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Crash Monster
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Posted - 2013.09.30 20:29:00 -
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Come on guys... I'm sure he's been saving up his pennies for a few months and now he finds out he still can't afford them... it kind of hurts y'know. |
Crash Monster
Snipers Anonymous
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Posted - 2013.09.30 20:40:00 -
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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.  |
Crash Monster
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Posted - 2013.09.30 23:13:00 -
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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? |
Crash Monster
Snipers Anonymous
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Posted - 2013.09.30 23:32:00 -
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Do the math...
If I sell 50 widgets at $100 dollars vs 200 widgets at $20 what's the better plan for a profit seeking company? I'd provide more examples concerning a way to nip consumers at their individual price points but I'm sure that's way beyond the level of the average troll to comprehend. |
Crash Monster
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Posted - 2013.09.30 23:45:00 -
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Crimson Cerberes wrote:I think you example is loaded. You cut the price by 1/5th but only increased sales by 4 times which is dishonest not knowing how the price would effect demand.
Since this is an instantly consumable high-demand good that is needed constantly, odds are that those who would have bought $100 worth of widgets would still spend close to the same if not more, while at the same time increasing the amount of people whom would buy, most likely drastically.
I think if we were to be honest CCP just left a bunch of money on the floor.
Of course the example is loaded... but the only way to find out what happens is to give it a shot and see how demand ACTUALLY responds to price changes. |
Crash Monster
Snipers Anonymous
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Posted - 2013.10.01 01:24:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:I've been okay with the AUR gouging up to this point, but this price is too much.
I think that's the whole point of the exercise.
In aggregate, what happens at a different price level... when everyone decides whether or not they want it.
Will people who haven't already purchased a merc pack bundle it that way? Will folks who already went the merc pack route hold off? Moving the price around equates to research.
Well, that and QQ generation! |
Crash Monster
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Posted - 2013.10.01 09:45:00 -
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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. |
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