"pepperjax1230;c-16374453" wrote:
"Felicity;c-16374136" wrote:
"TheGoodOldGamer;c-16373926" wrote:
I don't know much about TS3's store. Weren't most of the packs there $20? How much were individual items (if you could get them that way?)
S4's SPs are $10 and any single item within (gameplay or not) is literally only cents on the dollar. People go on and on about the 'value' of the SPs. I'm just curious what the 'value' is for the Store's packs too? Better? Worse? I mean in terms of individual items. I know most packs cost twice as much and most didn't have gameplay items, but I don't know how many were in a pack, or if individual items cost more than a dollar, that sort of thing?
(Not using this to compare back and forth to say one's better than the other, I'm just curious for my own curiousity's sake to try to figure out what is actually the better/worst value on the most objective level I can get, with as little subjectivity as possible.)
No, they really weren't. I don't remember actual costs, but since it used simpoints instead of actual dollars, and since something was always on sale, and since if you owned part of a set you would get a steep discount if not free, and sets included compilations, it was hard to pay full price to begin with, and you would get simpoints cheaper than a dollar a point provided you didn't just buy the cheapest (aka most expensive) option.
I got so many sets for free due to "complete your set" considering compilations sets, it was amusing. And if you looked on the forums, you'd see people showing what item to buy to make for a cascade effect of free or exceedingly low cost sets. So you buy one item, and you get a steep discount on a set, which is a part of a two set package, so you get that, and that's part of a compilation which is now free because you own so much of it.
Now, not everything was eligible for CYS, but really, the economics of it was far more complex. Even if you didn't try, all you had to do was buy simpoints in larger bundles than $20 and you're already no longer 1sp = $1.
Edit: The way I started with the exceedingly low cost store stuff was through simpoints I got through expansions. I'd only purchase the daily deal stuff, which was often 75% off for an item. I did buy simpoint bundles a couple of times, but again, using those tactics, I only needed to buy them a couple of times. Especially since you could watch ads for simpoints. Since my dad at the time I was doing this was very sick, I'd just be on my phone at the hospital, earning simpoints.
But I found that fun as well, figuring out how to get the most for the least at the store -- it was almost a game by itself.
I had the majority of the store except for some clothes sets. I also got some of it free because someone gifted it to me but the store was a rip off.
No doubt, but it wasn't nearly as bad as $20 for a set or whatever. I mean, it probably could be though that number seems high; iirc sets normally cost about 1000 simpoints if, venues may have been 1500 simpoints, but really, paying full price would normally only happen if you had to buy the set immediately and not wait for CYS or for them to show up in a compilation.
