Theres a point in cardhunter when your gold starts piling up and you don't really know anymore what to spend it on. My suggestion: Offer a figure for gold, but so ridicilously overpriced that buying in itself is a statement about how filthy loaded you are. I say make it 10.000 gold and you got some inofficial achievement to pursue. Of course the figure should reflect that, so here you go, have some concept art.
Ben still is the Go-To-Guy, isnt he? Would be a shame if he werent available anymore. At the same time it would explain why we arent seeing new pizza figures every other season.
Something that screams, "I spend WAY too much time playing this game." I could only afford one at the moment, but I'd eventually want one of each class. For each race.
Frankly i like the swagger of this dude. But to elaborate further, what if, (and lets face it, its a pretty big if) every now and again we have a league where it costs an enormous amount of gold to enter. And everyone who enters at least gets a really good prize, and maybe those who come first, get a figure or something. It would be similar to the old pizza leagues i guess, but with a little bit more freedom. I mean yes they will advantage the more seasoned player, but it would give incentive to newer players to do well and maybe pick up some pizza here or there and turn into gold for a chance at something different. Naturally this would mean some extra work for the staff etc, i think everyone is aware they have their hands full with other updates and the like, but worth throwing the idea out there i think.
I like the idea, Grim, but I think it might run into the same low-participation problem as the pizza leagues. I'd want a straight-up buy for 100,000 gp figures. Gold only. No pizza discount, though converting pizza to gold would be acceptable.
Reminds me of the Overgoat from Fallen London, which would take around 80 consecutive days of grinding to get. Eventually, they also released an Ubergoat which require 2 Overgoat to make. It wasn't exactly game breaking despite the great stats, since the game is a story driven singleplayer essentially, but it did give something interesting to work towards and show off between the lulls of content release. On the other hand, from an ethics POV, this might be a bad thing if a compulsive player end up actually spending a ton of real money to get it.
Valid point. I've never converted pizza to gold because it wouldn't feel like I'd earned it. Still, the devs need beer money. If they're anything like the other Aussies I've hung out with (primarily military veterans and/or musicians), beer money can be consumed in massive quantities. Aussies can hang with Cajuns and Irish in that regard.
I think only one person have it so far though, and that involved selling an item given out for as a Kickstarter backer reward for like $500. It isn't something really realistic to farm for as a regular player. Quite a number of people have gotten Ubergoats though.
