POE2 Cosmetics Disappointingly Expensive
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It is fairly disingenuous to use the Diablo sale prices in your game prices. The base game was $70. Many bought early access (which for them meant three days or so, not beta) for I believe an extra $20? And the expac is generally what? $30? $40?
And they have paid skins. PoE2 is $30 (beta test, but you get $30 worth of coins for mtx) which, during a sale, can get you most of the stash tabs you need to never spend another dime. I get wanting to buy the cosmetics and being disappointed they are out of the justifiable range, but people are buying them, hence the price. So business wise it doesn’t make sense for GGG to lower the base price. They do have sales fairly often as well. |
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" I don't mind supporting GGG and encouraging them to make great content. I didn't enjoy POE1 and probably logged <40 hours, but I am enjoying POE2 a lot and I already recruited 2 people to play the game, as well. That being said, we've essentially paid GGG to beta test their game. Even if it were post-launch, I think most of these prices would be a little cringe. |
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Honestly from my point of view this is something Politics needs to get involved with. Just write your local politicians etc. - parts of this are alredy discussed for example in the EU.
Not to mention the system of only selling fixed ammounts to make sure you most of the time will have currency left. I think the main Problem is how prices are hidden with currency systems whos only purpose - from my point of view - is hiding the real costs and hoping for spontaneous purchase etc. I really hope ingame currencies will be forbidden by law soon. That would probably also solve the price issue - since im pretty sure if ppl see a 90 USD pricetag for an ingame armor they will actually think twice. And to be honest - the MTX system of this game is absurd - they are the most expensive ive seen and also the most restrictive. If you buy a weapon effect you cant even use it on both weapons on a single character ... - armors are also restricted so that if you want to use it on multiple characters you have to constantly manually switch ... I think the first step for a solution is making ingame-currencies against the law. Last edited by _N0ctus_#6387 on Jan 1, 2025, 6:28:16 PM
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" I mean, you can buy Diablo for $29.99 on Steam right now, but at this price point, buying a single armor set in POE2 would be the equivalent of the Deluxe Edition for Vessel of Hatred. |
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" You want a cosmetic on a game that will be around for another decade or more.. where you will probably spend 10x as much time on or purchase a game that you will play then toss in the corner? That's up to you I will always choose POE.. over Diablo.. unless Blizzard North returned Blizzard will not see a dime from me for their horrid failures over the past decade. Diablo 4s campaign is fun but it's not worth the asking price. |
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I understand GGG need to make money. But the prices are ridiculous. If they lowered the prices players would be willing to by more. I know I would.
Early access was $30, I reckon they made 30 million. The player base is bigger than POE 1 so they are going to make more money so lower the prices. One set of armour cost 450 coins ($45). That gets me one set of armour that I can only use on one character. They lock it to one character for a reason.... to make you buy more. I'm sure this is the only game that does that. I have purchased some stash tab but that is all GGG are getting out of me unless prices are lowered |
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" like you say payed game versus f2p game. Remember only MTX and tabs pay for game development Last edited by Hsover#6583 on Jan 1, 2025, 6:39:46 PM
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I also think the 85€ costume is kind of a stretch. For 85 you should get a lot of stuff. |
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" Okay but that’s not the base cost of what most people paid. I can’t believe someone wants a Blizzard pay model. Game + Expac + Cosmetics vs. Cosmetics I know which is more predatory to me. I’ll just have to suffer without $85 skins I suppose: |
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