Rubys and other itemshop issues

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 12:07am

While i really really like that some of the bare essentials have gone down in price and the luxury stuff has gone up...the itemshop is seriously broken atm and affects the whole ingame economy. And i am not talking about ABL's... let people farm their own stuff or stock up on them on a sale..idc XD

Some thoughts i'd like to have forwarded to the sales team:
1) Removing items from the cash shop that people buy OFF-sale all the time, for the full price...is a bit rediculous (ABL, +ing gems,pet perfume, speed pots n all that jazz...more below)
2) removing progression essential items is just plain ...well..dun wana be rude but thats sjust stupid O.o (+ing gems +6 +12 perfect)
3) having items that last 30 days on sale less then every 30-35 days just earns you less money O.o (speedmount pot, pet perfume etc)
4)having items people love on sale once and then never again will leave seriously dissatisfied customers (portable bank and portable AH)
5)No rubys for dia items on sale is rediculous. it doesnt work. do the math - its sometimes even not a sale anymore if u figure in the loss of rubys.

ruby prices on Govinda now exceed diamond prices by 10-30k ea. (seen 60-90k ea)

Can we please get rubys on dia-items that are on sale and the 1-2 rubys we used to get on token items back. TY. right now buying something off sale is better then buying on sale in the long run. it sucks.

when buying dias and spending them on promotions the 100-150 rubys for the +6 perfect gems are unobtainable. Especially if ur statting 14-16 items ( a whole set of gear). Without buying them from someone else or waiting for rediculously sparce dia sales on those essential pieces -> gearing and regearing is nearly impossible if u buy your own dias and dont buy rubys from a 3d party atm. Thats just unacceptable.

Also seeing as most classes have atm no use what so ever for the 80 +ing gems can we atleast get the 70's back?

honestly have the stuff we NEED in the itemshop at all times! For a higher amount of rubys/dias whaterver.... and having essential stuff ruby only doesnt work either.

If i could stat and + the 6 items i have backed up now i would. for a higher price then if i had to wait weeks and weeks on end. Thats what the word Sale means... reduced price... not only way to obtain.

That beeing said: if we can get our hands on rubys like we could before the current IS pricing seems way more sustainable then the one we had before... but buying dias n still not beeing able to gear up is just aigainst your and the comunitys interest.

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LadyMacV

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 12:46am

What's vexing me most right now about the IS is the removal of Master's Simple Repair hammers.

It now costs me an entire TOSH run's worth of mementos to get a stack of simple repair hammers, or IDK how many nights running COT and SG to obtain them. Yes, I can get them with honor points from OS- for three hundred honor points PER HAMMER.

Honestly, why they removed this item is beyond me. It was one of the benefits to getting most or all of my gear OD after multiple runs- now if I have to spring for the goldens/adv packs, there's no point in me running the instance beyond UD gear.

And yes, rubies are getting pretty scarce. I would like to see the bonus back on sale items (but not on items solely purchased for the bonus). They dropped the ruby to purchase ratio way too low to justify purchasing diamonds. The perfect increases need to come down too. A perfect gem should be no higher than 80 rubies per, regardless of the level attached. That's manageable.

But seriously- put the Master's Simple Repair hammers back in the item shop as a permanent item, please. My OD gear has to have a reward worth the effort to get.

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Googleboxx

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 1:52am

you can get repair hammers from minigames.

thats not game breaking.

try regearing atm u will need ~15*150 rubys which atm is impossible.

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ruisen2000

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 2:11am

I have so much of those Master's Simple and Simple repair hammers from gobs and COT that i throw stacks of them away o.O And you could always repair your equipment from the mento guys standing right at the entrance of TOSH. I mean, thats only like a few thousand gold...

I liked the way the IS was back in CH 4 (not including the price hikes), with tons of double dias sales. People that wanted to spend their real $$ can do so, and people that wanted to buy it with gold can do so as well. This silly diamond and ruby embargo on our poor RoM economy is just silly.

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dexhunterz

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 2:21am

Quoted from "ruisen2000;564073"

I have so much of those Master's Simple and Simple repair hammers from gobs and COT that i throw stacks of them away o.O And you could always repair your equipment from the mento guys standing right at the entrance of TOSH. I mean, thats only like a few thousand gold...

I liked the way the IS was back in CH 4 (not including the price hikes), with tons of double dias sales. People that wanted to spend their real $$ can do so, and people that wanted to buy it with gold can do so as well. This silly diamond and ruby embargo on our poor RoM economy is just silly.

Right? I never seen a company that wants to limit the amount of money they make. Its odd.

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ruisen2000

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 2:24am

Quoted from "dexhunterz;564074"

Right? I never seen a company that wants to limit the amount of money they make. Its odd.

Frogster is one of those companies though.

They tend to think in special ways (like price hikes during SW delay times when people got mad and many refused to buy diamonds. it takes very special logic to be able to think that people who are not buying will starting buying again if you raise prices.)

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regentego

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 2:36am

My advice for the weekend, the 10% off puris and AT charges is not worth the ruby loss. Gameforge Rubies are a reward for buying diamonds, so knock the stupidity off and show you appreciate paying players. Appreciation goes a long way especially with buggy content.

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LadyMacV

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 4:15pm

Quoted from "ruisen2000;564073"

I have so much of those Master's Simple and Simple repair hammers from gobs and COT that i throw stacks of them away o.O And you could always repair your equipment from the mento guys standing right at the entrance of TOSH. I mean, thats only like a few thousand gold...

You're throwing hammers away?

Dude, they're worth a lot of gold to the folks who are running TOSH 2-3 times a day right now. Haven't you noticed there are almost none in the AH anymore? Put them up in the AH at 1.5 - 2m a stack and make yourself some profit.

It's easy to say "Oh, just go repair at the mem vendors". It's less easy to do that when you're not at a point where it's feasible to leave the group to go repair (like, right before boss 5-7) and then have to hold the rest of the group up while they wait for you to get back. Right after 4 is where I put a halt to that, because it takes too long (even with mad rush and spellweaver) to run back through the instance.

Also, in trying to become one of the few people on Reni who can actually kite the small bears on Annelia successfully- I've gone through more simples than I care to admit.

Just put the darned Master Hammers back in the diamond shop, please.

In a world of black, white, and grey... I'd be bright friggin' purple. M/P on Reni.

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LadyMacV

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 4:18pm

Quoted from "Googleboxx;564071"

you can get repair hammers from minigames.

thats not game breaking.

try regearing atm u will need ~15*150 rubys which atm is impossible.

If you're buying diamonds, you need to buy 15 of the premium refining packages. That nets you roughly one perfect +6 jewel per piece of equipment, 150 golden repair hammers, 150 each of the +6 jewels, and advanced armor, weapon, and accessory drillers.

If you're buying with gold, I wish you luck.

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Winston

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 6:13pm

or... rez out and repair?

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Borella

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 9:16pm

Quoted from "Winston;564128"

or... rez out and repair?

Yeah but with ToSh rezzing out to repair = using a transport rune. That stuff gets annoying.

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Ravesden

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Saturday, August 11th 2012, 9:37pm

Quoted from "Winston;564128"

or... rez out and repair?

You can't seriously tell me that when you've depleted your simple/master repair hammer resources, and the AH price for a stack of simples is 1.5mill and rising - that people rezzing out of tosh and having to wait for them to port (if you're lucky) and repair, then run alllllll the way back in, is not in ANY way annoying, a waste of time, and never slows the run down.

I like my 1 hour tosh runs. Id rather not fall asleep at the keyboard waiting at the boss because someone died and needs to repair and run back.

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ReagenL

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Sunday, August 12th 2012, 7:11am

Quoted from "Ravesden;564155"

You can't seriously tell me that when you've depleted your simple/master repair hammer resources, and the AH price for a stack of simples is 1.5mill and rising - that people rezzing out of tosh and having to wait for them to port (if you're lucky) and repair, then run alllllll the way back in, is not in ANY way annoying, a waste of time, and never slows the run down.

I like my 1 hour tosh runs. Id rather not fall asleep at the keyboard waiting at the boss because someone died and needs to repair and run back.

That would just mean your impatient. lol

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