You’re confusing cosmetics with skins.
Why did you even buy $#it from there?
edit : not being offensive, it’s just the prices and the $#it the devs post there really isn’t worth your money.
What gets me about these paid items that have more HP or more storage, or even higher stats… people don’t buy them because they were advertised as such. They buy them because a ‘friend’ told them or they watched an influencer babble about how the item in question gives an advantage.
Then they cry foul when the item is brought back in line to its intended values and role. Which has been stated repeatedly in their livestreams and such they will not sell advantages. Items that have them WILL be fixed, and not IF, but WHEN.
Don’t put your trust in people telling you that you can buy an advantage. Or get burned. Or keep doing so, its your choice to be an exploitable gold mine. I won’t tell you not to be.
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Man, it’s like that in a lot of games. You have a relatively small window to use an OP item and then it’s nerfed. And another one comes. Rinse and repeat.
I don’t know if it was on purpose in this case. On FPS it’s always happening, @Taemien .
I WANT MY MONEY BACK! I only bought this game because it had CROSSBOWS!
Once and a while is an oops, consistently is not.
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While I do agree somewhat. Don’t sell advantage on the bazaar would have solved this long before this would ever have become an issue.
Conversely, proper testing of items prior to placing them on the shop would have solved them even before they became available to be sold “for advantage”, as well as solving issues such as missing items like the afore mentioned latrine as well as other issues which offered absolutely no advantage at all.
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Like @Narelle said.
You’ll find several discussions about it.
But what is done it’s done.
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Agreed, however, proper testing…yeah.
I honestly feel funcom may be doing this on purpose, they keep releasing items to the store with above average power, armor, building pieces, storage, and then later nerf it (or don’t) post the big first sales push.
I do kind of feel its deceptive business practices
although a lot of it is deceptive borderline possibly illegal like the markdown prices have these items like the stygian set ever sold at 1,760 coins?
If the items were advertised with their bloated stats and functionality, then I would agree that there is a major problem. But the items in question are not advertised in any manner of having any stats or attributes or advanced functionality.
When an item slips through that has advanced power compared to non-paid items. One of two things are the cause. An oversight, such as giving a double wall double HP. Or entering the wrong values, such as putting 40 rows of 5 instead of 40 slots for the arcane cabinet. They are pretty consistent with their fixes on these items.
Planetside 2 would run into the issue you are talking about. Where you’d buy weapons from the shop, and new ones occasionally would have too much power and cause a bit of issue. Sometimes new weapons would be on the other side of the curve and need to be buffed up.
No markdowns have ever been done on the Bazaar to date. The prices you see with the slash are what the price of the items would be if they were not bundled. If bundling discounts are illegal in your jurisdiction by all means file a complaint with your local authority governing/regulating trade practices and get it rectified in your region.
Though good luck, because I have never heard of fries and a drink being discounted as part of a meal being illegal anywhere. But don’t let that dissuade you, speak to the authority anyway and let us know if they say you have a case.
I can’t do it myself, bundling isn’t illegal in my region.
I dunno any store that does mark down prices to imply bundles and how would I know the individual price of these things since they have never been on sale as individually priced items?
And once again nowhere on the Bazar does it mention this, like I say misleading business practices, I shouldn’t have to go to the forums to get it explained from “someguy”, pricing should be transparent and representative a strikethrough is a universal sign of a discount, not a bundle price savings, and it doesn’t state it as such, it gets weirdly complicated because its their own currency though on another layer upon it.
But the easiest thing to say is it upfront, clear and concise? Not at all.
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I never, and have never stated that the pricing scheme has been clear. I merely told you what it actually is, to which that information comes directly from a conversation had with one of the guys who helped set it up.
In September of 2022 I made feedback on the very thing you mentioned here. That the discount prices were wonky and still far too much. To which the reply was that they were bundled prices and not sales. Sales potentially would come later. To my knowledge, no sale has happened and individual items when they appear on their own, do not have their bundled price.
I would recommend making a feedback thread about making it clear that the prices you see under a slashed price is a Bundled Price. This thread isn’t really the place for that.
The only reason like many other reasons things go south in conan, the pvp monkey’s. A storage unit capable of holding 200 items and be relatively that small could be superbly hidden. That would affect the raider clans and their self righteous road to glory of killing offline people and destroying everything for some leather and maybe a pair of nice daggers. I use the cabinet as a decoration in my world of care bears where we work together to make nice things and share smores.
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I do not know where you live but I see that ALL THE TIME. It’s fairly standard practice. It’s also fairly standard practice for, as an example, when a new restaurant opens up they discount things for the first month before “raising” the price to the normal price. It is not deceptive, they are not hiding it. Everyone knows that this is just how it’s done. They get you hooked on the food after enticing you with the lower prices and after that first month the prices go up to normal (which is pretty much the same as everyone else in the area selling the same type of food) but if their food is better and you’ve gotten a taste for it over the last month then you’ll still go back to them.
Regardless if the price is reduced because of it being part of a bundle, or because it is on sale (even if it is the first time it has been available) does not matter. It is still neither deceptive nor illegal. They do not have the space to spell out every single little bit of information in those tiny little boxes for every single person who may or may not understand any little detail you can possibly imagine. If you do not like the way that they are running the BLB, then simply do not use it. Could not be more simple than that.
It was not PVPers that reported this.
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Crossbow return when?
Depends on what you mean by “on purpose”.
Is it premeditated? I haven’t seen anything to convince me that it is. I think these are, as Funcom claims, just mistakes.
Is it convenient for them when these mistakes happen? Yes. Do they hurry to fix them? No. Have they taken steps to prevent those mistakes from happening or to react more quickly when they happened? I haven’t seen any evidence of that, either.
In that sense, I would say that there’s some purposeful behavior at play.
The Bazaar presentation is certainly deceptive, and it’s been like that right from the start. The so-called “bundle prices” are bullshіt, because you never have an option to buy these things separately.
It’s simply a trick to manufacture urgency and manipulate people into buying. So is the Bazaar rotation.
You know who needs to manufacture urgency to trick you into doing something? Scam artists. But of course, marketing is completely different from that. Good marketing experts will even explain how.
Because no one ever relies on word-of-mouth to help with their sales. Anywhere. Ever. 
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I was just joking… Sorry.
But to offer an opinion; whilst it’s understandable being frustrated at paid items being changed after the fact, I would argue this entire game is / has been like this from the beginning. Some aspects for better, some for worse.
Of course this practice wouldn’t fly in RL with almost anything else, and I find it interesting that games developers in general get away with it so blatantly.
I mean these days how often are games even ‘finished’ before being sold? Is this very concept out-moded now? Or have they all just fooled everyone into their PR spin.
“It’s not unfinished… it’s evolving” Or with the bazaar… “adding value”
Don’t get me wrong, in fairness Funcom were not the first and won’t be the last, nor I suppose you can blame them for following what is now a well established business model.
Despite all of this, I personally like the the addition of the bazaar , though I do find the prices OTT.
I do think though, Funcom in general should do more bug testing before letting things loose, I think this would have avoided a fair amount of drama in the past, the bugged cabinet being one of them.
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