[Update!] New Payment System - The Crown Emporium

[E__V__O 2000]

3 hours ago, Pandan said:

 

When purchased you've the option of either redeeming them or gifting; however once gifted that option no longer becomes available. However you cant separate the purchases down into like.. 1000 here, 1200 there and 3513 over there. Its all or nothing. 

 

I suggest you fix the "Terms and agreements" policy just under the shops description as it states that you cannot share it between accounts.

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Though I meaent like, if you had diamond on one account and gold on the other. Give all the points for diamond to the other account and vise versa with the gold.

[Treaty 1353]

Do VIPS get any amount of crowns to start off with ?

[Vamoose 265]

Please DO NOT enable the purchase of nexus related items with crowns. 

[Dracofire 7]

So there is something very suttle which is bothering me which not many people have noticed. If you look at the perks of the VIP ranks (Which you only can see ingame, which makes it even harder for people to know about it since you have to use the /store command which not many know about), you will see that the third persona slot infact was moved to Bedrock VIP, as seen at the bottom of this screenshot.
Now let's go look at the Store page on the forums shall we? This is the page that you want to look at. You can clearly tell that under the 'Bedrock VIP' tab it says nothing about the 3rd persona slot, but neither does it at gold, where you previously unlocked the 3rd persona slot.

So  is this a problem? Not necessarily. But the prices are poorly balanced.
For you to buy Bedrock VIP, it would require you to buy 2 Aengul crown packs. Since Bedrock VIP costs 22000 Crowns, and 1 Aengul Crown pack gives you 12100 for the ridiculous price of 100$. This would require you to spend a total of 200$ to get Bedrock VIP. This definitely needs to be changed, I'm not willing to pay 200$ just to unlock that 3rd persona slot, it used to only cost 50$ when you bought Gold VIP. That's 150$ dollars you have to pay extra, which is quite the huge amount of money.
Not only that, the Crown system nearly always leaves you with Crowns to spare, but nearly always never with enough Crowns to buy anything, only if you're aiming for the expensive packets. It doesn't make much sense either that a gold pack doesn't give you enough to buy Gold VIP, but you have to buy more packs to get it if you're buying a gold pack or less.

TL;DR Crown pricing is unbalanced. 200$ for 3rd character slot rant. Administration team have been poor at giving us information regarding the Crown system, although it's nice to see the updates they come with from time to time. I know that this is just a single time, and I generally feel like they're good at giving us information and keeping us updated.

 

I would really like to see this system work, and I expect changes to be done to it, since it in it's current state I believe it's quite unbalanced.

[Telanir 6975]

On May 11, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Cole Treaty said:

Do VIPS get any amount of crowns to start off with ?

 

No, your VIP is simply documented into the Crown system and you get to keep it.

 

On May 12, 2016 at 8:11 PM, Vamoose said:

Please DO NOT enable the purchase of nexus related items with crowns. 

 

The wording here is confusing, I'm not sure what you're asking for. Nexus-related could be anything, but specifically selling items is not EULA-compliant and we would never sell items even if the EULA didn't exist.

 

6 hours ago, Dracofire said:

So there is something very suttle which is bothering me which not many people have noticed. If you look at the perks of the VIP ranks (Which you only can see ingame, which makes it even harder for people to know about it since you have to use the /store command which not many know about), you will see that the third persona slot infact was moved to Bedrock VIP, as seen at the bottom of this screenshot.
Now let's go look at the Store page on the forums shall we? This is the page that you want to look at. You can clearly tell that under the 'Bedrock VIP' tab it says nothing about the 3rd persona slot, but neither does it at gold, where you previously unlocked the 3rd persona slot.

So is this a problem? Not necessarily. But the prices are poorly balanced.
For you to buy Bedrock VIP, it would require you to buy 2 Aengul crown packs. Since Bedrock VIP costs 22000 Crowns, and 1 Aengul Crown pack gives you 12100 for the ridiculous price of 100$. This would require you to spend a total of 200$ to get Bedrock VIP. This definitely needs to be changed, I'm not willing to pay 200$ just to unlock that 3rd persona slot, it used to only cost 50$ when you bought Gold VIP. That's 150$ dollars you have to pay extra, which is quite the huge amount of money.
Not only that, the Crown system nearly always leaves you with Crowns to spare, but nearly always never with enough Crowns to buy anything, only if you're aiming for the expensive packets. It doesn't make much sense either that a gold pack doesn't give you enough to buy Gold VIP, but you have to buy more packs to get it if you're buying a gold pack or less.

TL;DR Crown pricing is unbalanced. 200$ for 3rd character slot rant. Administration team have been poor at giving us information regarding the Crown system, although it's nice to see the updates they come with from time to time. I know that this is just a single time, and I generally feel like they're good at giving us information and keeping us updated.

 

I would really like to see this system work, and I expect changes to be done to it, since it in it's current state I believe it's quite unbalanced.

 

So you mention that Bedrock VIP being priced at $200 is a high price—but you probably already knew that Bedrock has always been priced at that. Our bills don't get paid by $10 payments; it's very expensive to run a server of this size and it would be doing our existing Bedrock VIP's a massive injustice to suddenly devalue their VIP rank by a huge margin.

 

The way the VIP is laid out is how it has been for the past several years, but we are currently working on rebalancing the entire tier system so sit tight, things like these will likely change soon once we have more perks to distribute across the spectrum. The EULA has poked a lot of holes in our old pricing scheme so its no wonder it looks so bizarre or seemingly out-of-place right now.

 

In terms of information about the Crown system—I have laid out everything you need to know in one location: the Crown Emporium shop in-game. Simply click the Help buttons and you'll be able to find out what you need to know about it.

[Elfen_ 232]

Personally I liked the old system.

 

A chart that told you the exact pricing of each VIP and listed below is what you got with said VIP. It was simple and straight forward. Not to mention it was easier overall. It was buy here and now to basically receive said perks right away."

 

Also I'm not a fan of having left over currency like that.

[E__V__O 2000]

Donate the left over currency to me?

 

Unity_To_Legion

 

Thank's fam.

 

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On a serious note. It would be good to have a clear list like before stating what each rank gives you access towards besides a some "highlights". 

[Sky 0]

Perhaps 'VIP packages' which give you exact coinage, otherwise it's a good excuse to pay and use the overflow to gift your friends, sure it has it's flaws but people it's been implemented not even a week ago, when new things are made this is a normal thing and has always been to implement things for the community to see it, then it's adjusted appropriately to the communities needs.

[Gone 869]

On 5/10/2016 at 11:09 AM, Tiliena said:

 

Does this mean the vips with item-renaming currently are going to lose it? And are we going to have to pay every time we want an item renamed? 

 

Can get answer? ;-; 

[E__V__O 2000]

So... I thought i'll tally up and ask some questions.

 

First, I was "grandfathered" Aether VIP due to the previous VIP "donation" product. So I got the Aether perk on the server now.

 

If I buy, 5, 100$ packs which'll give me 12,100 points each x by 5 which = to 60,500 crowns to spend in game. Yet Aether VIP is only 55,000 crowns to purchase. 

 

Do the people who purchased VIP's before this change and got grand fathered into this new system not get the left over crowns? As I should've recieved a leftover,  5,500 crowns which I did not.

 

Is this a bug worth fixing or is it intentionally?

[Elfen_ 232]

1 hour ago, Evocress said:

If I buy, 5, 100$ packs which'll give me 12,100 points each x by 5 which = to 60,500 crowns to spend in game. Yet Aether VIP is only 55,000 crowns to purchase. 

 

Do the people who purchased VIP's before this change and got grand fathered into this new system not get the left over crowns? As I should've recieved a leftover,  5,500 crowns which I did not.

 

 

which means you basically have another gold vip sitting around based on that amount left over.

[E__V__O 2000]

Essentially but I wouldn't gift the crowns, I would keep them for the micro-transactions such as racial or skill resets and what'll come after is what I meant.