Cash shop pricing is getting a bit much...

[ko_]

It's absolutely a shame because I wanted the Nezha lady outfit and to see it is yet another ripoff of 18 dollars is thoroughly disappointing. This is downright robbery... for instance in Street fighter V I can purchase a character and OUTFIT bundle for 7 bucks which IMO is fair. It's the damn whales on these forums that keep saying they will pay for crap on mogstation that is making the prices for outfits really expensive. It's simple glamour that by all means should be in the game. All of these eastern outfits could have been part of quests in Kugane or something... we have an Eastern theme but hey to get actual Eastern outfits you need to pay! My god, paying a sub is already enough and even though these items are optional they are still ridiculously pricey and that is what pisses me off the most. Unless someone gifts me this, I dont think I'm ever going to spend a penny on it.

But that's how much it cost overseas where it was first. It just wouldn't be fair if we got it for free when it was a paid item to begin with over there. I mean techinally we're not even posed to have it really. These were china only items but the US/EU playerbase screamed for them so here there are. With the same price if I'm not mistaken. This is a prime case of people getting what they ask for.

[Lunafreya]

But that's how much it cost overseas where it was first. It just wouldn't be fair if we got it for free when it was a paid item to begin with over there. I mean techinally we're not even posed to have it really. These were china only items but the US/EU playerbase screamed for them so here there are. With the same price if I'm not mistaken. This is a prime case of people getting what they ask for.

CORRECT, they asked for it to be on the cash shop which is a major problem.

[DreamAngel-Ren]

CORRECT, they asked for it to be on the cash shop which is a major problem.

How is it a major problem? The players that asked for it to be in MS means that they're willing to pay for it.

[Lunafreya]

How is it a major problem? The players that asked for it to be in MS means that they're willing to pay for it.

Because being a whale is just that annoying. Not everything has to be served on a silver platter to them by paying.

[Sigma-Astra]

Because being a whale is just that annoying. Not everything has to be served on a silver platter to them by paying.

.....The person paying full price for something is the one that needs something served on a silver platter, but not the person complaining that they don't want to pay for it unless it costs $7 or doesn't exist at all...?

Isn't this a contradiction somehow...I mean....

Am I missing something here?

Again, just because some people are willing to purchase something that they want and you want at the same time, but can't afford it does not mean you should insult and call them a "whale" out of emotional spite.

[KaivaC]

Because being a whale is just that annoying. Not everything has to be served on a silver platter to them by paying.

You know, I've bitten my tongue about as long as I can stand. This is like the 3rd time you've done insulted people who do buy things from the cash shop... *oh don't you worry, I am typing in the rest of my edit right now...I'll just post it at the end of the page*

[ko_]

CORRECT, they asked for it to be on the cash shop which is a major problem.

I'm not trying to be mean or anything. But do you think they would've put it somewhere else if people asked? I'm generally asking as these were cash shop items when they were made. So I don't know if people asked for these to be somewhere else if it would've happened. Seeing as these were made by the cash shop team overseas. I dunno.. and I guess we'll never know really. But from my understanding these were always meant for the store.

[Lunafreya]

I'm not trying to be mean or anything. But do you think they would've put it somewhere else if people asked? I'm generally asking as these were cash shop items when they were made. So I don't know if people asked for these to be somewhere else if it would've happened. Seeing as these were made by the cash shop team overseas. I dunno.. and I guess we'll never know really. But from my understanding these were always meant for the store.

Well, I think if people stopped harping to get it on the cash shop and instead protested that they want this stuff in game en masse we'd probably have a change. Though, maybe that's just going to take a miracle. Sure, they were done by the cash shop team overseas but I do think we should still be able to get them in game even if undyeable or just a similar model.

[ko_]

Well, I think if people stopped harping to get it on the cash shop and instead protested that they want this stuff in game en masse we'd probably have a change. Though, maybe that's just going to take a miracle. Sure, they were done by the cash shop team overseas but I do think we should still be able to get them in game even if undyeable or just a similar model.

I guess we'll just have to ask them to do that for other items and see what they say. That would take alot of people to ask that tho, so heres for hope.

[polyphonica]

Well, I think if people stopped harping to get it on the cash shop and instead protested that they want this stuff in game en masse we'd probably have a change. Though, maybe that's just going to take a miracle. Sure, they were done by the cash shop team overseas but I do think we should still be able to get them in game even if undyeable or just a similar model.

I guess we don't know how the business relationship works. If the publishers in these other countries did help to cover the cost of the development of these items, I doubt they'd want that, since they'd want to try to recoup some of their investment with the sales here. If it's made available for free in-game here, it'd definitely cut into sales. Keep in mind that the Chinese version isn't F2P either; they pay by the hour, and then also have these purchase items. It'd probably annoy customers in those markets to get "exclusive" cash shop items and then find out that the rest of the world gets similar versions for free in-game when they don't. Plus, given that these markets are a few patches behind, you'd get weird cases where they'd have to remove things from the patches here because they were already otherwise sold there. I suspect that, if not for selling them in some way (through a partner promotion or cash shop), they probably would have just stayed exclusive, and that was actually what triggered people's "harping to get it on the cash shop."