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Rise of Isengard through the LOTRO Store
I know many have been waiting to see how these would all break out, and today Turbine finally released the specifics on how you could purchase the expansion pieces through the LOTRO Store using Turbine points. First the details, then my thoughts:
- Isengard Expansion Quests – 3250 Turbine Points
- Includes over 375 Quests and 40 deeds for levels 66-75
- Covers regions of Dunland, Gap of Rohan, and Isengard
- Raid: Draigoch’s Lair – 1250 Turbine Points
- 24 person raid
- Derudh’s Stone – 995 Turbine Points
- Pocket item – +25% experience for monster kills
- Expansion (Update 5) Instances – 1495 Turbine Points
- 1 12 player instance
- 1 6 player instance
- 3 3 player instances
Everything but the Expansion instances will be available in the store come launch day on the 27th. However, the store doesn’t allow for pre-purchases, so you’ll have to wait until those instances are released to purchase them.
While I’m happy they finally released the information, I’m actually a bit surprised as the price seems a tad on the high side. Totally almost 7000 TPs for the entire expansion certainly isn’t a good return on you investment when you could buy it for $30 and most of the point bundles are around $0.01 per point. You could pull out the bonus xp item, but you’re still at 6000 TPs – although that is spread out over a couple month time period so that might help somewhat.
It doesn’t really impact me, but I’m curious what others think of the pricing?
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#2 written by DocHoliday 1 year ago
Technically you could get the xpack (minus the pocket) for 6000 TPs which is exactly the amount you’d have if you saved up your points since F2P launch – assuming you didn’t have any other rewards that kicked in.
I agree that its high and I am surprised by it, mainly by the split out of the raid. I think if they have made that part of the “expansion” quest pack it might have gone over a little better, but overall I think people that are vocal about the pricing mostly seem to be the ones who didn’t think the Xpack was worth it in the first place so I’m not sure it is a valid poll of the overall community. And since you still have time to get it for $30, I think many will be going that route if they can.
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To be honest, it feels to me like blackmail, and I’m probably not going to purchase it as a result.
http://playervsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2011/09/buy-now-or-else.html
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#4 written by DocHoliday 1 year ago
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I made this comment on CMP and will do the same here…
The only argument I can see for having the cost of the expansion using Turbine points to be 6900 TP is this – Turbine routinely has Turbine Point Bundle specials that give 6900 TP for $49.99. This would basically be the exact same as the Legendary edition (minus the cosmetics and the TP bonus).
It does still come down to Turbine ‘forcing’ most people to pre-order the expansion as opposed to using their saved TP, but it does put the valuation of the points in perspective.
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They had to price it high to use up all the points they’ve been giving the lifetimers. Since those accounts are not providing Turbine with money in any way, they needed to make the TP price so steep the lifetimers would actually pay money instead.
That’s my theory anyway, based on how many points my lifetime account has accumulated. 6000 pts is no big deal to that account.
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It’s a totally reasonable price to me. Of course they want to make money from the brand new content they are releasing, and they wouldn’t make money if the price in TP would be lower since TP doesnt have a direct money value.
This will be a good option for people that have a bunch of TP stacked up and are only interested in the Quest Pack, and I think that’s quite a number of people.
Although I have to say that 1250 TP for a single raid is a bit too much ^^.
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I dropped to Premium from VIP a couple of months back after being a VIP and playing for almost 3 years. With 5 level 65′s, I just don’t play as much any more to justify the money. I have 3400 TP saved up so I can buy RoI only with my TP and the rest doesn’t interest me much. 1250 for a 24 man raid I will never do is NOT going to happen in my world. The other instances don’t happen until December correct? with new deeds coming I will save up for those using the 3 new maps and my 5 65′s.
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Too high if you ask me.
That pocket item is also only the price for one character.
When they announced f2p and announced that lifetimers and VIPs would get 500 points each month, they also said that you could buy the expansion with TPs only and don’t have to spend any real money. To me, this pricing, however, looks like they do not want us to spend our TPs for that. We should probably rather spend them on one pony for one character and buy the expansion with real money.
I’ve already preordered with real money before and seeing the pricing now, I don’t think I’d ever spend TPs on that.