Originally posted by rav3n2

Its funny how it turned out, we have been in some discussions lately and you were always the one pointing out how MO maybe will not turn out the way everyone is hoping for, yet you are the one that bought the game and I havent, nothing wrong with that just pointing out.

Bottom line is, I did get to reserve a full loot bag and my wife managed to reserve a standard so we could have had any of them, I did try my card info and it failed first time and thats when we stopped for a second and realized how expensive it actually is (well she did I probably would have just bought it ) for a game that there is absolutely no hard evidence about, I still have hopes for MO and im willing to put out 30-40 pounds to help development but 80 pounds or even 65 for the standard is just way over the top for something I have not played and its non refundable, this is not to say the game will not be good or revolutionary or whatever but I will wait for a cheaper digital download or even release.

I bought the game because I am hopeful that we will finally have a FFA PvP game worth playing. However I do have my reservations about the game and a bit sceptic.

Even so I rather spend my money on a hopeful FFA PvP game than yet another dumbed down instanced, themepark MMORPG. I am sick of those...

Just wish there was a middle ground. An FFA PvP MMORPG with partial loot, moderate death penalty and optional 3rd person view so that it caters to more than just the extreme.

But yeah, the price was way more than expected but I am not hurting for cash right now so its ok for me :)

Originally posted by Yamota

Just wish there was a middle ground. An FFA PvP MMORPG with partial loot, moderate death penalty and optional 3rd person view so that it caters to more than just the extreme.

FFA PVP does not automatically mean you'll be ganked as soon as you'll login. In my point of view, it strongly encourages player-created politics - basically grouping up as tribes for protection. Crafters being protected by fighters, gatherers escorted by defending parties, leaders organizing raids on other 'tribes' for resources and territory etc.

Of course, this is what I hope to see in MO...

One thing all those on a crusade to say people buying are fools do forget is that if those guys with a full loot bag don't like the game, they will just sell their account and make a profit, just like people did for darkfail.

Originally posted by Brif

If the game rocks, then the price will only go up.  It may be $100 now, but it will probably be 3-4 time that when released.  I got a discount, you will be ripped off.

this is hysterical!

yeah the game is going to rock and by the time it hits retail it will be $200 for the box.

lol

Originally posted by Axllow18

Originally posted by maacaaviityy

I agree 100%. Total cost for any guy in the EU for the normal boxed version will be 90.69 euros.

1 box (68.69 EUROS) + shipping (7 EUROS) + 1 month (15 EUROS) = 90.69 euros in total.

That's twice the ammount of a normal MMO. And this game is still in very early beta.

 

Wrong.

54.95 Euros for boxxed version, INCLUDING shipping, no monthly fee till launch.

75$ including shipping. I bought it, just seen the charges, shipping included.

:D

I seen the 54.95 and thought it was USD at first before seeing the Euro symbol. When I realized it was actually 75 USD, I sighed a little bit but ahh well. I'd rather have the boxed version than saving 20 bucks and waiting a week for the Digital download,, which most likely would drop me down to Beta Block D or worse.. So, for those who want to save 20 bucks, wait for the Digital download, but those who want the retail box, access to beta a month or more earlier, and don't mind shelving out 20 more dollars, go purchase the boxed version asap!

Originally posted by altairzq

Originally posted by Guillermo197

Originally posted by steamtank

i do international shipping weekly.  shipping is stupid expensive to and from some countries.

 

This! Especially within the EU the shipping plus stupid VAT taxes are outragious.

I remember plenty of times, when I was still living in Holland (part of the EU) that when I ordered on Amazon.co.uk that I had to calculate the VAT charges and see if it was still worth it to order stuff there.

Now I moved to Norway last year (outside EU, but still Europe ofcourse) I am not subjected to VAT charges and ordering online on for example amazon.co.uk is suddenly a hell lot cheaper!!

Importing from US to Europe or vise versa is even more expensive. You usually end up paying almost double.

I remember, that I really wanted the Collectors Edition of EverQuest 2 and there was only one online store in the US left that had one, the VAT, Import and shipping fees where around $50-60 dollars, just as expensive as the CE box of EQ2. So I ended up paying around $120 to ship the box to Holland.

So you know. Don't blame the peeps of MO so fast!

Cheers

 

Then why it's 21$ more expensive for europeans?

Cause you will be paying the 25% VAT taxes from sweden , thats why , i still cant figure out why you even have any doubt about this , it states in the page that it costs 54.99 + taxes , and the taxes are around 13.7 euros , thats 25% folks , the SWE VAT .

Originally posted by oskironmaide

Exclusivity for what????? For playing a beta game??? Lol..

No way jose im paying more than 70$ for a beta.. lol

No one even know how the game will be, there are only "expectations"

Learn from past mistakes.. Cmon, how many games have told us they are the one revolutionary MMO.. and ended up being false

Not saying this one will be that one.. but i just say "We will see..."

So i will wait for people to waste their time on the game.. if the game rocks im sure the price will have to go down eventually.

If it sucks.. :3 i win

 

 

$70 is a couple of nights out on the Beer , MMOs are serious value for money even if they are Betas.... It will potentially keep the moronic no lifers away so all in all good approach.

Originally posted by Isane

Originally posted by oskironmaide

Exclusivity for what????? For playing a beta game??? Lol..

No way jose im paying more than 70$ for a beta.. lol

No one even know how the game will be, there are only "expectations"

Learn from past mistakes.. Cmon, how many games have told us they are the one revolutionary MMO.. and ended up being false

Not saying this one will be that one.. but i just say "We will see..."

So i will wait for people to waste their time on the game.. if the game rocks im sure the price will have to go down eventually.

If it sucks.. :3 i win

 

 

 

$70 is a couple of nights out on the Beer , MMOs are serious value for money even if they are Betas.... It will potentially keep the moronic no lifers away so all in all good approach.

I'll take beer over a beta game anyday of the week.

This is the first time I have paid more than $80 for a CE, this is the first time I have camped a site for 9 hour+ to get a game pre-launch.

This is the first time I have paid nearly $100 for a beta game...and you know what.

I am damned happy I got my LE. Damned happy I gave my $98 USD. And damn eager for Monday to roll around.

Heads will roll,

Alexis

*smiles*

Originally posted by Cailieg

This is the first time I have paid more than $80 for a CE, this is the first time I have camped a site for 9 hour+ to get a game pre-launch.

This is the first time I have paid nearly $100 for a beta game...and you know what.

 

I am damned happy I got my LE. Damned happy I gave my $98 USD. And damn eager for Monday to roll around.

 

Heads will roll,

Alexis

*smiles*

I guess you didn't know about Darkfall or you would have done the same stuff for that game since they are mirrors when talking about pre-release promises, some people camped that site for 5 years or more and guess what? It was not worth it at all and one of the worst games ever in that the Devs lied so much and delivered so little on the promises.

You are counting your chickens too early, please let us know how you feel about your purchase a month after release and once you have played the game.

It feels great to think you got a great item and are one of the few to be lucky to get it, but once you realize you were conned into it by pre-release hype/lies by Devs, then you will really be mad.

I pre-ordered AOC, WAR, also waited fro Darkfall for 3-4 months checking the site daily like a maniac(thank god not 5 years liek many of their fans) and all 3 bombed. I now know what to look for pre-release to know if Devs are lying or not, and never get excited til I try a game myself.  These Devs are not being true to fans.

This game is in Alpha (no matter what rthey say it is) yet they plan to release soon? They promise more than every game has ever delivered, yet they are unknown Devs with no experience and shown very little of their game. They are accepting money, but limiting customers, can't afford a real launch or anything, so they collect money now to be able to make actual hard copies of the game.

Crazy expensive prices for an unknown Developer that has shown nothing, but promised more than anyone can believe to be true. I will wait til i try it myself before handing them even a dime.

www.mortalonline.com/forums/16713-why-you-shouldnt-angry-starvault-prices.html 

Originally posted by Brif

Originally posted by oskironmaide

Exclusivity for what????? For playing a beta game??? Lol..

No way jose im paying more than 70$ for a beta.. lol

No one even know how the game will be, there are only "expectations"

Learn from past mistakes.. Cmon, how many games have told us they are the one revolutionary MMO.. and ended up being false

Not saying this one will be that one.. but i just say "We will see..."

So i will wait for people to waste their time on the game.. if the game rocks im sure the price will have to go down eventually.

If it sucks.. :3 i win

 

 

If the game rocks, then the price will only go up.  It may be $100 now, but it will probably be 3-4 time that when released.  I got a discount, you will be ripped off.

I don't see an mmo costing $300-$400 any time in the near future. Call me crazy. The price won't go up if the game is good, they'll lower it, to sell more copies of it. If the price is too high, they won't sell as many as they would if they simply lowered the price a little bit. I think I'm going to be like Oskironmaide on this one. I'm just going to wait about a week or two after launch to see what the player reception is before I spend money on it. $70 bucks is a bit pricey, but if the game is good, I'll pay it. It would be like buying the CE of other mmo's, something I've done on more than one occasion.

Actually Khameleon, I did watch Darkfall pre release. I watched it for 7 years as it passed in and out of vapourware status.

And when it came time to launch I could tell, and feel that it was not what I wanted, so on launch day I did not camp their site.

Mortal Online however did tantalize me and so I made the gamble/investment and gave it a go. If I lose $98 it will not be the end of the world. I have lost more on less. Such is the nature of investments and gambles.

Oh and this is not the first MMO I have bought pre-release, just the first I have gone so out of my way to obtain. And SV has been naught but up front with us on things like the status of the game. And last night though their store had orders they stayed up exceedingly late for their timezone to get it in order. Star Vault has already proven to be more "on it" and their crap "more together" than Tasos and Adv.

Alexis

*Smiles*

OWNED!

I guess that's good news for Darkfall

Like the poster above me, I followed DF for years and I could tell before it launched it was not what I was looking for so I didn't buy it. Same thing with AOC. I find it funny that people who got burned by AoC and DF are so convinced MO will be the same thing.

The fact is the MO developers communicate with the community and are very honest about everything about the game. This gave me the confidence to go ahead and preorder the game. 

Originally posted by kanzi

Like the poster above me, I followed DF for years and I could tell before it launched it was not what I was looking for so I didn't buy it. Same thing with AOC. I find it funny that people who got burned by AoC and DF are so convinced MO will be the same thing.

The fact is the MO developers communicate with the community and are very honest about everything about the game. This gave me the confidence to go ahead and preorder the game. 

Yes thats very true, and anyone who's mad should scroll up a bit because theres a hyperlink on the reason its that expensive. They listened to the people and made the box set and LE box set for a reason. THEY LISTENED. Now quit whining, you either buy it or dont. That's your choice, they aren't making you buy it. But it makes the game so much more better when all the whiners dont buy it. It will be a little more less stressful.

On the 20th you can buy the direct download for less then you pay for the typical MMO.
I believe they originally said something like 40 dollars.  They may have changed it, I don't know.

The box versions cost so much because they didn't produce hundreds of thousands of them.  They only made a few thousand because people were asking for them. 

Without a big publisher or distribution deal you can't produce a retail box in bulk at an affordable price. 
With the small amount of boxes that were available Sv isn't making much of a profit, and the price is slightly higher then normal. 

If you create a graphic t-shirt and pay a company to print 500k of them, the cost on each shirt is considerably cheaper then if you have that same company print 5k.  Manufacturers work off of bulk, the more you make the cheaper it gets.

If the price of the box was to high, then just get the DD on monday, or wait till it releases near the end of the year.

Originally posted by rlmccoy1987

Well... I think I have given up on MO for now... No way I am going to buy any game for that much....

 

Anyone else think this is outrageous?

Nope, because I have a job and the 60 GBP I spent for my boxed, I feel is well spent..  I can piss more than that up the wall on a saturday night on the lash, and that only lasts about 6 hours !

Get the cost into perspective...  Im gonna get thousands of hours of fun out of that 60 quid...  I highly suspect I wont go pissing my money away in the pubs n clubs so much so I can play more...  The game will SAVE me money by buying and playing it..

Where's the downside here????

Originally posted by Burnthebed

This is the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

 

The fact that a bunch of you people are actually paying this insane amount for a beta is laughable. You are the reason companies keep pulling bs like this, and it'll never end while there are still chumps ready to lay their money down on nothing.

 

I thought I was dumb for putting 5 dollars down to preorder war to beta test, but this takes the cake...

 

A fool and his money are easily parted, seems like a true statement here.

My thoughts exactly. Anyone that paid out for this deserves to get fucked over, hard, and they will one way or another.. mark my words.

Originally posted by BuggedOut

Originally posted by Burnthebed

This is the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

 

The fact that a bunch of you people are actually paying this insane amount for a beta is laughable. You are the reason companies keep pulling bs like this, and it'll never end while there are still chumps ready to lay their money down on nothing.

 

I thought I was dumb for putting 5 dollars down to preorder war to beta test, but this takes the cake...

 

A fool and his money are easily parted, seems like a true statement here.

 

My thoughts exactly. Anyone that paid out for this deserves to get fucked over, hard, and they will one way or another.. mark my words.

The WIZARD has SPOKEN! He sees all through his crystal ball, mark his words!

Originally posted by rav3n2

Originally posted by BuggedOut

Originally posted by Burnthebed

This is the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

 

The fact that a bunch of you people are actually paying this insane amount for a beta is laughable. You are the reason companies keep pulling bs like this, and it'll never end while there are still chumps ready to lay their money down on nothing.

 

I thought I was dumb for putting 5 dollars down to preorder war to beta test, but this takes the cake...

 

A fool and his money are easily parted, seems like a true statement here.

 

My thoughts exactly. Anyone that paid out for this deserves to get fucked over, hard, and they will one way or another.. mark my words.

 

The WIZARD has SPOKEN! He sees all through his crystal ball, mark his words!

rofl

There is actually only one prognostion method for this issue. Time.

Other than that there is no way to know if we gambled and pissed it up a wall or gambled and won. It is called a gamble (investing in a product from any hole in the wall company is a gamble itself) for a reason.

Alexis

*smiles*

I've been an avid follower of MO since last summer, but even I saw something fishy with the price...I was burned on the chronicle before with a prerelease scam so I won't dive into this unknowing of how the actual gameplay is. I'll wait till release and see how it holds up. 

Originally posted by rav3n2

Originally posted by BuggedOut

Originally posted by Burnthebed

This is the most retarded shit I've ever heard.

 

The fact that a bunch of you people are actually paying this insane amount for a beta is laughable. You are the reason companies keep pulling bs like this, and it'll never end while there are still chumps ready to lay their money down on nothing.

 

I thought I was dumb for putting 5 dollars down to preorder war to beta test, but this takes the cake...

 

A fool and his money are easily parted, seems like a true statement here.

 

My thoughts exactly. Anyone that paid out for this deserves to get fucked over, hard, and they will one way or another.. mark my words.

 

The WIZARD has SPOKEN! He sees all through his crystal ball, mark his words!

I'm almost scared to walk out of my house now.
I'm afraid some short, pimply, fat guy, with a pasty complexion is going to bumb rush me the second I set foot out the door, and bend me over.

Mark his words.
It's true.
We all just read it on the internet.

Originally posted by Cailieg

 

There is actually only one prognostion method for this issue. Time.

 

 

Other than that there is no way to know if we gambled and pissed it up a wall or gambled and won. It is called a gamble (investing in a product from any hole in the wall company is a gamble itself) for a reason.

 

 

 

Alexis

*smiles*

Yup. But at the very least we supported an aspiring team of bright and independent devs with great ideas in a genre which is dominated by big companies launching cookie cutter mmorpg's with big IP's to make massive proffitssss which tend to disapoint in the long run.

I wrote it before; it almost feels as good as donating money to Wikipedia or the Red Cross, hehe.