Unreliable
09-15-2011, 01:10 AM
Hey guys, so I hear everyone talking about how VIP is a waste of money, and I have my own personal beliefs about that (which is one reason I stay VIP, and I am NOT going to be talking about that in this thread) but also I decided to do a little bit of math behind it was well, its pretty simple so here it goes. (I hope I did this right)
So if you get the new $99 for 12 months vip thats 8.25 a month. You get 500 points a month, so thats essentially $8.25 - $3.62 (value of the points if you buy during a 6900 for $50 sale)
So thats $4.63 a month you are paying for the access to all adventure packs (including adventure packs when they are newly released)
$4.63 = about 638 Turbine Points every month ''rent'' you are paying for access to each adventure pack (and again, this is assuming doing all math when on the 6900 point sales) - What I am trying to say here is if you did not pay for VIP you could use your money to buy aprox 638 TP during a 6900 sale each month.
So for 638 Turbine Points a month you can enter every adventure pack and dont have to worry about buying them when they come out.
This means in order for ViP to be worthwhile turbine needs to release a vale, or GH quality adventure pack every 1.25-1.5 months for the ViP cost to be justified, because as a premiun player you are going to have buy that pack as soon as you can in order to have the same (or similar) benefits as a paying ViP.
I dunno, I thought it was kind of interesting. I am going to put all my personal feelings on if its worth it or not behind and just step away at the moment :) Let everyone else do the drama.
** Just a side note - that all these numbers would be different if you used the standard 5000 TP for $50 instead of 6900 for $50 - AND that I did not factor in the 3 ''summer'' months of double TP from ViP... So yeah, that would change things a little (In favor of the ViPs) - AND I did not include any chance that turbine would release NON Adventure pack features to DDO such as races, storage space, classes, etc... which again, if turbine did implement these things would drive the value of ViP up.. but it hasnt happened recently and dosent seem to be happening soon so I did not include those things.
So if you get the new $99 for 12 months vip thats 8.25 a month. You get 500 points a month, so thats essentially $8.25 - $3.62 (value of the points if you buy during a 6900 for $50 sale)
So thats $4.63 a month you are paying for the access to all adventure packs (including adventure packs when they are newly released)
$4.63 = about 638 Turbine Points every month ''rent'' you are paying for access to each adventure pack (and again, this is assuming doing all math when on the 6900 point sales) - What I am trying to say here is if you did not pay for VIP you could use your money to buy aprox 638 TP during a 6900 sale each month.
So for 638 Turbine Points a month you can enter every adventure pack and dont have to worry about buying them when they come out.
This means in order for ViP to be worthwhile turbine needs to release a vale, or GH quality adventure pack every 1.25-1.5 months for the ViP cost to be justified, because as a premiun player you are going to have buy that pack as soon as you can in order to have the same (or similar) benefits as a paying ViP.
I dunno, I thought it was kind of interesting. I am going to put all my personal feelings on if its worth it or not behind and just step away at the moment :) Let everyone else do the drama.
** Just a side note - that all these numbers would be different if you used the standard 5000 TP for $50 instead of 6900 for $50 - AND that I did not factor in the 3 ''summer'' months of double TP from ViP... So yeah, that would change things a little (In favor of the ViPs) - AND I did not include any chance that turbine would release NON Adventure pack features to DDO such as races, storage space, classes, etc... which again, if turbine did implement these things would drive the value of ViP up.. but it hasnt happened recently and dosent seem to be happening soon so I did not include those things.