AQ3D Dragon Crystal items prices, are they reasonable?

I think the prices during the bonus periods seem fair, but in general there is a huge number of people who do not mind the expense and AE gets it's sale.

 

Probably not reasonable at all. A form with no interesting gimmick can cost 4,500 DCs which is about $20. And an armor that you individually buy can cost 1,000 DCs; and that's usually just for one piece of an entire set. And some weapons in-game are very expensive, like the key weapons at Battleon Bank. I feel like the prices are marked up high just because it's a small 3D game, and if you compare AQ3D with AQWorlds, you can see the big price difference.

On the other hand, if AQ3D was a 3D game with lots of players, I could see AE making prices more reasonable just to entice more players to purchase.

 

I find it better because you get more DCs for the same amount of money that you're spending. It makes the purchase considerable to me then.

 

The problem I have with overpriced items is that the models get reused anyway. It just feels like AE makes a quick buck out of reused assets, and it feels like the assets could be repurposed better, but aren't. Sometimes, the pricing doesn't even feel balanced with what another item is priced at.

For instance, the Lil' Jimmy cape item is already expensive, but the real issue is that they reused the EXACT same model as a pet item and priced it a lot lower at 450 Dragon Crystals without repurposing the original further, and that's the part that make no sense. For 1,500 DCs just for the cape, they could have repurposed it a lot more, like by adding multiple animations, particle effects and something that would help it distinguish from the pet.

 

for me its too expensive

 

some items are more expensive than they should be, for example; travel forms, why are they so expensive, are they worthwhile or are producers greedy?

 

Just some arbitrary number they chose on a whim. Perhaps they thought forms would be a lot less common back then, and set a ridiculous base price there. Anyhow, they could always lower the price of a lot of DC items and refund players whatever remaining DCs they should have, if they really wanted to, and I think that would benefit them more because it would ultimately invite more spenders.

 

Or they can just increase the travel speed of some travel forms. For example, a travel form with 210% or 220% speed could worth 3000+ DCs in my opinion. In Gaz's shop, there is two different Spectral Dragon travel form. One of them is blackish and the other one is light green. But light green one is 4500 DC and blackish one is 1900 DC. It is highly irrational I think. The travel form pricing system needs to be revised.

 

Maybe they are not going to increase the speed of current ones, but I am pretty sure there will be more speedy travel forms. I think a frogzard's and wolf's speed should not be the same.

 

They already increased speed long ago. Forms used to have a speed of around 120-130%, and that wasn't good enough, so AE increased it even further. In hindsight, they gave 1,900 DC forms just as much speed as 4,500 DC forms, when honestly, they could have just let 1,900 DC forms keep the old speed while upgrading the 4,500 DC forms to the new speed.

Increasing speed further on the more expensive forms would just be ridiculous, because it'll make it harder for players to move around precisely. And decreasing speed for the cheaper forms at this point would also be ridiculous, because some people have already spent money on those cheap forms solely for the speed that those forms offer. The only solution to balancing the price of the forms, if AE even wants to go that route, is to reprice every form and refund partial DCs to players.

 

ı think price is little bit expensive

 

I think the prices are a little high. I think they do this so you will be enticed into buying an entire collection, as opposed to just one item from that collection. Then they have to price non-collection items in the same ballpark.

 

I think buying an entire collection is dumb, and that the main reason players buy collections is because they want to be "badge collectors" (it's more like a psychological obsession), not so much that they have actual interest in the collection items.

Not saying that buying a collection is that bad, since you have more to mix-and-match, but I feel like buying items you won't really use as often is just wasteful. Like for instance, when a collection includes minor items like boots, belts, and gloves, are those really items you need? It's so easy to mix-and-match other items into a set that you don't really need those items at all. In most MMORPGs, the most important item is typically the armor, and just buying armors instead of a whole collection is reasonable.

 

The only reason I can see for buying a whole collection is when the price for the whole collection is less than the price of all the items you really want. And, yes, I agree that minor items like belts and gloves can be replaced by similar items you might already have. I can't see spending 50 dc for some generic looking black gloves.