Thread: 39.99 to 129.99 for expansion pshh... yea right!

Is it just me or is the expansion for heavenwards way overpriced! I mean really 39.99 for retail and 59.99 for digital and 129.99 for box set, man heavenward is priced as a completely brand new game. Mind you I already pay for sub. Scale that way back square enix, unless you completely redone ff14 again like you did with 1.0 I'm def not getting this at launch.

It's a standard price for an expansion at launch, many MMO expansion are even more expensive .. Also, the amount of content added in 3.0 is close to the amount of content that 2.0 shipped with, so there's a lot of new stuff there.

Originally Posted by Millerna

It's a standard price for an expansion at launch, many MMO expansion are even more expensive .. Also, the amount of content added in 3.0 is close to the amount of content that 2.0 shipped with, so there's a lot of new stuff there.

Please explain to me which mmo's and specifically which expansions that were more than this at launch of their respective expansions. Not disbelieving you but just never seen it before myself and wanted to know who else was doing this to their customers.

Originally Posted by WHS

Please explain to me which mmo's and specifically which expansions that were more than this at launch of their respective expansions. Not disbelieving you but just never seen it before myself and wanted to know who else was doing this to their customers.

The only one that springs to mind is Warlords of Draenor (WoW) that was $50 or 60 (can't remember exactly which). But no, game expansions have been $40 since time immemorial.

That itself is probably a good reason for them to have increased in price actually. Since $40 today is not the same as $40 when the pattern was started back 15 years ago. Adjusted for inflation, $40 from 2000 would be about $55 now. And yet expansions still cost $40.

Originally Posted by WHS

Please explain to me which mmo's and specifically which expansions that were more than this at launch of their respective expansions. Not disbelieving you but just never seen it before myself and wanted to know who else was doing this to their customers.

If we account for inflation and market changes, nearly every single one of EverQuest 1's expansions until about 2006 were as much or more than what we're paying. Most of them were $30 10+ years ago, when new games were $50.
Now, new games are $60 and the expansion is $40. Hell even EverQuest 1 and 2's new expansions are $40 and they don't even have half the content 3.0 will have. Probably combined (EQ2 is only adding 2 new overland zones to their game, and EQ1 is only adding 8 new zones period. HW is due to add about 6 new overland zones and god knows how many dungeons.)
WoW's expansions have also been consistently $40-50. I remember being really surprised at that.

Originally Posted by Neri

39.99 is also for Digital too though? Isn't 59.99 one included both ARR and Heavensward?

59.99 is the price of the DIGITAL CE.

Originally Posted by kyuven

If we account for inflation and market changes, nearly every single one of EverQuest 1's expansions until about 2006 were as much or more than what we're paying. Most of them were $30 10+ years ago, when new games were $50.
Now, new games are $60 and the expansion is $40. Hell even EverQuest 1 and 2's new expansions are $40 and they don't even have half the content 3.0 will have. Probably combined (EQ2 is only adding 2 new overland zones to their game, and EQ1 is only adding 8 new zones period. HW is due to add about 6 new overland zones and god knows how many dungeons.)
WoW's expansions have also been consistently $40-50. I remember being really surprised at that.


59.99 is the price of the DIGITAL CE.

/shrug He didn't say that in his first post so I didn't really know, did I? It's also the price of the 2 in 1 package so yeah.

Originally Posted by WHS

Please explain to me which mmo's and specifically which expansions that were more than this at launch of their respective expansions. Not disbelieving you but just never seen it before myself and wanted to know who else was doing this to their customers.

Most recently, Warlords of Draenor .. Before that, pretty much every expansion for Everquest amongst others.

Americans complaining about the price, hahahhahahahahaa.aaa.asdg.aslkngas/.

You have no idea.

Originally Posted by Weedity

Isn't it just seven dollars more?

That may be the case in Euros, but for the UK the price tag is the equivalent of something around $190 because someone in SE thought a 1:1 price conversion ratio was a good idea.