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Aran Abbas
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Posted - 2013.09.30 21:03:00 -
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Crash Monster wrote:CCP Mintchip wrote:This is the original intended price, the previous price was a promotional price. I understand you might think that is shady, but it's not at all. The lowered price enabled us to test the waters, allowing more people to get the item at a lower cost so we could see the impact on a larger scale to our system. This price is the non-sale price. I hope that clears up the misunderstanding! You may find logic and reality often do not intrude into this realm. 
Are you talking about the playerbase or CCP? Because I'm pretty sure any economist worth his salt would say that when demand for your product is tanking (based on peak user trendline) you lower prices rather than increase them. Only a ****** would do the opposite. |
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Posted - 2013.09.30 21:23:00 -
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Kane Fyea wrote:Aran Abbas wrote:Crash Monster wrote:CCP Mintchip wrote:This is the original intended price, the previous price was a promotional price. I understand you might think that is shady, but it's not at all. The lowered price enabled us to test the waters, allowing more people to get the item at a lower cost so we could see the impact on a larger scale to our system. This price is the non-sale price. I hope that clears up the misunderstanding! You may find logic and reality often do not intrude into this realm. Are you talking about the playerbase or CCP? Because I'm pretty sure any economist worth his salt would say that when demand for your product is tanking (based on peak user trendline) you lower prices rather than increase them. Only a ****** would do the opposite. Did you not read Mintchips post?
Sure, I did, and I understood what she was saying perfectly: technically, this isn't an increase in price, rather it is a 'restoration' of price.
Also, technically speaking, the French won the second world war...
However, more than anything, I was trying to point out to our dear fan of CCP that perhaps it was CCP who were suffering from delusions rather than them being sane and the rest of the world mad. |
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Posted - 2013.09.30 22:07:00 -
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Disfool wrote:I think most people in the forums are forgetting that they are BOOSTERS... for the price you guys are paying you are going at double the speed of someone not spending any money... So you guys are complaining about the price of something that after a month (if used to its fullest) puts you 1 month ahead of a player not paying but doing the same amount of work? If i could afford to get the boosters i would, but guess what, i dont need a boost right now, if i had paid and gotten the boosters from day 1 i would be at 30mill sp, but im at 16mill sp instead because i didnt pay, but you guys are saying its too expensive to gain twice as much and it bugs me. Pretty much double anything you can buy cost alot more if you go for what is twice as good as what you were going to buy.
If you guys keep complaining about the price of the BOOSTERS... your just spoiled kids crying because something changed and you can no longer get your bottle anymore, sorry, no more bottle :(
It bugs you that people are letting a company know that it is being delusional with the pricing of its goods, and that they would sell more if the price was lower, and that they should lower prices given demand for their product is already tanking? Son, you got issues... |
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Posted - 2013.09.30 22:17:00 -
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Forlorn Destrier wrote:Duran Lex wrote:65k for the Omega booster? That's a ******* 33% increase from the previously released ones.
Are you on crack?
That's the greediest ******* **** I've seen since War Z's server fiasco. (now called Zombie Survival Stories or some stupid ****).
Don't give me that supply and demand bullshit either. Purposely limiting items to raise the demand doesn't justify increasing the damn price by 33%. That's shady as fuckin hell.
How hilarious it is, that after all the bullshit I've waded through on the development team, and not minding the length of time it takes to create a decent game, It's the marketing team that makes me say **** you and your game.
See you on the PS4 if you ever ******* make it there with you greedy assholes.
Let me get this straight: you are upset at a company for providing a free game with an optional market for real purchases where they set the price to make the money to develop the game in such a way that they can afford to offer it for free, and you are in no way obligated to purchase anything from the store. Got. Self-entitlement.
For some people it's about greed. For others like me it's about stupidity. Y'know the kind of stupidity where you have to actually test a 400 warpoint limit for the Academy before you know it's a bad idea? Yeah, that kind of stupidity, expanded to everything else a company does. These guys apparently have a professional accountant employed, who didn't feel the need to inform them of the thing he should have learnt in his very first lesson on the subject: lower prices to increase demand. You're going to tell me demand for Dust is healthy given the peak user trendline? |
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Posted - 2013.10.01 08:06:00 -
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Crash Monster wrote:Aran Abbas wrote:Crash Monster wrote:You may find logic and reality often do not intrude into this realm. Are you talking about the playerbase or CCP? Because I'm pretty sure any economist worth his salt would say that when demand for your product is tanking (based on peak user trendline) you lower prices rather than increase them. Only a ****** would do the opposite. Other than being a mouthy bastard -- do you have any actual information to share with us? Do you think lowering the price of omega boosters will entice more people to start playing the game? Really? Maybe you have some inside information concerning the revenues of CCP versus costs? Maybe you know if CCP is trying to determine optimal rates for once they do get more players on? What in the slim shady depths of hell do you actually know?
400 warpoints is eight kills, or four hacks. It is a stupid individual or company that needs to run a test to see if that is a bad warpoint cap for the Academy.
$30 for 720k skillpoints... immediately? No. After a week? No. After a whole month. It takes a stupid individual or company that needs to run a test to see that the sane majority will spend that money on an actual AAA title rather than to get level 5 in the hacking skill for an incomplete product that is haemorrhaging players. |
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Posted - 2013.10.01 10:45:00 -
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Crash Monster wrote:Aran Abbas wrote:400 warpoints is eight kills, or four hacks. It is a stupid individual or company that needs to run a test to see if that is a bad warpoint cap for the Academy.
$30 for 720k skillpoints... immediately? No. After a week? No. After a whole month. It takes a stupid individual or company that needs to run a test to see that the sane majority will spend that money on an actual AAA title rather than to get level 5 in the hacking skill for an incomplete product that is haemorrhaging players. LOL, yes, and do you know the foundation of science and human progress? Questioning the obvious to find out how things actually work. You might be right. You might be wrong. What does humanity do to advance itself -- it does an experiment. Now, I don't know if this is an experiment, or simply a non-sale price level. I don't care. If you don't want to buy the product don't ******* buy the product.
The foundation of science and human progress is not being dumb. This principle was discovered several hundred years ago. It has, unfortunately, not been adopted by everyone. Some still feel the need to do dumb things rather than taking a few seconds to think. |
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