Runes of Magic US / AU

Quoted from "RoMage;600480"

First of all, I never said I want Cedric back. While it lasted, I used it as price offset, I purchase dias, but had feeling getting something in return (Cedric), making whole cash shop more accessible. Did some purchases I would never do if there was no Cedric. I am fine without him, would still buy dias, but only once I feel I get enough in return for them. I am not F2P, but GF is trying to move me in that direction and it is doing a good job at it...

See, the problem with you and similar folks (like rustyx) is that you guys are taking those prices for granted - never changing. Some of prices never changed from CH1, and while they might work with huge population, today population is much smaller, there is dozen of similar games on the market, and GF has to think a good ways to make them look more competitive.

Having whole cash shop expensive as it is... we all know how many new gamers stay here... We see it every day.

Just think about it... both transport runes and daily reset tickets are NO tangible goods, it does not take them money to make them, yet they would make huge difference on population of this MMO, allowing people to advance and crash less - solving 2-3 problems by making 2 items cheap - prove me wrong.

Cheap 1-2 DIAS Daily Reset Ticket - option for players to change easier class (less expensive) will result in higher sale from people who are not even thinking to buy them at this outrages price.

Here is a bit calculation for you...

Let's use my third class as example. I am almost L56 on third, so to get to level cap I need a bit more then 955 million XP. Ways I can do that - do fly raid every day until L68/69, switch to better daily in AKOR. In the process, GF will not see single dollar from me, as I would not get any ticket even if discounted at 60%. Here is why.

To move from L56 to L69, I need 494M XP, or ~183 ticket to do fly or simillar in XP quest.
To move from L69 to 77 , I need another 462M XP, or ~140 ticket with better dailies in AKOR and higher area.

323 tickets, or at regular price 12,597 dias. If you get best deal in DIAS shop (3150 DIAS for 99), that is approximately 400 dollars for ONE class move from L56 to L77 with daily reset tickets. If you lucky and get dias at 100% and get DRT at 50% off, you still talking about 100 dollars JUST FOR DRT for one class.

Interesting, you find my recommended price outrageous, but current price is not outrageous?!

In short, I will not (and I am not, as that is my option) pay that kind of money just to get one of my classes to level cap. I WILL not (and again, I never did, nor planning to at this price) purchase any DRT for my alts either, just because of this numbers. It is too expensive.

Now, if I was offered DRT at price opf 1 DIAS when on sale, I would do my main (all 77) and at least 5 playable alts, each of them spending about 400 dias per class, and be able to try them, in the process generating GF revenue. All that revenue is missed just because I as many others find that a bit overpriced.

DO you need more price calculations, as how much each of these character cost atm to gear?

Question is, why making it too expensive to progress, and how do you plan to keep new players, even if they go trough tremendous process of downloading and installing the game if they just take calculator and find this game more expensive then any other game currently available?

Just to add to above, being close to end game (but not end game), I might make enough gold to get me ticket/two per day, but because of my understanding how much it really costs, I decide not to do that.

One more thing - adding new zone for L55 to L66 does not necessarily will help GF in making money. Fixing existing (like moving Butcher into garden, making it easier to complete quest) and offering items at proposed prices will..

This will also solve issue of DogMeat boters/farmers.

And yes, 3 alts in under 15 minutes FLY raid... really? Will log in onto arthemis, so that you can show me how...




This!

This is how I feel atm. For me, game is unreasonably expensive. Spending 200-300 dollars every 6-12 months just to regear, couple hundreds if I like to try some other class combo... renting all bags and bank slots on the top of that... even spaces inside house I paid for plan and did not come with any extra free space... seriously?


YET ANOTHER EDIT: I know, Fann would be proud of me... very Fann-like post... I must have fannitis... dangerous...

Quoted from "RoMage;600502"

As long as you don't roll class that requires secondary leveled as well, then your suggestion might work, and I don't need help to re-roll, but I am giving suggestions what would motivate me to spend RL money on this game.

Not sure if you know, but game has enough quests only for 1 class, mentioned here and there in this topic more then once.

I have alt with galloping gale, guilds buff (+10%) and 65% mount, 2 seat, still not able to run fly as fast as you.... wonder why... (i know, lame player)

I kind a not sure what you are talking about golden eggs - what happened, Frogster EU made them unreasonably hard to get, not just for botters, but for players as well, and after they made them un-traidable, price actually dropped to zero sold/zero price. IMHO, worst mover on their side...

I am not buying anything from botters or legitimate dog meat farmers, and they are not bothering me, actually they are making my life easier clearing path to garden. Still moving Butcher to garden would solve more then one thing, and small expense to GF.

Do you have any constructive idea how GF can make more money, while making paying customers more happy? With your current suggestions, I don't see how is that done... How they can attract more players and make game more affordable??

Quoted from "10Kind53;599562"

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i think gameforge should really do a reddit post. millions of people read that site everyday. and they have a strong/diverse gaming community over there. i checked, frogster tried it 4 years ago when the game was in beta, mixed reviews,
but overall people had good things to say about the game.

there is a place millions of gamers go to everyday called steam.
you can advertise through them, they are a fantastic media outlet that give smaller developers a great advantage competing against the big dogs.

on top of that, the youtube, facebook, twitter is great.
the community can share information about this game.
social media is one of the best tools you have to promote/advertise at little to no expense.

you have many powerful tools at your disposal GF.
if you build it they will come.

Quoted from "Nenysvor;599564"

Actually we have no staff member with taking care of 20 games, got often a positive response after contact with customer support and have many players coming back with the words "Looked around and found no better game". I think this is very individual, but if not and we are the best game, sure, we always can do things better.

Quoted from "mindlessthinker;601591"

Uhhh...correct me if I'm wrong, but....doesn't "I looked around and found nothing better" from returning players mean "I'm not satisfied with this game, but since there is no better alternative presently, I have nothing better to do than to stick with the least-bad one available"?

Quoted from "mindlessthinker;601591"

Uhhh...correct me if I'm wrong, but....doesn't "I looked around and found nothing better" from returning players mean "I'm not satisfied with this game, but since there is no better alternative presently, I have nothing better to do than to stick with the least-bad one available"?

Quoted from "vfwiffo;601602"

It usually means "that shiny green grass on the other side turned out to not so shiny or green. Or grass for that matter".

Quoted from "vfwiffo;601602"

It usually means "that shiny green grass on the other side turned out to not so shiny or green. Or grass for that matter". Or it means "my expectations and reality had a head-on collision, and ... umm... reality won".

Quoted from "10Kind53;600815"

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