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Kiso Okami
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Posted - 2013.05.06 09:43:00 -
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Hmm... 19,000,000?
Rounds to about $9,500 USD...
Wonder how much money CCP stands to lose on this stunt. |
Kiso Okami
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Posted - 2013.05.06 09:57:00 -
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Donnerwerk wrote:Kiso Okami wrote:Hmm... 19,000,000?
Rounds to about $9,500 USD...
Wonder how much money CCP stands to lose on this stunt. say we had 300k players in closed beta and 2% did this stunt 300k*0.02*9.5k= 57 Millions it's all just assumptions Very cool that not a single Dev has been seen in this Thread...
That's PSN hack levels of stupid right there...
Heck, I'm willing to bet that even if only $1000 did this, they'd still be deep in the red. |
Kiso Okami
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Posted - 2013.05.06 10:21:00 -
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Altina McAlterson wrote:It's not so much CCP losing money because odds are a lot of people that benefit from this would never purchase the equivalent amount of AUR anyway. Since AUR isn't actually a real thing CCP's only loss is the opportunity of additional sales. It's more about the ridiculous advantage this gives to some players over others.
Interesting to see how this plays out but I'm still banking on it not being what people think.
That's just it, the fact that they wouldn't purchase that much AUR in their game span means that it has to be written off as a loss because they're basically giving away free money. Those who get these upgrades will soon find themselves in the position of never having to pay for boosters (obviously the most popular item only AUR can buy) for a long time... if ever.
So if there ever was a chance that these investors would have spent money on the game again CCP basically just lost them. |
Kiso Okami
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Posted - 2013.05.06 10:44:00 -
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Altina McAlterson wrote:Kiso Okami wrote:Altina McAlterson wrote:It's not so much CCP losing money because odds are a lot of people that benefit from this would never purchase the equivalent amount of AUR anyway. Since AUR isn't actually a real thing CCP's only loss is the opportunity of additional sales. It's more about the ridiculous advantage this gives to some players over others.
Interesting to see how this plays out but I'm still banking on it not being what people think. That's just it, the fact that they wouldn't purchase that much AUR in their game span means that it has to be written off as a loss because they're basically giving away free money. Those who get these upgrades will soon find themselves in the position of never having to pay for boosters (obviously the most popular item only AUR can buy) for a long time... if ever. So if there ever was a chance that these investors would have spent money on the game again CCP basically just lost them. They only lose as much money as the people would have bought without the free AUR. So there is no way to actually calculate anything about actual losses since there is no actual loss. For most players the amount of future AUR they would purchase will probably be much, much less than the amount they would receive in this scenario.
But, there is indeed a way to calculate losses.
AUR actually has a fixed value in dollars.
1 USD = 2,000 AUR
5 USD = 10,000 AUR
10 USD = 20,000 AUR
20 USD = 40,000 AUR
50 USD = 100,000 AUR
100 USD = 200,000 AUR
I'm not counting the bonus AUR on the packages because they're technically declared as "free gift", and even if I counted them in, you'd only be discounting something like12.5% of the reverse price on the BPOs.
Note that we're talking people that stocked up on BPOs, of which I am sure may be quite a few of them. Heck, even those that didn't stocked them up and just got one of each BPO have a lot of purchasing power if they got their gear from before the changes in price.
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