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Skyy High · Apr 12, 2009, 06:18 PM // 18:18

Big frickin babies, I swear...
/notsigned

Empress Amarox · Apr 12, 2009, 06:24 PM // 18:24

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Originally Posted by CronkTheImpaler

Bottom line. dont buy it. seems simple enough. do you boycott every company that doesnt do as you wish.

Well, technically yeah... If you're not buying or using their products you're boycotting them.

Except, 1 random person here and there isn't exactly enough reason for a company to care.

Then again, "as you wish" could mean a lot of things... Like, things you'd maybe kinda like, or things you'd strongly disagree with, or things that you think are just appalling and the people responsible should be dragged out onto the street then tar-and-feathered for it and perhaps pitchcapped after for good measure...

I'd say probably so to the latter of those... The first, not so much.

keli · Apr 12, 2009, 06:27 PM // 18:27

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

I don't think people are so upset about the fact that they're charging. I think people are upset that it's 9.99 USD, which is the same price of a character slot or a Guild Wars Platinum (at Gamestop or Walmart) and that's just stupid marketing.

Why would we want to pay for 20 slots when we can get 40 or more for the same price?

if you dont want then dont buy easy as pie...

/notsigned this BS

seriously what were you thinking?

]HM[ Sabre Wolf · Apr 12, 2009, 06:31 PM // 18:31

/not signing...

(on a standard 8 toon account, no added slots)

Equipment storage will open up (hopefully) 10 slots per toon... and then the free chest for another 20 slots... thats 100 slots of space for free... which will be another whole X Chest worth of space...

The more I think about it... the more I am ok with the $10 for each extra space... if you need more then a 100 extra slots... you have serious pack rat issues...

a-kyle · Apr 12, 2009, 06:32 PM // 18:32

this is understandable but what about people who dont have Visas or master cards there left out. So guildwars should allow plays to pay with ecto's maybe 10 ectos for the 10 dollars?

Karate Jesus · Apr 12, 2009, 06:32 PM // 18:32

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Originally Posted by keli

if you dont want then dont buy easy as pie...

/notsigned this BS

seriously what were you thinking?

Lol, read the post above you. Amarox is right. Not buying = boycotting. Hut-duuuuur.

Everyone please stop being stereotypical by saying either "Stop being babies!" "QQ moar" and actually give a reason why you don't like it. Que es discussion?

zwei2stein · Apr 12, 2009, 06:33 PM // 18:33

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Originally Posted by Burst Cancel

I love it when people talk about what price something "should" be. The reality is that you don't have a damn clue what the price should be, and you are not qualified to opine on the price in the first place.

You know what decides what the price "should" be? The market. Accurate a priori pricing is pretty much impossible, especially for you internet cumgarglers that think prices are based on handwaving bullshit like arbitrarily fabricated moral obligations and what you, personally, would pay for something.

* Buy account for 10$
* Buy two character slots for total of 10$

They both offer better "storage performance" (two slots are 5 times more of storage that panel, account is 12 times more storage+material storage; if we count new bag slots it is 6 times and 14 times more respectivelly)

They are different as far as convenience and other nonstorage benefits are concerned, but simplest math is simple: According to current pricing, storage tab is worth around 1.50$. If you would pay more, you are better off with slots or accounts.

Consider that people still want more storage with theese two options. Somethings tells me that "demand" does not think that 1.5$ storage tab is good deal, because otherwise it would be satisfied by buying accounts (which have also other significant benefits).

pigdestroyer · Apr 12, 2009, 06:37 PM // 18:37

No, shut up.

akio pwns · Apr 12, 2009, 06:41 PM // 18:41

/signed

This is a scam for peole who have alot of items, farm alot, have alot of armor they dont want to throw away on multiple characters.

If they would of made it smaller price of close to $2 per then we would all jump in and it would be great, but $10 is pushing it. This isnt like the bonus pack or skill packs which are useful for situations.

People who dont sign for this are complete shlobs who would typicaly go for anything looking great on the surface

farmerfez · Apr 12, 2009, 06:44 PM // 18:44

how can you boycott something that's being automatically put into the game...

jiggles · Apr 12, 2009, 06:44 PM // 18:44

Anet didnt make you get all the items you tool.

shinta_himura · Apr 12, 2009, 06:45 PM // 18:45

/sign

How long did we wait for them to complete this "super storage update"? Not once did we see any mention that we would be charged for additional storage in the update. They're only mentioning it now not even a month before they're updating, and trying to make it up to us by giving us some Daily Quests and a lvl5 pet station (which also includes more money-milking opportunities for them). So I guess these amazing twice a year updates are going to be small patches of not-so-green grass with a price-tag.

Do not enable Anet to do this by saying "well it's anet they need the money and I will follow them into volcanos and insult anyone who says otherwise". NCSoft is a corporation and it's their job to herd their followers and convince them that they need money. Look at ANY and EVERY corporation. There is at least one person there that knows how to bait people and rake in cash. The point is to make large profits not exist on the fringe of going into the red. If they really needed money we might be seeing even small allusions to it, such as "Please donate to support our servers" or whatever nonsense.

Don't even say "Well maybe the price could be lower". Why is there even a price on storage space in a game this big? How long has storage been an obvious issue? How long has Anet been saying "We're looking at ways to improve your storage"? And now at the zero hour when there's no time left they're charging you for something you need in order to further their wants (and there's no time left to boycott, because if this were up for discussion the initial plans however many months ago would have been "we're looking at adding Pay2Store options" in order to gauge public approval).

Karate Jesus · Apr 12, 2009, 06:45 PM // 18:45

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Originally Posted by farmerfez

how can you boycott something that's being automatically put into the game...

Not paying for it. Do you people know what boycott means?

Look, here's how it works. If enough people don't buy it, then the company will get the hint that we don't want to pay $10 for storage and they'll lower the price.

MisterT69 · Apr 12, 2009, 06:50 PM // 18:50

/notsigned because we're getting free tabs either way. More slots are ftw, but I'm not paying 10 bucks for another tab. I'm sure the what, roughly ~100-200 extra slots should be more than satisfactory. If A-net realizes that not many people besides a select group of pack rats are paying for tabs, then they'll either lower the price or eliminate it altogether. But right now, these extra tabs are more than enough for moi.

drago34 · Apr 12, 2009, 06:51 PM // 18:51

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Originally Posted by king swift

/Signed. I feel like this is an update to gain money rather than an update to help the players. I am boycotting the buying of the extra storage.
-IGN: King Swift

Lol... signing your own thing with a different post. This is a stupid idea, no one is forcing you to buy the storage on a game that doesn't have a monthly fee. If you don't want to pay it then don't buy it, it's not that difficult.

/notsigned

keli · Apr 12, 2009, 06:51 PM // 18:51

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Originally Posted by Karate Jesus

Lol, read the post above you. Amarox is right. Not buying = boycotting. Hut-duuuuur.

Everyone please stop being stereotypical by saying either "Stop being babies!" "QQ moar" and actually give a reason why you don't like it. Que es discussion?

boycott = you agree that you wont buy the thingy which you WANT to buy anyway (economic boycott)

so you ask everybody who wants to buy to dont buy it

i wont buy it because i dont need it, but i wrote down my opinion about this and in my opinion this is a big BS...

so i encourage everybody to buy it if he wants, and if somebody doesnt want to buy it then dont

Copenhagen Master · Apr 12, 2009, 06:55 PM // 18:55

/Unsigned Let ANET charge for extra storage spaces IT IS A FREE GAME! If ANET really wanted money they would of charged a monthy fee and NOT made the storage upgrades. Think about it, make storage upgrades for $10 or don't make them and let people just buy extra accounts or extra chars which cost more.

*Darcy* · Apr 12, 2009, 06:56 PM // 18:56

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but a lot of people wont' buy the extra storage. ArenaNet has always made "pay-for" extras optional so you buy what you desire or can afford.

Making it sound like they are trying to force you into an expensive add-on is ridiculous.

A new equipment bag for each character will supply most players with sufficient extra storage and cost only in-game gold. While I do not consider $10 excessive for another storage pane, I don't think I will need one.

Only big-time traders would really need all the extra storage being made available, and they will look at it as the cost of doing business (although most of them already have multiple accounts for storage).

Karate Jesus · Apr 12, 2009, 07:00 PM // 19:00

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Originally Posted by Darcy

I'm sure this has been mentioned somewhere in this thread, but a lot of people wont' buy the extra storage. ArenaNet has always made "pay-for" extras optional so you buy what you desire or can afford.

Making it sound like they are trying to force you into an expensive add-on is ridiculous.

A new equipment bag for each character will supply most players with sufficient extra storage and cost only in-game gold. While I do not consider $10 excessive for another storage pane, I don't think I will need one.

Only big-time traders would really need all the extra storage being made available, and they will look at it as the cost of doing business (although most of them already have multiple accounts for storage).

You're right. Only big-time traders will need the extra storage, and that's why I'm against this. If they were smart, they'd lower the price to 4.99 USD and more people will buy them and they will probably make a better profit. Tbh, if they lower the price, I'd probably buy one and so would a lot more people.

Fril Estelin · Apr 12, 2009, 07:05 PM // 19:05

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Originally Posted by shinta_himura

The point is to make large profits not exist on the fringe of going into the red. If they really needed money we might be seeing even small allusions to it, such as "Please donate to support our servers" or whatever nonsense.

Anet is not Activision Blizzard. Even if we don't know the full offer yet, it's a stretch of the mind to call this a "rip off". A rough reminder of when Anet asked us to pay for something:

2005: Prophecies (may)
2006: Factions (may), character slots, PvP unlock pack, Nightfall (november)
2007: EoTN (September), BMP (december)
2008: various upgrades/unlock packs and game packages
2009: even more storage

It's nowhere near a monthly fee or a "donation"...