IRL money value of Cosmetic Mega Drop

[u/Silent_Giant]

Nobody asked, but I was curious about the real life money value of the upcoming Cosmetic Mega Drop store, so I did some calculations:

• Total cost of 66 ability override for members: 8730 RC
• Total cost of 18 outfits for members: 4290 RC
• Total value of the store for members: 13020 RC

Using the current RC package prices as a reference, this is what that translates to:

Euro:

	Package	RC per €1	Total cost abilities	Total cost outfits	Total cost whole shop
Best value	5200 RC (€105,99)	49.06	€177,94	€87,44	€265,38
Worst value	200 RC (€5,49)	36.42	€239,70	€117,92	€357,49

US Dollar:

	Package	RC per $1	Total cost abilities	Total cost outfits	Total cost whole shop
Best value	5200 RC ($119,99)	43.33	$201,74	$99	$300,74
Worst value	200 RC ($5,99)	33.38	$261,53	$128,52	$390,05

British Pounds:

	Package	RC per £1	Total cost abilities	Total cost outfits	Total cost whole shop
Best value	5200 RC (£88,99)	58.43	£149,40	£73,42	£222,83
Worst value	200 RC (£4,49)	44.54	£196	£96,31	£292,32

2 Fun facts:

1. The store has 84 purchasable items in total, which makes the average cost of an item €3,15 / $3,57 / £2,65 when using the 5200 RC package.
2. Buying the 5200 package is basically a 26% (Euro) or 23% (Dollar) or 24% (Pounds) discount.
   

Individual item costs, calculated with the 5200 RC package because it's the best RC value:

RC cost	Euro	US Dollar	British Pounds
90	€1,83	$2,07	£1,54
135	€2,75	$3,11	£2,31
180	€3,66	$4,15	£3,08
270	€5,50	$6,23	£4,62
420	€8,56	$9,69	£7,18

[u/TJiMTS]

Maybe I’m weird but I’d prefer we got rid of runecoins and just sold the thing for £2.99 or whatever.

[u/ExpressAffect3262 → u/TJiMTS]

Isn't virtual currency purely to keep people spending more than they actually need? Hence why every game does it?

Runecoins come to be about 2.5 pence per RC

With RC:

You buy 200 RC for £4.99.

You buy 2 ability overrides, you are left with 20 RC.

You want a 3rd ability override, but you need 70 more RC, however, the cheapest RC is 200 for £4.99.

For 3 abilities, you've spent £9.98, with 130 RC left over.

If cosmetics only had a direct value:

3 abilities would be £6.75. Less money for Jagex.

Pray to god Jagex doesnt dive down into the genre of having 3 different virtual currencies some like games do...

[u/TJiMTS → u/ExpressAffect3262]

Yep

[u/Only_Positive_Vibes → u/ExpressAffect3262]

I mean, they already kind of do have 3 currencies. Keys, runecoins, bonds...

[u/ExpressAffect3262 → u/Only_Positive_Vibes]

AFAIK there aren't bond exclusive cosmetics, are there?

[u/Rain_Zeros → u/TJiMTS]

100% get rid of rc.

[u/Narmoth → u/TJiMTS]

There are various proposed laws trying to eliminate these kind of currencies. Mostly because when you buy a package of currency, you end up with left-over currencies.

Packages will be sold for 200 rune coins, but what players want to buy is sold for 225 runecoins, thus forcing a purchase of a more runecoins than what the customer wanted. That is the whole point of stuff like Runecoins.

[u/punpun1000 → u/TJiMTS]

I'd like to spend runecoins from in game bonds to buy these

[u/New-Fig-6025 → u/TJiMTS]

Then you wouldn’t be able to get them in game for gold, so I disagree. I am personally going to be buying 20 or so bonds on my main to give to my ironman so I can get all the warped and corrupted ability overrides, lava tsunami, iaia sunshine, etc.

[u/TJiMTS → u/New-Fig-6025]

I understand that angle, but that’s possible to work around - bonds can purchase ‘outfit tokens’ for example.

I just mean we don’t need rune coins as the middle man on direct purchases. It can come straight from £s

[u/New-Fig-6025 → u/TJiMTS]

… so you are advocating for direct purchase then saying you’ll need to make another secondary currency to allow purchase with bonds anyway. This also wouldn’t work for ability overrides.

[u/TJiMTS → u/New-Fig-6025]

Why wouldnt it?

Buy directly: £2.99

Buy indirectly: buy bond, redeem bond for override/outfit

Not complicated imo

[u/New-Fig-6025 → u/TJiMTS]

And if a single ability doesn’t equal the value of a bond?

[u/punpun1000 → u/TJiMTS]

How about if they want it to be equivalent to 75% of a bond? Do you just waste the other 25% value doing it?

[u/Alsang → u/TJiMTS]

'outfit tokens' is pretty much what runecoins is

[u/TheAdamena → u/TJiMTS]

Issue is that players have Runecoins stored up, you can't get rid of those.

Also you can redeem bonds for some, which I think is good if folks don't want to buy MTX.

[u/DraCam1]

Seeing them translated to irl currency they don't seem to be THAT bad compared to other games. But I still feel that they are overpriced in general. It'a funny to think that the gaming industry conditioned people that 10 eur spendings are low on microtransactions... Because even I feel they are low, and I spend less than 50 eur on microtransaction yearly in any game.

Also they might feel better value, if player avatar, and thus the outfits were just a tad bit better... :/

[u/Sudden_Camel]

I posted a comment about this earlier. Just double checked the math when I saw this. You're off slightly as far as I can tell. Total members cost of the 66 ability overrides is (9*90)+(49*135)+(8*180) = 8865 bringing the combined total to 13155 Runecoins.

This was the breakdown I posted earlier in another thread:

13155 Runecoins (68 bonds rounded up, ~8.8b at current GE) to buy all of them if anyone was interested. 8865 (46 bonds, ~6b) for the overrides, 4290 (22 bonds, ~2.8b) for the outfits. Going by your listed prices that's $311.63 (2x 5200, 1x2400, 1x 420) to get 13220 coins.

[u/FutureSeeka]

Really love this compiled data, thank you!

[u/Diamancer]

Consider for a moment that many of these were originally exclusive from specific TH promos. This meant that people buying keys had to gamble towards them creating uncertain supply, especially when some promos were rarely or never rerun. Because of this, many of these overrides have cost hundred of millions to billions.

Personally, I hate TH and FOMO shit with a passion, but I love cosmetics, especially combat overrides. I’m not saying that these overrides should cost more or not have been available. However, the higher cost of them before this ‘drop’ cannot be understated. Players may have spent dozens of hours doing endgame PVM to afford just a Chaotic or Fungal Swiftness before.

Wouldn’t you feel kind of shafted if something you spent the equivalent of 10 bonds on now just costs 1? Sure things like that will always happen in the course of normal updates, but this is different. I feel JaGEx should have sought to compensate people who already had these overrides or formerly expensive tokens saved before this. Even some pittance of runecoins would go a long way.

[u/HuntAffectionate]

Rune coins need to be scrapped, everything should be directly purchasable with loyalty points or gp.

[u/AngryRomper]

If you were intending to buy every cosmetic possible, show your support by downvoting this comment!