Theres so many ways to make this work and yall lack of empathy just reinforce my happiness to not play in NA. Funny enough, as someone else said, the ones that might exploit are not from SA, the wealthy, mighty first world country people. Blaming us for living like this but still coming here to exploit the prices, LOL
Option 1. Keep the price up if you want, but INSIDE THE SA SERVER, IN GAME, Connected inside the region, in our client, in our separate files, and only in SA client (making this clear cuz i think you cant graps this) make the items cheaper.
Option 2. Lower the price of the crystals but lock the purchase inside the game, make that you can only buy crystals connected inside the server, not through steam but in game, INSIDE SA, honestly not hard at all to implement, any junior dev can do.
It’s so simple a Fiverrr programmer could make this work and thus making a profitable region, but after playing New World i could clearly see the untalented and limited vision of AGS. Had a blast in RU. hoping for the best in the SA, definitly not going to NA.
many mmo on steam have their versions of different games with their own stores by region, they can simply reduce the cost of resources in the store of the regions, like a skin worth -50%, the guy keeps paying the 9 dollars for 1000 crystals on steam, but inside the server the skin costs less, just want to do it.
@Roxx or @Seawolf if you could keep us updated on any news related to this, specially if any progress could be made until friday or if its better to keep our hopes down.
Maybe it would be more realistic that these changes would be made in a month or so…
I’m not sure if its secret info or not, could you tell us if you originally had plans for the in game shop to have regional prices but charged the idea after the VPN problem on founders pack or if you never had plans for it?
It might be too much to ask, but could anyone create a character on SA, buy crystals through the shop and then log into a character on NA and check if you could still get the items? Maybe buying on NA east and opening on West would be enough to test the thesis, but Id like to know if items are region bound or not. Maybe the team could answer, if we are in luck, this would save someone (or me on friday) from spending $10 just for testing a thesis
Im not so sure if the mod understood correctly what you meant, because he says “the items wouldn’t be able to be traded between servers either.” and thats a thing we already know if he meant normal trades/auctionhouse.
What did you ask him exactly?
But if everything is as you say, we can still have some hopium.
They were discussing if items from the Founder’s pack could be emailed from one account to a another.
I asked if items bought from the cash shop were server bound or if you could buy things from one server and use it on another.
Now as to crystals being account bound or server bound, I dont know, I assumed it would be on the same scope as gold and I assume gold is server bound, but I cant say for sure (since I still havent gotten into the game).
Maybe @Wyvernn could answer this as well, are crystals bound to the server they were bought on, like the items?
Hope you’re having a wonderful time here at the forum and being a hero of Arkesia!
Regarding your concern, all the items you get on your character are either Server Bound or account bound, either way you won’t be able to transfer any item from one server to another, this is because to do so, we should have a character/account server transfer option and that is not available at the moment or will be any time soon as far as we know.
I’ve been seeing many posts here at the forum from players who have the option to transfer Founder’s packs or many other items that are not supposed to be transferred between accounts, we highly recommend that even when you have the option available avoid to do so, since we can not guarantee that we will be able to help you if something goes wrong.
Hope this clears your doubts regarding this subject AbyssalSire as well as all the other players at this thread!
I think it does, what most people were probably not getting was if Crystals counted as “items” in this instance, but given your answer, I’m assuming it does. Thanks!
And now we wait for the monetization team to say yes or no on the regional pricing for SA.
This literally cant work. Just by Europe alone. Literally germany can play on Turkey server without any ping problem at all. Yet having an increased paying power by over 10 times. Or does regional prices only should come for US and not for other poor countries?
Legit question, do you think fair that because of Europe, South America has to lose its regional pricing? Because that’s what has happened with the Founder’s pack, for brazil the price went up some 400% and we just had to accept it. And now we dont have it for the in game shop.
You understand that the marked needs an influx of paying players so f2p players can buy their crystals and use them, right?
By having a price so high it makes it a lot more valuable because a lot less people are going to be able to afford it, in turn making it’s price in gold extremely high, which is why he said it would be p2w
And you assume that being a certain % more expensive will stop most people from playing, based on what?
You do realize that a shitton of people bought founder packs regardless of their pricing, right? A plat pack costed $99, here in Brazil is was R$550, so there was no regional pricing at all. Do you think that founders gave a shit? No.
The amount of people who will refrain from speding is a minority, like it or not.
And again, my last comment was arguing with the ridiculous idea of being “more p2w” based on pricing lmao
Im guessing you haven’t read the whole discussion here
Tldr:
More affordable prices mean more people will spend, which will make the jn game economy healthier.
Higher prices means less people will spend, less people spending means the server will be less profitable, which means Amazon will have less reason to invest on it.
