Where did you get your 35% from ? 25 $ for a 1year4 month of gameplay thats 1.5$ per month how is it too much ? Its not going to be a pay to win, people can buy object that can be acquired pretty easily on the game ! None of them will have unique stats.

You want them to lower the price of Spark but raise the price of the pledge, so people that buy pledge will pay because you cant afford 50c a month ?

I think you're not impartial and i think their business model is fine.

I've always been told that if i cant afford something that i really want i need to work for it.

Posted By VanHarsen at 12:54 AM - Mon Jan 15 2018

Where did you get your 35% from ? 25 $ for a 1year4 month of gameplay thats 1.5$ per month how is it too much ? Its not going to be a pay to win, people can buy object that can be acquired pretty easily on the game ! None of them will have unique stats.

You want them to lower the price of Spark but raise the price of the pledge, so people that buy pledge will pay because you cant afford 50c a month ?

I think you're not impartial and i think their business model is fine.

I've always been told that if i cant afford something that i really want i need to work for it.

Woah wait 1 year 4 months? I thought you died at 9 months.... Wow that changes everything lol now I feel embarrassed.

You won't necessarily lose your spark when you die. Unless you're a king or high noble, you mostly get some downtime and the maximum length of the spark life is shortened. So, if you group up with people who are good at protecting each other, and you are too, you should not be getting ganked every time you're in the wild.

The other thing you can do is pick a safer occupation where you don't end up in dangerous situations that much, like a crafter or farmer. That might not be as boring as it sounds.

Posted By VanHarsen at 12:54 AM - Mon Jan 15 2018

Where did you get your 35% from ? 25 $ for a 1year4 month of gameplay thats 1.5$ per month how is it too much ? Its not going to be a pay to win, people can buy object that can be acquired pretty easily on the game ! None of them will have unique stats.

You want them to lower the price of Spark but raise the price of the pledge, so people that buy pledge will pay because you cant afford 50c a month ?

I think you're not impartial and i think their business model is fine.

I've always been told that if i cant afford something that i really want i need to work for it.

Both of you are off. It's 52 weeks (1 year). Please read the following: https://chroniclesofelyria.com/blog/10316/Down-the-rabbit-hole.

Obviously if you die or get caught committing a ton of crimes your character's lifetime will be less.... but to think of it in terms of other MMOs.... you'd have to reduce your character's lifespan down to about 2 IRL months in order to be of comparable price to subscription MMOs. The average non-famous person (and therefore doesn't have the higher death multiplier) would have to die more than 152 times in just 2 months of play for that to be the case. Also, that 152 is a minimum, because if you die within a short time of your previous death you don't lose any spirit. SBS is considering having the cap be one Elyrian day (2.8 IRL hours) before you can get spirit loss again... Most people aren't going to be playing more than 5.6 IRL hours a day. So let's say you do get spirit loss twice an IRL day. In 2 months, that's 122 spirit losses, which is not enough (needed 152) to cost more than a typical subscription MMO. This calculation all goes out the window, though, if you wish to commit massive amounts of crime; as there is no cap on spirit loss for getting caught committing crimes.

Edit: If you're wondering where I got 152 deaths in 2 months.... I used a cost of $30 a spark and $15 for monthly subscription cost. So 2 months to equal that $30. Obviously these aren't exact values as not all MMOs charge the same and the cost of a spark isn't set in stone yet, but both numbers are close enough for analysis. Take 365 days in a year, subtract the 61 days (2 months) and then divide by 2 (2 days of spirit loss per death).

I would hope you are just confused OP. In thinking every death was perma death. Since as Protey pointed out you would be getting at least 2 months. Even if you become some criminal. Unless you just utterly suck at that role.

Honestly this is looking to be the cheapest game to play, out of MMOs that cost money.

No idea where you are getting your figures from though VanHarsen, the max lifetime was changed awhile back. Besides even thinking most people would live their maximum life is something else.

1.) The game is less expensive than most sub games to play.

2.) in most cases, unless you refuse to work with anyone. You will likely get access to the mounts you so want. People that need some one to be what ever, if their people need to have a purebred horse to be good at their job they chose to work, it will surely be provided.

Remember people with a ton of money, need a an efficient workforce. If they need a new worker they will outfit the worker to get the job done efficiently. Mayors, and up will need people to do various tasks. They will not be like you, do this job, also you have to find away to travel the world that isn't walking on your own...

The OP seems to be under the impression that as soon as you die once you have to buy a new spark of life which isn't the case whatsoever. You get 1 year of full gameplay for $25 if you do not die at all, but if you do die you only lose a small amount of that time, you can die many multiples of times before your spark comes anywhere close to running out and even when you do die there is a time limit of about 2 and a half hours whereby if you were to die again you do not lose any of your spark.

As far as pay to win goes, There will be no cash shop after launch so there is no fear.