New pet videos on youtube

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"500USDtransactions"

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Siegmeyer wrote:

The spectral basilisk and the green frog are awesome... almost as awesome as my kiwi :)

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oblomir wrote:

Don't be ungrateful entitled little pricks.

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oblomir wrote:

Second:
You're acting like these pets will bring a lot of new revenue. they won't.
There's over $2,2 million of mostly unspent credit in the game right now.

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crabshack wrote:

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oblomir wrote:

Don't be ungrateful entitled little pricks.

This.

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DeF46 wrote:

Well to be fair, this sort of tier exists also in web apps, eg. "bronze" "silver" and "gold" and sometimes "gold" is much more expensive. Or often it's called "free" "baby" "pro" etc.

However in those case, the premium package involves real value. Here we're talking about what's often referred as "fluff". Appearance items and consumables perhaps? It's not comparable to say it reasonable to have a 5$ lizard pet and a 500$ flaming lizard pet. Both are a bunch of coloured pixels on a screen. The value is extremely limited. So as such selling very expensive items is removing freedom from the 10% who will want to buy things, and telling them "no you can't buy this because it's really exclusive but hey don't feel bad these guys are funding GGG and you like us right?"

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peachii wrote:

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Durentis wrote:

I expect there to be pets costing in excess of $500. And why not? It's not greed to make something available.. it's presenting a means of support with a price point that determines the rarity in game.

Some will pay $500 for a pet. Others will pay $500 just to support GGG and see that there just happens to be a $500 pet to spend their points on -a pet that few people will have. Either way, GGG gets much needed support and nobody loses.

But this is not necessary at all. There are supporter packs for that. GGG can continue to sell tshirts, game boxes, posters, signed prints and so on for that purpose.

The Kiwis were different, because they were a unique item available with supporter packs. It was understood that those who have the expensive kiwis are supporting GGG.

Now it's not so obvious imho because GGG is doing well, and they choose to stop the supporter packs apparently. So the cash shop should not be about funding GGG as much as simply making a regular revenue.

I don't know... personally I see a distinction. The Extras that came with Funding (eg. diamond kiwi) VS Cash shop Items. It's not the same. The cash shop is not to buy supporter packs. If it's about funding a game that is not considered out of beta, then make a specific "supporter pack" section in the shop and continue to sell the exclusive kiwis for that purpose.

The whole entire purpose for the cash shop is for GGG to make money to support the game, future content and the servers. They do not spend all the time, effort and resources to not be able to support the game. The support packs were CLOSED BETA support packs. Moving into Open Beta and beyond the cash shop will be the means to support the game.

Moan and whine all you like. GGG will make the tiers of items they see fit and i applaud them for it. Anyone complaining over pricing obviously does not need to buy the item they are complaining about as it does not effect game play in any way. GGG being ethical and not pay to win, has left them with very few avenues to produce the funding they need to continue to support the game. 5.00 is way to low for pets as seen from what Blizzard charges for pets they have, excluding the random 50& sale they do every now and then.

This is the first release, and probably bare bones to start the shop off. How about holding all the negative comments until they release a much broader range of items in the months to come? Come on folks. 18 people.....18 people..... have worked their freaking asses off for months to make sure this game stays free to play. Don't go turning into babies and spewing hate all over the place. This team is the best i have seen in years and years.


I say more power to them and Good Luck!!!!