Prices of TD items - Endless Ages

spiritwind · 06-10-2008, 11:56 AM

Ok, Sirkillalot and I got into a little argument.
Heres what it was about.
My view-
Items bought from the trading post *td* should be a little expensive in game. That way the flow of money stays good for EA. If td items are easy to obtain in game then people dont resort to buying from td but buy the items for 300k in game. If people dont make a lot of credits from td items then they soon stop buying and only resort to selling whenever the money is needed...
Prices of items like duals should stay the smae as they always were *1-2mil* instead of a cheap 300k-700k...

His view-
The Tokens should be equivalent to the credits. If 50 credits is $5 then 500k should = 50 tokens. Duals should be 500k-700k. 100k should = 1$ since it takes about 10 minutes to oget 100k, and it takes about 10 minutes to make 1$ in real life, on average.
*his view; some people dont have credit cards so they ahve to buy, my view; just do like I did, find someone who does and pay them 10$ to put 10$ into EA...*

It was all something close to that.
His view is that credits take work in game, which should be about equal to work in real life.. Argument, Work in real life is harder, you have someone yelling at you, you get paid for it.
Work in game, you choose to do that for fun, Before people would PAY *not get paid* to play Endless Ages. So why should something that you use to pay for be equivalent to something you get paid for?

spiritwind · 06-10-2008, 11:59 AM

Arg, title should be TP not TD...

Sirkillalot · 06-10-2008, 02:03 PM

Ok so basically what you said you can get 10 mil for 10$ or so. cool. thats pretty fair right? full 15 for 10$.. hawt

klonex · 06-10-2008, 02:07 PM

hmmm...i also see the items a little to cheap, dont get me wrong i love the prices and the amount of token that is needed in order to buy that item..but since ten moneys give you 100 token and one-hundred gives you 1k. its extremely easy to buy everything, or the things one wants. and once that particular person buys everything he/she needs they wont buying anything else and therefor the TP will be of no use anymore.

thus i think some of the items should require more tokens to buy
and yes i know a lot more things will be added and since people keep joining which is great
but sooner or later people wont need the TP anymore....

solodynasty · 06-10-2008, 02:48 PM

Let people sell stuff for what they want. Its there money they are wasting and quite frankly I'd rather get items for the game...In the game. I'd rather save my money in rl for something worth while not an ingame item. I know Jason needs money for server but I think some people will be lazy and do this. Get money in rl. Spend it on tp items. Sell tp items in game for credits. Use credis to buy some stuff that isnt on tp that cost a lot like SS orbs, Armor, Weapons, etc.. When this game has most of the bugs and stuff worked out and expanded so you cant get level 16 in one day and more areas and stuff added, the population of people will go up and more people will buy stuff so they get more money for server. I think game will be fine. We got an expert behind the wheel.

BlanK · 06-10-2008, 02:59 PM

I dunno I don't mind the TP so much because it's supporting the game and I needed the stuff what can I say. There does need to be some temporary/lots more cosmetic stuff in there though. The TP is gonna need as much updating as the actual game. And the game itself needs a lot of updating.

delarin · 06-10-2008, 03:55 PM

I think the TP is just fine as is and the prices for items are reasonable considering how easy it is for an established player to obtain most of the items. I think for the TP sales on the Auction house a pricing conversion of 1 token = 20-40k ingame seems about right to me, but this is up to the entire community to decide since it is not just one person who is going to be buy/selling the items.

Rulzern · 06-10-2008, 04:19 PM

They'll sell for what people think they're worth... What people think they're worth depends on the individual player, and will change as that player's progress. That's my opinion.

spiritwind · 06-10-2008, 10:41 PM

I believe that people should pay attention to the rl money on the trading post when buying the items from users in game. But rather how much they are worth and how much they were worth...