Oh, and remember to ask about important stuffs like that when you visit them next time . No need to be shy, Ivan won't eat you
you don't play for hundreds of hours with the elites/heroes: you pay 25$ for use a class few times, because you have also other elite heroes to select and only in few rare occasion you can use the shop elite/heroes
Well, you can use 1 hero each day so that would be 365 times a year, Elites even more so . Anyway, price range for Elites and Heroes should be from 12-20k points, depend on the cosmetic quality (does it have nice effect, animation, voice acting ..etc...). Damn, cheapies aren't you? You guys may have a heart attack if you take a look at Dota 2, Valve sell the PA Arcana blades for almost 30$
not sure if is possible to use an hero each day: an hero at day X all the players + 1-2 times elite X all the players = heroes elite everywhere hero are supposed to be very limited in number in a battlefield
If Dota 2 players are dumb/obsessed enough to pay that much for a weapon that will Only be obsolete once the next new wave Of weapons and looks come out, then shame on them.
Valve games tend to also have a community run economy, what is the most popular is what is an overpriced piece of stupid code. We dont have a player driven economy in EC, its just a store with stable prices, and as such making them on par with acceptable levels is a good thing. For everyone who has actually been here from the early days of the project, and more closely followed when the Founders program launched they would recall the dozens upon dozens of threads bashing the prices, i referenced that in the OP as well. It was like a mini flame war. They were also bashed everywhere else around the internet, articles, forums and imageboards alike. The first pricedown didnt come out of nowhere, even Miguel stated that they didnt put a checkout cause they knew they were not on point with the prices. And well as i said he also stated that the first pricedown isnt the last change to the pricing.
Oh wait, you didn't even factor in PVE. If you think it won't get a lot of play time, don't pay into it. MWO sold out when they did the min amount of Gold Clan mechs for a few hundred bucks. Pure luxury skins as a side income is great for the game, especially if they are limited. Games like this need large injections of cash.
personally I wont be using the elites/heros due to the proposed ingame RP expense to spawn and the likely life expectancy of such characters in EC ... so I havnt bothered to purchase the founders exclusive versions of them from the RTS either
why you suppose you can use hero elite in pve? if they give the use of hero/elite in pve it will become too easy
Why wouldn't you think they are in PVE? That's where they can gate how many of each class are allowed and not have people pull their hair out, scream and yell. Depends on the mission.
