Sunsong Ranch Price?

[Shampro]

It's not going to be 10k.

They want to make it affordable for the casual player. Despite what you may think, most casual players tend to find 10k an extremely large amount of money.

Really? Thats actually kind of surprising... But like i said, it would make sense for it to serve as another gold sink, maybe not an extreme one, like the Reforgeing mount.

[Oerba Yun Fang]

It's not going to be 10k.

They want to make it affordable for the casual player. Despite what you may think, most casual players tend to find 10k an extremely large amount of money.

Hell I play a lot and anything over 2.5k makes me stop and think "Do I reaaaaally want to buy this...?" I don't think I've ever had more than 50k to my name at any given time.

[Mormolyce]

They haven't stated a price so this will all be pure speculation for now.

My bet would be a modest gold sink. But nobody really knows.

[Kaiarra]

They're making the "large" purchases of MoP more and more expensive... it's likely that they want to create another gold sink, and the farm would be a good way to do it. Seeing as they're tying a way to expedite rep grinds into it, it's quite likely that it'll cost a pretty penny.

I'm not sure why exactly? If all it offers is rested exp (useless to a level 90), an inn (it's 30 seconds flight to the main town and there's an inn 5 seconds away) and some bonus rep (pretty redundant if you're already exalted with most if not all the factions + the nerf to the revered>exalted grind); doesn't really seem to offer anything worth paying more than a few thousand gold for to me. /shrug

If they intend to make it expensive it really needs to offer more than another rep farm; if it had been added when the expansion hit it would have been useful, but now too many of us already have our reps up to exalted. If it's intended as an alt rep farm it either needs to be account wide and expensive, or cheap as you'll be buying it on numerous alts.

[Count Zero]

Really? Thats actually kind of surprising... But like i said, it would make sense for it to serve as another gold sink, maybe not an extreme one, like the Reforgeing mount.

Yep. I think your average super-casual player would find a 10k purchase pretty daunting, actually ... maybe they could make it, but it would nearly (perhaps completely) wipe out their reserves.

It's easy to get a skewed perception of how much gold is floating around. I've known even raiders who don't have more than 10k gold. I guess this was back in Cata tho, and inflation is up a bit, but it's more the mindset of buying stuff you need rather than farming/bartering, not playing the auction house ever, etc.

[Myzou]

Yep. I think your average super-casual player would find a 10k purchase pretty daunting, actually ... maybe they could make it, but it would nearly (perhaps completely) wipe out their reserves.

It's easy to get a skewed perception of how much gold is floating around. I've known even raiders who don't have more than 10k gold. I guess this was back in Cata tho, and inflation is up a bit, but it's more the mindset of buying stuff you need rather than farming/bartering, not playing the auction house ever, etc.

Not only that, but this rep change was meant to help people with alts.

Do you really think they'd expect people to spend 100k buying the farm on 10 different toons after having grinded the rep for exalted with the tillers on 11 toons?

[Count Zero]

Not only that, but this rep change was meant to help people with alts.

Do you really think they'd expect people to spend 100k buying the farm on 10 different toons after having grinded the rep for exalted with the tillers on 11 toons?

Yeah, hadn't even thought about the alt factor.

Although I do think that maybe they're wanting to use this as a possible way to introduce the more casual base to looking into making more gold than they're used to. I don't see it being less than a thousand. I think 2-3k would be reasonable for a casual price, maybe as high as 5k. But I'll be surprised if it's more than 5k.

[Mulgore Sweet Potato]

Since we're the ones doing all the work on that farm we should be able to buy it with a swift crack of knuckles and a mean look in the general direction of that scrounger Yoon.

[KeirAdish]

Really? Thats actually kind of surprising... But like i said, it would make sense for it to serve as another gold sink, maybe not an extreme one, like the Reforgeing mount.

yup, I've never had more than 30k at a time, and when I did it was saved up for something such as a sandstone drake, mechano hog, ruby panther, etc...
I currently have about 9k on my alliance level 90, and about 12k on my horde 90 on a different server...

I'm making a good amount of money on my alliance toon cause that's my main, but I don't even have the reforging mount cause its so expensive...
I cry a little when I see people talking about how 100k is pocket change when I don't have 20k :/

I've known even raiders who don't have more than 10k gold. I guess this was back in Cata tho, and inflation is up a bit, but it's more the mindset of buying stuff you need rather than farming/bartering, not playing the auction house ever, etc.

*me*


I'm hoping it wont be more than 2k to buy the ranch because my farmer wont be buying it otherwise.

[schwarzkopf]

YAK : Over 100k gold
vs
Farm: 20k gold

Not likely at all, I suspect the cost will be more akin to the cost of the yak.

[Synstir]

I think it will be difficult to put a price on the farm.... we just help farmer Yoon but we do build the farm ourselves by doing dailies. So we have put a certain amount of time and effort into the farm.

Seeing as I read somewhere a blue that very very few people own about 50K and more in wow, i wouldn't think the price should be very high.
Players have already put in there effort and time and they deserve to be able to buy it.

I would say don't use this as a goldsink, but give all players a chance to buy it. So it should be cheap.
it would just be unfair to players who don;t have a lot of gold but still have build rep to exalted and their farm to have 16 plots, not be able to buy it because they don't have the gold.

Every char builds it's own farm, so every char should be able to buy it. I hope they don't use a price that is so high that I only can afford 1, since I have now 5 chars with their farms.

---------- Post added 2013-01-22 at 07:32 AM ----------

YAK : Over 100k gold
vs
Farm: 20k gold

Not likely at all, I suspect the cost will be more akin to the cost of the yak.

This is not comparible. They yak is there and it will be account bound.
We haven't build the yak by doing dailes.....

The farm is something else, it will be char-based and every char put in seperate time/effort to develop it.
Everybody should be able to get it.... on multiple toons. The price should not be considered based on account but based on char.

[Count Zero]

YAK : Over 100k gold
vs
Farm: 20k gold

Not likely at all, I suspect the cost will be more akin to the cost of the yak.

The Yak has a reforger ... portable reforging is basically only of use to raiders, whereas the farm is of interest to people just for being its own mini-game.. Plus, they doubled the price of the yak to 120k (before discount) from 60k after deciding to make it account-wide.

Farm will be less than the Yak. Probably by a ton.

[Nyxxi]

I think I spend quite a lot of time on the game and I mostly only do raids and the odd challenge mode, I have no time to try and make any extra gold (almost always hovering around 20k) so the lower the better for me!

[ragemv]

I think it will be multipel upgrades, 1k each, for a total of maby 10 k. Since i know casual players, 10k gold is a damn lot, my friend is proud of fianlly getting 15k. Is no way he would ever be able to get it if was atleast 10-20k. I got a solid 60k and i would not even use it if it was 20k. 20k is a damn lot

[Frizzlewits]

50k mininum

[UcanDoSht]

Wont be worth it to people who already have all factions at exalted, if the only reward is reputation. Let the "work orders" give ya another Ironpaw thingy if you maxed the rep with the faction already.

Not like I need them (at 118 currently), but it'd be an option to buy meat, instead of having to farm it in the single possible spot for croco meat. -_-

[Nerraw]

Let the "work orders" give ya another Ironpaw thingy if you maxed the rep with the faction already.

That'd be awesome. I've been slacking hard on those so an extra source of income would be greatly appreciated.

[bigrichard]

I bet 2,500 gold that it will cost 2,500 gold.