Originally Posted by
Obliwan
I don't really see the big fuss about how ubisoft decides to price their in-game items. They defnitely have every right to charge whatever they want for extra stuff in their otherwise free game. If you don't like the price/advantage ratio of the items then simply don't buy them. Personally when I buy a normal PC-game for say 50 euro's I'm quite content if I get a good 50 hours of playtime out of it, so that's my usual guideline for online games aswell. I have bought 20 euro worth of gems so far and have gotten by far more than 20 hours of playtime out of this game and honestly I don't feel I'm missing out on anything that would require me to pay more.
I've also seen people complain that for the prices that items are sold currently they don't feel its worth buying as you only gain something small and give that as an argument that things should be cheaper. Isn't this a good thing for a free game, if the advantage that you get is only small, doesn't that mean that free players have a reasonable chance of keeping up with people that do invest some money into the game? Sure maybe Ubi might make more money if they make it cheaper and sell their stuff to more people, why would I as a player care about that? Sure I like the settlers games and don't mind if Ubi makes some money, but who am I to start giving them business advice?
tl;dr: If you think the payed items in this otherwise awesome free game, then don't buy them instead of whining about it.