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!

Oh look, another poor person with an entitlement complex.

ahhh sweet sweet peasent tears.

Oh look, another poor person with an entitlement complex.

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.

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.

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.

Like a fuckin Hatter.

CCP you are fools. Or at least your marketing division.

The aforementioned product (Booster) I imagine is costing you next to... $0 to employ? Right? So essentially you're making 100% profit. If you're making that much profit you LOWER the price, because you want more sales. The HIGHER the price the LESS sales you make hence the LESS profit you generate.

At this point in time that booster costs roughly $30. From this booster, in the time-frame of a month you gain 1,344,000 Skill points. So one would be paying $30 for that many skill points. That can't even buy you level 5 on, say, maxing your CPU upgrade for 0. In a FTP game If I give you -ú30 I STILL can't get that measly 25% CPU reduction (which isn't measly but, you get the point). It may seem like a weird example and I'm SURE you don't think about it like that, but people who buy these things tend to do the maths, and you aren't at all.

Let's suppose, and I'm English so I'll be talking in terms of Sterling (-ú), an Omega booster costs me roughly -ú10. Great, I will definitely buy one EVEN THOUGH I've never bought any AURUM based product on Dust, that sounds like a bargain. charge me close to -ú30? No. Now, I know what you're thinking that means you're making less profit per month if I'm buying one a month, however that's supposing I even BUY one a month. At $30 a month (Which is significantly higher than most subscription based games) you really think people are going to buy this more than once? Sure maybe some rich ******* or the lonely neckbeards but not your average player, no way.

On a product that costs you next to nothing (I imagine, correct if I'm wrong) where there is no delivery and no stakeholders to pay when you are making probably close to 100% profit you DO NOT raise the price higher than your average player. On an item where all you make is profit you want to make it cheap so that everyone can buy it, and buy it often.

People are even likely to buy in bulk at a cheaper price, offer some economies of scale or something! You just can't slap a random price tag without actually working out how ridiculous your pricing strategy is.

I appreciate it's a free game, but charging $30 for something that only lasts a month and really isn't even that great is just shocking. One can buy a game that lasts for months for less money. And if I'm right, one can actually subscribe to EVE online for less!!!

Morale of the story CCP: If you aim to satisfy your customers, your wallet will be satisfied. IF you aim to satisfy your wallet then your customers will not be satisfied, and neither will your wallet.


NB: My figures may be a little off, I'm going of the number I'm told are apparent.

I hate that everything is cheaper in America. It's 20Gé¼ in Europe. :/

The only fools are the ones who buy it and expect anything more then an extra 1 mil SP a month.

I hate that everything is cheaper in America. It's 20Gé¼ in Europe. :/

$20 is 14.79 Euros...

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.

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!

CCP you are fools. Or at least your marketing division.

The aforementioned product (Booster) I imagine is costing you next to... $0 to employ? Right? So essentially you're making 100% profit. If you're making that much profit you LOWER the price, because you want more sales. The HIGHER the price the LESS sales you make hence the LESS profit you generate.

At this point in time that booster costs roughly $30. From this booster, in the time-frame of a month you gain 1,344,000 Skill points. So one would be paying $30 for that many skill points. That can't even buy you level 5 on, say, maxing your CPU upgrade for 0. In a FTP game If I give you -ú30 I STILL can't get that measly 25% CPU reduction (which isn't measly but, you get the point). It may seem like a weird example and I'm SURE you don't think about it like that, but people who buy these things tend to do the maths, and you aren't at all.

Let's suppose, and I'm English so I'll be talking in terms of Sterling (-ú), an Omega booster costs me roughly -ú10. Great, I will definitely buy one EVEN THOUGH I've never bought any AURUM based product on Dust, that sounds like a bargain. charge me close to -ú30? No. Now, I know what you're thinking that means you're making less profit per month if I'm buying one a month, however that's supposing I even BUY one a month. At $30 a month (Which is significantly higher than most subscription based games) you really think people are going to buy this more than once? Sure maybe some rich ******* or the lonely neckbeards but not your average player, no way.

On a product that costs you next to nothing (I imagine, correct if I'm wrong) where there is no delivery and no stakeholders to pay when you are making probably close to 100% profit you DO NOT raise the price higher than your average player. On an item where all you make is profit you want to make it cheap so that everyone can buy it, and buy it often.

People are even likely to buy in bulk at a cheaper price, offer some economies of scale or something! You just can't slap a random price tag without actually working out how ridiculous your pricing strategy is.

I appreciate it's a free game, but charging $30 for something that only lasts a month and really isn't even that great is just shocking. One can buy a game that lasts for months for less money. And if I'm right, one can actually subscribe to EVE online for less!!!

Morale of the story CCP: If you aim to satisfy your customers, your wallet will be satisfied. IF you aim to satisfy your wallet then your customers will not be satisfied, and neither will your wallet.


NB: My figures may be a little off, I'm going of the number I'm told are apparent.

I've been okay with the AUR gouging up to this point, but this price is too much.

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

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!

Then like I said, don't buy them. it's really easy. Just. Don't. By them.

Did you really just say that?

Must be another fox news loving american.

So let me put this a way that your Reagan worshipping mind might understand.

Remember the dis-proven Laffer curve? The one where if you tax at a higher rate you get less taxes? Well supply and demand works kinda the same way. This means that by pricing these items so high, CCP has actually decreased the amount of profit they could make from these items. (i know incredibly simplified but consider the audience.)

If priced at fanfair pricing, people may have bought enough of these boosters for a year, spending hundreds each. Instead they decided to overcharge for them and most have turned away.

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.

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.

Dear shoeless hippy,

How about you let capitalism work. If they arent selling well, CCP can do something about it on their own.