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Telefrog
12-09-2008, 02:16 PM
Anyone still playing EQ or EQ2? Good news for you! Station Cash is now live (http://clockworkgamer.com/2008/12/09/station-cash-initial-functionality-overview/). You can buy experience multipliers and other goodies directly from the store with real money.


Flask of Achievements I -100SC
Flask of Adventuring I - 100SC
Flask of Tradecrafting I - 100SC
Slimy (housepet) - 100SC
Flask of Achievements II -300SC
Flask of Adventuring II - 300SC
Flask of Tradecrafting II - 300SC
Grunting Warrior (housepet) -300SC
Knight of Shadow’s End (fluff pet) - 400SC
Handy Servant (housepet) - 500SC
Zhog, Ghoz’s Little Brother (fluff pet) - 700SC
Flask of Achievements III -1000SC
Flask of Adventuring III - 1000SC
Flask of Tradecrafting III - 1000SC
Seafury Buccaneer Armor Crate (full set of fluff armor) - 1000SC
Tunarian Alliance Armor Crate (full set of fluff armor) - 1000SC

The potions are all experience bonus potions. The Tier I and II potions last for 4 hours, while the Tier III lasts for 2 hours. The Tier I give 10% bonus, the Tier II give 25% bonus, while the Tier III give 50%.

Note that one unit of SC is equal to $.01.

Awesome. Why not just sell an instant Level Up Potion? How about a full kit of top-grade items? Heck, just go all out SOE, and sell an already max level template character. Why bother beating around the bush?
Alkanos
12-09-2008, 02:22 PM
They already had the Station Exchange servers for a few years, this is the logical extension of that. And it seemed to me that the game was steadily moving towards a "hit the Max level ASAP" mentality already when I quit at the beginning of this year. So why not make more money while moving in this direction?

(Disclaimer: These are the reasons I quit, so I don't actually agree in any way. :p)
Telefrog
12-09-2008, 02:26 PM
They already had the Station Exchange servers for a few years, this is the logical extension of that. And it seemed to me that the game was steadily moving towards a "hit the Max level ASAP" mentality already when I quit at the beginning of this year. So why not make more money while moving in this direction?

(Disclaimer: These are the reasons I quit, so I don't actually agree in any way. :p)

I applauded the Station Exchange idea. It was a neat way of cutting out the eBay middleman and claiming the percentage on a trade that was going to happen anyway between players, legal or not.
KingGorilla
12-10-2008, 06:49 AM
The MMO, game period, that can balance free to play, micro payed, and subscription by making every player feel empowered and see value in their decision; that game will be gigantic.

StarCraft 2, Battlefield, may help bridge some of that gap. But games need more ways to make money.
Widgetcraft
12-10-2008, 03:07 PM
Meh, nearly all MMOs have some kind of micro-raping going on. The City of Heroes team has begun holding back the best new costume parts for premium packs that cost $10 a piece. World of Warcraft charges $25 to transfer a single character from one server to another (something I'll probably have to pony up for soon if I want to play with my friends). Ultima Online brought in the concept of Premium Characters (characters that start out with more skill points) years ago, though I can't recall what they charged for that particular service.

I hate it, but that is just how the game is played these days.
KingGorilla
12-10-2008, 03:13 PM
You could just start a new WoW character. Moving content accross servers is not like flipping a switch.
Widgetcraft
12-10-2008, 03:19 PM
You could just start a new WoW character. Moving content accross servers is not like flipping a switch.

Yeah, I'll go ahead and do that; maybe I'll get to Outland by the time they're raiding in Northrend.