Update: 12/11/2009

Sorry guys if there was no update yesterday. I went overtime at the office doing something and it was needed to be done asap. Well, first priority would be that one since that one involves the soon to be “item mall” of the game. It’s not that we’re also rushing the item mall, but we also need to be prepared for it since the item mall would come out in Open Beta. Since CBT only has 10 days, we don’t have much time to work on it (better be prepared for everything!)

Speaking of the item mall, that’s the most common concern of players in this industry. The most common question will be “how much?”. The hard part in here is that we have to balance the prices. We cannot sell at a high price, because nobody would buy, we cannot also lower the price too much since the company might not get any income for future projects. We worked on these prices for about 5 months now, a lot of changes have been made in the prices just to make everything at a comfortable level. As we’ve discussed in the chatbox, one costume set would cost just about 80 pesos (headgear, clothes, shoes and gloves). I think that’s fair enough, since those packages are for lifetime use already. Although if you are going to buy per piece; you might end up spending more. A simple calculation is that in one package, you get 30-40% discount rate against buying those items one by one. But the good thing about the non-package items, is that you get to choose more. More choices so you could have your own sense of style in the game. For those who cannot afford that much, we also added the rental feature, which you could buy and use for a limit of 7 days or 30 days depending on your budget. And yes, there are also 1 peso items, small items that makes your hunt a bit easier (teleport stones cost 1 peso each) or just for the sake of having fun (channel shout is 1 peso, server shout is 2). In total, the items are not expensive, and not very cheap. Think of it as in between the two but maybe around 5-10% leaning to the cheaper price. Why set at those prices? We want everyone who plays our game be able to buy things too. We want to give everyone a chance to play this game and not envy people who could buy item mall stuff because they cannot afford the items.