Can someone tell me why platinum costs so much money? They know it’s not made of real Platinum, right? Every so often my brain goes to mush, and I will see someone walking around with a cool armor set. And I will take a look at the store. I can’t see the value it something my sprite is going to wear, and I will only see when I am playing the game. I could buy a real-world outfit for these prices. And… I can’t see how a cosmetic item can cost more than a healthy fraction of the entire game.
Let me try to make sense of this. This game cost me $80.00 which in my opinion is a good deal. I need to spend $20 or $40 on an armor set or a doggy that follows me around in the game… I don’t know what crack ppl are smoking or what planet the people setting these prices come from - But I do know it don’t make any sense.
I bet. There are a good deal of people who buy these things. I bet its around 10% of the population of players or more. Imagine if they were to lower the price to make more sense even by half. There is a sweet spot where the return on ROI would be more than double the current population of people buying cosmetics now. I could imagine if done right they could reach 50-60% increase in platinum purchases if they made it worth it. Right now… It’s laughable. I assume it’s all tied into some CEO’s greedy bonus structure that’s why it’s disconnected from all reality!
What does everyone else think?
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Of course it makes sense. Blizz knows without a doubt that a certain percentage of the playerbase WILL buy things no matter how expensive they are.
Everybody out here saying blizz is dumb this or they ruining the game that. The joke is on you guys. They know EXACTLY what they are doing to make absolute bank on this IP lmao
I agree 100%, crap is way overpriced. Its a scummy tactic for them to use. I remember back in s1 or s2 where the in-game shop broke and they shut it all down. Full on shut it down to fix it. Yet game breaking bugs were running rampant through the season and they didnt care at all about those.
They know exactly what their priorities are and until people stop spending, its just gonna get worse and worse. Cmon now.
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1000 plat for $10 is more or less on par with most games that has micro transactions
Its the buying power of those 1000 platinum that is not on par with what most other games offer in terms of buying power for 10$. I don’t even know why this had to be explained honestly.
Usually cosmetics will go for 10-15 in games with such a population, full price, seasons, expansions and a well known IP. But i guess after overwatch and immortal blizzard turned the tables on this.
Worst thing is this game has already made a billion and their updates, patches and seasonal content is kinda bare bones. From bugs, lame seasonal story delivery(good VA but its where it stops) to questionable content. But the shop cosmetics do get better i guess, right?
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Bliz made 150M $$$ on cosmetic shop purchases is why. PPL complain about shop. PPL whine about shop. PPL make forums posts about shop. PPL even say they will quit. Then these same ppl buy 100$ in plat and buy 3 cosmetics. This is why. Noise doesnt matter. Only the mighty $$$ matters.
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Because idiots will continue to pay for it.
I posted once how I thought the ice stag looked cool but was flabbergasted that it cost $50 in a bundle with platinum. I wouldn’t have minded just buying the mount (although even half price would have been far too much.)
A small army of people came at me, some defending it as “premium content.” It’s not premium. It’s not scarce. It didn’t take significantly more time or resources to make than any other mount. It just looked really cool, and Blizzard knew if someone bought it, they’d also have just enough platinum to almost buy some other stuff…thus beginning or perpetuating the cycle.
The rest were of the “if you don’t like it, don’t buy it” crowd. Sure…but that’s just accepting price gouging and shrugging their shoulders. I get that not everyone cares about MTX but it is predatory in design as it purposely targets people with addictive aspects they can’t control that well.
Anyway.
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Considering the made 150 million on the cash shop… I feel that they are calling their pricing a win.
Ultimately, it’s their call. That being said, what I would like to see going forward is not exactly a reduction in the prices but them paying more attention to D4 events like the anniversary. D:I was a lot better than D4’s. Also time to step up some seasonal content with some fun things to do that reward seasonal cosmetics and titles. I realize that there are some out there who want D4 to be all dark and gritty but me… I like some cheese with my grit. I want some cheesy titles. I want Nyan Cat mount armor for my kitty. I want a damn Santa hat!!
I sincerely hope that the expansion puts an end to the itemization reworks so we can also get back to some good seasonal borrowed powers again.
Plus, they do have that once per season sale also.
In the words of the immortal Billy Crystal…
“It’s more important to look marvellous then to be marvellous”
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Billy Crystal is a legend among men.
Yeah, it s really stupid. If they sold the skins in properly priced packages they d probably sell a lot more instead of this mobile scam garbage.
For example i would pay $15 a month if that unlocked every skin (i do pay that and more in other games).
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If people weren’t buying them you would see sales events.
They set the prices based on what their data tells them about how much the avg gamer will spend based on other games…or just plain greed. Even in OW their prices have gone way up.
Point is… they can’t start at a lower price and then set it higher…but they can always put them on sale. So they start with the greedy price. If you don’t like it don’t pay it.
Very few are even worth like $10.
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This is a fairly constant discussion here. You’ve got the “it is not OK to put MTX in a full-price game” crowd. If it was Free to play? Sure, that makes sense. Totally understand that point of view.
Then the question is brought up… why the heck is it so expensive? If they sell 1,000 glow suits at $28 wouldn’t it be better to sell 100,000 at $3? Are they trying to keep it out of the hands of the “less advantaged” for some reason?
At which point someone will usually say Blizz knows what it is doing.
And who knows, maybe they do.
Agreed. I see a cosmetic that costs upwards of $20 USD or more and I think to myself I could buy a whole other game with that, maybe numerous games. It’s absurd. Guarantee they would make even more money with less prices, but when you have enough people paying the current prices there’s no incentives to go any lower.
I’ve only ever bought the base game myself. I get my freebies from the battle pass and call it good. Now there are some skins I actually like in the game, but I can’t justify spending 1/3rd or more of the base game price on a skin.
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Haha I just bought 6 small games on GOG for a lot less than skins here. They are not blockbuster titles by any means. But entertaining enough. I mean even Steam has Forspoken for like $20 now…not that I would buy that turd, hard line $5 for that.
As for me, here, I fell for the “funny money scam” once… I bought Father’s stupid Horsey with the reasoning they are giving the cosmetic for free because the Plat costs the same in the store. And that is the reasoning it is meant to inspire. And whatever skins or BP’s I have bought have been with that plat.
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Personally I don’t waste my money buying pixels for a video game. What’s the point? No one cares what you look like. Use your money and buy stuff you can use in real life.
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for some people $30k is their annual income, for others its what they have as disposable income they can spend on frivolous things, it’s just the way of life.
Nothing you buy in the game is yours anyway, so who cares?! You’re licensing the right to play a game that might go away tomorrow for all we know. If you can afford to splurge to support the devs, go for it! For everyone else, I would advise steering clear.
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Can you use your D4 in real life? 
IMO, they set the prices that high on purpose. Think about it, if the prices were cheap, everyone would be able to buy them and it wouldn’t show off the specialness or wealth of those who paid for them.
This would make those who paid for the cosmetics feel like they were superior to the players who didn’t buy them when they were standing together. And then they become loyal customers of the shop when they want to play game with that feeling.
The whole Platinum thing is just a numbers game, To make a person feel like they are getting a lot for their money. And as funny as it is to me, It seems to work.