Curse

Aussie Boy · Apr 19, 2009, 01:03 AM // 01:03

The way I see it and to solve a lot of points in this thread.
They should drop the price to the cost of a Char Slot
Everyone I think would be happy with this price and Anet "may" even get more people buying the tabs
at this cost rather than $10 so it's a win win.
We get the extra storage we have been asking for all these years an Anet gets more tabs sold if it's at the
same cost as a char slot.
Either way if they keep it at whatever cost it is there IF YOU WANT IT it's not being forced on us
Unless this Free tab promotion thing is you have to say purchase 2 tabs to get the free one
then we are being forced at that point in a way.

It still works out for me to pay
9.99 GBP = 20.5111 AUD plus fees I have to pay this as it won't let me pay in usa. thats $20 O.o
9.99 USD = 13.8663 AUD plus fees
A extra char slot right now is 5.99 GBP = 12.2868 AUD
Thank you for the storage but no thanks I'll get slots if i need more storage.

Red Sonya · Apr 19, 2009, 04:34 AM // 04:34

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Second batch of money comes from these bargain hunters.

Not exactly. Many bargain priced items have already been accounted for in the Gross Sales. The bargain prices are merely retail outlets and/or NCsoft trying to get rid of old inventory. Thus, there isn't any NEW money from bargain priced sales it's just opening up new inventory slots for NEW products later on.

Gwmaster · Apr 19, 2009, 05:09 AM // 05:09

they added this update way to late in the game..im not going to buy it..the only reason i am still posting on these forums was to see if they would add anything worthwhile in this update..i guess my hopes where to high...see you all in D3/gw2.

eagleblade · Apr 19, 2009, 05:30 AM // 05:30

what a croc! they make a empty promise for months on end and they try to get extra greedy over it. gw will lose gamers if this garbage continues and thats a fact. i have talk to many people in game about it, and they agree!!

why dont they just come out with a new expansion before gw2 it would only make sense.

FoxBat · Apr 19, 2009, 06:51 AM // 06:51

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Originally Posted by Red Sonya

The bargain prices are merely retail outlets and/or NCsoft trying to get rid of old inventory.

Yeah, digital media rarely seems to get discounted over time (even if it should.) For example the PlayNC store is charging alot more for GW campaigns than any retail outlet.

Sword Hammer Axe · Apr 19, 2009, 10:06 AM // 10:06

Meh. I won't buy it anyways. Even though I collect weapons I still have plenty of space in my storage.

cthulhu reborn · Apr 19, 2009, 01:02 PM // 13:02

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Originally Posted by Gwmaster

they added this update way to late in the game..im not going to buy it..the only reason i am still posting on these forums was to see if they would add anything worthwhile in this update..i guess my hopes where to high...see you all in D3/gw2.

People are bad readers. All they did was give us a preview. It's not the whole update. For example, the preview says nothing about the HoM update which they already said was going to be part of this content update. So don't judge the update till it's out and we actually know what's all in there.

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On another note, I really don't understand why people get so upset about being charged for an option like this. People are totally overreacting. Besides, we are getting equipment packs for weapons and armour storage as it is and we're getting that for free and how many of the complainers here actually mention that?

The difference in price between Europe and the US is always a thing but don't forget that sales tax in Europe is about double that of the US. That alone makes a big difference.

So let's rename the thread to: Please all overreact to Anet not being a charity!!

That seems more appropriate at the moment.

kgonecrazy · Apr 19, 2009, 01:17 PM // 13:17

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You know what, your first post is highly highly biased, just look at the points you have for pros and cons, just look at them. I can't help to think you are just a troll here to cause some trouble.

nix1016 · Apr 20, 2009, 06:00 AM // 06:00

Why boycott it? Just don't buy it if you can't afford it... geez. The company needs to make money in someway... do you expect them to pull GW2 out of their butts? Plus, you get a free tab which is more than generous enough.

boarderx · Apr 20, 2009, 10:40 AM // 10:40

this is a great game with no monthly fee, we alrdy got a storage upgrade a while back too. If they wanna charge for extra storage i understand why.

rabwatt · Apr 20, 2009, 10:46 AM // 10:46

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Originally Posted by DreamWind

Except storage and UAX aren't vanity reasons. They are gameplay reasons

I have read through your responses and I have yet to read anything which convinces me that storage is for gameplay reasons. You already have enough storage to meet the needs of any gameplay type.
Maybe if you convince me that I NEED 100's of items and they ALL directly affect the gameplay then I will think otherwise.

EPO Bot · Apr 20, 2009, 11:41 AM // 11:41

Does anyone even remember we used to have only one pane?

Unreal Havoc · Apr 20, 2009, 11:52 AM // 11:52

They never charged fo adding extra storage before so why start charging now?

I don't need it and won't be buying it.

Lonesamurai · Apr 20, 2009, 12:49 PM // 12:49

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot

Does anyone even remember we used to have only one pane?

Oh god yes...

you just reminded me why I'm buying all four and getting the freebie

Karuro · Apr 20, 2009, 01:23 PM // 13:23

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot

Does anyone even remember we used to have only one pane?

We also only had 1 campaign, no minipets etc.

Were a lot less items back then.

MithranArkanere · Apr 20, 2009, 03:04 PM // 15:04

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Originally Posted by Unreal Havoc

They never charged fo adding extra storage before so why start charging now?

I don't need it and won't be buying it.

They already have the resources for the existing ones paid.
Now if more is to be added, they'll have to buy more.
All we got for free is all they can give for free. We got 3 more panels because that's all what was paid with the Campaign sales.

Chico · Apr 20, 2009, 05:36 PM // 17:36

Can someone find and quote that founder guy that said something like "All updates and upgrade to game features are free for all". I think he meant to buy content, not features and upgrades...

Anet sucks, this is just a scam to gather money from a feature that doesn't cost them more than the salary of the involved developers. I can bet the total disk space needed for each of our characters is less than 50 kilobytes (and that's being wasteful). The total for our Xunlai storage (again wasteful) could be around 5 kilobytes. Each account uses less than 1 megabyte. Why do they need $10 to allocate something between 5 and 50 more kilobytes per account?

Can someone donate a few 1.5TB hard drives so Anet can expand their DB storage? LOL

I'd like to hear what the CR has to say about that quote? They have no word?

They have accepted that storage was a problem from day 1, we will now have a way to reduce the problem (really this sounds like a partial solution) but this partial solution will cost you more money.

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When the time comes, I'm pretty sure I'll log in to claim that "1 free storage tab" then I'll fill it in a couple hours and log out again waiting for some other interesting update to check out.

I guess they still want people to continue buying storage mules or full "storage campaigns".

I still think a "Rune of superior holding" would have solved more problems than this +1 equipment tab per character thing.

Red Sonya · Apr 20, 2009, 05:38 PM // 17:38

If it was 4 tabs for $10 I'd pay it. $10 for 20 slots though hahahahah fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me. And Anet has been fooling us for years now with false promises and weasling charges for this and that. They have ruined the game with their open shop come buy the skills you want features or buy extra this or buy extra that. They are no better than a WOW or EQ or the rest. Putting carrots in front of us for $10 a pop.

Gli · Apr 20, 2009, 05:41 PM // 17:41

Mmm... carrots.

FalconDance · Apr 20, 2009, 05:43 PM // 17:43

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Originally Posted by EPO Bot

Does anyone even remember we used to have only one pane?

Oh yeah! I just "inherited" an account, Prophecies only. I'd forgotten how nice it was to have a full compliment of storage tabs! (We all have all campaigns and EotN, main accts) By the same token, with only one campaign, you odn't have near so much "stuff".

We won't be buying more panes. If there's new equipment bags or a new complimentary pane, cool. Otherwise, we're good to go.