So this is the legendary kit.

[duction]

I agree a few posts up.

Many of our large EU clan agreed that if you could build your own gun we would all gladly pay for it in the bits store! Take note trion!!!

[hey u]

I'll pass out before I get that drunk while playing to buy a box for that amount. Now if I could choose my weapon class with the 4 epic mods on top of that I would buy it. Trion I ask you why would I spend that money when in the past when I buy boxes you give me craptastic weapons.

Make it so I can choose a Ar or sniper or my choice of weapon then with random the mods for it. I can just see it now the day I buy a box and you give me a BMG. I laugh myself to crying and keep saying to myself WOW but decide to buy 1 more and then I broke on money and you give me a pump action shotgun when I wanted a saw off gun. Make it so I can choose what weapon class to get a random orange from and the mods then for that weapon class random.

Till this is done I won't spend money on this box and like I said I'll pass out drunk before I can drink enough to make me want to buy this box.

[Olaf]

Trion,

I think you would sell alot more of these box's (at the current price) if like others have said before me, everything was customizable. I would happily pay the current price if it meant I was able to 'craft' my gun together, from selecting each of its rolls, its synergy and especially its nano and ofcourse EXACTLY the weapon I want (e.g. VBI Assault). Having the option to choose its mastery roll would also be nice and ofcourse the specific mods.

[dramaQkarri]

Trion,

I think you would sell alot more of these box's (at the current price) if like others have said before me, everything was customizable. I would happily pay the current price if it meant I was able to 'craft' my gun together, from selecting each of its rolls, its synergy and especially its nano and ofcourse EXACTLY the weapon I want (e.g. VBI Assault). Having the option to choose its mastery roll would also be nice and ofcourse the specific mods.

YEAH! I can't afford to buy one, but YEAH! There are plenty of players out there who could buy it but the randomness is crazy. make it fully customizable and you'll see those dollars rolling in. Imagine if you went to buy anything for $70, and they would not tell you the details. If I wanted to throw a party and spend $70 on random food? No way. I want to choose the menu in every detail according to my budget. What if they give me fish and my guests are allergic? Or beef and my guests are vegetarian? That's nuts. Give us all the options and you'll be selling them like hotcakes. Or whatever cakes you like best.

[Olaf]

YEAH! I can't afford to buy one, but YEAH! There are plenty of players out there who could buy it but the randomness is crazy. make it fully customizable and you'll see those dollars rolling in. Imagine if you went to buy anything for $70, and they would not tell you the details. If I wanted to throw a party and spend $70 on random food? No way. I want to choose the menu in every detail according to my budget. What if they give me fish and my guests are allergic? Or beef and my guests are vegetarian? That's nuts. Give us all the options and you'll be selling them like hotcakes. Or whatever cakes you like best.

I have to agree obviously :P.
It costs 50 GBP ($84 USD) to buy 6000 bits, now to buy one of these kits, we will have to buy 2 lots of 6000 bits costing around $170 USD and will leave us with 2000 bits. Having RNG involved in a product that costs that much money is totally out of the question, its ludicrous and rather insulting to be honest. Implement the options suggested by many people and I am positive you guys will rake in the profit as people will be much happier to spend that sort of money knowing EXACTLY what they are getting.

[brycemorr84]

I am almost half tempted to buy one just because it's going to be one of the last trophies I get.

[Scapes]

I'm one of those white knights people have talked about. I'm one of the one's asking to others to stick it through a bit longer. But, I'm not going to be purchasing this lockbox. I understand the need of Trion to make a profit. That's how business works.

Make the items in the store cheaper, more of them will sell at a rate to make more profit than you are making now.

Good to meet you! We're closely monitoring the store data that's coming in. I'd wager we'd make changes to maximize the potential of this lock box if the data warrants it.

Agreed. This being in the bit store isn't going to affect my playing. If people are foolish or desperate enough to pay that kind of money to get an orange weapon, let them.

Also I think Scapes stole my cat.

Agreed and actually that isn't even my cat. Either of my cats. It's a friend's cat who likes climbing on peoples' shoulders and perching there. I'll probably update with an avatar featuring my cats at some point.

When I was a kid and got jumped at school, and the badkid asked me if I wanted to get punched in the left eye or the right eye, it dint mean I went to school so I could choose between those options.

I think your analogy is specious. We're selling virtual items, not unsolicited bodily harm.

[squidgod2000]

Make the items in the store cheaper, more of them will sell at a rate to make more profit than you are making now.

You're missing one huge thing: It's always easier to lower prices than raise them. If Trion were to introduce items at a low price then not get the sales that everyone on the forums predicts, they'd be forced to raise prices--resulting in another forum sh*tstorm. If initial prices are high, but items (or bits) occasionally go on sale, there is some surprise and grumbling by players, but no real outrage. It's easier, as a player, to think to yourself "Well then, I'll just never buy it" than it is to think "I used to buy this all the time, but they jacked up the price. F*ck Trion!"

Pricing isn't simply about economics, especially when you're selling intangibles and setting prices with a disconnected currency.

A disconnected currency (my term, I'm sure there's an official one) is when you buy something with a standard currency which is then used to buy something else. In this case, the disconnected currency is bits. Companies, especially internet-based companies (though things like Disney Bucks occasionally pop up offline), routinely use these as a means of disconnecting someone from their money. If you look at something that costs $100, you know that's a lot of money--and in the case of the legendary lockbox, a f*cking insane price--but if you loot at something that costs 10,000 bits, you can't immediately parse that cost in dollars. You have to go to the site, see what bits cost, do the math, etc. That's why companies that use disconnected currency never use a 1:1 ratio and always sell in bundles instead of custom values. You may want an item that costs 300 bits, but maybe you can only buy 500 bits. So you buy the 500 bits, get your 300 bit item and have 200 bits left over. Maybe you never use them. That's pure profit for Trion (leaving aside the fact that what you're buying has no cost to them).

[bigkevib]

its that price on the ps3 too

[lanxmixpunk]

Ding ding ding, we have a winner. Can't wait to see the apologists try to explain this one away.

....came back from a long break away and this is what I find oh dear sweet flying noodle monster in the sky trion what hath you done. Started a long rant decided it was not worth it. End Post.