I love Conan, spent a lot of time in this game. Played it before release and I’ve bought every single DLC released. I even did the battle pass and completed every one.
What I don’t like though is the Bazaar, especially after the DLCs set the precedent for pricing for building pieces and cosmetics. I will admit, I have bought a couple of the building sets from the Bazaar…begrudgingly.
I’m super excited about Dune. Dune and Conan are my 2 favorite universes to sink my free time into and I am more that willing to drop some of my hard earned dollars on these franchises. But after seeing what they have done to Conan’s extra content, the Bazaar, Im afraid they will take Dune down that same route.
I’m already sick of being nickle and dimed in gaming and it hurts even more to see a couple pieces of furniture costing more than the base game in some cases when full DLCs were released for 10$.
I want to be excited for Dune. I’m most definitely going to play it. But I’m most definitely not going to spend any money in it if the prices are the same or worse than in Conan and my time spent in game with be mostly limited to getting my moneys worth in time that I paid for the game.
I want to give Funcom money, I would buy every single thing in that store…but not at those prices. I can get a set of Legos for cheaper and I get to physically keep them forever.
Though i believe the topic creator is in for a rude awakening perhaps if they think funcom isn’t going to try and grab their wallet in DUNE as well.
Unfortunately it is not entirely unheard of to be taken to the cleaners with these types of games, live service games exist just to fleece their players while delivering as little as possible and this includes fixing bugs.
There are a few exceptions, but sadly it’s just that.
It seems the more money they ask for in the store the more ridiculous they are when it comes to maintaining their games, and i am speaking in general.
Kind of seeing a bit of a trend, company asks for more money to pay already fat ceos and they deliver less and less.
So they lay off people (check) - raise prices (check) - cut game quality to lower workload so they can have fewer devs (check) = pay already ridiculously rich ceos and execs more money while maintaining all the above.
Not sure funcom has laid off anyone yet but they do seem on course for the rest of the above plan i have seen as per usual with other companies.
A lot of the companies around now are not the ones we grew up with, they have become too corporate? and less let’s deliver quality entertainment.
Days are gone when gamers ran these business now they are just lifeless money printing machines for some person in a suit.
You might find “some” hope in new indie devs, but don’t count on any of the big names to do you any favors that’s for sure.
Well maybe at least for those going to DUNE they will at least get what they paid for initially and don’t have to pick up the rest of the game in the bazaar.
60 bucks for a game and guess what? we will let you buy the rest of the game for an extra 300 in our bazaar…
If companies start pulling that type of crapola, i am out.
I have plenty of titles i can replay or stick with buying titles from indie devs.
LOTRO The base game is free for your 1 character. You want to run more? Set up a base house to display all that content? Want to actually play the game and no just ride around the map doing random encounters? $$$$$$$$$
I’d bought all the map expansions, which, after all is the game. it’s the dungeons and missions. Was about half way through them when they did a major over haul of the game, added a ton of “events” to stick their hand deeper in to your pocket; either farm for hours and possible run out of time, or just buy the content. Sound familiar?
I quit because it was no longer the game I had spent 100s of hours learning to play.
Now that you mention it i am kind of reminded of EA’s Star Wars mmo now and how after a time after everyone bought the game they went to a f2p model and locked stuff behind a paywall.
I think character races got locked.
Thankfully some of this has not completely become the norm at least yet and i will admit some companies are not as bad as others when it comes to what gets locked and for how much they want.
With that being said though if this were ever the new norm to have 60 dollar titles with just a few dungeons and say one class with one race and you had to pay through the nose for the rest it’s time to find a new hobby lol
I was kind of joking in a way when i made that statement, but yea you did remind me, there are some that are dangerously close or already there.
Some started as buy to play with a sub then converted and i am not sure if LOTRO was the same way when it launched, but i guess it still stands to a degree what they are doing to people with their game as well.
Then you are part of your own problem. Ive NEVER purchased ANY battlepass or Bazzar content. Not a single cent. Thats how you make your dissatisfaction about pricing loud and clear.
However, by purchasing even one thing, you’ve now told funcom you’re ok with the prices, and thrown your lot in with the whales. Dont complain or be concerned about your own self contributed idiotic process. Because of your purchases in the bazzar, you’re your own enemy. Already sunk your own ship…