New Item Shop prices, lower?

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 7:41am

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"And this is only the tip of the iceberg. You can also look forward to many other items that will be available in the Item Shop at a lower price!"

Has anyone else noticed that some of the apparently lower prices in the list are actually higher?

Equipment Release - Current: 5 for 5 New: 10 for 15

Star Jewel - Blessing - Current: 10 for 8 New: 10 for 9

Adventurer Package - Not currently in our Item Shop

Refining Starter Package - Not currently in our Item Shop

Sweetheart's Pink Bed - Current: 34 New: 40

Hopefully this is because they just reposted the European announcement on our page and our prices will be a bit lower due to the difference in exchange rate between the Dollar and the Euro (as it currently is).

Basically the price drops are reflecting that diamond sales will be few and far between and we will be paying the "real" price for items now.

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RiannasHope

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 9:09am

Prices were increased for certain items due to their high practical value, and we in no way want to withhold this information from you:

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 4:53pm

yeah lots of items will actuallly be higher then now. Question will be if any of those items are ones needed for being competitive or if all of them are more of the housey, mount stuff.

Ill have a heart attack if abls go up in prices along with 2nd+ rune slot drillers +12 gems etc.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 5:15pm

Quoted from "RiannasHope;535594"

Prices were increased for certain items due to their high practical value, and we in no way want to withhold this information from you:

I was thinking that was for the items listed under that text. The items above were the ones getting a lower price yet some of them went up or only had 1 ruby added

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 5:23pm

Check out the thread "don't believe the diamond hype". Item shop prices are only half the equation.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 6:06pm

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RiannasHope: The items I listed are from above the higher priced item section.

Hollyesprit: Yep, as I noted at the bottom of my post.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 9:10pm

Quoted from "RiannasHope;535594"

Prices were increased for certain items due to their high practical value, and we in no way want to withhold this information from you:

So an item that sells a lot will go up in diamonds prices, nice. LMAO sale people should think about finding another job, McDonalds is hiring now GOGOGO!!!!. You can watch my diamond buying from now on, 0. Why bother when all you want is not giving back. Virtual items, not real, doesn't cost you anything to give it to us, apart the hamster writing the code, and even that they mess up so.

I'm sorry to say you guys ( Frogster or whoever truly run this game) are clueless.

You have an awesome game that you probably just don't even enjoy playing or haven't even played it.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 9:16pm

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It does cost real life money to create, maintain and operate a game.

The choices they make on the pricing and availability of those virtual items with dictate how long they continue to operate.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 9:25pm

That is not what i said Frog, i said it doesn't cost them anything to give us said items. More we buy of those items, more diamonds we buy, more money they make. If they would stop trying to improve stuff and break it and actually just make it like when FA was here, when they were making a crap ton of money.

But i probably can add things up that well but they are still totally clueless about equations.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 10:00pm

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I wasn't trying to criticize what you said. I was adding to it.

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 10:40pm

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So an item that sells a lot will go up in diamonds prices...

I'm sorry to say you guys ( Frogster or whoever truly run this game) are clueless.

Look again - the items that are going up in price are all items you would only need 1 of, if you'd even need them at all.

Items coming down in price are the consumables that really should be lower priced already!

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Saturday, June 9th 2012, 10:48pm

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I wasn't trying to criticize what you said. I was adding to it.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 12:49am

Quoted from "RiannasHope;535594"

Prices were increased for certain items due to their high practical value, and we in no way want to withhold this information from you:

Who cares? Those are mainly the non-every day items anyways like Flame and Star. People with flying rune disc wouldn't bother buying those anyways.

Plus with purified fusion stones at ONLY 19 diamonds compared to the normal 50 diamonds, which is like the MOST popular item shop item... I have nothing to complain about.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 1:06am

Quoted from "zidlef;535673"

So an item that sells a lot will go up in diamonds prices, nice. LMAO sale people should think about finding another job, McDonalds is hiring now GOGOGO!!!!. You can watch my diamond buying from now on, 0. Why bother when all you want is not giving back. Virtual items, not real, doesn't cost you anything to give it to us, apart the hamster writing the code, and even that they mess up so.

I'm sorry to say you guys ( Frogster or whoever truly run this game) are clueless.

You have an awesome game that you probably just don't even enjoy playing or haven't even played it.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 1:37am

*carefully avoiding stupidity in the thread....* Phew, made it, just barely.

Here is a question to Europeans. At one point, FA adjusted the prices of all items in phirius shop. They were all over the place and didn't really follow same pattern as prices in diamond shop. So, they set 1 diamond = 20 shell rule and repriced everything in token shop.

Has FEU ever done the same, and your token shop prices follow the same 1/20 formula? If so, we can expect the reprice to hit both shops. If not, they have to be poked and prodded to do that.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 2:16am

Quoted from "vfwiffo;535724"

*carefully avoiding stupidity in the thread....* Phew, made it, just barely.

Here is a question to Europeans. At one point, FA adjusted the prices of all items in phirius shop. They were all over the place and didn't really follow same pattern as prices in diamond shop. So, they set 1 diamond = 20 shell rule and repriced everything in token shop.

Has FEU ever done the same, and your token shop prices follow the same 1/20 formula? If so, we can expect the reprice to hit both shops. If not, they have to be poked and prodded to do that.

EU:
puri = 39 dias OR 1170 tokens
bind lifter = 25 dias OR 750 tokens
10 charges = 19 dias OR 300 tokens
god's redemption ticket = 19 dias OR 570 phirius tokens
big angel's sigh = 15 dias OR 450 tokens

so no. and the IS changes they're making didn't mention the token shop, so the gap might be even wider soon.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 5:20pm

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EU:
puri = 39 dias OR 1170 tokens
bind lifter = 25 dias OR 750 tokens
10 charges = 19 dias OR 300 tokens
god's redemption ticket = 19 dias OR 570 phirius tokens
big angel's sigh = 15 dias OR 450 tokens

so no. and the IS changes they're making didn't mention the token shop, so the gap might be even wider soon.

Hmm so if that post from Frogster was generic and they do not merge the IS we cold be looking at 30 diamonds per puri. Or on the flip side we get their IS and lose ABLs.

A little more clarification would have been nice but Tuesday is right around the corner, we shall see, but never dissapoints in the disappointing department, heck its the only working department in the company!

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 7:42pm

I really thought Frogster would have said something to the US players by now. I was at least expecting to see a confirm or deny statement since they're usually fast to intercept when the community jumps to conclusions. Yet not a word has been said about the US item shop on the forums or on facebook. I know Frogster isn't always on the ball, and sometimes their announcements come late, but if there were ANY news for us at all on this topic (shop merge, price changes, anything in-between or above and beyond) they would have said *something* by now. Either as a post on one of the existing threads or in an official announcement.

So therefore, unless an *official* statement is made in regards to the US item shop, I'm just going to take it as what Frogster has made it out to be, which is that the EU servers get price changes and the US servers get nothing.

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 7:47pm

http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/news,id298…_repricing.html

For some reason this hasn't made it to the forums. Aetherth is perhaps a bit rusty not having it in the News and Announcements section :p

Edit: and by rusty I mean out of practice, not a wearer of a pink hat, just to that clear up

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Sunday, June 10th 2012, 8:19pm

Quoted from "KatalanOrk;535841"

http://us.runesofmagic.com/us/news,id298…_repricing.html

For some reason this hasn't made it to the forums. Aetherth is perhaps a bit rusty not having it in the News and Announcements section :p

Edit: and by rusty I mean out of practice, not a wearer of a pink hat, just to that clear up

Ah well then that would be why. I rescind my previous post.

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