EME's Response to Korea's Item Shop Announcement

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salty21db on 03/29/2012, 01:37 PM - view
What company would be idiotic enough to make a direct statement in one direction or the other?


Every single one? I believe just yesterday EME announced there will not be battlegrounds at launch. And Blizzard announced a while back that PvP arenas won't be in launch. And ArenaNet announced that you get access to all beta weekends if you pre-purchase. Those sound like pretty direct statements to me.
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salty21db on 03/29/2012, 01:37 PM - view
ImperialPanda on 03/29/2012, 01:36 PM
KorruptFear on 03/29/2012, 01:34 PM
please read again


Alright lemme spell it out instead of simply implying it.

No they won't do as you suggested.

They can't say there won't be item shop because there likely will be one.

They can't say there will be an item shop because so many people here are so crazy against one.

Ok?


What company would be idiotic enough to make a direct statement in one direction or the other?


a company that would be crazy enough to be straight with their player base? no beating around the bush perhaps?
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Calypso on 03/29/2012, 01:37 PM - view
Inda on 03/29/2012, 01:35 PM
For the illiterate people from last thread. The guy who was using google translate for that webpage corrected himself in that it was 100% STAMINA pots, not hp. So basically alt gear, some quality of life things like crystals not breaking (buy this or just buy the crystals in game), or hp and mp regen buffs of unknown strength but likely not much if we go by how much crystals affect these things.

This is even assuming it comes to EU/NA.


Are you overlooking the 5%/sec for 20 seconds potions? It's still 100%, but not immediate. Those are different from the 100% stamina ones.


Those are bandages, read the front page. AKA not usable in combat. They won't affect a pvp encounter at all.

As far as the buffs nobody knows the strength. If we assume it's crystal strength that's like 61hp every 5 seconds with an hp pool of 50-60k.
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KorruptFear on 03/29/2012, 01:38 PM - view
oh I know that there will be a cash shop. Thing is will it affect in game character performance or just cosmetic? that they can say.


Well, not quite atm.

They still have to see

1) what the one month and three month populations are at.
2) player perception to item shops, by integrating them slowly, unless they plan on doing a full F2P conversion.

It'll most likely start out as a mostly vanity with very, very few impactful items and then chip away at player perception by slowly adding more items.
Edited by: ImperialPanda about 1 year ago
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Welp.

I'm done.

You guys can set and wallow in your sorrow of whether or not there will be fluff items or potions in a game later on down the road.

I'm going to go out in the real world and mow my grass and ponder what I will have for dinner this evening and plan my day at the zoo on Saturday with my family.

Good luck on your what if living and devoting your entire being over it in a game.

EME you can count on my purchase of the initial game. Anything past that we will see what is brought into the game but as of right now I can see myself being here for a bit.
Edited by: salty21db about 1 year ago
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ImperialPanda on 03/29/2012, 01:39 PM - view
salty21db on 03/29/2012, 01:37 PM
What company would be idiotic enough to make a direct statement in one direction or the other?


Every single one? I believe just yesterday EME announced there will not be battlegrounds at launch. And Blizzard announced a while back that PvP arenas won't be in launch. And ArenaNet announced that you get access to all beta weekends if you pre-purchase. Those sound like pretty direct statements to me.


Precisely. Unless EME come out and say that there will not be any cash shop items beyond PURELY cosmetic changes, i will seriously consider (i.e. will, after giving them time to respond) dropping my sub.
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I want bloody glasses, let me pay 5$ for them.

Make it like TF2 mann co misc items.


Remove earning side currency for purchasing these items.

/solved
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VenomPhoenix on 03/29/2012, 01:38 PM - view


Link to translation saying stamina please.


There are no current plans to add any of that stuff to the NA/EU game. Stop posting that stuff, it just gets people confused and unnecessarily angry.
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I am pretty sure we know where all you guys stand on pay to win. We love the feedback and it will weigh heavily in our future decisions - but right now we just aren't making those decisions.

MMO's are an ongoing service that need to adapt to the community it creates. TERA's community won't be fully realized until we launch in May. You can never say never when developing an MMO that goes for anything.
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knoxxer on 03/29/2012, 01:42 PM - view
I am pretty sure we know where all you guys stand on pay to win. We love the feedback and it will weigh heavily in our future decisions - but right now we just aren't making those decisions.

MMO's are an ongoing service that need to adapt to the community it creates. TERA's community won't be fully realized until we launch in May. You can never say never when developing an MMO that goes for anything.



Well, as long as I get my glasses.