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I remember him when he ran for Mayor.
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As usual, the introduction of an in-game currency further obfuscates the price people pay for the digital goods, but if we simplify the calculation, it comes out to $35 for 8 decorations, 10 building pieces, 1 armor skin, 4 weapon skins, and 3 emotes.
Different people will have different opinions on this. Mine is that this is not worth buying, so I won’t. 
This makes me sad, because I’ve bought every DLC so far, because they were really good. I don’t use every element from every DLC, but the bundles were good enough and the price was reasonable, and the elements synergize very well across bundles. I’m gonna miss that.
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Quite disappointed. Not paying that much for a few building pieces.
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What he said. I’ve said it elsewhere and I’ll say it again that the previous bundles were excellent value for money - perhaps too good - so some “normalizing” was to be expected, but what we’re seeing currently is just way over the top.
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Not really. This overlooks the (likely) possibility that the DLCs were severely under-valued to begin with. They may not have been paying for themselves let alone financing meaningful expansions to the game. The only real measure of the pricing system’s success will be if people pay enough to keep the game in development. I hope it does. I own all of the DLCs and I have to admit that despite all of the content that I purchased, I only reliably use 10% of it. That means that a number of the bazaar items are right priced for me since it still amounts to the same value (in some cases the value is higher because I eliminate a lot of bloat from items in my interface that I never use. Other items are still to expensive for me. And other customers will believe the value is too low for the price because they regularly used all DLC content. In the end the market will decide if this works.
I made a post in this other thread outlining the costs of the stuff in the Bazaar, and I compared it to the previous DLC. It adds up to a 1928.5% price increase on content at non-discounted prices.
https://forums.funcom.com/t/black-lotus-bazar-prices-sept-1-launch-thread/200770/17?u=piankhi
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Honestly if it’s just skins and nothing overpowered like core game features like strong weapons/armor/spells or raid tools then honestly it could be whatever price they could want and if someone sees value in buying it then they get it if you look at the prices for league of legends stuff it’s like 10$ or something per skin if you buy it so I mean it’s just really all personal preferance. If anything higher prices is better because then the people that got it will feel more unique because no one else sees value in it so it will be like rare and they will be the only one or some of few.
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I want to support the game by buying cosmetics. I bought the Battle Pass since 3.0 brings a lot of new content for free.
However, I haven’t touched a single item from Black Lotus Bazaar because they are overpriced when compared to the DLCs (even when bought at full price). I will probably not buy anything from the Bazaar if they keep the pricing as is. Not to forget the day 1 discounts which make us question the real price on these items.
I really hope Funcom reviews the current pricing and brings it in line with DLC pricing.
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Why do people keep assuming the rest of us don’t know this?
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What?
That seems to be the default sentiment. The BLB is awful and the battle pass, while not great, theoretically supports further development.
A surprising lot of people failed to understand the concept of “The end game in old mmo’s is the Fashion, not the power creep”
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I think prices are too low.
Only 5 bucks for masterly crafted emotes?!!!
What about artist work?!! Animators?!
This stuff should cost 500 USD at MINIMUM! PLS FIX FUNCOM!!!
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Simply vote with your wallet. This is the only language they understand. I rather will continue to support modders who bring a lot of fun decorative items to the game. Much more and better than Funcom.
That the prices are bad, customer unfriendly and unbalanced is no surprise here. My recommendation: Do not support this scheme. Do not buy.
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Exactly. I will be getting the battle pass.
I will not touch the BLB at those prices.
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Oh no, don’t worry. Those are just placeholder prices. There is nothing to be concerned about.
What a joke.
Tencent does this sort of thing. Now they are ruining Funcom by doing it in Conan.
I won’t be buying a d***ed thing in the Item store.
I’d rather pay modders to create better looking items. At least then I would respect the people making it.
To get all the Bazaar items requires the $34.99 pack + the $9.99 pack.
$45 to get 6,240 Crom Coins.
But oh look, pay 5 bucks more and you can get 7,800 of them.
So they are basically increasing the cost of a single DLC worth of items, to MORE than the freaking Siptah expansion.
I can’t see how anyone will honestly put money into this crap.
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This is quite the most disturbing trend. I agree it needs to stop and be called out when it slithers out from the rock it was dwelling under.
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I’m not trying to silence your feedback. I just see you all screaming at a wall red faced and angry and I know from other games that your screaming is pretty useless and won’t accomplish much - if anything.
I work in game dev for a living. I can guarantee you that there were already several meetings about this topic before they even announced it would happen and the projected rage-o-thon that would happen and it has been accounted for. They already knew, and gave forewarning to their forums and social media mods, that there would be a wall of complaints about this.
They are going to be looking at the numbers. If the numbers show people buying the products they will continue to pump them out, you all screaming about it or not.
The only noticeable thing it does is clutter up the twitter and facebook and forums with repetitive complaint posts and becomes a giant echo chamber but with no actual actionable items coming from it other than it gets boring to read over and over again.
You’re going to have more effect voting with your wallet. Thats the thing that Tencent and company are watching, not the forums and how many forum goers are screaming, because forums and twitter etc are only a very small percentage of the player base.
If they see player count plummet and no one touching the online store, THAT will be something they will take as an action item. I guarantee they have a threshold they are watching to be met, and they have a player count they are monitoring to view active numbers on both public and private servers.
So long as those numbers are being met, it does’t matter if 100 of you are in here all-caps yelling about the prices, its not going to do anything. This same thing has been going on with games like Sea of Thieves forever - they also incorporate a gamepass and a form of bazaar and players constantly post on twitter and their facebook about hating it.
But it still a practice because it still makes companies a ton of money - so there are more than enough people still shelling out cash for the items which is why its a thing in the first place.
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I wanted to stay away from the discussion 
but i obviously cannot.
I look at this as to a desperate last way to try and keep the game developed. Numbers are not on Conan Exiles side and with a 10 bucks DLC model, i think we can both agree that the dev team would not be so numerous as it is now.
I applaud Funcom for taking the decision to move to cash shop model, thing which might have saved Age of Conan from F2P. Imo, prices will be changing for sure and pretty soon.
I can’t see Tencent shooting itself in the foot and miss the opportunity of making some real cash. Cause with the current prices they are just missing on money. Release window missed cash out imo.
And then you always have these “2 left handed” players. Take for example my server i play on…This dude buys the Premium Battle Pass and then starts crying that the Premium only gave him a dozen of levels :)))
As for myself, i’ll give Funcom the 20$ i do every year… for half of the content this time around…and hope that they will really move forward with Sorcery and better AI.
Welcome to the Age of the Bazar! 
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