Trion now putting in game content on the cash shop ...

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Splatulated wrote on 2014-11-27 04:00

this is basically what the game is now

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they are litterally takeing stuff which give players a goal to work towards and putting it on the cash shop

dont want to grow bears everyday for next 2 months - 3 years for chance at a mount ? on cash shop for $10.00

and if this is what they are doing now

next we will probably be seeing gilda designs or even finished boats which will take away any reason to do trade runs
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-11-27 16:04

Time to jump ship.
TLCBonaparte wrote on 2014-11-27 19:11

I am so glad I didn't invest into that game at all, archage can not fuck itself.
Osayidan wrote on 2014-11-27 20:09

Glad I didn't get into it.

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SlurpTASTY wrote on 2014-11-28 00:31

Games dead.
Taycat wrote on 2014-11-28 00:50

i mean, as long as you can still do it in game yourself, you don't ever have to pay for it
but if they're forcing you to have to buy an item that makes the bear grow faster or whatever, then wtf
Splatulated wrote on 2014-11-28 02:57

Quote from Taycat;1255564:
i mean, as long as you can still do it in game yourself, you don't ever have to pay for it
but if they're forcing you to have to buy an item that makes the bear grow faster or whatever, then wtf

before you had to grow 460+ bears and hope one was male (cuz male is rare) then you has to hope they have sex at some point and give you a bear cub then you had to grow it into a mount

with cash shop you pay $10.00 and buy it and skip all of that

instantly summon it full grown and ride it and level it up
Aubog007 wrote on 2014-11-28 07:22

Sounds like a good thing actually.

I dont have time to piss around waiting hundreds of hours for a random chance, if i can throw away 10 bucks to skip that, fuck yes i would

Archeage, you are brilliant, simulating real world dynamics by bribing your way to speed things up
Campylobacter jejuni wrote on 2014-11-28 10:52

Quote from Splatulated;1255570:
before you had to grow 460+ bears and hope one was male (cuz male is rare) then you has to hope they have sex at some point and give you a bear cub then you had to grow it into a mount

Wow really? I would've stopped playing the game at that point.

The cash shop is hardly the worst aspect here.

I guess it's the whole "start at an obscenely high price and go down from there to make people think it's a really good deal" thing, except it's so thinly veiled it's double-insulting.
Taycat wrote on 2014-11-28 21:24

to be honest, i think splat is exaggerating a little.