Would you spend $100 or more on an in-game item?

[SiegeTank]

The TDS rare items are making me wonder if people REALLY spend this kind of money on a single in-game item. Look I'm not criticizing anybody here at all and this post stands alone and has nothing to do with anybody/anything in the Marketplace. I just want to know how many of you would consider spending $100 or more for a piece of loot.

I was going to make this a poll but I'm more curious about opinions than about "ballot" results.

IMO, I would never although I'd only THINK about it for something like an artifact or a super-rare "classic" item---and even then I'd have to worry that they'll "revive" it using casinos and golden tickets or some other lame way. I figure with an artifact the item will probably hold its value and you can recoup it down the road if you get tired of it and need to raise some cash. Otherwise no matter how "fine" the item is you're buying its value and premium stats---relatively speaking---are going to decay down the road as new xpacs come out. I remember paying 2milpp for the Ancient Cloak of Flames when it first started dropping. Bought one for several toons and now they're all being clicked from bags for the clicky buff because every toon, even alts, have better back items. And that's just 2milpp, not a hundred bucks!

I can see the tradeable rares from TDS have greater value on servers other than FV where it's hard to obtain top-notch gear without investing time in raiding. Time IS money, at least for some people. But still, we're talking $100+ here.... you can buy decent level 105 toons for that kind of money, or not much more. And a lot of them come with good gear!

Opinions?

 

[William12]

Time is money you said it in the post

 

[Dealings]

what was 2M worth when you paid for your several cloaks (a year ago maybe 30 40 bucks per M dunno)

I dont know how to verify the price of plat when cloaks came out but you may be missing the exchange ratio idea

currently
1M atm lets say $15
1Krono around here 8 to 10 bucks
1 krono in game about 1M

CoTF rare in game 2 to 4M (converted 30 to 60 bucks)
4 kronos (if u get the seller to sell u in Kronos) u could pay as little as 32 bucks rl

TDS weapons 10 to 20 Krono (yea) that u can sell for 10 to 20M
the plat even at 15 lets say ends up being then in cash 150 to 200 bucks

items are less maybe 4 to as much as 8 kronos , at 1M per Krono and at 15/M you are looking at 60 to 120 for an item

its a rough outline of prices nothing is ever set in stone but yea thats why shit is worth something and its not um free

 

[SiegeTank]

Back then I figured plat at $15/m so yeah I paid effectively $30 for each cloak. Of course, I pharmed the plat so it didn't hurt as much as spending the actual cash.

Nowadays you can buy kronos for as little as $7 each right here and on most servers a krono is worth 1milpp.

 

[kazill]

I would only spend that kind of money on a raid dropped item. I'm actually looking to pay that or more for the best Raid EM )

 

[dewey2461]

I have purchased a couple $50-$60 items before.

I've purchased similar amounts of plat/gold for games like wow or diablo just to help get established.

When I was a hard core raider going for the best of the best I'd have been tempted. Of course I had time so had no extra real money ....

 

[SiegeTank]

I think I spent about $80 on 10k plat (that"s "k" not "m") back in 2000 to buy the ringmail armor that Gand Truelink sold in Butcherblock Mountains to twink out my dorf warrior and my friend's dorf cleric.

But there's a big difference between spending $100 on a block of currency to jump start your involvement in a new game and spending the same on a single item which ultimately only improves your toon fractionally.

At least, that's what I tell myself.

 

[imgregrice]

I would not... buying plat ( rarely) is about as far as I would go. Other than that I would just try to buy a new account that has the item on it

 

[JimJohnson]

At the end of the day you are buying digital pixels that can vanish at any time. Mine sure did.

Personally I have spent 3k+ on an single item. It all really depends on what you want to get out of your investment. Mine was more of a business investment but it was still a digital item. Maybe the item just helps you clear faster. What people pay for things really don't matter. Only what you are willing to pay for it be it $$ or time.

 

[SiegeTank]

You spent $3000+ on a single item??

Pray tell, what was it?!

 

[supertimmy]

all the time.

i've spent thousands of dollars on items and don't regret it. it makes eq easier, which i enjoy. if i wanted a challenge, i'd try to learn to salsa dance. i want to plow content as efficiently as possible and watch those AA totals rise.

if i could play 10 hours a day, i might think differently, but i can go two days without logging on so when i do play, i'm happy as a pig in shit that my toons are geared and i can do whateverthefuckiwant instead of camping upgrade_x or weapon_y.

to each his own, of course, but i've never understood the irrational rage that people spout about p2w and all that. does it really matter if billy_the_ranger_01, has a robust credit card and the same AC as you, serious_raider_01, who suffered through hours of raiding with at least a certain percentage of guildmates that you'd likely light on fire irl if you could get away with it?

some people say that lessens your achievements, but i just can't wrap my mind around it. serious_raider earned it how you wanted to. blood, sweat, tears, time and dealing with assholes in vent. embrace your accomplishments. thumbs up and all that. billy_the_ranger bought it with his mommy's credit card. i see the difference but i don't understand why it matters. maybe i'm just obtuse.

 

[aspire2008]

Time is money you said it in the post

QFT.

 

[eqmule]

I agree with Timmy, the limited amount of playtime I have means that if I want to experiance some content that requires good gear its my only option... After all we are all using mq2 to help making every hour played count.

 

[ariakus]

if you can earn more money in real life , i dont think you would spend alot your time in game for an item.

if you dont have extra money in real life , that mean you have to spend alot time in game for an item

it depend on which side it is more efficient for u

for rare item ,

drop rare is one thing, is not what you want is another thing

 

[Concussion]

If you guys knew how much RL money I have spent on EQ you would probably have to be rushed to the hospital with chest pains. When I stopped raiding hardcore about 2 years ago, I lost the ability to gear up my alts and keep them current. The rare dropped items have allowed me to half ass keep my tank able to stay alive. I would continue to pay for items if I were not able to get them to drop in game and this expansion has really sucked for me with rares as I have only seen 1 drop so far.

Several members here will be able to vouch for my next statement....but excluding Bugs sub, EQ subs for my 12+ accounts, and Dev bots, I'd say I am VERY close to the $6k or $7k ballpark.

 

[SiegeTank]

That doesn't surprise ME and I don't even know you. Most serious gamers who have been members here have spent a lot of money on EQ, between subs, Station Cash, plat, items, toons, services, etc. I figure I've spent over $10k myself (I don't even want to try to calculate it "precisely" since it might be even higher) but that's since I started in 2000 and even $15k figures out to about $1k/year over that time---80 bucks a month. Big deal. I don't play golf and a golfer can easily spend more than that on equipment and green fees. LOL.

 

[haim]

3k item

I too, would like to know what this $3,000 item is

 

[dewey2461]

Betting it was one of those GM only items Evershawn had. like the insta click heal or the +100 dam aug.

 

[JimJohnson]

Betting it was one of those GM only items Evershawn had. like the insta click heal or the +100 dam aug.

They did not originate with Everdick, but yea it was a insta click un resistible 777 nuke.

 

[haim]

past-tense

was as in you no longer have it?