Hi folks,
i reactivated few days ago some of my accounts. Yesterday i took a look in the item store to get some stuff im borrowed to farm again like i have done several time with other chars like the most of you veterans too. Stuff like token package and added xp. I saw another new item, instant levelup to 200 and i saw the prices and was a little bit surprised about the new price police of FC. Im not 100% sure, but i think the prices rises a lot as they was in the past. If im correct i need to pay 5000 points for a 1k token package now, thats something around 40-50€, for the needed 2.5k token you need to pay something around 100 €, i think it was much cheaper in the past. I work, i earn money and i could buy me the stuff in the shop. I could, but my personal feeling about the prices for the stuff is, it is much overpriced. Yea you could say you dont need to use that services. On the other hand i would say i would use it, but for an fair price. Or would you buy a pizza for 40 bucks? You could say, ok i dont need to buy it, on the other side the suitable price would be 10 bucks, damn why should i pay so much for it then. I really love pizza and i wanna eat one, but not if it overpriced like that.
I have no clue how many ppl use that item store but im sure FC would make much more money with it if they drop the prices. Look at the gigantic money machine apple produces with the app store. The apps costs normaly 1-5 €/$. In the most cases you think, ok i dont know if i really need it and how long i will have fun with it, but hey thats only a few bucks, i try it. Apple make with this strategy millions of bucks. Make things cheap and let many ppl buy it. FC do it exactly the opposite way.
cheers
Vitalis