Why will pets cost real money?

I don't mind it, and I'm actually looking forward to the pets and the store. I don't mind paying for cosmetics in games that I love to play.

To me, this is my way of supporting the Devs. They're working hard to bring us free content every six to eight weeks and need financial support to do this. I want this game to last for a long time and I know they need finances to do so.

i have totally no problem in paying for some pets. They will not make me more deadly so the chances stay equal towards a paying and a not paying pirate ....That the original poster complains about 70 dollars for " an empty game" ,means to me, that he has not yet met people that can launch your gamefeels skyhigh so they land you right next to the Heavenly Old Man...

Rare are daredevils in my eyes ...When most games get's broken for the many because of a minority of trolls and grievers that just live to break other's game experience, they use people to shape their games....This game has little or no story ,but so many stories are told here while that is just the tip of the iceberg....Many, very many , stories stay untold or kept in the crew's minds...Some don't know or care about this and other forums.
Rare made a big sandbox game where you have all the tools to make your own game...That's sound like i'm repeating the Big Master Narrator ,Mr Chapman ,hey? But , he is right , the more i listen to him, the more i start to understand this game , the more i'm willing to contribute in other people's story...

Once again ,Rare took a big gamble in making this game , they give you so much tools , with more tools to come in the future ...The only thing you need to do to ignite this game in full splendour is your own inbringing of a little bit of imagination...A little bit or much if you have that at yer disposal but without imagination, without the will to communicate , without the will to give yourself over to this game and those who play it with the same phylosophy, well ...without imagination, you will never feel that happy rush in heart and mind, and nomatter how much pets you buy ,it won't make a difference...

In this game you need to dare to take the jump....( * yow ,Moron, you're drifting off...)

A developer that dares to take a gamble to depend their succes of their game by it's playerbase who play it , and hopefully , have a mindset to not only enjoy themselves , like most games do , but also motivates you to bring joy to yer fellow crew or " enemy" , can count on it that i will support it ....They may unleash a Zoo of 100 animals , as long as there is a wolf , a doglike animal or parrot , i will simply buy them all...

Just for the fact they had the guts to force us to use our imagination that has been fed to slumber for decades by all those games and movies that took our imagination away because everything was already beautifully orchestrated by those games or movies...
i agree ,if you start SOT without having any background knowledge about the phylosophy of the developer , you may feel you bought an empty game compared with story driven Multiplayers , but if you have the guts to take the jump and try a few crews untill you find those that lift yer experience up to Heavens , then you know that yer 70 dollars were a bargain....You will almost feel sorry for the shopkeeper because if you could feel the feels and emotions i had and still have then when you payed that "poor" shopkeeper , a tenfold of 70 dollars , then you would still feel you ripped him or her off....

Now that you mentioned it ....Yow , Rare friends....Where are those pets ? i need my Wolf next to me...! Oi, Rare??? Please ????!!!!!

@princes-lettuce said in Why will pets cost real money?:

I feel a little cheated by Rare. When I bought the game, it was ridiculously overpriced. 70 bucks for a very empty game. They kept promising that future content would be free, and that in the long run the game would be worth your money. So okay, they release free DLC like the Cursed Sails. But now pets will cost actual money? That just sucks! I've paid 70 bucks for this game, that should be enough to include a little parrot shouldn't it?

Guess the player base is shrinking too much to keep the game free.

How is everyone else feeling about this?

They never said "everything is free" they promised all future expansion dlc type content is free.

They also stated well before launch that pets would fall under microtransaction and literally just be dinky little cosmetic pets that affect nothing, but also provide rare with that cushion to keep releasing the actual free content.

I fail to see how you feel cheated out of your $70 when Rare literally postponed the micros indefinitely because people thought there wasn't enough content to begin charging for MTX.

I feel like 3 years from now could be the first time we see pets added and people would still be like "Wow Rare you promised all free content. I spent 70 on this game and you're greedy and cheating me now"

Here we go again. Rare have already stated numerous times that all expansions will be free and remain FREE. They can’t work forever on the game without seeing more money come in. If they’re adding a shop to buy pets with real money, then isn’t that a fair trade off? Especially when it’ll just be a fun addition that doesn’t affect gameplay.

You didn’t sign a contract at launch that got you X amount of content for your £50. You paid for what you got. Whether or not that was overpriced, that’s on you.

As far as I’m concerned I’m more than happy to give Rare a bit of money back seeing as how much fun I’ve been having and all the major dlcs are free.

@princes-lettuce said in Why will pets cost real money?:

I've paid 70 bucks for this game, that should be enough to include a little parrot shouldn't it?

Sure, tell Rare you’d rather pay for big DLCs like cursed sails and get a parrot added for free!

I’m generally against microtransacations, but this game has given me more than i expected for my money. Most games these days would have charged 10 to 20 bucks for the hungering deep or the cursed sails, but Rare wants all players to play the same content, so no one is left behind. These updates cost a lot of money to produce and constantly balance! I will pay a few bucks for my pet monkey, because i feel like they’ve delivered. The important thing here is that you won’t feel behind, underpowered or diminished if you don’t.

One thing i would like to add is the fact that the original idea for pets was even thou they do not give any advantage to player who puchase them, but they will phyical objects that the whole crew could interact with. Pets are far more then just a cosmetic you can buy for chacter but an interacting addition for your ship and crew. So those who did not spend real money can still have the experience. of a pet just not the choice of one. So when you buy a pet it's not just for. your character but a element of the game in which you can share with everone you meet. It's a profound idea for MTX's IMO.