Gold vs Zen

[luvisan]

Hello all,

I was wondering what the diffrence is between zen you buy and Gold you win by defeating monsters? Can you use gold to buy zen? Zen is for buying special outfits correct?

Does :confused:anyone have a guide that explains all this?

[mastrgamr26]

Zen is using REAL money. (billing.perfectworld.com) cant buy Zen until u are level 10. gold is... money for ingame.

[luvisan]

I know that part! do you use zen to buy more gold so you can get more items ingame? What is Zen for? Why buy zen if you earning the gold ingame to buy items? I am still confused.

[peregryn]

attempting to explain, zen per se only exist on website, once you purchase it and declare what server you want to send it to it becomes gold, one thing of note zen/gold can only be spent in cash shop while gold you get for quests, killing monsters, trading items with players/NPC's is worthless in cash shop. hence why it is called "Cash Shop".

I have heard there is a way to trade zen(cash shop gold) on auction house, but ..... that is the only way I have heard of turning cash shop zen into ingame gold or vice versa

[loughman]

Zen you buy with real life money and it buys you extra items you cannot buy with in-game cash called gold. Zen items usually aren't essential to game play but at some point they do come in handy.

[snicker]

yes, is there a guide that explains this further? I understand the concept, played that "other" game for a short while where "gpotatoe" was the deterant to play...

anyone know of a "guide to zen" website? or a site that has a chart of what is available by purchasing Zen? it's pretty vague so far :(



okay... EDIT! forgive me i am new... but i think i just found a quick answer to my own question and hope this helps others:

go to www.perfectworld.com.my , on the horizontal menu bar near the top of the page choose "products"... i hope it is safe to assume the same game content available on the asian servers will be available here at launch of "PW International"?

also http://support.perfectworld.com/currency/zen is somewhat "vague" about what is available but if you followed the link to www.perfectworld.com.my and look at the "products menu"... you should, as i have, get the "just of it"

feel free to correct me if I am wrong... anyone? I am still downloading this game as i try to figure this out... can;t wait to see what all the hype is about :)

[kroky]

I couldn't agree more with you - when I was in your situation (i.e. game not downloaded yet, but wanted to know everything) I was quite frustrated that I couldn't find any comprehensive information on the stuff I could possibly buy with Zen (should I decide to buy ZEN, that is :)). But anyway, I've started to play and voil

[kroky]

(Damn the quick reply - It cut half of my message off)

I couldn't agree more with you - when I was in your situation (i.e. game not downloaded yet, but wanted to know everything) I was quite frustrated that I couldn't find any comprehensive information on the stuff I could possibly buy with Zen (should I decide to buy ZEN, that is :)). But anyway, I've started to play and voil

[kroky]

Originally Posted by snicker

yes, is there a guide that explains this further? I understand the concept, played that "other" game for a short while where "gpotatoe" was the deterant to play...

anyone know of a "guide to zen" website? or a site that has a chart of what is available by purchasing Zen? it's pretty vague so far :(



okay... EDIT! forgive me i am new... but i think i just found a quick answer to my own question and hope this helps others:

go to www.perfectworld.com.my , on the horizontal menu bar near the top of the page choose "products"... i hope it is safe to assume the same game content available on the asian servers will be available here at launch of "PW International"?

also http://support.perfectworld.com/currency/zen is somewhat "vague" about what is available but if you followed the link to www.perfectworld.com.my and look at the "products menu"... you should, as i have, get the "just of it"

feel free to correct me if I am wrong... anyone? I am still downloading this game as i try to figure this out... can;t wait to see what all the hype is about :)

(I guess I messed up with my last 2 messages :o just ignore them)

I couldn't agree more with you - when I was in your situation (i.e. game not downloaded yet, but wanted to know everything) I was quite frustrated that I couldn't find any comprehensive information on the stuff I could possibly buy with Zen (should I decide to buy ZEN, that is ). But anyway, I've started to play and voila - there's a small icon right under the minimap in upper right corner that pops up an ZEN items shop window when clicked. There you can browse all available ZEN items without spending any money in advance. At least I didn't buy a pig in a poke.

Items are nothing special and not in any way essential to playing this game, though. They are just nice to have. And this is valid for let's say 1 out of 10 items

So much for my opinion.... Excuse my rattling, but I'm getting bored at work and just can't wait to get my *** out of here and continue playing PWI.

[snicker]

cool, yeah... i am one of those ppl who has shucked out $$$ for years and years on monthly subscriptions , expansion packs, etc... even books from EB games haha... and i'm sure it won't bother me too much to pay for Zen if there's something i REALLY want/need. The devs have to put food on their tables too and I am hoping PW turns out to be as good as all the reviews I been reading.
My only concern is "how much" one has to pay in real dollars to get the good stuff. It will make or break the game for me if it's getting to be a major cash-grab on their part at some point.

Thanks fot the replies!