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The monthly packages cost too much
Veclord
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Champion of the sea runs a little over 4000 UWC, which comes out to well over $50 USD by the time you're done, and that was even with it discounted. I understand the game is free to play and with varying budgets justification can certainly get complicated, but if you go a step down to the other packages they still run to over $25.
An MMO subscription should not run the same as my internet bill. Champion of the sea shouldn't be running more than $20 per month, asking over $60 for 30 days of play is outrageous. Especially since they aren't reimbursing that time lost due to the continual bugs and maintenance.
An MMO subscription should not run the same as my internet bill. Champion of the sea shouldn't be running more than $20 per month, asking over $60 for 30 days of play is outrageous. Especially since they aren't reimbursing that time lost due to the continual bugs and maintenance.
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I feel with the amount playing on this server there is no reason to spend any money now. I think it will close down soon.
But if it doesn’t close down, which I hope it doesn’t for all you still enjoying it...but if it doesn’t I don’t see why people need to spend money now.
There is next to no maritime. So traders and adventures don’t need speed boosts or blue flags. I’m sure most if not all have top of the range lead ships and then easy to get clermonts for your aide.
Most trade and adv players should be end game now and go about your daily play easily.
I guess some adventures still want to max some skills but i’d be surprised if the game lasts a year or more.
I may still spend a little here and there but I’m doing it with a game closer in the back of my mind.
And as a maritime player I didn’t have an end game ship because they haven’t reased any yet.
But sorry for being an idiot, I hope you are able to calm down and it doesn’t ruin your day :)
But at the end of the day I can't see myself willing to spend that much for 30 days of boosters and other things the packs contain. The 100m checks and such are nice, but all I really care about are the 50% proficiency/xp/Fame/ship speed items, so much so I'd rather see things get taken out of the pack if it meant bringing the price down.
And if we're being honest, the lion's share of the gameplay lies in the grinding anyway. Right now between the boosts, shipbuilding, and basic production skills required to even stand a chance against NPCs is an extremely large and unbalanced gap that could be easily bridged by a price drop.
Of course the server costs money to run, but are they really making that much off the current player base anyways? As it stands now I'd gladly pledge $20 a month and I think so would a lot of others here. I'd rather pay a flat fee every month and get everything as opposed to a free to play model where you pay triple the price for a few items.
But I personally don’t think much money needs to be spent now.
Very rare chance now you will be attacked by a pirate. So blue flags are expensive NCP deterrents.
Also as regards boosters, most people have decent skill lvl so don’t really need to spend on a booster for xp or prof booster.
And speed boosters are handy but not a necessity, especially since the lack of pirates around to chase you.
I’m only saying people don’t need to spend much real cash now.
Or at least that’s the situation with most of the people I know in game.
I certainly wouldn’t buy the monthly packages anyway.
Dedicated Adventurer and Maritimer
Other toon: Disi_Aslan (trader, production, R20 SB'er and Director of OA)
Osmanli_Aslanlar
yes the game is free to play but i think you've have wrong idea about subscription here. You are not in any way obligated to buy any items from the uwc shop. On some of the asian servers i've heard they have to pay for monthly just to play (like your WoW), but this server is completely free. If you are a creative person you don't actually have to pay a cent for this game and yet have pretty much any uwc item they could want just from using "in game" ducets to buy items from other people.
As for the price of the packs, i think they are very fair considering the price breakdown that Gazi showed. This is a old game with a small user base. There are many new games out there but i like this one and would gladly pay a little more than for other games to keep this server running for years to come if it can.
Regardless, I respect the opinions of others here and I acknowledge it's very possible I'm wrong. If the server is doing fine, then as the saying goes, if it ain't broke don't fix it. For the time being I noticed that I can just individually buy the items I want. 480 UWC isn't too bad to get a 50% booster for 7 days, so I will just cherry pick the items I need at the time and balance that out with what I'm willing to spend that week.
Time will tell if we get better deals for things soon. Hopefully everything will work out for UWO either way.
want. 480 UWC isn't too bad to get a 50% booster for 7 days, so I will
just cherry pick the items I need at the time and balance that out with
what I'm willing to spend that week.
another option is to get the pack (since all the items are cheaper then buying individually), use what you need then sell in game all the other stuff that you don't want. You get your items at a cheaper price and make alot of in game ducets as well... win win!