The obvious micro transaction cash grab?

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trollbutt wrote:

Besides the terribly high prices in the shop, how can you, Grinding Gear Games, in good faith, make such a pitiful attempt to squeeze your customers of every penny.

Now, for $10, you only get 96 points instead of 100. For $5, 46! So you will be only 4 points away from a 50 point or 100 point item, and you are then forced to purchase a minimum of $5 more for being just $.40 cents away?

It is hard to defend this cash grab completely designed for you to pay more while being so close. Yes, it is a free to play game and they need to make money, but that does not mean that GGG should be able to get away with their blatant scheme. I just hope this is a bug and they are going to fix it.

Edit: (Previous reply)
I don't have any problem with them just putting the points at 50 for $5 and 100 for $10. Why must they take away 4 points to simply force you into buying more? It is optional yes, but you don't have the option of buying the exact number of points for an item. I fail to understand why people would want to buy $5 more points when they shouldn't have to if they were just given the 4 more points.

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metisuneatn wrote:

Lol as I posted before

Ive played a f2p game where u pretty much had to spend 300 bucks to equal up to other peoples damage (not counting the 5grand of gear u needed)

Keep crying about micro trans that dont effect the outcome of the game, please keep crying, its making my day

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aguamoose wrote:

Really, who pays 5k just to play a F2p game. Is online respect THAT important to some people? Hell, you could make 5 kick ass PC's for that.

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Agilaz wrote:

I'll just post this again because people seem to conveniently ignore it.

They did it to compensate for the lower profit margins on the smaller packs. Yes, GGG is trying to make a profit. BOOOOOOOO.

Sigh. Maybe they should've made this a retail release.

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Rollback wrote:

I'm in agreement with the OP on this one, although the people saying prices are to high need to shush.

The $5,10,20 package should be 50,100,200 points, and everything after that should be higher points per dollar package. That way you don't feel like you are losing anything for buying lower packages, you are just gaining points for buying higher. Divisible by 10 would be better as well.

$5 - 50
$10 - 100
$20 - 200
$50 - 520
$100 - 1070
$250 - 2850

I doubt they'll see much of a difference anyway, but at least the costumer only feels like they got something more for paying more, and didn't lose anything for paying less.