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Skihids
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Posted - 2013.09.30 22:09:00 -
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It's totally optional and it's not P2W, so what's the fuss?
Yeah, one guy might be able to afford it when you can't, but:
A) You don't have to keep up with the Joneses
B) That guy is funding the game so you can play
There will always be someone with more SP, whether they started before you, played more than you, or spent more cash than you. It really doesn't matter which one.
The gme may be F2P but it isn't F2Develop. It needs a revenue stream and this is probably a very good one. I think too many people see F2P and assume that nobody should pay, or those who do shouldn't get anything for it. That's just not thinking things through. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.01 16:15:00 -
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CCP could be engaging in a bit of "price anchoring" here.
That's where you introduce a clearly higher priced item in an attempt to get more people to purchase the next highest priced item reasoning that "it's nice and not overpriced like that other one". A restaurant may introduce a very high priced wine in order to encourage patrons to shift up from the cheap bottle to the formerly most expensive bottle because it is now the "middle value".
So the Omega Booster is there to make the standard boosters look like a better deal and therefore CCP sells more standard boosters.
Given the three choices of no booster, standard booster, and Omega booster the standard one looks like a good deal. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.01 20:39:00 -
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SteelDark Knight wrote:Skihids wrote:CCP could be engaging in a bit of "price anchoring" here.
That's where you introduce a clearly higher priced item in an attempt to get more people to purchase the next highest priced item reasoning that "it's nice and not overpriced like that other one". A restaurant may introduce a very high priced wine in order to encourage patrons to shift up from the cheap bottle to the formerly most expensive bottle because it is now the "middle value".
So the Omega Booster is there to make the standard boosters look like a better deal and therefore CCP sells more standard boosters.
Given the three choices of no booster, standard booster, and Omega booster the standard one looks like a good deal. This. Also, another very common F2P tactic is a variant of this. You release something at a higher cost on purpose and later you put the item on "sale". That way the consumer feels they are getting a bargain and will rush to purchase before the "sale" is over. For a list of some other common F2P sales tactics see the link below. Top_F2P_Monetization_Tricks
Yes, that's the "On Sale!" Anchor. You mark up an item, say a pair of pants to $40 and "sash" it down to $25 on see and people perceive it as a great deal, even better emotionally than the other store that has it a normal price of $24. You anchor people's perception at the high end so the price you give them appears a bargain.
ThatGÇÖs why KohlGÇÖs is always having a sale, and JCPenneyGÇÖs one-price strategy failed. Everyone knows that the "sale" is perpetual, but it works anyway. |
Skihids
Bullet Cluster
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Posted - 2013.10.02 04:41:00 -
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I find the standard boosters close to being more expensive than they are worth to me, never mind the Omegas.
I've got 22m SP fairly well allocated so even as a dual Logi/Assault player there isn't much more that I really need. Three more months with the standard boosters I have will take care of that. Then I'll have to revisit the value question to see if I want to continue boosting.
The pace of content release is slow enough that I won't need to quickly accumulate a massive amount of SP. I thought that I might need it to re-skill dropships, but that's looking like Spring of next year now. |
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