You pay 2x and like 9k extra (Which is reasonable to me seeing that you get 2x more SP 2x quicker)

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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.

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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Furthermore, if you honestly believed most players' lifetime SP was such a huge factor, you should be advocating more SP gains in general, or the removal of the soft cap. Not everyone uses boosters, but everyone surely wants to stay competitive. If having more SP equates to staying competitive, what about the free players? Are they not a part of the community as well? Do they not deserve a voice?

Stop using your position in the CPM as a platform to achieve your personal agendas.

Now this, on the other hand, is a post I can actually respect as it removes all sense of automatic entitlement and actually attempts to assess the worth of the product versus the competition on the market.

If you were to ask me, I would say that you are perhaps looking at things the wrong way. Ideally the standard, "boosted" service should meet roughly at where a subscription for a regular game would lie -- $15.00 US for example. If you pay the value raw and simply buy month-long boosters, it averages closer to 17$ for passive and active boosters (assuming you are being smart and buying veteran packs instead of raw aurum). It gets obviously gets crazier when you start going into Omega'

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

I don't think the CPM's concern is over the price, but the current form of the boosters. What I feel many people forget is that Yes, lower price point would mean more money for ccp, but then more people would advance too fast potentially screwing the game up

As a high school teacher of macroeconomics, I find this situation especially amusing due to its correlation to one of the most basic tenets of the subject: demand.

First, the law of demand expresses the negative relationship that exists between price and the quantity of a good demanded. That is, as the price of a good decreases its quantity demanded increases, and as the price of a good increases its quantity demanded decreases. For me, had the Omega booster returned to the market at its most recent price of 36K AUR, I would have purchased at least six, but at its current price of 65K AUR, I will be purchasing none. Furthermore, my decision not to buy the Omega booster is also affected by my ever-decreasing overall demand at all price levels, which is most notably influenced by the diminishing returns I experience from skill points in general. As a 23+ million SP vet, I no longer experience the same gains from SP that I did as a 3 million SP or even 10 million SP player. Moreover, I'm sitting on over 120 days of standard passive SP boosters and I have an unused inventory of four standard active boosters with more than a week remaining on the one that I currently have activated. With so much potential SP wrapped up in the boosters I already have, nothing short of an attractive price is going to motivate me to make a purchase.

Clearly, I don't need Omega boosters right now. However, had the price been right for my current levels of overall demand, I would have purchased several without hesitation. Unfortunately, the price simply isn't right for my situation, but I honestly can't envision a point in my Dust career when such a price would have ever appealed to me. Simply put, it's just too damn expensive at all levels of demand. On what analysis did you base your pricing strategy, CCP? Or did you arrive at this figure arbitrarily?

Well **** teach. Couldn't have said it better. At 14mil Sp. I don't need boosters either. But I would have spent $20 not play this game. (passive omega)

You have a game that is below average NOW. with a meta critic rating of just 60. And a small player base that could fit into KZ pocket. At what point ccp is this game NOW worth the price for boosters?

I've talked with devs of garbage games. (one of them having worked on that area 51 game. tho he got a break after getting hired to work for rockstar) and they would be the first to say that (maybe not with open doors) "****, I know this game is bad." lol