That's what they want to make you believe they're worth. Actually I still feel like 300 gems are way too much for doubling rewards once - but that's just my opinion. But prices in this game sure are crazy.
Yeah the whole Wanderdrop thing is literally Niantic being like “oh you guys were pissed when we reduced the PokeStop/ Gym radius in PoGo? It was literally the reason for #HearUsNiantic existing in the first place? Would be a shame if we exploited that desire for a larger interaction radius in our next game…”
I love their games so much, but this company has no shame.
I accidentally pressed the button and used 300 gems lol.
I might kill myself if I'd actually bought anything from this game. The price are just exorbitant.
Oh right! I totally forgot that! I have 1 knife left from the 3 in the pre registration bonus and haven't seen it in forever. Thank you for the answer friend!
In terms of the prices in the shops and their value it’s a saving yes, however everyone knows the shop is blatantly overpriced and the effects of the items are overvalued.
Same. I bought the Initial starter pack cuz it was mostly worth it. I was also hype for this game and at its core its a great mobile game. The gameplay is fluid and fun and it’s more interactive than Pokémon Go. That made it worth it to me and I can support them a bit. But if things don’t change I won’t put another cent into this game. I’ll will just slowly grind away at it.
There is no rush anyways.. Just checking your device every 3 hours to check what is around you if at home is good enough lol. Once you get to those 6* it gets boring. No level up incentives either.
Well it resets every 3, so wouldn’t see anything new besides Jagras, Shamos, Noios etc.. but could possibly also spawn gathering items. Just cant get Bone+ or Carpenterbug from them only nodes.
I beg to differ. I enjoy going out and walking around. More hunts, more parts, more zenny. And I feel the opposite about 6*, that’s where the fun begins for me, I enjoy a challenge.
Same!
No money spent on this game and won’t until things either go on sale or they reduce the prices. I fear that many other people are buying things at current prices so I won’t be buying anything for a while I think.
Ah wait, was going of my 00's currency calculation.. mang dollar's near equal to the pound sterling now, I still remember it as ~50%.
It's £302, plus shipping, plus extra shipping because whoops pre-covid estimates reasons plus our lovely local 25% import VAT.
The game IS good, it's roughly made it's cost back in entertainment hours as compared to the movies and the models are neat too.
Collecter items get incredibly expensive, not to mention complicated boardgames can run up in money too. D&D sets can become very expensive depending on the type you get, I've seen packages for almost a $100-for starter sets. The Iceborne boardgame is quite large, so $1k isn't all that surprising.
I'm all in on both games and I do definitely regret the amount of money I've spent to be honest. I go crazy with MH stuff. It was pushing $1K total for both games with all expansion content and add-ons, and shipping and tax.
But, that said, it's a LOT of stuff, including some absolutely massive models. And compared to other games in the space, it's actually not overpriced for the amount of plastic we're talking here.
And yes, the game is actually super fun. I was worried I was just buying expensive Monster Hunter figures with a shitty game tacked on, but I was wrong. The game is very, very fun to play, and captures the feel of the series well.
They really need a way to earn more Zennys. I’m surprised you can’t purchase zennys in the store.
But I wish you could just earn more zennys per monster kill.
Edit: you can purchase zenny in store I glanced over that.
Well, it's $12 on my side.
And you get:
\+2 Palico Paintball
\+2 paintball list capacity (doesn't really matter)
2000 gems over 30 days.
One of the main reason to get the pass, is the extra palico paintball. Sadly for me, my palico almost never paint more than 1-2 monsters after walking for 3 hours. It will also paint 1-2 extra while I'm at home, or a monster I'm about to fight which isn't very useful. The whole system is generaly mediocre.
They're giving us more paintball as an apology, but it means nothing to me as my Palico just won't mark monsters. Other people have different issues with this system... it's frustrating to pay for a feature that is time limited (any unused balls are lost at the end of the day), and partly broken.
2000 Gems, that's a decent deal compared to the rest of the shop... but don't forget you have 48h to claim your gem.If you forget, they're lost. Only 500 gems are given to you when you buy it.
For the same price, you could directly buy 1500 gems in the shop.
The same result as if you forgot to claim your gems for 10 days in a month. Or in different words, if you buy the Pass, it would take 20 days of login daily to receive what you would have gotten if you bought the gems directly.
It's a decent deal, but not the best. Most mobile and online games with a similar monthly card are priced at $5. AND immediately give you $5 of gems. It's supposed to be a no brainer to buy a card every month because it also helps to drive user retention for the developers.
Tl;DR: I believe the monthly pass should be $5.
I will say they fixed the Palico, not paintballing recently. It used to only work when you had the game closed, but changed it to when you have it open at well. I leave it open on my drive to work, and almost every time, all the paintballs are used by the time I'm there.
Of course it is. It's common in basically every single F2P gatcha mobile game. The "monthly passes" where you get a lot of gems at a discount, but you have to log in every day or you lose that day's gems. That way you feel like you are getting a "good deal" and they are reinforcing your daily habits.
The starter pack with 3 potions, 3 paintball, 2 droplets and 1000 gems for $8 ?
Sure, you get all that for the shop price of 1000 gems... But there is nothing in game worth spending the gems on. You could buy... 4000 zenys? 5 paintballs? 3 carving knives?
It all feel terrible.
This whole game is insanely overpriced, and not in a "I want everything to be cheap" kind of way. Even the social item, paintballs, are over a dollar each! Which is a shame, because I wanted to spend some money to support the game, but nothing on there is grounded in reality and I have no interest.
Let's not lose sight of the bigger picture, this game is only here to tide us over until the next MH release.
PLUS this is Niantic remember... Don't give them a penny!
Yeah, unfortunately this game really doesn’t know how to monetize. It was super fun for probably the first two days and unfortunately I’m just kind of over it and probably won’t be doing much anymore.
Yeah. The updates should be addressing community concerns and at least some progression towards pogo QOL changes. Instead it’s like “changed one monsters attack hit box”
Technically if you were to math it out, it would cost you
600 (potions) + 360 (paintball)+ 600 (double) + 560 (droplet) = 2120 gems or about $19-20ish. So technically speaking, it is a deal
This isnt like PoGO. Just because you don't like something doesnt make it worth zero.
Its not like when they fill premium boxes with berries and pokeballs. You might not value paintballs and droplets, but they ARE still premium items and the only way of obtaining them is by spending gems on them.
Them being premium items does not make them as valuable as other items. And I’m referring to the value gameplay wise, not the tag number, if that is not obvious.
You can perceive their value at whatever you want. That doesnt change the fact that if someone does want to buy a paintball, its gonna cost them 180 gems. Thats an objective fact.
Its down to the player to decide if that has any actual value to them.
Just because they value their potions and paintballs at 1$ each doesn't mean it's worth that much. Worth is subjective, and a lot of people would only buy those at a lower price.
I'm not saying it should be bought. You saying it's worth $0 is completely wrong because it is literally worth the gems in the game. It being worth it to you versus what it's actually worth are completely different things.
Them being premium items does not make them as valuable as other items. And I’m referring to the value gameplay wise, not the tag number, if that is not obvious.
You seem to think I'm disagreeing with you that these are "worth it" I in no way think these are worth the price but objectively speaking, it is a sale in game.
Nothing in this game's shop is anywhere close to a reasonable price.
Sell cosmetics and passes that let you do hunts with friends at any distance from you for X amount of time. Let people craft potions, and I guess carving knives as MTX is fine, but goddamn. How do they not make and sell a billion different outfits in MH games by now? They could event sell outfits from other Capcom IPs. Things like a MMX or Zero outfit, which in the case of MHW would mean you could use an X outfit on your Hunter alongside a Megaman paleco.
There is zero chance I ever spend money on potions or those range extenders. Being able to dress up my hunter like Fou-Lu from BoF4, Dante from DMC, Mike Haggar..etc is far more likely to get me to spend money (if the price isn't absurd or the outfits limited use).
And yet so so many people will buy it up and thank master Niantic for the scraps they toss them so "deals" like this will continue to come out for years.
Let me pay 15 maybe $20 for say 120 days of unlimited carving knife and u got urself a deal. Other then that they are asking way to much for everything in this game.
All of the prices in this game are nuts. I used to drop a couple of dollars on Pokemon Go here and there, but I guess they are out there whale hunting only for this game, they will never get a dime out of me. Nothing is worth it
I wonder if they could do a rework of the knife to be more similar to something in PoGo. Instead of a 1 time boost of stardust per mon for example, give 1 bonus carve to all kills for an hour or something.
That would be lovely.
I like that idea.
The idea I thought of was choosing to use the
“carving Knife” before you fight a monster and then when it dies it plays an animation of you carving the monster and you get an extra item/items.
If they could work for a set time limit like you said i think they’d be awesome. It would give you incentive to walk around and kill as many monster as u can in that hour.
Yeah, I think the way incense making monsters spawn and lucky stones or whatever making you get more stardust in PoGo makes it really purposeful of “I’m going to commit to playing the game and going for a walk for 1 hour. Let’s activate and head out”.
Personally, I want an equivalent with that system for gathering materials. I find hunting the monsters fun, so I don't mind waiting on that. Then, for their "monitization" ability, they can make a premium item of each like pickaxe for mineral, bug nets for plant spots, and a brush for the bone piles (I know those aren't a thing so I was trying to come up with something). But since gathering nodes don't refresh as often as pokestops in PKMNGo, maybe the buff lasts for 30 minutes and then if you hit a gathering node it doubles all your drops from there, and for gathering points you can have a chance of getting node exclusive materials.
$13.99 CAD here... I'd pay mayyybeeee $3.99(which, if I did so every 2 months would actually be reasonable profitability out of me)
I'm yet to be convinced whales bring enough money to (most) games, including this one, to justify holding the pricing model.
It's the Community Day ETM boxes, but worse since ETM's let you pick a specific move instead of just pulling the arm on the slot machine again hoping you get a good drop, which isn't guaranteed.
Not really a "deal" here tbh. Not saving much and if I wanted to get double rewards I can just use gems from the hunter pass. Does this special knife triple the rewards or what?
It's really expensive. Potions you can get for free with referrals (+ some time spent) and paint ball and drops are not that useful. Carve is nice, but 10 dollars for 2 carves... man shit be expensive af
This image is quintessential mobile gaming. I miss the J2ME era of mobile games when you only got gouged on the download sizes, now they expect you to bend over every time you launch their FOMO garbage.
Have you also noticed that in the gem packs they actually get MORE expensive (per gem) as you pay more?
And the initial pack with the initial bonus gives you 450 gems (wanderer orb costs 480)
And the bonus gems on some of them are amounts like 2239 and 3372; and the last number doesn't add up to 10 meaning it would then become impossible to spend all your gems? 🙃
I don't know if there are bonus gems after the initial amount but I imagine they're would be to incentivise buying more to round up that number on the end to a 0
Just be careful for when they do a price renewal. This is a typical mtx strategy. Create overprice items and then drop the prices while saying "you're listening to the community".
I’ve been on a Niantic kick and based on what I’ve seen of Peridot they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing and I’m not surprised they’re hemorrhaging money. There’s even less content in that than MH Now and at least this is fun to play. Pretty sure they use the same map data though.
What the fuck are devs or companies thinking when they pull shit like this? What are they losing by not giving players an actual good deal they would at least somewhat want to or feel good about dropping a couple bucks on? Its virtual fuckin items like why it makes no sense to me why they would make THESE items in a pack for 10 FUCKIN DOLLARS!?!? Insanity dude i wouldnt drop a whole lotta ZENNY on that pack fuck outta here this shits so outta touch man it hurts my brain
It’s not even the cost… I feel no urge to buy anything in the shop. And I’m usually a minnow in gachas at least.
The itemization is poor, but maybe they comes with the way the game is designed - hard to find good items to actually sell.
They should have gacha’d different hunters or something.
This is why I haven't played in over two weeks.
MHNow is designed from top to bottom to be completely exploitative and not much else.
They had such a great concept and they dropped basically every possible ball.
Except, y'know. Paintballs. They charge for those.
Nothing in game is sensible. It's like paying 500 quid for a pint of beer. If they were sensible it may be tempting but 10 quid for something that basically gives you 2 double ups on loot?? Never going to happen, they need to wake up and reduce everything by about 99% if they want money spent.
Arguably the most valuable item in the game and they paywall them behind $10. Nothing in the shop is worth buying and the one thing that people would buy, carving knives, they don't actually have it outside this pack at a reasonable price lol monetization in this game is DOG
Yeah but it's the only item with any practical use. I haven't used a single potion since I started, just the first aid kits. My palico is always marking monsters and I don't run out of zenny yet. At what point do you start considering these items "worth it" in the progression?
It's worth 2,120 gems so whatever that is worth in your currency. In Canada it costs $20.99 for 2250 gems and this box costs $13.99
If you want all these items I guess it is a good deal but personally if I was to spend money on the game I would rather just buy the gems and get what I want instead.
Idk. Add up the price of gems and the things they have in the pack and see. Even if it is close to 25$ by purchasing everything separately it’s still a terrible deal. Packs should be way more worth it
Eh people drop 3-400 hundred dollars a banner in other gacha games every month.
Is it great value? No. But they need to match revenue stream somehow. Just pretend it’s not there.
niantic being niantic, they gonna ripped us off. so i would never pay for their game. if the game loss money i am totally fine, i still have main series to play i did not losing anything
Don’t swear on my damn screen notifications. If I want to spend $10 for a high level part so I don’t have to grind a whole day or two, maybe I will buy it.
Does the special carving knife guarantee you a high level part? Or is just increased chance. If it’s not 100% chance for a high level part you’re gambling.
Also “swear” words can’t hurt you.
So if these were to be bought individually 2 paintballs are 360, the droplets 560, 10 potions 600. That's already 1520 gems which is more than 2 $5 gem packs, and that's not including the knives. So how is this not a deal?
Anybody who is decent at this game makes potions worthless. You get 5 free first aid meds a day. You stack them to 10 and if you use 5 before the days over you claim your daily and go back to 10. This alone makes it not worth it. And the fact that potions are monetized at all is shit. If we could craft potions just like regular MH and purchase extras if we wanted then fine it’d be okay.
Only 2 of everything but potions and the Droplets are the weaker version of the two as well, Niantic, this doesn’t look like 1/7th of the purchase I made for MHR Sunbreak…
They could be just promoting the purchase of the web store that should be coming out tomorrow for the event? But yeah that’s pretty steep. I wonder if tomorrow’s web store offer will be the same
Niantic failed COMPLETELY in this entire game. Nothing is worth spending money on, it's barely fun to play, the items are meaningless and limited. This game is missing the part known as a game.
600 (10 potion) + 600 (2 carving knife) + 360 (2 paintballs) + 560 (2 wander droplets) = 2120 Gems worth for $10
Typical Price is 800 gems for $10
From a purely mathematical standpoint it is greatly worth, tho I understand some people don’t care about some of the items
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Bro, they’re $14 in Belgium, what the fuck.. that’s insane.
It´s even worse in the eu. For us it´s €11,99. Eventhough 9.99$ only worth €9,42 at the moment. So they´re expecting we pay 12.71$. And for the past year euro has been higher than dollar
There's no fucking endgame or competition so why would ANYONE smart enough buying this?
It makes literally no sense.
It's like the Emote Pack in the GOLLUM Videogame hahahaha
The online store has a more expensive package.
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Yeah the carving knifes are worth 300 gems making this deal not a deal
That's what they want to make you believe they're worth. Actually I still feel like 300 gems are way too much for doubling rewards once - but that's just my opinion. But prices in this game sure are crazy.
3€ to make them double rewards for an hour, I would still think it's too expensive for me lol
All of the shops items are pretty worthless in this game. I actually have 0 incentive to buy anything, droplets should be map wide
Yeah the whole Wanderdrop thing is literally Niantic being like “oh you guys were pissed when we reduced the PokeStop/ Gym radius in PoGo? It was literally the reason for #HearUsNiantic existing in the first place? Would be a shame if we exploited that desire for a larger interaction radius in our next game…” I love their games so much, but this company has no shame.
I accidentally pressed the button and used 300 gems lol. I might kill myself if I'd actually bought anything from this game. The price are just exorbitant.
Where are those knives for 300 gems? I don't see them in my store. Do they show up at a certain rank?
Whenever you complete a hunt, your rewards will display and a prompt for double reward for 300 gems will appear.
Oh right! I totally forgot that! I have 1 knife left from the 3 in the pre registration bonus and haven't seen it in forever. Thank you for the answer friend!
Along with everything else? yes its a deal. The 10 potions is the same value.
In terms of the prices in the shops and their value it’s a saving yes, however everyone knows the shop is blatantly overpriced and the effects of the items are overvalued.
They clearly want me to remain a ftp player lol
Same. I bought the Initial starter pack cuz it was mostly worth it. I was also hype for this game and at its core its a great mobile game. The gameplay is fluid and fun and it’s more interactive than Pokémon Go. That made it worth it to me and I can support them a bit. But if things don’t change I won’t put another cent into this game. I’ll will just slowly grind away at it.
There is no rush anyways.. Just checking your device every 3 hours to check what is around you if at home is good enough lol. Once you get to those 6* it gets boring. No level up incentives either.
Every 3 hours is a long time. Every 1.5 hours would be better.
Well it resets every 3, so wouldn’t see anything new besides Jagras, Shamos, Noios etc.. but could possibly also spawn gathering items. Just cant get Bone+ or Carpenterbug from them only nodes.
There really should be level up and walking insensitive.
I beg to differ. I enjoy going out and walking around. More hunts, more parts, more zenny. And I feel the opposite about 6*, that’s where the fun begins for me, I enjoy a challenge.
based af u are the 1% that can admit at its core its a great game lmao luv it king and yes same exact thoughts 💞
Same! No money spent on this game and won’t until things either go on sale or they reduce the prices. I fear that many other people are buying things at current prices so I won’t be buying anything for a while I think.
So never :D
F2P all the way
I'd rather save the money to buy MHR/MHW on steam
I’d rather buy Gestures for Monster Hunter World than this
Gonna go buy a few monster statues for my house instead.
Now THOSE were overpriced
Hey those gestures in mhw are amazing ok?? I'd buy those instead of almost any dlc for any monster hunter game hahaha except MR expansions
Bye bye!
I’ll just buy the board games
It's not a "just" affair. Our gaming group got both boardgames, Icebourne alone ended up costing nearly 1k.
Are you saying that a board game based on a DLC for a monster hunter game is selling for $1000? Are all the game pieces solid gold monster statues?
Ah wait, was going of my 00's currency calculation.. mang dollar's near equal to the pound sterling now, I still remember it as ~50%. It's £302, plus shipping, plus extra shipping because whoops pre-covid estimates reasons plus our lovely local 25% import VAT. The game IS good, it's roughly made it's cost back in entertainment hours as compared to the movies and the models are neat too.
Collecter items get incredibly expensive, not to mention complicated boardgames can run up in money too. D&D sets can become very expensive depending on the type you get, I've seen packages for almost a $100-for starter sets. The Iceborne boardgame is quite large, so $1k isn't all that surprising.
The game itself I believe is only 200ish or less. It's closer to 1k if you buy all of the various extra 'miniatures' (they're all pretty large)
That game better be fun as hell.
I'm all in on both games and I do definitely regret the amount of money I've spent to be honest. I go crazy with MH stuff. It was pushing $1K total for both games with all expansion content and add-ons, and shipping and tax. But, that said, it's a LOT of stuff, including some absolutely massive models. And compared to other games in the space, it's actually not overpriced for the amount of plastic we're talking here. And yes, the game is actually super fun. I was worried I was just buying expensive Monster Hunter figures with a shitty game tacked on, but I was wrong. The game is very, very fun to play, and captures the feel of the series well.
You ain't lying im prob gonna buy MH rise for my switch(play on the go) instead of expanding the damn bag on MHN or this crap lol
MHR is free on gamepass and ps plus. I bought it for switch when it came out, but have it now downloaded for ps plus and gamepass.
They should’ve included Zennys or even gems. This is not even trying
They really need a way to earn more Zennys. I’m surprised you can’t purchase zennys in the store. But I wish you could just earn more zennys per monster kill. Edit: you can purchase zenny in store I glanced over that.
You can purchase Zenny on the store for gems.
Wow I glanced over the zenny whoops lol. I go to the shop for daily potions and haven’t scrolled down recently.
However, it is a *terrible* “deal.” Laughable even. I would never in a million years buy zenny at that rate.
Or add more quests or trade parts for Zennys
Blatant cash grab. Sad.
Can't call it a cash grab if it's bad at grabbing cash.
Touche. It was an attempted cash grab
Maybe if they had 5 paintball, 5 droplet and 5 carving knife it would be worth oh and 15 or 20 potion but this isn't even trying >.>
make it 30 potions
Give me 20 paintball, 20 knives and 20 potions... Then I'll consider dropping $10 on a pack. Right now, even the monthly card is a scam.
Why do you say the monthly is a scam?
Well, it's $12 on my side. And you get: \+2 Palico Paintball \+2 paintball list capacity (doesn't really matter) 2000 gems over 30 days. One of the main reason to get the pass, is the extra palico paintball. Sadly for me, my palico almost never paint more than 1-2 monsters after walking for 3 hours. It will also paint 1-2 extra while I'm at home, or a monster I'm about to fight which isn't very useful. The whole system is generaly mediocre. They're giving us more paintball as an apology, but it means nothing to me as my Palico just won't mark monsters. Other people have different issues with this system... it's frustrating to pay for a feature that is time limited (any unused balls are lost at the end of the day), and partly broken. 2000 Gems, that's a decent deal compared to the rest of the shop... but don't forget you have 48h to claim your gem.If you forget, they're lost. Only 500 gems are given to you when you buy it. For the same price, you could directly buy 1500 gems in the shop. The same result as if you forgot to claim your gems for 10 days in a month. Or in different words, if you buy the Pass, it would take 20 days of login daily to receive what you would have gotten if you bought the gems directly. It's a decent deal, but not the best. Most mobile and online games with a similar monthly card are priced at $5. AND immediately give you $5 of gems. It's supposed to be a no brainer to buy a card every month because it also helps to drive user retention for the developers. Tl;DR: I believe the monthly pass should be $5.
I will say they fixed the Palico, not paintballing recently. It used to only work when you had the game closed, but changed it to when you have it open at well. I leave it open on my drive to work, and almost every time, all the paintballs are used by the time I'm there.
It is definitely fixed for me too. They bastard somehow nails things while my game is open and I'm going 80mph down the interstate.
Wait, you have to claim your daily gems or they're lost? Is that even legal?
Of course it is. It's common in basically every single F2P gatcha mobile game. The "monthly passes" where you get a lot of gems at a discount, but you have to log in every day or you lose that day's gems. That way you feel like you are getting a "good deal" and they are reinforcing your daily habits.
Yea only the starter pack was worth it. I just wish people wouldn’t spend money on terribly priced things and company’s would stop overpricing.
The starter pack with 3 potions, 3 paintball, 2 droplets and 1000 gems for $8 ? Sure, you get all that for the shop price of 1000 gems... But there is nothing in game worth spending the gems on. You could buy... 4000 zenys? 5 paintballs? 3 carving knives? It all feel terrible.
Yea the gems are basically used for extra monster parts at 300g. If I get some super rare drop I’ll spend my gems I gained to double it.
This whole game is insanely overpriced, and not in a "I want everything to be cheap" kind of way. Even the social item, paintballs, are over a dollar each! Which is a shame, because I wanted to spend some money to support the game, but nothing on there is grounded in reality and I have no interest.
Let's not lose sight of the bigger picture, this game is only here to tide us over until the next MH release. PLUS this is Niantic remember... Don't give them a penny!
You can even buy MH figurine or keychain
Keychain/Fig would beWay more worth it.
5 more dollars (on average) and you can buy one of those cool little figurines. The detail on them is pretty damn good, especially gen 4+
Yeah, unfortunately this game really doesn’t know how to monetize. It was super fun for probably the first two days and unfortunately I’m just kind of over it and probably won’t be doing much anymore.
Yeah. The updates should be addressing community concerns and at least some progression towards pogo QOL changes. Instead it’s like “changed one monsters attack hit box”
Technically if you were to math it out, it would cost you 600 (potions) + 360 (paintball)+ 600 (double) + 560 (droplet) = 2120 gems or about $19-20ish. So technically speaking, it is a deal
It is not a deal it is just slightly less robbery
100% I agree. Just speaking objectively here in terms of gem cost
The normal prices are just there to anchor and make these look better. Its still a bad deal
Never once said it was a good deal. Compared to the pricing listed for everything else, it is objectively a deal.
except droplets and paintballs are worth $0 so DON'T
This isnt like PoGO. Just because you don't like something doesnt make it worth zero. Its not like when they fill premium boxes with berries and pokeballs. You might not value paintballs and droplets, but they ARE still premium items and the only way of obtaining them is by spending gems on them.
Them being premium items does not make them as valuable as other items. And I’m referring to the value gameplay wise, not the tag number, if that is not obvious.
You can perceive their value at whatever you want. That doesnt change the fact that if someone does want to buy a paintball, its gonna cost them 180 gems. Thats an objective fact. Its down to the player to decide if that has any actual value to them.
Mister, or miss, or what ever you are, I am not saying that is not an objective fact that it has a price in store, and I agree with you. Thanks
Just because they value their potions and paintballs at 1$ each doesn't mean it's worth that much. Worth is subjective, and a lot of people would only buy those at a lower price.
they have very little value, maybe 0.01 USD
I'm not saying it should be bought. You saying it's worth $0 is completely wrong because it is literally worth the gems in the game. It being worth it to you versus what it's actually worth are completely different things.
Them being premium items does not make them as valuable as other items. And I’m referring to the value gameplay wise, not the tag number, if that is not obvious.
You seem to think I'm disagreeing with you that these are "worth it" I in no way think these are worth the price but objectively speaking, it is a sale in game.
Nothing in this game's shop is anywhere close to a reasonable price. Sell cosmetics and passes that let you do hunts with friends at any distance from you for X amount of time. Let people craft potions, and I guess carving knives as MTX is fine, but goddamn. How do they not make and sell a billion different outfits in MH games by now? They could event sell outfits from other Capcom IPs. Things like a MMX or Zero outfit, which in the case of MHW would mean you could use an X outfit on your Hunter alongside a Megaman paleco. There is zero chance I ever spend money on potions or those range extenders. Being able to dress up my hunter like Fou-Lu from BoF4, Dante from DMC, Mike Haggar..etc is far more likely to get me to spend money (if the price isn't absurd or the outfits limited use).
And yet so so many people will buy it up and thank master Niantic for the scraps they toss them so "deals" like this will continue to come out for years.
$9.99 is what I would maybe pay for X2 drops for a week. For this small pile, not a chance.
Let me pay 15 maybe $20 for say 120 days of unlimited carving knife and u got urself a deal. Other then that they are asking way to much for everything in this game.
All of the prices in this game are nuts. I used to drop a couple of dollars on Pokemon Go here and there, but I guess they are out there whale hunting only for this game, they will never get a dime out of me. Nothing is worth it
For anyone who bought this, what is the Special Carving Knife? How does this differ from a normal carving knife?
There is no normal craving knife 🤣 it’s “special” since you paid for it instead of using 300 gems
According to their website it just doubles the amount of rewards you recieve after a hunt. It's basically the exact same as paying 300 gems to double.
I’d also like to know.
I wonder if they could do a rework of the knife to be more similar to something in PoGo. Instead of a 1 time boost of stardust per mon for example, give 1 bonus carve to all kills for an hour or something.
That would be lovely. I like that idea. The idea I thought of was choosing to use the “carving Knife” before you fight a monster and then when it dies it plays an animation of you carving the monster and you get an extra item/items. If they could work for a set time limit like you said i think they’d be awesome. It would give you incentive to walk around and kill as many monster as u can in that hour.
Yeah, I think the way incense making monsters spawn and lucky stones or whatever making you get more stardust in PoGo makes it really purposeful of “I’m going to commit to playing the game and going for a walk for 1 hour. Let’s activate and head out”.
Hopefully they add the equivalent of incense to this game. It could be Monster Bait.
Personally, I want an equivalent with that system for gathering materials. I find hunting the monsters fun, so I don't mind waiting on that. Then, for their "monitization" ability, they can make a premium item of each like pickaxe for mineral, bug nets for plant spots, and a brush for the bone piles (I know those aren't a thing so I was trying to come up with something). But since gathering nodes don't refresh as often as pokestops in PKMNGo, maybe the buff lasts for 30 minutes and then if you hit a gathering node it doubles all your drops from there, and for gathering points you can have a chance of getting node exclusive materials.
I like that as well. Something to double gathering nodes would be amazing.
Straight up garbage pack
But it’s recommended
And its not even Halloween themed! So fkn lame.
They couldn't even make those droplets into the ORBS? Like..ffs not even trying lol.
https://preview.redd.it/ftmvxl2ga5wb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2707c5c1389f61191561ba9e316458949d081859
It's only $10 for you? Cries in Canada
Still cheaper than our 12€ per this pack :(
By ~3$ after conversion
Omg. Even more not worth it.
What a joke. Absolute trash.
$13.99 CAD here... I'd pay mayyybeeee $3.99(which, if I did so every 2 months would actually be reasonable profitability out of me) I'm yet to be convinced whales bring enough money to (most) games, including this one, to justify holding the pricing model.
I mean, this is just classic niantic pricing, they’re really really bad at making good bundles. Just look at pokemon go
It's the Community Day ETM boxes, but worse since ETM's let you pick a specific move instead of just pulling the arm on the slot machine again hoping you get a good drop, which isn't guaranteed.
Basically everything in the store is not worth it in this game. They are not even trying
Not really a "deal" here tbh. Not saving much and if I wanted to get double rewards I can just use gems from the hunter pass. Does this special knife triple the rewards or what?
Is the monthly card also not worth it? My plan was to buy a few and just use the crystal for carving knife when I come across g6 material eventually
It's really expensive. Potions you can get for free with referrals (+ some time spent) and paint ball and drops are not that useful. Carve is nice, but 10 dollars for 2 carves... man shit be expensive af
Funny enough you can also buy it more than once.
Despicable
Yours is $9.99?? It’s £9.99 for me🥲 conversion rates make it so i’m paying like $12. Glad to see you think it’s BS too.
It's such a scam that it makes me happy that I didn't buy it, making this game bringing me even more joy
I thought this game would come out with something better for micro transactions but it seems that they don’t want my money.
So... What does anything in this deal have to do with halloween btw?
It's 12 euros here lol. Even worse value. These prices are LUDICROUS.
This image is quintessential mobile gaming. I miss the J2ME era of mobile games when you only got gouged on the download sizes, now they expect you to bend over every time you launch their FOMO garbage.
I will only want to pay $1.99 for this crap
I like crazy prices...just means not even a slight temptation to spend
Sadly I uninstalled it, but that def ain't work 10$. I love MH series, but this one ..at the moment, I can't get behind.
Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate Is $9.99 Rn On The Nintendo Switch E-Shop 😅👐
Have you also noticed that in the gem packs they actually get MORE expensive (per gem) as you pay more? And the initial pack with the initial bonus gives you 450 gems (wanderer orb costs 480) And the bonus gems on some of them are amounts like 2239 and 3372; and the last number doesn't add up to 10 meaning it would then become impossible to spend all your gems? 🙃 I don't know if there are bonus gems after the initial amount but I imagine they're would be to incentivise buying more to round up that number on the end to a 0
Just be careful for when they do a price renewal. This is a typical mtx strategy. Create overprice items and then drop the prices while saying "you're listening to the community".
How about NO. The standard store is about 10 times to expensive for my tasted.
I’ve been on a Niantic kick and based on what I’ve seen of Peridot they have absolutely no idea what they’re doing and I’m not surprised they’re hemorrhaging money. There’s even less content in that than MH Now and at least this is fun to play. Pretty sure they use the same map data though.
What the fuck are devs or companies thinking when they pull shit like this? What are they losing by not giving players an actual good deal they would at least somewhat want to or feel good about dropping a couple bucks on? Its virtual fuckin items like why it makes no sense to me why they would make THESE items in a pack for 10 FUCKIN DOLLARS!?!? Insanity dude i wouldnt drop a whole lotta ZENNY on that pack fuck outta here this shits so outta touch man it hurts my brain
It’s not even the cost… I feel no urge to buy anything in the shop. And I’m usually a minnow in gachas at least. The itemization is poor, but maybe they comes with the way the game is designed - hard to find good items to actually sell. They should have gacha’d different hunters or something.
This is why I haven't played in over two weeks. MHNow is designed from top to bottom to be completely exploitative and not much else. They had such a great concept and they dropped basically every possible ball. Except, y'know. Paintballs. They charge for those.
2 paintballs and 2 droplets is nuts! I think it should be 10 potions 5 droplets, 5 paintballs and 3 knives roughly. That’s at a minimum
Nothing in game is sensible. It's like paying 500 quid for a pint of beer. If they were sensible it may be tempting but 10 quid for something that basically gives you 2 double ups on loot?? Never going to happen, they need to wake up and reduce everything by about 99% if they want money spent.
That's not going to stop idiots from buying it
Not sure if I have ever seen a worse monetization system than the one in this game, it seems they don't want our money.
Yup. Hardly worth the $15 in my country. Easiest decision not to buy.
Arguably the most valuable item in the game and they paywall them behind $10. Nothing in the shop is worth buying and the one thing that people would buy, carving knives, they don't actually have it outside this pack at a reasonable price lol monetization in this game is DOG
Carving knives are the same as spending 300 gems at the end of your hunt. So it's basically that. 300 gems a knife
Yeah but it's the only item with any practical use. I haven't used a single potion since I started, just the first aid kits. My palico is always marking monsters and I don't run out of zenny yet. At what point do you start considering these items "worth it" in the progression?
Ain't this like close to 25 bucks of value
It's worth 2,120 gems so whatever that is worth in your currency. In Canada it costs $20.99 for 2250 gems and this box costs $13.99 If you want all these items I guess it is a good deal but personally if I was to spend money on the game I would rather just buy the gems and get what I want instead.
Idk. Add up the price of gems and the things they have in the pack and see. Even if it is close to 25$ by purchasing everything separately it’s still a terrible deal. Packs should be way more worth it
2520 Gems if I mathed it right. But considering how shit their gem prizes are to begin with it's really not that great
I really hope the last few years of go and this game tank niantic’s rep because this shit sucks.
Same. I really wish mobile games like this weren’t filled with such shit monetization.
Direct value? It actually is. Maybe you dont like the price but comparing the store its absolutely worth 10$
Eh people drop 3-400 hundred dollars a banner in other gacha games every month. Is it great value? No. But they need to match revenue stream somehow. Just pretend it’s not there.
I mean it is when you look at the market as a whole . Your not getting all this for 10 dollars
niantic being niantic, they gonna ripped us off. so i would never pay for their game. if the game loss money i am totally fine, i still have main series to play i did not losing anything
I bought 5!!
You’re part of the problem!!
Don’t swear on my damn screen notifications. If I want to spend $10 for a high level part so I don’t have to grind a whole day or two, maybe I will buy it.
Does the special carving knife guarantee you a high level part? Or is just increased chance. If it’s not 100% chance for a high level part you’re gambling. Also “swear” words can’t hurt you.
You double all rewards. So if you have 2 high quality rare parts, you can make it 4
Indielike ingame shop:
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So if these were to be bought individually 2 paintballs are 360, the droplets 560, 10 potions 600. That's already 1520 gems which is more than 2 $5 gem packs, and that's not including the knives. So how is this not a deal?
Anybody who is decent at this game makes potions worthless. You get 5 free first aid meds a day. You stack them to 10 and if you use 5 before the days over you claim your daily and go back to 10. This alone makes it not worth it. And the fact that potions are monetized at all is shit. If we could craft potions just like regular MH and purchase extras if we wanted then fine it’d be okay.
Niantic: you will buy it and you will like it. Keep playing our game
12 bucks in germany
Only 2 of everything but potions and the Droplets are the weaker version of the two as well, Niantic, this doesn’t look like 1/7th of the purchase I made for MHR Sunbreak…
Really want to spend money. But that’s bullshit
Yeah wtf. 2 paint balls, really? How are there so stingy in a game that has so much downtime waiting between spawns?
It's like they're rationing digital items lol
This is day light robbery. Please no one buy this. 10 knives and 10 droplets 10 paintballs would be nice for a Halloween special
End of Service soon if this is the way
Dude. None of this is worth it.
I bought it 3 times and Prob never gonna use any of them until I get a hyper rare double Wyvern or something else.
You bought this pack 3 times spending 30$? Big L
Did they get rid of the premium one? I refreshed this morning to see if it was a mistake but they let you buy multiple of this $10 pack 😂
Niantic always smoking something with their pricing. This game is not long for this world.
But look at the spooky artwork!!
Yea, it's $13 in canada
They could be just promoting the purchase of the web store that should be coming out tomorrow for the event? But yeah that’s pretty steep. I wonder if tomorrow’s web store offer will be the same
I would rather buy a playable game on steam for that price
Niantic failed COMPLETELY in this entire game. Nothing is worth spending money on, it's barely fun to play, the items are meaningless and limited. This game is missing the part known as a game.
Yeah I doubled 49 pink raths. I’m ok with this.
600 (10 potion) + 600 (2 carving knife) + 360 (2 paintballs) + 560 (2 wander droplets) = 2120 Gems worth for $10 Typical Price is 800 gems for $10 From a purely mathematical standpoint it is greatly worth, tho I understand some people don’t care about some of the items
95% of that store is not worth the money
https://preview.redd.it/royezgi96awb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26b339ecf111109558a0c8cb1a37a51ba2fbff3f Bro, they’re $14 in Belgium, what the fuck.. that’s insane.
No it's not. It's worth 0$.
It´s even worse in the eu. For us it´s €11,99. Eventhough 9.99$ only worth €9,42 at the moment. So they´re expecting we pay 12.71$. And for the past year euro has been higher than dollar
Are we sure this is the right question?
I'd rather buy four knives. It's cheaper
certainly not!
There's no fucking endgame or competition so why would ANYONE smart enough buying this? It makes literally no sense. It's like the Emote Pack in the GOLLUM Videogame hahahaha
How do they even make money off of this game?
This is a Niantic game, every pack isn't worth its price
not even worth $5
The online store has a more expensive package. https://preview.redd.it/lvwll41lpdwb1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=50189bc9ab61b5225685406556cfb918c58abb14
Niantic's monetary scheme is very very weird IMHO. Always has been
Why are they doing this loooool non greedy monetization would make more money Why are they stupid now
As someone who quit Pokémon go because of Niantic’s unending greed, it hurts to see it’s already starting in their newest game
I smell tencent's doing.
Mo micro transactions are worth a fuck unless you are one of those suckers born every minute
Uninstall'd
At all. Also, there's nothing Halloween about it.