Server transfer is way too expensive!

[GrizzlyOso]

The game is still around because some are willing to spend a lot of money to do generally silly things.

Once you begin to remove those things the revenues go down and the game likely flat lines shortly thereafter.

The only things SSG has going for them at this point are DDO and LotRO. Losing either of them probably puts the company on an unsustainable course moving forward. EG7 is going to be a cruel taskmaster once the cash stops flowing freely.

It’s not that there shouldn’t be silly things. There absolutely should be . It’s just that everything seems priced completely randomly .

Some things are outrageous , then they weirdly give away amazing mounts people would definitely buy, for free .

Packs from 10 years ago are outrageous forever , then they have free coupon codes for a while .

There just doesn’t seem to be any effort to maximize any revenue from these things .

 

[Br4d]

The thing that is missing right now is a server that features perpetual account unlocks and cosmetics. You play on the server to unlock things across your account and the rewards are available for each of your characters on other servers. Most current unlocks are for the server they unlock on only.

This is kind of like what HCL does but it would be permanent so a good place to level characters for new players as well.

You could have additional cosmetic rewards based on level/class, favor, past lives gained, slayers completed, basically anything that can be achieved in the game could have a cosmetic associated with it. No transfers to the server so it would be a blank slate for each player when it released.

The new players, casuals, people not grinding hard on a server could use it for the progression the cosmetics and various unlocks created.

The grinders would have a wonderful opportunity to grind from fresh to wherever they wound up with unlocks and cosmetics across all their servers in the process. Odds are pretty good they'd use the same methods they've used on other servers so the XP pot/Otto's box meta would be intact and likely sell well in the grinds.

 

[Miahoo]

The game is still around because some are willing to spend a lot of money to do generally silly things.

Once you begin to remove those things the revenues go down and the game likely flat lines shortly thereafter.

The only things SSG has going for them at this point are DDO and LotRO. Losing either of them probably puts the company on an unsustainable course moving forward. EG7 is going to be a cruel taskmaster once the cash stops flowing freely.

I'll actually buy a transfer if it was cheaper.
I have lots of alts and bank characters and I would pay the 2500 Points to transfer all my characters in Cannith to Orian, I'll simply not pay that much for a single character.
I'm sure lots of other players will do that. Which will actually generate more money to SSG.
People are willing to spend and support the game. But common sense stop them. These prices are ridiculous.

 

[Miahoo]

Perspective: $25 is a nice lunch. If you think 2500 points is too high, DDO isn't the problem.

You can say that literally on anything.
Perspective: $25 is a nice lunch. If you think 2500 points for a wand of cure light is too high, DDO isn't the problem. ?‍

 

[Ying]

You can say that literally on anything.
Perspective: $25 is a nice lunch. If you think 2500 points for a wand of cure light is too high, DDO isn't the problem. ?‍

$25 is a standard price for live service games to xfer a character. If you think it's too costly, then level up your life instead of your character.