Armor Kit Pricing

[AZgreentea]

I dont mind 195 TP. What I do mind is having to pay to preview the look. It would be nice if the NPC in the armor shop allowed you to preview it for free (or for ingame gold) from him. Then I wouldnt mind paying 195 TP once I was certain I had the exact one I was looking for. Spending 5 TP to figure out which of the 5 looks I was trying to remember seeing is a little painful. Especially when there will certainly be many, many more by this time next year.

I'm sure it will all be in DDO Wiki, however.

[Razcar]

Who buys anything from the Turbine Store at full price?

Guess I'm "who", if there is something I need right then (which very seldom happens to be honest, I'm on the VIP plan) I buy it. I don't "avoid" sales of course, cheaper is better. But I don't wait for them either.

But I guess if you are a premium player you use the store more and and more accustomed to bargain-hunting, since then you have to use TP for practically everything.

[Samiusbot]

I dont mind 195 TP. What I do mind is having to pay to preview the look. It would be nice if the NPC in the armor shop allowed you to preview it for free (or for ingame gold) from him.

I would bet the programing time to let us have a preview cost a lot more then we think. Maybe more then adding the skins. Why not pay a small token fee for that time.

Would you all be just as happy with a number of dummies already wearing the armor? Vs being able to try it on?

[AZgreentea]

I would bet the programing time to let us have a preview cost a lot more then we think. Maybe more then adding the skins. Why not pay a small token fee for that time.

Would you all be just as happy with a number of dummies already wearing the armor? Vs being able to try it on?

I dont mind paying for the armor skins, I just want to avoid buying something blind. Even the 1 TP is still buying it blind, and I would feel like I couldnt justify spending the TP on possibly the wrong thing. They can roll the cost of the temp armors into the permanent versions.

The dummies might take up a lot of place. You might end up having a building like the Airship Shope. Hopefully I can be satisfied with the inevitable forum post, or Wiki page, but I would feel more comfortable knowing I can try it on MY armor, since they already built that mechanic.

[Eladiun]

From all accounts the store has been a huge boon so maybe I'm wrong but if some of these items were priced lower, I would be inclined to purchase more of them. In my eyes...

lower price + more purchase = more profit vs higher price + fewer purchase

..but I could be totally wrong so I'll just suffer with my standard DT image.

[Kza]

Need to be able to preview everything you buy from store that change toon appearance. Must say its bad thats not implemented at same time as hairstyles/colors. Not fun play yer favvo game and feel cheated now and then.

[fuzzy1guy]

10 characters x 2 armor sets on average = 3900pts.. = yeah. won't be doing it at all.


Overall... Whoever sets the store prices really does not have any touch with reality. or a basic understanding of economics.

For an item that costs you near nothing to replicate forever. Selling often for lower prices beats selling once in awhile for high prices.

[Monroid]

Srsly, Turbine?

Srsly?

ಠ_ಠ

[Natashaelle]

I think the point is, overprice it, and it will seriously affect sales.

Make it el cheapo, these things will just FLY out the door, and bring in tons more revenue.

[Vellrad]

I expected this highly desired and waited featture costing arroung 150-200TP, so I'm not amazed by 195TP price.
I would even gladly paid 250 or maybe 300TP if I could make my wizard look like wearing a shiny set of full plate armor.
But I guess I'll have to wait for it.

[Alabore]

Speaking of previews, while they keep Lamannia open and running, everybody who can run the client, can effectively get kits for free.
The first issue is partially circumvented - unless you happen to have a VERY large pool of differently dressed characters, and you can't copy/clone all of them on Lamannia.

The issue with individual cost of kits would be partially addressed if they made kits non-disappearing.
They already bind to account, and make armour they're being applied to equally bound - so you can't send gear around without shared banking, or buy kits for other players.

Hats apply their appearance, and stay in your inventory.
You could buy one or two per server, and share them around.
Considering appearance kits won't even provide extra powers/bonuses, making them one-shot like hair tonics might be overkill.

That said, Turbine initially had bards and fvs as store-only hirelings.
Then made them plat-purchasable with newer updates.
We'll see what happens in U9.

[Templarion]

I won't need to buy the kits to look unique. Since everybody will be getting them, I will be the only one that looks different from all the rest. AND IT'S FREE!

Seconded... or is this tripled? ...no, it's quadrupled!

[MrkGrismer]

From what I understand once you apply the cosmetic look to an armor it is bound to that armor, so if you want to apply the same look to different armor you will have to buy/find it again. Am I correct on this?

[sacredguyver]

From what I understand once you apply the cosmetic look to an armor it is bound to that armor, so if you want to apply the same look to different armor you will have to buy/find it again. Am I correct on this?

That's right, which is why the 195 TP feels too high to me.

[yohoia]

I also think that it is too expensive, and wonder a bit about the price/demand-modeling they use when they decide on the price for items in the shop. Many people love to play around with looks and cosmetic items (such as hairstyles, hair color, cosmetic armor) should be priced in a way that makes people want to change them - often!. Hair color -- and as it seems cosmetic armor -- is MUCH too expensive. I don't mind buying points (I have quite a bunch of them), and I definitely don't mind spending them, but as it is now I don't buy cosmetic items that often and when I do it is usually hair styles (that are priced correctly). And I am absolutely the kind of player who normally would buy loads of them and would like to change hair styles, colors, and outfits on a weekly basis. I just think the price is too high.

[DarkFlash]

What I want to know is... Can you trade the kits?
If you can, I see no problem with buying the kit from a "newbie" that thinks 10kpp makes him the richest guy in the world. (Because he has more TP than plats)

[sacredguyver]

What I want to know is... Can you trade the kits?

Not sure about the kits that are supposedly going to drop as loot, but the kits from the Store are Bound to Account, like most Store items.

[Kronos_EXE]

195 TP is a bit steep, but I'm sure most players will wait for them to go on sale....

[Stev69]

I approve of the armor kits pricing policy.
This way you can spend some cash and actually look unique as opposed to wearing the same suit as the gajillion f2p folks.

How do you think you are going look unique when there is only a limited number of kits (for the time being at least) everyone is going to be wearing the same kits.

I do not approve of the way this system is implemented at all, Turbine also runs LOTRO and they have a much better cosmetic system there where if you find a piece of armour (boots, hats, cloaks etc) you like you can simply pick it up and equip it as cosmetic, and it costs nothing. So why shaft Ddo customers?

[natedogg729]

I approve of the armor kits pricing policy.
This way you can spend some cash and actually look unique as opposed to wearing the same suit as the gajillion f2p folks.

I agree with the pricing, but they need to make it more like the hats, where one kit fits all armor.