While this one agrees that many items in the Bazaar are priced in the somewhat absurd range, this one doesn’t think it is an effort to kill the game.

The price point is not far off from what other games lambasted for their absurd costs sit at. Perhaps the overlords at Tencent expect the Conan crew to be as effluent spenders as the Fortnite crowd, or those persons in CoD or such.
Not saying that they are correct on setting those prices, just that whoever their “monetization expert” is, that seems to be what they think will work.

That said, they are probably making more money than when they pushed out a cultural pack every few months if even.

Now, this one does lament the end of the Cultural Packs. Not just because of their excellent price point, but also because there were so many cultures left that deserved exploring and not in the slapdash and piecemeal way the Bazaar encourages.
Some cultures, however, are a better fit for the Bazaar 's ala carte system. Yurt or Tent peoples being an excellent example. Some peoples of the Hyborian Age this one struggles to conceive of what a full build set would look like or have trouble imagining three full outfits.
For example, this one would very much like to see Hyrkanian support. But they really aren’t much for architecture, often on the move and more likely to be in a Khitan or Turani building. But they would have yurts/tents, and more variety in armour and saddle would be grand. Then this one saw the Hyrkanian Plainsrider set and realized that what this thinks is interesting about the Hyrkanian culture completely dovetails from what Funcom is selling. But the idea that a limited set would work was there.
It is at times difficult to separate specific distaste from generalized appraisal.

TLDR; Yes, the prices are absurd. No this one does not think it is deliberate, merely what triple A studios have decided to price fix at, and Funcent thinks they can command triple A rates.

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