while i was in Baz this morning looking for a shield for my cleric i brought up the Bazaar serarch window and put in all my search peramiters clicked on Find items then i clicked on Price to sort them from most expensive to the cheapest, and low and behold there is a Insignia of Broken Skull there at the top of the list selling for 300500 plat, so as my curiousity got to me i right clicked it so see the stats, all i could say is that this is F***ed up, why would any one put that hefty of a price for that item?
I've seen these on 7th Hammer as well. I'm guessing that a) they now drop in one of the new zones on all servers (e.g. Chardok B, SolC, Droga, etc) or people have been transfering back from Legends servers with legends-only items (not supposed to be allowed...)
It was "Giganta" that was selling it on 7th, if anyone wants to ask her....
Gotta love these posts on all the legends stuff. People that will never play on the server whinging and whining about stuff that will probably never happen.
What? VI is looking to ***** us over and charge more? Where the hell did that idea come from - its pure paranoia to think that a large company is out to get you, just because they do something different.
Legends is a great concept, and one that will certainly help the normal servers over time. Things get tested on the test server, as per normal, then go live on Legends. For 3 months. Then they will most likely get moved to all the normal servers. VI's words not mine.
Possibly not all content (hence the "most likely"), but whats the point of having Leetdewds Rusty Dagger when it's only going to be seen by a select few?
What? They pay $40? So what - there money not yours. VI has hired more people to provide this service, and taken NONE away from the regular servers. In fact I've seen more GM's/Guides online in my time slot (Australia - very quiet time for GM's) since Legends went online. Seems like more GM's to me, not less.
Would I pay $40 to play on Legends? No. While I like the idea, I'd miss my friends too much.
As for VI eventually charging more on the regular servers, once again thats pure paranoia. Nothing to say they wont - CPI means the effective cost will rise to retain the same purchasing power. But there is absolutely nothing to say they will raise the cost of the normal servers past the current $10 a month.
That has settled into the normal cost for a game of this genre, and to charge more would be shooting themselves in the foot. In 5 years time they might put the price up to $15 a month, assuming the same number of people play, but to do it now in the face of all the other MMORPG's coming out would be sheer stupidity.
And despite what I or anyone else thinks of VI, they aint stupid - they've managed to hold off with surprising effectivesness the release of quite a few other online games and retain a similar sized player base. Take a look around at all the newbies still joining - the ones in EC with cloth armor on...
Good luck to those playing on Legends, I hope to get some items named after you in the future. But for those that DONT play on it, get off your high horses and stop with the paranoia about VI stiffing us.
I agree on the whiner(s) account. I totally disagree on the GM/guide/customer service account (yes, taking into account the post date, I think many of us know the tactic of short term snow job covers up a long term goal for the herd). Additional fact: there is more than one way to increase profitabilty. In this case what VI/Sony has done is drastically lower customer service from previous levels (not to mention best case levels) and not deliver on numerous "commitments" of what was to be added to the game at no additional charge. Paranoia is of course no longer paranoia when it becomes the truth, then it's called foresight, clairvoyance etc. - lol. No paranoia here since it has become historical fact ... we got stiffed. No big deal there, I get pay back thru not buying consumer electronics I would otherwise have purchased. The shame is that what the game was and could have been is a long gone dream =( For those that lived it congratz, you were the best, for those that didn't I sincerely hope sometime, somewhere you get to.
I dont have an issue with those who choose to play on the legends server. if they can afford it, by all means let them pay. Hell, if i could afford it i would pay. so it just really burns me when someone gripes about the legends server. are they jealous? have no idea. i just get tired of reading all the posts that slam the legends server. sorry for the rant everyone. :)
I signed up for legends server for the 40 a month cause i really enjoy playing the game and for me it is my entertainment how much do you spend on cable TV
My great hope for Legends is that it was a proposal by the development team to fill in content they've always wanted to put in, while showing a profit to satisfy Sony. I'd imagine that that's why they always made expansions instead of filling in old spots, because Sony wanted to see them turn a profit. I would hope that all of, or at least most of, these zones will show up on the normal servers.
Personaly, I belive the next expansion should be nothing BUT missing zones. this includes all those missing off the main map on the main 3 continents, but also Veksar, and the other few missing ones.
Oh, I bet, even for 30 bucks more a month, this thing still looks like a stupid purple doll=P
ya they get new zones, but the rest of us do get them after a couple months. heck if you can ignore that little delay then you should be happy, that 40$ per month they spend will help create new content for us
VI should first include all the zones from the first 3 continents that were never included such as the dragonspine mountains, the nest, the great plateau, and the deadhills. Then put in the stormhammer zones. Since the majority of the EQ community is on a server outside of stormhammer don't you think VI should first think about us? Just because Legends players pay $40 more a month they are the ones who get all the special zones. VI should just release all those other zones as one expansion. Dunno what they'd call it but they should still do it. It kinda gets boring seeing the same familiar sites over and over again. I mean sure, planes, high lvl zones with uber mobs and stuff like that can never get boring...but what about the mid-lvl casual players who want to visit unknown locales from the first 3 continents. Come on verant give us those long awaited zones....you started to with stonebrunt now lets just hope that you continue to include the zones and do a much better job on these then you did stonebrunt.
I agree, they could just send out an optional as they did for stonebrunt, I know I would wait for the hours(hopefully minutes w/ my dsl) to download each and every one, about 1 a week would be awesome, plz verant listen to your loyal players.