[Repairs] Too expensive!!!

You know, that's fine with me. But they should have introduced that at the same time, rather than wipe out people's credits first. I would have totally spent coins on that, and I suspect many would have. Right now I have no desire to do any of the event or even log on because of this.
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Well, it's not fine by me. I would not be happy to have to buy cash shop items to make the game reasonably playable.
Does no-one remember Allods Online? They originally had a cash shop item that removed a debuff your character got hit with upon death. It basically killed their game. They removed it pretty fast, but the game's reputation still stinks.
That was in a purely F2P game. I'm still paying a sub for this one.

So much this. I keep getting the feeling that staying subbed is really no longer worth it, since they keep putting all the good stuff on the CM anyway. It seems rather odd to pay for something in order to have to pay for something else in-game.

What's that good on the CM? I've purchased a species unlock and that's it. Nothing else has really spoken to me...

Mounts that should be obtainable in game. Armor that should be obtainable in game. Pets that should be obtainable in game.

More?

This is the first MMO my wife and I have ever played. We are not MMO fans but this game really changed our attitudes some, more for her who levels up another char while I am at work, so she plays lots with other prople during the day for many Heroics.

I am an original player, I leveled up a Sentinel to 50 then quit for 7 months and came back in December, with her as well and we now both have 2 lvl 50ties each….
We were just talking about taking the MMO plunge, but reading this and we are not in-game wealthy since we are also leveling up several more toons. Now, should we even bother to embrace the MMO part of this game? This is something that I wanted to try, but it does not look appealing now..

This game being what it is, a MMO, I would think the BREAD and BUTTER of this and any MMO is the people in love with the end game content and PvP… Am I not mistaken? The people that keep an MMO going on for years are you people, not players like her and I. People like her and I quest and quit, but I love the game so much, that I want to be part of something bigger, to open my eyes to why so many other are addicted to a good MMO.
We already learned that playing together really made us happy and because of the design of this game, allows people like us to experience it and see if we like it and then continue on playing it.

Ironically, the “grind” is the part that already made me hesitant, so now, I have to face going broke in the process if we do not grind it out. Her and I spoke on this last night, she said to me.. Fine, then we finishing leveling up the other stories and then quit, she is really mad about it because we don’t sock away millions to cover repairs and I am not going to use the CM to fund it. She leved up a healer in both factions for the espress purpose of healing my DPS or my Tank and getting into End game content..... I guess my Tank will need to be uber wealthy now if I am to Tank for her or a team.

I am very bummed out, I lost lots of steam and momentum in my return from this to this game and the fact I pay for 2 accounts to play it. So, to avoid the grind every day we would have to buy more CM stuff and sell it for the money in game? This is why in another post, I mentioned they want to drive people into the CM to fund their MMO addiction and this may be their motive. I HOPE you MMO lovers speak your voice LOUD and CLEAR on this. We NEED you to keep playing and paying for the game to last and I do not blame anyone for not wanting to spend heavily in the CM for in game money… I do not think any real MMO lover looks at their success by the "real" money they spend, but by the success they have in the game to earn the money. I would think there is a huge pride factor to say, I earned my gear through my efforts in game.

My opinions at times clash in the forums, but this game has brought together RPG lovers and MMO lovers together, even though many of us have different opinions. From a RPG lover to you all, we NEED you guys happy and healthy to keep this game going. Maybe we will wait for the next great RPG to go MMO, Elder Scrolls, and hope they learn from the failure this game is trying hard to become.

Question is Why would a company want to make the real MMO players unhappy? Are they making so much in the CM that they can use that as their model for making money in a MMO? so far, based on all the reading, this seems like the main motive for raising up them repair prices (I hope I am wrong). Players like her and I may bring them money NOW, but who will bring them money later? MMO's lover will.... They need to be happy.

I hope we will join the ranks of MMO gamers world wide, this is the game that was going to take us there, now I am not so sure. I will follow this OP very closely while enjoying the part of the game we still play.

Good post,

Hopefully we might get some kind of response soon, either informing yep this is the way it is now or we will change it back, either way the more its dragged out the more subs will be lost which is a real bad thing.