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Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
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Posted - 2013.10.01 00:58:00 -
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All of this supply demand is all just speculation people.
Do any of you have charts outlining the sales of Omega Boosters? No? Didn't think so!
As someone stated earlier in the thread, the Omega SP gain is equal to multiple normal boosters for less cost. So tell me as a consumer, would you rather buy 2 boosters for $20 each which gave you 100k SP each or 1 booster for 30 dollars which gave you 300k SP? Which is the better deal?
Furthermore, do you have sales charts on the normal boosters so you have an idea of what the booster market in general looks like?
What about charts comparing the sales of Normal boosters vs the Sales of Omega boosters at the time of the last Omega booster Sale?
Do you have charts outlining the increase or decline in overall booster sales from the end of the last Omega Booster sale?
No?
HTFU! Stop your whining! If you can't afford the damn things, or don't agree on the price then don't buy them! Do you go to the department store and haggle the cashier because you don't feel like you should have to pay $60 for that brand new game? No? Why are you crying about boosters in a free to play game? For christ's sake grow up! |
Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
1006
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Posted - 2013.10.01 01:02:00 -
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I hate that everything is cheaper in America. It's 20Gé¼ in Europe. :/
$20 is 14.79 Euros... |
Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
1007
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Posted - 2013.10.01 01:26:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:Master Jaraiya wrote:All of this supply demand is all just speculation people.
Do any of you have charts outlining the sales of Omega Boosters? No? Didn't think so!
As someone stated earlier in the thread, the Omega SP gain is equal to multiple normal boosters for less cost. So tell me as a consumer, would you rather buy 2 boosters for $20 each which gave you 100k SP each or 1 booster for 30 dollars which gave you 300k SP? Which is the better deal?
Furthermore, do you have sales charts on the normal boosters so you have an idea of what the booster market in general looks like?
What about charts comparing the sales of Normal boosters vs the Sales of Omega boosters at the time of the last Omega booster Sale?
Do you have charts outlining the increase or decline in overall booster sales from the end of the last Omega Booster sale?
No?
HTFU! Stop your whining! If you can't afford the damn things, or don't agree on the price then don't buy them! Do you go to the department store and haggle the cashier because you don't feel like you should have to pay $60 for that brand new game? No? Why are you crying about boosters in a free to play game? For christ's sake grow up! I can afford them. I'm a grown up and earn a decent living. $32 for what 720,000 SP gives you is highway robbery
Then like I said, don't buy them. it's really easy. Just. Don't. By them. |
Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
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Posted - 2013.10.01 01:53:00 -
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Thor Odinson42 wrote:
Sorry to disappoint but I want to see this game succeed. The CPM has already said they have requested an audience with CCP over this price. It's too high, it's that simple.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but the price of Omega Boosters will not make or break this game. There are plenty of players now that do and will continue to play for free, and many others who will join and do the same.
There are also many players who are more than content to use regular active and passive boosters.
Simply because the CPM are opposed to the price does not mean a change is set in stone. They are there to bring the community's concerns to CCP. Honestly there are thing which should be a larger priority to the CPM such as the missing Racial Variants of Certain Dropsuits and Vehicles. Funny how they never really show up in those threads despite overwhelming community concern, but they show up in this weak ass rant thread on page three voicing their protest to AUR items...
Seems to me like some of the CPM may be letting their personal agenda effect their role as a community representative. |
Master Jaraiya
Ultramarine Corp
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Posted - 2013.10.01 13:04:00 -
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Nova Knife wrote:I get that they cost more than twice as much as a normal booster, and that's honestly fine.
But you know what isn't fine? The cost of passive booster and active boosters to begin with. (I won't even get started on the bonuses they give)
The idea that someone's paying roughly 30$ a month for a dream that hasn't been realized. Twice the 'industry standard' for a subscription fee, for a game that's horribly incomplete and riddled with problems. It's straight up offensive. Then add in omega boosters that hike that up to $50+ a month? Talk about a kick in the balls.
But you know what's even more sad than the perception within CCP that this is fine to do?
The fact that people are still going to buy the **** out of it, because they want to 'stay competitive' and because it gives a definite advantage to the people who have it. It's the very nature of a pvp gamer's mentality. Gravitate towards the best items, take any advantage you can get... even if you have to pay for it.
I don't care how CCP justifies this. Boosters have always been Pay to Win. Even if their own definition of pay2win doesn't see it that way... Their customers do.
The problem here is, it is not a subscription fee.
Boosters are completely optional. You do not need them to "stay competitive"
I stay competitive without a hitch, and I have only bought two boosters since I started the game in March.
Just because some people's perception of what they need to stay competitive leads them to buy boosters, doesn't mean one must buy boosters to stay competitive.
You can only bring so much to a battle in terms of SP. Once you reach that point, everything else equates to having more options. If one wishes to reach this point 'faster' or to have more options 'faster' they may do so with boosters, but it is not required. The decision lies solely with the consumer.
If enough of the community is disgruntled over the price of boosters, then boosters would not sell. If boosters do not sell, the price would be lowered, no forum whining needed. This is the basic fundamental of a free enterprise system.
Clearly, the majority of the community are not up in arms over the price of boosters, so why do the CPM feel obligated to white knight for the whiners? This smells of personal agenda on the part of the CPM.
The majority of the player base, in my opinion, seems more concerned with the lack of basic content. We all want things that should have been here in May such as All racial dropsuits and vehicles. We also want additional content that could have been added by now, but hasn't such as different types of equipment, cloaking modules, for example, or different game modes, more maps, team deployment in FW. The list goes on and on. The price of boosters is not a concern for the majority of the player base, and shouldn't be for the CPM either.
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