Bazaar prices going up!

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Personally, I appreciate the effort you and Eradication take upon yourself.

But…

… let’s say there’s a sales guy (or gal) at Funcom who watches sales in the bazaar.
Let’s also say this person evaluates if sales rise or fall after youtuber reviews.
And finally, let’s say sales rise even after a bad review or an advice not to buy due to the item being too expensive.

One may say that people bought stuff due an informed decision, that maybe they didn’t share the reviewer’s opinion on price and decided, willfully, informed, consciously, to buy the item at that price.

Or one may say that humans are pretty stupid and buy, eat and drink stuff that’s shown on TV, that being know is more important than being popular, that even bad publicity is good publicity.

If one follows the latter interpretation, one might say that reviewers that do semi-free (i. e. paid by social credit, possibly youtube advertisement money and a free sample) advertisement are being used, consciously or not, to make people buy stuff they shouldn’t buy.

One might also add that advertisement done by a third party is very convenient for the seller, as the seller probably wouldn’t be held liable for any faults in the advertisement by the (“unpaid”) third party.

One may wonder if the aforementioned assumtions are correct. But if one says they’re not, it would be pretty stupid by Funcom to continue giving you “free” stuff, wouldn’t it?

And even if Funcom doesn’t measure this stuff, Tencent most certainly did, and to a level of detail we probably couldn’t imagine.

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Oh, crap! That screenshot! Sorry, I didn’t realize which screenshot you were talking about :frowning:

Yeah, that was from the discussion about the BP and BLB announcement in their devstream.

I thought you were talking about the screenshot in the opening post of this thread :man_facepalming:

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Sim esse conjunto de item está com valores elevados :face_with_monocle: com valores inflados, espero que seja atualizado e não seja um padrão de valores :sleepy

:thinking: Como em qualquer loja os valores tendem a mudar ou ajustar porém acho que as novidades não deveriam ser lançadas com os valores atuais assim quem não comprar no lançamento não terá o direito de ficar chorando depois… Igual a mesa de banquete que foi uma pechincha na época :stuck_out_tongue:

@Community Se o bazar ficar com os valores elevados logo no lançamento é provável que a maioria que apoia e compra no bazar fuja dessas novidades :sleepy:

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As long as players feed the problem by buying the bazaar items, Funcoms hunger for more money is going to grow. “I am guilty of it also”. But I do agree, the pricing is, and has been, getting ridiculous and I cannot figure Funcom thought process or reasoning for their pricing. Though I am tempted on some items in the bazaar, I feel I can no longer support it and will not be making future purchases. I wish the rest of the Conan community good luck on self control of their bazaar purchasing.

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A fool and their money were lucky to get together in the first place.

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no no, see, they’re comparing the prices of FULL GAMES to items on the bazaar.

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Ok, I thought about this for a hot minute; someone somewhere kind of mentioned how I feel.

I am ok with paying for art (artist who has been woefully underpaid). I am ok in general with paying for what something is worth regardless of what it is.

But this is not an independent small business I am supporting. It’s a highly visible multi-million dollar company that is owned by a multi-billion dollar corporation that has the capacity to pay workers living wages, do proper marketing, analysis mechanisms and tools beyond what we could imagine.

For me, the choice not to purchase is based on quality and treatment. I think this is why it is so shocking to see the prices as they are. The game itself is in shambles, the content released looks amazing but often comes out as a buggy mess…

I think most would be less critical if quality, communication and community engagement were there.

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dont you guys find it funny that funcom has been hiding under ther rocks with the bazaar topic?

they dont have the guts to come forward and explain it, (and they wont have it either) probably because its BAD PR, but guess what, not talking about this issues is even worst PR, you guys are shooting in your own foot.

and funcom can bet that this issue will have financial ramifications with dune, as you can bet there will be people not spending a dime in that game with whats happening over CE.

they cant count me out ,

i am sorry to say this @Community but i think we all deserve BETTER…

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Still another week before we hear anything from funcom.
Apparently the internet shuts down for a month so they can’t even converse in the forum.
I mean how does the country function when everything shuts down for a month?
No police, no fireman, no hospitals, no mail service, no electric, no running water…

Am I laying it on too thick?

And once again what really chaps my hide is, I can go on to the Dune discord and start a conversation with a funcom rep/community manage right now. For an unreleased game with no player base.

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they have office in north carolina (so they are watching or at least some of them)

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They wouldn’t be able to say anything we don’t already know. They don’t set the prices, their corporate overlords do.

And it’s interesting everyone’s talking about how there’s no funcom representation on this forum because whenever there is a blue response, there’s usually an endless stream of hate and vitriol after. (Obviously some exceptions to the rule, but I think we as a community have no one to blame but ourselves for lack of responses.)

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lol, …

so now it is community fault for all the issues conan exiles has?

REALLY???

your white knight helm just fell off Nethermore. side with the community instead of a corporation. (just saying)

maybe people is tired of unfulfilled promises, empty words, and lack of action to fix the most commonly issues that has been reported here for so long.,

patience has a limit.

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With no player base, I Imagine the community managers are kicking back waiting for someone to respond to.

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maybe we should aks in dune forums questions they fall to respond in CE spaces?

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Just here to add another voice to the dissapointed group.
for that money (its like 15 lollars for the dungeon pack) I’d expect a pack of the different buildingblocks combined(pyramid, dungeon, aesir etc). A DLC like Riders of Hyboria or Architects of Argos is 9.99 right now.

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Easy. Give them no more money.

The Conan Exiles players are not on the Funcom agenda, anyway. So we should take our wallets and go home.

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People that wont aren’t. The people that are, probably are not here.

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Awesome. I guess I’ll just keep up the drill, and keep shaking my fist at that cloud up there.

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I curse the fates regular.

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The problems in the game are not the community’s fault. How we communicate our frustrations totally is. You want devs to respond? Maybe you don’t bully them by making an unflattering meme using their face as they address your concern. White knight lmao. Being a decent person more like.

And I get it. I’m frustrated too. The devs combined with their corporate overlords have made extremely anti-consumer choices. I’m not defending those choices. I’m saying if we want decent communication with actual people we might consider treating them like actual people instead of having a temper tantrum and bullying them like spoiled man-children.

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