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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On October 17 2016 23:49 Incognoto wrote: 5 bucks for a skin is over the top <_< i've already spent more than €100 on the game don't really feel like dishing out even more cash Yeah 5 bucks is too much. It really shouldn't cost more than 3 imo, i don't wanna spend like 30 bucks to have a customized army :/ | ||
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Musicus
Germany23570 Posts
On October 17 2016 23:52 The_Red_Viper wrote: Yeah 5 bucks is too much. It really shouldn't cost more than 3 imo, i don't wanna spend like 30 bucks to have a customized army :/ It's not confirmed to be 5, could be less or most likely vary from skin to skin. On October 07 2016 05:56 lestye wrote: Bluepost says 4.99 is not the final price: https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/566tgz/patch_37_preview_collection_announcers_skins_and/d8gz47q | ||
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Elentos
55456 Posts
On October 17 2016 23:46 eviltomahawk wrote: The new season is scheduled to begin on the 18th (tomorrow). They want to implement separate MMR per race for the new season. The rest of the patch should be coming with that feature, so tomorrow would be a good time for the patch. Wednesday would make sense too. I don't mind if it's later by a day. It's different for each region, usually the patches are applied on the same day as they have their maintenance (which you can see in the battle.net launcher). So it's Tuesday for NA but Wednesday for EU. On October 17 2016 22:36 -IAEVAI-KolosS wrote: You got a source for this or only your gut feeling/Hope ?  As tomahawk says, they want the separate MMRs to be available at the start of the new season, which is this week. | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
The problem is that obviously it has to be worthwhile for them to create new skins, but at the same time a unit skin isn't as valuable to have as a hero skin. An announcer is valuable no matter what matchup you play, etc so that's a different case. | ||
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Jett.Jack.Alvir
Canada2250 Posts
LoL's most expensive skins cost about 3k riot points, and about $25 USD for 3500 RP, so about $25 for a skin in League is rather expensive, but the game is free so the costs of skins is understandable. | ||
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Qwyn
United States2779 Posts
I don't think there's any way you can swing a $25 skin except ridiculous - it's gotta be the most amazing skin of all time for me to pay that much. But $5 dollars for a marine skin, if I'm Terran?! Hell yes, I make marines like what, every game?! | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On October 18 2016 01:21 Qwyn wrote: 5 dollars vs 25 dollars? Really interesting divide between value and percieved value, IMO. You're getting way more value out of the unit skin than you would for the hero skin no matter how you put it - you're going to see what, like 400-500x more of the SC unit on average? Or something even more ridiculous. I don't think there's any way you can swing a $25 skin except ridiculous - it's gotta be the most amazing skin of all time for me to pay that much. But $5 dollars for a marine skin, if I'm Terran?! Hell yes, I make marines like what, every game?! Well i don't know about lol skins, but he said it's the most expensive skins being 25 bucks. It's rather simple though, a unit skin isn't equivalent to a hero skin. That one unit won't be part of your army all the time, depending on which unit it might be rather uncommon that you even build it. If you choose marines as a terran that obviously changes. Sure it's perceived value, but i definitely think there is some logic to it  | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
I was mistaken to post that speculation. | ||
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FueledUpAndReadyToGo
Netherlands30545 Posts
On October 18 2016 01:29 eviltomahawk wrote: $5 is just a placeholder, which is already confirmed by a Blizzard employee. It will likely be cheaper. I was mistaken to post that speculation. I mean they sell heroes in HotS for 10 euros So it might also become 10 Blizzard doesn't like the micro part of micro transactions | ||
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The_Red_Viper
19533 Posts
On October 18 2016 01:37 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: I mean they sell heroes in HotS for 10 euros So it might also become 10 Blizzard doesn't like the micro part of micro transactions I would pay 10-15 for an announcer if it is done well tbh :> | ||
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Jett.Jack.Alvir
Canada2250 Posts
When you buy a marine skin, you see it only when the strategy calls for that unit. And yeah, Blizz seems to think micro == squeeze. I truly hope the $5 cost is just a placeholder. Now if $5 was for an entire army unit skin pack (ala every unit has a skin theme) that would be cool, and maybe $1 if someone only wants a specific unit skin from the pack. | ||
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Ppjack
Belgium489 Posts
at last | ||
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eviltomahawk
United States11133 Posts
On October 18 2016 01:37 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: I mean they sell heroes in HotS for 10 euros So it might also become 10 Blizzard doesn't like the micro part of micro transactions They're $2.49 when Nathanias's preview | ||
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HelpMeGetBetter
United States763 Posts
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starslayer
United States696 Posts
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phodacbiet
United States1738 Posts
On October 18 2016 09:07 starslayer wrote: sorry to be that guy but why did they not do this idk 4 years ago holy shit. I mean this is so cool but to little to late imo. Technology wasn't there yet. That, and they didn't want to because they didn't realize how much $$$ you could milk from players. Then LoL came in and dominated the market with microtransactions and now Blizzard is slowly catching up. Almost there! | ||
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ivancype
Brazil485 Posts
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Riner1212
United States337 Posts
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ETisME
12198 Posts
Raynor imo is a little weak because his voice is quiet. Abathur is perfect. Alarak is pretty good but I wish his lines had more character in it. Kerrigan is good. Artanis is too protoss, he doesn't sound all too different than the normal protoss announcer. Swann is better than expected. For the skin, I think the new roach skin is scary as hell, they really stand out from all the other skins. Similar to raptor lings but without the annoyance. | ||
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Little-Chimp
Canada948 Posts
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