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I guess paying $5 for 8 extra slots of inventory is great for players who are too lazy to literally click 2 buttons to open a pet pocket. I'm glad it's worth it to them.
It's a luxury item but it still feels a bit high priced for what it is when you compare it to a pet pocket that's 2 button clicks away.
Whether that's actually worth it or not is up to the individual I suppose.
If you don't need it, or don't see the value in it, don't buy it. If there's a lack of sales they'll eventually adjust the pricing to sell more. They're more likely to respond if that sort of thing happens.
I personally am more concerned they didn't allow you to go beyond 120, would have figured they would have adjusted the inventory system a bit to justify selling more of them.
I did think it was a bit overpriced, but you know, everything feels overpriced nowdays due to emp rates to gold anyways (I know you ment the base pricing of emp compared to a bank tab, but if you have no more tabs to buy, you buy this I guess), so I bought it even if I felt a bit riped off :c!
Is simple, if you really want something, you buy it even if overpriced.
Your bank is shared with up to 16 characters. Each tab is basically 4.5 slots per character. Bank slots are only cheaper if you don't have many alts or the bank is used for mostly character shared resources like feedstock and crafting materials. Keep in mind, the 1 free tab you get (2 if you used buddy-up) is enough to store most resources/crafting mats anyways. Although, the bank doesn't follow you around and has other limitations. At that point you only have pets as an arguments (since they at least follow you), but there's only two you can out right buy, 15$ per 72 slots. You're only paying about 30 cents more per slot for the convenience of extra inventory, which isn't really a whole a lot. Pets are about .20 per slot with the inventory expansions being about .50 per slot. Pets also come with limitations, as not all items can be stored in them and you need to spend 1 slot to have food for them meaning the first pet is only getting you 71 slots, while the inventory doesn't have either of these problems. For other things you pay more than .30 per unit for convenience tax.
The 3 pack would have to cost about ~5$ to be equal in price per slot if there was no convenience tax relative to that of the pet tabs, meaning you're only paying ~7$ for the convenience tax. You not only pay more than ~7$ in convenience tax elsewhere in the world but you do so for things that only last a few seconds, where as in the case of inventory it is something that lasts until the game shuts down, or you quit; which both cases are longer than any other scenario where you are paying for convenience.
At that point, the only matter is, do you find the additional inventory useful, or not; and can you afford it.
In KTERA, those 2 locked rows were only obtainable as Internet Cafe (PC Bang) exclusive accumulated time bonus tokens, where the number of tokens required and methods of getting them varied time to time. They also had few events that made it accessible in-game without such perk, but it was tedious grind iirc. KTERA introduced this in their cash shop not too long ago, and I don't recall seeing complaints on their end, so I don't know why this "issue" needs such awareness.
Though, I'm not sure if NA had such event similar to KTERA since I started playing a month before FoA patch.
I bought them cheap with gold, almost half price compared to the average sale, but I wouldn't be complaining even if I paid with cash as they aren't too expensive considering some other games only unlock 4 slots with similar price, or even worse, 4 bank slots at same price.
But really, having those two extra rows are nice. Now I carry 800 HP/MP potions instead of 400, which tends to run out quite fast as i have to chug down MP potions. Then again, I filled an entire pet bank tab with Potions and other consumables too.
If you don't see my point, then try reading again until you see it.
I don't see it, because there isn't one. You're comparing two things that don't function the same beyond the similarity of storage. Why aren't you complaining about storage pets costing more than bank slots? You can get 72x3 slots for ~12$ while a pet that gives just 72 slots is 15$, or 72x2 for ~25$. Then there's the fact the bank has more convenience in practical situations for general storage.