Best stuff store only - disappointing Coto merchants

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  1. dayero

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    Hi,

    I already had a good amount of cotos and I got myself a subscription right after it came out. So now I have the "problem" of an ever increasing coto pile and not really much to do with it.
    It seems all the stuff I would actually buy from the store doesn't make it to the ingame merchants. The newest example are the player made dungeons. All kinds of account upgrades too. Slots and Expansions, Stretch Goal items and so forth. Current sale is also not reflected in the ingame merchant prices.

    If this is intentional and will continue like that, I am not going to continue my subscription.
     
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    I have near 1000 COTO, and nothing to spend them on.
     
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    Typically COTO vendors have store items after a month or so of release. Not all items like Stretch Goal will be sold for COTO.
     
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    You could buy me an Obsidian 4-Story Row Home! :p
     
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    I use my coto's to fully repair an item I don't want to lose atm ….
     
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    Good points,. I need to re-evaluate whether i should keep subscribing as well.
     
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    I would expect the basic player dungeon stuff to make it to the COTO merchants within a couple months.
     
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    Also if you have taxed lots you can pay taxes too. There are many uses for cotos. They can even be a nice reward or present to somebody.

    I really have no trouble spending them. We will only get more and more to spend them on over time.
     
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    Hopefully, sometime "soon" they will add the non upgradable bundles to the COTO store they have mentioned a few times on live streams.

    That what i'm saving mine for.


    Spung
     
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    I have 3 subscriptions running and will keep em up.
     
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    9 CotO is Rent on a Village Lot for a Month.
     
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    They've done a bad job at updating the coto vendors with new stuff. I don't think it's been done in at least 4 or 5 months.

    Definitely feel a little bamboozled when I pay for cotos and can't use them. But hopefully it's just because they are undermanned and not because they are actually trying to bamboozle anyone.
     
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    I will buy up to 75 COTOs at 3750 to help you off load and get more IGG
     
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    I am not saying you can't do anything with them. You just can do way less than with the dollars you spent to get them. So even there are some desirable items in the coto mix, if other typical money sinks are dollar-only both the value of the cotos and all items that are available for cotos will plummet, while the items that are available for dollars only will stay close to their store value.
    Paying rent or getting obsidian potions for example is both useful, but it's also extremely bad value on the dollar. Rent is very cheap right now due to the gold value dropping considerably and the subscription also comes with a bit of a potion inflation with probably a few thousand extra potions pumped into the market every month.

    And having to wait several months and then finally be able to buy stuff at full price, while someone who did not subscribe but instead chose to just spent the same amount on the store can buy the same stuff months earlier at a 20% discount just sucks.
     
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    If you don't feel your subscription is worth your money, Please exercise your right as a consumer and cancel it...
     
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    Paying taxes and repairing armor is worth the sub price in my book. Plus the occasional deco item.
     
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    the main reason for the sub rather than cotos for me is to support the game and to get the stretch goal items.

    its nice to get the cotos and potions but that's just something that comes with it.
     
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    I think it takes a while to transfer all stuff from online shop to ingame merchants.
    I'm also waiting for the bundles coming into the shop.
    So I understand what's been said:
    using the 20% and buy it directly in shop could be the faster and cheaper way for a player. And this shouldn't be the case ...
    Thinking about that shouldn't be misunderstood as "whining" ;)

    Well, about dungeons: They are really new. So - give it time to find them in the game ;)
    I assume, end of year all stuff is available in game. And from that point every new item will be much faster in game.

    And until that point (as told above):
    COTO's are great for
    - full repairing
    - rent paying
    - gift for a good friend

    @DarkStarr, may be
    - beggars could ask for "a coto", too, next time? ;) Giving more virtue points for our Avatar :)
    - we could have a pool for spending a few cotos/gold pieces/XP/ancient stuff what you could give away as prizes on community livestream?
     
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    Oh man... I forgot that I can use COTOs for rent and... a month's rent for only 9 COTOs on a village lot is... VERY nice. I put my village lot away, because the maintenance costs were seriously cutting into my ability to grow a pile of gold, while splitting between PvE and Crafting.

    I better see about putting that Village Lot back into use...
     
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    For the same $9 you can get 90k gold on the player market which is three month rent instead of one.
     
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