Locking Emote behind Potentially $100 Statue

[Charlayy]

Their needless minions and emotes who cares... Did you buy this game to only collect digital garbage?

[Bourne_Endeavor]

Their needless minions and emotes who cares... Did you buy this game to only collect digital garbage?

Well, we do get a lot of gear that just ends up tossed.

[KEV1N]

Did you buy this game to only collect digital garbage?

Isn't that what we're all doing anyway?

[zosia]

Their needless minions and emotes who cares... Did you buy this game to only collect digital garbage?

Irrelevant point. Wants and desires are subjective, you don't get to paint in broad strokes here and pretend that you made some great point.

It's optional and it doesn't do anything to disturb the in-game MB or give an unfair advantage to the buyer over other players ( if those things happen, then I'd be very concerned ), so it's not a problem whatsoever.

Besides, the people who are complaining about it would use it for a day or two and forget it even existed if the emote were free.

While you are right in many regards, the emote being tied to the statue is almost predatory. SE knows very well that OCD players that like in-game vanity frills are likely to buy the statue just for the emote. Let me ask you, if this emote is really not a huge deal, why not have it in the mogstation for 15 bucks in addition to it coming with the statue for free?

It's a marketing ploy, and that's why some of us are upset. I think most of us can live with a $30-$40 physical item having an in-game item, that is reasonable. It's highly unsavory to use that same tactic on a $130 item.

The price might seems high to some of you, but go and check the price of this kind of figures in japan, and you will understand. It is pretty much standard price.

It just depends on how you look at it. If you look at it like the 100$ virtual game item, of course it will be expensive. But for me, I look at it like a figure cost 100$ that come with virtual item bonus.

There are many things like this on sale in japan. It is quite common.

About the price though, I think it's about the same with all those figures in japan?

To me though, I am not going to buy it since I am not the fan of the figure.

and frankly, they are overpriced. I sure love my heavensward dragon with it's terrible paint job, warped ears, and wonky base. That is the kind of quality you can expect from the $130 odin statue.

Tell me why Blizzard can do an Illidan figure, with just as much detail and with articulation, for $40 (less than a 3rd of the cost of the odin statue), while we have SE here giving us a $130 heavensward dragon reborn?

[LadyVal]

Tell me why Blizzard can do an Illidan figure, with just as much detail and with articulation, for $40 (less than a 3rd of the cost of the odin statue), while we have SE here giving us a $130 heavensward dragon reborn?

Because America did not produce the otaku. Some collectors in Japan will spend themselves into debt for a figurine of an anime character in an outfit that she (well, usually she) wore for 10 minutes in the special edition, uncut, original animated movie, that the company only made 10 of. Because they have to be the only one to have it, in a culture that promotes uniformity so they want something to make them feel unique, special, or superior. (And mind you the company will only make a few figurines, despite the physical ability to make more, because they know people will pay big bucks for the exclusivity that comes with it. Similar to how diamonds are distributed; they only cost as much as they do because the diamond cartels of the world only release so many to be sold to the public every year.)

Whereas here in the states we look at that and go, "Yeah it's cool but I could find something of equal quality for much cheaper." Because we have so many varieties of everything that we have the means to pick and choose, and really if someone spent $130 on a plastic figurine, most American's reactions would be along the lines "But does it light up? Or move? Or something? ...Oh, it really is just plastic? Well, your money then." In the US exclusivity isn't highly valued because chances are, someone you know has something equivalent to yours already. You have the new iPhone? Well, someone has an Android that does the same things with differently named apps. And with our market constantly producing new products that are similar, and generally less expensive, than the originals, we don't value the exclusivity because we know nothing stays exclusive for long. Whereas in Japan, companies really do make things exclusive just for the sake of being exclusive, which makes people want to spend more money on the exclusivity alone.

Tl;dr: Exclusivity carries a value and a higher price tag in Japan, but not so much in the US. (Or most western countries, in general.)