You mad bro?

CCP is a business so yes they want money. Deal with it.

McDonalds is a business, you don't see them increasing the price of the damn McRib by 33% each time they release it.

I don't deal with shady fuckin business practices.

McDonalds is a business, you don't see them increasing the price of the damn McRib by 33% each time they release it.

I don't deal with shady fuckin business practices.

McDonalds is a business, you don't see them increasing the price of the damn McRib by 33% each time they release it.

I don't deal with shady fuckin business practices.

don't buy it?

if everybody agrees with you they won't buy it and the next release will be cheaper

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.

Is there anything in my post that shows I'm uncertain of whether or not i should buy it?

Guess that means your comment is moot point.

Won't be here next release, I give up on companies that all of a sudden become greedy as hell.

Final post. Uninstalling Dust now to open up room for games that have a marketing team that pays the **** attention to its consumer base.

Good fuckin luck.

Is there anything in my post that shows I'm uncertain of whether or not i should buy it?

Guess that means your comment is moot point.

Won't be here next release, I give up on companies that all of a sudden become greedy as hell.

Final post. Uninstalling Dust now to open up room for games that have a marketing team that pays the **** attention to its consumer base.

Good fuckin luck.

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!

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.

CPM is requesting a meeting with marketing, this will be brought up among other things.

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!

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.

Is there anything in my post that shows I'm uncertain of whether or not i should buy it?

Guess that means your comment is moot point.

Won't be here next release, I give up on companies that all of a sudden become greedy as hell.

Final post. Uninstalling Dust now to open up room for games that have a marketing team that pays the **** attention to its consumer base.

Good fuckin luck.

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!

Like a fuckin Hatter.

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.

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!

how much is that in US dollars?

so for 3 times the price you get 2x the booster ... sold !

Well 40k AUR is $20 so a little more then $30.

I bet your playing it right now because you love it.

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.

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.

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!

Did you not read Mintchips post?

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 can do what most do. Don't buy it... you know its still an option

I think most people in the forums are forgetting that they are BOOSTERS... for the price you guys are paying you are going at double the speed of someone not spending any money... So you guys are complaining about the price of something that after a month (if used to its fullest) puts you 1 month ahead of a player not paying but doing the same amount of work? If i could afford to get the boosters i would, but guess what, i dont need a boost right now, if i had paid and gotten the boosters from day 1 i would be at 30mill sp, but im at 16mill sp instead because i didnt pay, but you guys are saying its too expensive to gain twice as much and it bugs me. Pretty much double anything you can buy cost alot more if you go for what is twice as good as what you were going to buy.

If you guys keep complaining about the price of the BOOSTERS... your just spoiled kids crying because something changed and you can no longer get your bottle anymore, sorry, no more bottle :(

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.

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.

Let me get this straight: you are upset at a company for providing a free game with an optional market for real purchases where they set the price to make the money to develop the game in such a way that they can afford to offer it for free, and you are in no way obligated to purchase anything from the store.

Got.

Self-entitlement.

Also is it not considered pay to win letting players advance their SP gain using RL money?

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

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.

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!

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.

Dear Mr. Republican (I can't think of a worse insult tbh),

I know your educational system is horrible, and you live in a neopotism based economy, so I forgive your cro-magnon views on the poor (btw jesus loved the poor and hated the rich). This is reality though, we are looking to engage in a MUTUALLY beneficial relationship with CCP as consumers.

While I have no problem walking away from the omega boosters, I do have a problem with mismanagement in the marketing division of a game company I greatly enjoy. They are throwing away GOBS of money, and that type of descision making process does not inspire confidence in the future of this game I enjoy.

Oh and to the people complaining about baying more in Euros, be glad we don't have many Tea Partiers or american republican/christians. I know I will gladly pay more to keep that type of society out.

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!

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.

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?

McDonalds is a business, you don't see them increasing the price of the damn McRib by 33% each time they release it.

I don't deal with shady fuckin business practices.

You've got to be sh1tting me

It astounds me in this day and age with the living example of the success of Apple & Android App + Music stores and Steam sales that marketing departments still haven't learned the power of microtransactions. Its like they are trapped in the 70s ... running a department store, not a 21st century electronic business.

It sure does! But it also doesn't mean they're not a bad idea in their current form, either. My people will be in touch with your people soon and hopefully we can brainstorm some improvements.

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)

[--snip--]

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.

Dear Mr. Republican (I can't think of a worse insult tbh),

I know your educational system is horrible, and you live in a neopotism based economy, so I forgive your cro-magnon views on the poor (btw jesus loved the poor and hated the rich). This is reality though, we are looking to engage in a MUTUALLY beneficial relationship with CCP as consumers.

While I have no problem walking away from the omega boosters, I do have a problem with mismanagement in the marketing division of a game company I greatly enjoy. They are throwing away GOBS of money, and that type of descision making process does not inspire confidence in the future of this game I enjoy.

Oh and to the people complaining about baying more in Euros, be glad we don't have many Tea Partiers or american republican/christians. I know I will gladly pay more to keep that type of society out.

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.

Dear Mr. Republican (I can't think of a worse insult tbh),

I know your educational system is horrible, and you live in a neopotism based economy, so I forgive your cro-magnon views on the poor (btw jesus loved the poor and hated the rich). This is reality though, we are looking to engage in a MUTUALLY beneficial relationship with CCP as consumers.

While I have no problem walking away from the omega boosters, I do have a problem with mismanagement in the marketing division of a game company I greatly enjoy. They are throwing away GOBS of money, and that type of descision making process does not inspire confidence in the future of this game I enjoy.

Oh and to the people complaining about baying more in Euros, be glad we don't have many Tea Partiers or american republican/christians. I know I will gladly pay more to keep that type of society out.

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.

^^ You can do what most do. Don't buy it... you know its still an option

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.

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.

You are getting an extra 24,000 per day. It's around 720,000 that you GAIN. You get the other 24,000 just for activating the Passive SP on that character. If it were that much of a gain I'd start to come around on it.

I'm also guessing that 90% of those that are supportive of the price haven't contributed much in the form of currency for this game. And won't be purchasing a booster regardless of price. I've spent hundreds on this game. This is me talking as a customer that expects a fair price for a product.

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

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.


EDIT:
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