If you want my money, make it worth it.
Posted: Mon Dec 19, 2011 3:59 pm
Greetings:
I'm new to this game but I have played others like it. I am the kind of person that pays for the games I play, if I think they are worth it. I'm also not one of those "give me lots of free stuff for free" kind's of people. I subscribe to a "Free" MMO because I like what my money buys. What I am seeing so far from Valor is a game I would like to pay for, but it's just too expensive for what I will get. Let me explain.
Taking out the bonus %5 and %10 for bulk purchase, and the magic .99 to make me think I'm not really spending $20, the cost of Gold is 5 Cents.
Say I buy the middle of the road big pack and get the 5% bonus, I just spent $50 for 1050 gold.
With that I can buy
42 instant spies
42 resource exchanges
21 weeks of extra que
or any combination of a number of other things. I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure if I was to maximize my gold use for full convenience to get the maximum out of the game, I would burn that $50 in a month, maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less.
Now for that same $50 I could get
Skyrim from Amazon, and probably 3-5 months of play out of it
or
My other MMO subscription for 5 months, plus a pile of their purchase currency to but micro items not unlike those offered by Valor.
The bottom line is you are not giving good value for the money right now. At 1 Cent/Gold, or world long unlocks of features, rather than weeks at a time, you have me spending money. But $.63 for a single spy, or single resource exchange, or $1.25 to unlock one VERY SMALL feature of your game for a week. That is not really a "micro" transaction.
I'll keep my money and work with what you give me for free.
I'm new to this game but I have played others like it. I am the kind of person that pays for the games I play, if I think they are worth it. I'm also not one of those "give me lots of free stuff for free" kind's of people. I subscribe to a "Free" MMO because I like what my money buys. What I am seeing so far from Valor is a game I would like to pay for, but it's just too expensive for what I will get. Let me explain.
Taking out the bonus %5 and %10 for bulk purchase, and the magic .99 to make me think I'm not really spending $20, the cost of Gold is 5 Cents.
Say I buy the middle of the road big pack and get the 5% bonus, I just spent $50 for 1050 gold.
With that I can buy
42 instant spies
42 resource exchanges
21 weeks of extra que
or any combination of a number of other things. I haven't done the math, but I'm pretty sure if I was to maximize my gold use for full convenience to get the maximum out of the game, I would burn that $50 in a month, maybe a bit more, maybe a bit less.
Now for that same $50 I could get
Skyrim from Amazon, and probably 3-5 months of play out of it
or
My other MMO subscription for 5 months, plus a pile of their purchase currency to but micro items not unlike those offered by Valor.
The bottom line is you are not giving good value for the money right now. At 1 Cent/Gold, or world long unlocks of features, rather than weeks at a time, you have me spending money. But $.63 for a single spy, or single resource exchange, or $1.25 to unlock one VERY SMALL feature of your game for a week. That is not really a "micro" transaction.
I'll keep my money and work with what you give me for free.