A comprehensive-ish price guide for Card Hunter. Shop smart! Double-check the in-game cost before you buy. Things change and i may not update this list to reflect those changes.
Breakdown of the Basic Edition Special: Treasure Hunt Pack: 330 Pizza 1 Month Club Membership: 300 Pizza 9 Outfits (at sale price): 270 Pizza 100 Pizza That's a total of 1000 Pizza. The cheapest you could get that for is 330 ($10) + 690 ($20) = 1020 ($30) You would have 20 Pizza left over, which is about $0.66 wasted. Conclusion: $29.34 worth of stuff for $25 = 15% discount. If you want all those things, that's not a bad deal. Even if you're planning on buying the $99 pack of pizza, these items would account for roughly $26 of that money. (Edited to reflect actual price of outfits.)
All the premium adventures in a bundle. They're optional content with good loot that you can purchase, not needed for progression but has some unique or rare monsters to fight.
Would this be something the devs would want to sticky or something that they would rather have disappear?
I didn't see an exact price - i just saw "less than half price" and used half as an estimate. If you can give me a link to your source i'll update the numbers. Edit...Nevermind - it's in the current build of the game.
So today's announcement is that anyone who purchases pizza during the beta, gets the nine figurines for free, a 270 pizza value. As Mutak noted above, after beta, the Basic Edition Special is $25 for a 1000 pizza value. If you buy pizza during the beta, you're getting the figs already, making the Basic Edition valued at 730 pizza (1000 -270 for the figs). So if you purchase beta pizza for $20, the closest to the Basic Edition price, this is the breakdown. You gain: The human samurai warrior fig + 9 other figs, and 690 Pizza. -330 pizza for the full (11x) Treasure Hunt Pack -300 pizza for 30 days of Club Membership for the extra item per module This leaves you with 60 pizza remaining. You can buy two Magnificent chests for 60 pizza or a pre-made pvp three man team for 50. So for $5 less, you're up by a human samurai fig, and down by 40 pizza. That's a pretty good deal for the beta players. Is it possible to convert pizza to gold? If so, what's the conversion rate?
Yes, it is. You can do it by clicking the "+" icon to the left of your gold; the exchange rate is currently 5 gold per 1 pizza slice converted, although I guess this could change when the game is released.
I will have 150 pizza left over after buying the treasure hunts (I bought $5 and $10 in the beta). But I plan to leave it until optional new content comes, as I'm sure it will eventually. Treasure Hunt + 1 month of Adventurer's club is great value though if gear is your priority, as it gets you an extra epic for every treasure hunt you complete.
I just bought the Basic Edition just an hour ago, and I am already feeling buyer's remorse. I had two main reasons to buy the Basic Edition: I wanted to unlock all the Treasure Hunt adventures, and I wanted three particular figurines. I really did not care much for the monthly club membership, but I would not mind getting it as a bonus or "add on". For whatever reason, I assumed I would be able to select the nine figurines with the Basic Edition, which would have made the package a great deal for me. For me, that (misunderstanding) was the main selling point along with the Treasure Hunt pack. After I had paid for the package and excitedly visited the costume store, then I found out I could not select my nine figurines. The nine figurines were pre-assigned to me, and they do NOT include the four figurines I wanted. That sucked. If I had directly paid for pizzas and instead of the "recommended" Basic Edition, I would have gotten a better deal (for me.) I could have just used the pizzas to unlock all the Treasure Hunts, pick the three figurines I wanted, and spent less and still have leftover pizzas. I feel kinda like I'd just gotten ripped off. This is my first experience with in-game micro-transaction and buying this "collectible cards/figurines" thingy. I don't know why I assumed I'd get to pick my own figurines. I suppose it is my own fault for not paying attention to the fine lines, but I can't but feel very upset. So my first experience with buying from Card Hunter (as well as my first experience with in-game transaction and buying collectible items) is a very negative one.
That sucks. But if you haven't spent your free 150 pizza yet (which gary gives you over the course of the tutorial) you should still be able to get your three wanted figurines for 240 pizza with your 100 extra pizza from the starter pack. Without spending additional real money.
I have not played the game after paying for the Basic Edition. (I only checked out the costumes, only to be disappointed that I could not pick my own figurines as someone in the chat had suggested I could.) I emailed the support and see if they can help me. I had expected that Card Hunter will release new adventures and classes in the future, and that I may have to pay for those adventures and figurines in the future. It's more about I had been expecting something from the purchase, made the purchase, and then found out it was not what I had expected. Honestly at this point I'm more upset than anything else. I've bought hundreds of games that I've never played on Steam and GOG, (as well as some useless ****s from Amazon and eBay,) but I knew exactly what I was getting for my money, and I was never this upset with an online purchase.
Anyway, I sent two emails to the support asking them to convert the Basic Edition to $25 worth of pizzas or just give me a refund. I am not touching the game until I get a response (so I am not even using the one-month club membership.) After the weekend I may just tell them to close my account and let it be a $25 lesson in "in-game transactions". Which would probably save me a whole lot of money and trouble in the long run.
Dude, it would be nice of them to convert your purchase, and if their system allows it maybe they will. But whatever the faults of in-game transactions, this is not the issue here. You bought something expecting something different, and that can happen with any marketing model. You got what you paid for. It's like you ordered gazpacho in a restaurant expecting hot soup even though the menu actually said it is served cold. Disappointing. But you gotta let it go, man.
I was thinking about restaurant experiences as an analogies as well. Once I went to a Korean restaurant and, out of curiosity, ordered a bowl of cold noodles for the first time. The noodles turned out to be awful. It was my fault, really: I ordered the cold noodles myself. The waitress saw my painful facial expression while I was trying hard to swallow the noodles. She offered to replace the noodles with something else for no charge, and she insisted. I ordered a ginseng chicken as a replacement. (I had eaten ginseng chicken in other Korean restaurants, so I knew I would like it.) I was happy and satisfied, mostly with the waitress' responsiveness and service. I went back many times - often with dates, friends or co-workers - when I was living in that area. Another time I went to a Cambodian restaurant. I ordered some item whose names I could not even pronounced. Out of curiosity. Again, the food turned out to be awful. It was expensive too. But hey, I wanted to try new things. I walked into a strange restaurant. I sorta expected what I would be getting into every time I tried something new. So that was my own doing. However, like any customer who had a bad experience with a new restaurant, I NEVER WENT BACK TO THAT RESTAURANT. I told all my friends that the foods there tasted like overnight leftovers that been microwaved too many times. I also left a negative review on Yelp.
