Pricing of new content

To start off this thread isn't of the intention of having a massive rant about anything, i personally am quite impressed when i thought it was utter bs that they weren't gonna do an update.

So, clearly these prices for the items are a bit steep. I mean £9 for character name change, £6 for each makeover thing is a bit ridiculous. I can buy 2 copies of the game for £15 alone.

Personally I think the prices should effectively be half what they are. £3 each makeovers + £5 name change perhaps, then i'd consider buying one.

I was wondering what people's opinions were as to what would be acceptable pricing since most i know are pretty annoyed by it? What pricing would you consider it at?

(Keep the "it shouldn't be RL money" to other threads please, ideally i agree but the end of the day this is something a lot of players have wanted and so it's hardly surprising they're not going to miss this chance for money.)

Some kind of poll would probably be nice if some magicpower person can do that, i guess in $ as that seems to be the currency for the majority of this forum.

If anyone is that bothered about the face/name/hair or whatever of their character, you shouldn't whine about a few dollars for the ability to change this.

Seriously, it's only a couple of dollars.

And the I mean £9 for character name change, £6 for each makeover thing is a bit ridiculous. I can buy 2 copies of the game for £15 alone. is getting old fast.

For 15 pounds you won't get a 4 years old character with everything unlocked, Obsidian Armor and GWAMM.

Life isn't free.

I am only interested in buying content in a boxed version.

True life isn't free, but i disagree that this is just a few dollars. £6 is actually a fair whack for something to just sprinkle on the game.

You're right for those really bothered about it it isn't that much, but my question was what would people be willing to spend on this stuff?

I believe if they reduce the prices they could entice a lot more people into buying it, i would if it were cheaper but i'm not bothered enough to at that price so anet won't get my money. If it were cheaper, then they would get some of my money.

I'm not arguing about the not getting the 4 yr old character etc etc that's really not the point of this thread.

A simple name change is not so simple. If you have been playing for 3 to 4 years every bit of data associated with that name has to be re-associated with the new name. It took someones time to program the software to do and test this, therefore the pricing. It is a vanity offer and as such I agree with the charge.

"clearly"? No, just your opinion. My opinion is, these prices are peanuts.

I'm worried about the price.

I am personally happy to pay it, I have the money and GW is one of the things where I don't really look at the money.

However, I fear that the prices are approximately twice as high as I would "feel" the correct price to be. Therefore, OTHERS may not feel it's enough, meaning trouble for the model.

I personally have no experience with coding and so don't know if it really is difficult or not to do. However i'd be interested to know if it actually is that difficult?

I mean new characters with new names assigned to new armors are made all the time. Maybe my ignorance but is it really that extensive to change it?

This post is a bit o/t though.

Could you send me some peanuts then so i can change my chars appearence?

NVM

I think they're abit steep. I'd pay if they were slightly more resonable. £2 for name, £4 for appearence, yaknow something along those lines.

If everyone had their way, the price would be lower, maybe even free, maybe even purchasable with in-game items.

The truth is that not everyone needs these.

The truth is that no one needs anything in GW. It's a game, and anything one might be lacking in it is a want, at best.

I have to agree that the prices are a bit too steep, BUT people will still pay them. It's not like they are asking for your firstborn child. If you don't want to pay for them then don't, but others will. Since GW is a free-to-play game they need to make money somehow, especially in this economy.

these prices are insane relative to previouse store items , and relative to the price of the game and each of the expansions , why would i pay £6 for a storage plane when i can get a WHOLE NEW BASE ACCOUNT for not much more and have loads more storage i just need to dual log wich is extremly easy once u have it setup , IMO they would make even more profit if they halfed their prices , cause personally if they were all half i would have bought all storage planes + a sexchange but im buying nothing from them now ;o and this has no relation whatsoever to my disposable income , its about value, and there is no value here

Seems like a reasonable pricing scale given that these features weren't available when I purchased the game. I think it'd be more enticing if the name change feature was rolled into the extreme makeover package.

The name change pricing alone does seem steep; but I'm guessing that part of the reason for the pricing is to discourage scammers from a quick, easy, and *cheap* identity switch.

Hobson's choice I suppose...

They should have just charged $15 for the ENTIRE update - which would limit each character in each account to 3 makeovers, extreme or normal. This includes ALL the storage panes as well, and you get the free storage pane if you purchased during April 23-29. I'm sure a lot of people who have been pleased with this plan rather than the obnoxious one they got in place now.

If you plan on buying everything they have released, that's easily over $100. Well, anet, guess what? I'm not dumb - my wisdom tells me not to support a company who scams its own customers.

You know Microsoft/Bungie has an intersting model for their Halo 3 map packs - you can buy them when they are released for like $14.99 and then they release them free after 3 months anyway - which explains why they are doing so well. They have a great marketing department in addition to an addicting game, which is why Halo 3 is strong even today. And they release REAL playable content.

Yes, the prices are too steep. I will not be purchasing any upgrades because the prices are simply too high. Those of you who think $10.00 is peanuts for appearance change/storage panel, can you all send me $10.00? It IS only peanuts afterall...

I expect that in part this is either to help maintain the servers at GW, help launch GW2, or both. The minimal cost of $10 for a chunck of relatively eternal storage (read Server) space does not seem unrealistic or unfair in the long run. It is particularly good for those of us that have doubts about bothering to play GW2, which so far has PvP fest written all over it.

I misunderstood the idea of a makeover. I thought each $10 was going to purchase 5 changes that could be executed across the account: 1 change of hair, 1 change of height, 1 change of face, another 1 change of face, and 1 change of skin, per se. I was delighted to find that the $20. I spent covered every change I wanted to make across 7 of my 10 main characters. I have one extreme makeover I want to purchase in the future.

I would have liked more access to faces and hair styles across professions, but that is unimportant. I was able to reachieve the same basic characters I started with in Prophecies on characters I had remade in other campaigns. That was very nice.

I also realize, that aside from NC West needing seed money and maintenance for the new dedicated server space (for 3 million players, and potentially more storage for 30,000,000 characters), they need funds to pay the guys who worked on it. (Pretty sure they want to eat and pay bills too.)

Maybe not to you but there is to me and i have taken up the appearence package. ~£5 for 5 complete size/face/hair/colour changes ? IMO that is a very very reasonable cost.

As for making more profit if they charged less. Hmm i think maybe, just maybe, that a mutlinational company and its bean counters would have considered the various cost/takeup scenarios before deciding where to put the price for each item. Could be wrong but companies usually have a bash at that....

Oh noes, things we didn't expect to get at all cost too much!

You didn't have it before, you now have the option to pay for it and have it, if you choose, you can go on not having it just like before.

People have said numerous times on THESE FORUMS that they would pay for a face change/makeover. Now you have the option. Gogogogogo.

That's really a good idea you've got there! Since there's something for everyone, they may have attracted a lot more players? Maybe something more flexible like $5 flat + $2-4 for each feature, or $25 + $5 per tab.

May be that's what we'll have in 3 months, like the Halo 3 model you mention.