Item Shop Humor December 11, 2009
Posted by Wilhelm Arcturus in Dungeons & Dragons Online, entertainment, Humor.Tags: Cash Shop, Micropayments
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Perhaps another, very minor, potential item shop problem?
At least when it comes to a fantasy MMORPG.
I received an email from Turbine today with a series of special deals from the Dungeons & Dragons Online item shop, including one that made me chuckle:
My first thought was, “Sure, that is a fine discount, but where would I put a whole race? I don’t even have enough space for our LEGOs.”
Yes, I know, the discount is for buying the ability to play a drow character in DDO, as the fine-ish print goes on to detail:
But I love the inherent ambiguity of the headline. A really good ambiguous headline like that just brightens my day.
It does however point the finger at the commercialism needed to drive a quality item shop financed MMORPG like DDO. Somebody has to pay if you want to play, so you just have to resign yourself to adds now and then that play in your head with that “Matthews TV and Stereo” voice (“Top of the Hill Daily City!”).
There are certainly worse things in life.
And, in case you were wondering, +4 weapons and selected adventure packs are also on sale, this weekend only.
See the DDO Store for details.
Hmm, +4 weapons are new I think. When I started in September there were only +1s then they introduced +2s last month.
To be honest +4s are nothing. Items are very inflated in the game, I get bags full of Frost +3 of Backstabbing etc etc. Many of the suffixes and prefixes are more valuable than an extra +1 enhancement would be.
It’s quite clever really. Newbies think they can buy an awesome sword of awesomeness for a couple of bucks. Veterans smile quietly and vendor another stack of +5s. A slightly cynical way to sell items that seem powerful without annoying the hardcore players.