We expect them to regionalize prices to our reality.
RC prices are higher here. Not only our countries realities are very different from EU and NA, we’re also paying a higher conversion rate than it should be.
For instance, the cheapest pack (1000 RC) costs BRL 56,99. That’s USD 11,20. Why ?
The most expensive pack price here in Brazil is 50% of our country minimun wage. And on other countries in SA things are even worse than this.
They did this for New World, why can’t they also do this on Lost Ark ?
AGS want lostark to become new world 2? If many ppl will give up and stop playing, this game will die soon… This game become everyday more and more p2w, f2p have 2 choice, stop playing or make many alts and stay non-stop in game until become zombies
why do you “need” purple crystals? Be very careful with how you answer because I am going to make you look stupid with how little time and effort it will take you to earn gold to buy purple crystals at the current price to make your dreams come true.
You say you need localized pricing to make it fair, but BRO they are a company trying to make money. After conversion they make 1/5-1/10th the amount of money for selling the same goods. In the overall spectrum of things the amount of money SA would generate compared to anywhere else is so insignificant its not worth the effort. Also the top 5% spenders spend money than the 95% combined. Whales in SA are still gonna whale, so therefore the money the whales generate at the current price is way more than the money generated by localization.
The RC is a virtual good, there is no production cost involved. Ignoring an entire region with millions of potential customers doesn’t make the player base from other regions grow (NA/EU), so for a global company, ignoring a continent with potential of profit makes no logical sense. Even companies that have production costs, such as McDonalds, have regionalized prices. It’s better to profit 1/5 of the NA in SA, than not to profit at all in SA and just stay in NA, you know? In fact, regionalized prices make people buy more your product. Profit is profit.
may be but without that 95% not much will be left to play with
whales need plankton to show off
there something called Laffer curve in taxes but it will work werry well here to imho
its just a game even with > 2k hours/2k$ invested when shit go through barier of absurd ppls will just move on
SG devs are gods in this world if they would want to fix economy they would
to expensive accesories? increase drop rates of good ones
not enough blue crystals sold/to big prices? make 30-85% limited time dicounts
ppls are quiting? gather informations whats the reasons and imprve those parts of the game
tbh you just need to care a bit about audience
problem is that everyone watches other regions more or less and they dont really care about anything outside KR, not best business to show your most loyal customers that there can be a better version of something they are used to
if purple crystals are 3500 gold per 95 you need 17500 gold for 5 packs of 95 to have enough
you make 16200 gold if you have 6 1400 characters from just argos weekly, lets assume you have 3
so in 2 weeks from just argos you make 16200 gold to get something that lasts a month. You also have boss rushes where you can sell gems, CD. GR. CG. Bosses. Cubes. Legion Raids. each week. with all of that you can easily buy a months worth of Aura from 1 week of playing for free.
I am unsure pheon price off the top of my head but pheons are not needed monthly, once your characters are geared. that expense goes away.
So as I said I would make you look stupid, I feel like I am doing that. Pheons / aura do not prevent you from playing, lack of aura is an inconveniance. lack of pheons means you need to find your own gear or play under geared. If you want to make Aura a requirement to play, you need to dedicate 1-2 weeks of a single aspect of content in this game, ignoring RNG drop chances to sell items out of a month.
You are a free to play player, you will have to sacrifice some gold to be the same as a paid player, otherwise no one would pay anything.
Even if aura took a full week of rewards 50-60k gold, I think that is more than fair, but it isn’t even 1/3 of that.
as the person above you said, whales are going to whale. If a whale wants to spend money to get 10 packs of 12k royal crystals a week. they are going to spend whatever the price is. 100x 12 vs 20 x12.
So you reduce the price. The whale buys the same amount for less money, will enough free players suddenly spend money? Especially if the purple crystal prices go down? Probably not
If you say i look stupid because i dont play how you want to play, mean you have a problem. I will not play all the day to pay 1800 gold for 95 blue crystal, dont worth my time, if you like to farm like a slave and pay 1800 gold for 95 crystal, is your choice but im not you so dont call me stupid just because i dont play how you expect to play this game. Another thing, you exclude honing, i need to spend gold for honing to, and when you fail all the time, gold disapear very fast, so no more gold for blue crystals…
regardless of honing and regardless of playing all day. If you are doing all of the content weekly in this game you are making 30k low end a week 60+k mid to high end, not including sellables.
also. 2700 gold is less than 30 minutes of playing, 1 argos run. idk how 1800 gold equates to slave.
perhaps you should look up slavery and see what it was. Unless maybe the word doesn’t translate to what you think it means and you meant something else.
