I’m doing my best to support this game, I really am. I own every DLC and have spend a ridiculous amount in the bazaar, both on battlepasses and bazaar items. But for the past few months I’ve been seeing standalone items, that are then being offered in larger packs the next day. The Crom coin discount isn’t taking into effect how much the original item was. Case in point, forlorn sarcophagus. Available as an individual item for one day, the next it was available as part of the forlorn dungeon set. How do I know the prices didn’t match? I checked on my wife’s account.
Look, I get it that there are players upset with chapter 3, god knows I’m one of them, but those who are willing to pay for bazaar items are the lifeblood of this game right now. And it’s starting to feel like you’re just exploiting it. The Relic Hunter tool kit didn’t have a pick. Why? So we can over pay when it is part of the next update. The dungeon and Aesir kits came out over two updates each. That’s almost $50 for two sets of building items, that we would have received in previous DLC sets for way less money.
The Chapter 3 release was a disaster that you still have not addressed. Combat is awful. The siege mechanics are glitchy due to overprocessing. The archival bookshelf set is STILL broken. The purge is broken. The PS5 game still has MAJOR rendering and crash problems. My thralls are now idiots. And now I feel like I’m getting ripped off in the bazaar and that it’s simply a cash grab. Assuming the bazaar doesn’t crash when I try to access it. Which it does EVERY TIME I PLAY.
I don’t disagree with the sentiment of your post but I do believe that, at least in this context, the relic hunter pick was part of the battlepass wasn’t it?
Thanks for the clarification on that part. I didn’t catch that. half of the battlepass items I don’t use. Loaded up on Black Blood tools and never craft tools anymore as they are always weaker.
Thinking about it, the fact the tools were split between battlepass and bazaar makes my point more relevant. The entire kit should have been bazaar as if you didn’t get the battlepass for that season, you can’t complete the set and the whole point of the battlepass is to have unique items never to be seen again. Or the entire kit should have been spread out across the battlepass. Sets shouldn’t be broken up like that.
It’s a tactic to try and get you to purchase both the full Battlepass and the Bazaar item. As for performance on PS5, as it didn’t get the optimisation upgrade like the Xbox Series S/X, I’d guess the best you could hope for is for Funcom to drop support for last generation consoles before seeing improvements
It’s progressively gotten worse. The QoL update between AoS chapters 2 and 3 made a huge difference, but everything that fixed has slowly reverted back with each new chapter. There is absolutely no excuse for the PS5 to perform so poorly.
Funcom has zero intention of an optimization upgrade for PS5. They would have done it by now if they had.
This. I couldn’t agree more because I saw the sarcophagus and thought "WTF? That’s odd that its not part of the dungeon expansion set coming sometime’ and then the very next day they removed the sarcophagus and put out the set.
No I get it. I wanted that set but had issues with FC Live acknowledging the PSN crom coin purchase that by the time someone was available to help me, it was already gone.
But I would have loved the set but yes putting out the one thing only to have it bundled right after with an expected hot set…shameful.
It has got me thinking that this plus some other requests should trigger a shop change to offer individual items for sale immediately and full price and the storefront we get now is reserved for bundled set discounts. You can wait till the set comes into the discounted shop or immediately feed the id with more $.
This will also give them a better idea of what truly sells on it’s own merits vs a ‘me too’ product that is just accepted as part of the set.
Same here, all dlc’s and everything. PS5 player also, 1000+ hours… I just decided to not spend any penny with FunCom anymore until they do a better job with performance in general, and bazaar double dipping .
I’m on strike too, @Ostherhus , after spending a ton of money in this game that I love. I want to give them my money, but the game needs to perform better on PS5.
And I agree. No shenanigans on the bazaar. Trust is lost only once. It’s very hard to built it back.
Yeah, especially as evidence (from others who share their purchases/screenshots) comes to light showing that if you purchase an individual item, you actually end up paying more if you decide to get the set later. Even EA got that one right for their Sims 3 Store back in the day.
there is a reason i posted this, because i am almost positive the pack will be available…,
and again its becoming more and more expensive, everytime, (tables for 500 CC in the past) now 760CC for a single decorative item? dungeon set was priced at 860 CC when it launched (first part)…
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