing that game as much as it would now.

Noaani

Ne0 wrote: »

usually 1.5 AUD is equal to 1.0 AUD

That's the thing with buying internationally, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.

If you buy when it is at 1.5/1 then you lose, so don't buy then.

However, right now it is at less than 1.1/1, so you have nothing to complain about right now. Maybe if the dubloon/dollarydoo were stronger, you would get yourself a situation where you had a 0.8/1 rate, and you could get your subscription for $12aud - because that is how currencies work.

Luent

Throw your one-sided paragraphs at me, won't you?

HazardNumberSeven

Great. Thanks for sharing your opinions.

I think that will do.

Ne0

Well done trying to get the last word in, as if u control whether we're done or not lmao

winner909098

Luent wrote: »

Ne0 wrote: »

As i have stated the usual conversion is $25 (not 30 mb) not 20.95 which is $10 more than WoW

Yeah, that is a bit of a stretch for a Monthly subscription game... there's gonna need to be a change with that because that sums up to around $300 AUD a year, bit much for an upcoming MMORPG? and just to help all of you simple-minders WOW has always been $15 AUD monthly subscription so don't tell me that they have always been able to support that price because they haven't, they've managed the game properly because I'm telling you if WOW had a price such as this it would no way have as near players playing that game as much as it would now.

well, you dont have to get it, and the devs at intrepid need money for maintaining servers and adding updates.

Noaani

Ne0 wrote: »

Well done trying to get the last word in, as if u control whether we're done or not lmao

He controls whether he is done or not. I don't think there is anything more to that post than this.

Jahlon

Its almost like MMORPGs take millions of dollars to make.

George_Black

@Ne0
@Luent
Come back and tell me more about AUD. This thread cant end like this.

Noaani

George Black wrote: »

@Ne0
@Luent
Come back and tell me more about AUD. This thread cant end like this.

Spot poll, Dubloons, or Dollarydoos?

HazardNumberSeven

noaani wrote: »

George Black wrote: »

@Ne0
@Luent
Come back and tell me more about AUD. This thread cant end like this.

Spot poll, Dubloons, or Dollarydoos?

Not like anything important is going on in this thread, so maybe this will help you decide between dollarydoo or dubloon. Here's the front and back of our dollar! Roo and Queen included!

Noaani

Fairly sure you just did that up in MS paint.

Nagash

You know the old saying if you can't afford it don't buy it

U5urPator

I mean, this must be 2 trolls, no?

Comparing it to other MMOs the pay model seems pretty fair to me. You pay 15€/$ a month and you can play the game. No initial cost, no nothing.

Now, the Kickstarter and other founder packs seem expensive in the first place, but aren't really. It's an optional path you may take, but you don't have to and other games have done the same. I remember Warframe as a really prominent example with their 350$ founder pack. And their game is fully free of charge.

I can understand that people dislike subscription models, but it has its upside. One of which being constant flow of money towards the publisher and developer, so they don't have to stress on releasing weekly cash shop additions.
Additionally, the subscription fee might be on the top spectrum as many popular MMOs range between 10$ and 15$, but all the big ones have about the same sub cost and additionally have a box cost (FFXIV, WoW, ESO kinda).

Lastly, if you get cucked by the country you're living in, that might be sad, but instead of generalising and calling something fraud, try to get into a reasonable discussion with devs. Crying never helps. Especially, when the game isn't even released.

Lafi

Ne0 wrote: »

This game has been in alpha for 3 years .

this is wrong by the way its pre-alpha for 3 years.
now before you say something like 'even more reason not to charge so much'
that isn't a long time for development. please understand that 3 is barely half the time it takes to make any of the mmos you listed in post.

however your point about it being expensive etc.
you're comparing an optional OTB to the full release of titles
on release, to compare to the titles you listed, its at $15 a month.

its not expensive to play. its expensive to test.

thanks for listening to my ted talk

darthaden

Wait, wasnt Albion online a kickstarter game at one point as well?

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Nagash

darthaden wrote: »

Wait, wasnt Albion online a kickstarter game at one point as well?

It was

thorgar runemaster

Nobody force you to pay that amount.

When the game come out 15$/month is not that expensive.

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