I dont see a thread specific to this but there needs to be one
Devs. This is the ONE thing keeping me from buying your pvp season pass. I will NOT spend money when you intentionally put a worthless reward in there.
Im sure Im not alone. TAKE SILVER MARKS OUT OF BURNING CHESTS.
The last 8 chests i opened have either been Silver Marks or Gold Marks, so I stopped opening them altogether hoping something woulf change in the future
Yea, there have been numerous prior posts regarding silver marks including their inclusion in burning chests. I guess the new Legendary troop was meant to satisfy these concerns
That is exactly my position regarding buying the burning mark packs. Though at this point, I’m so annoyed at the lack of responsiveness to our valid concerns that I’m leaning toward just stopping spending money altogether.
I literally laughed out loud when I saw that black Friday offer. A $99.99 “micro transaction” is already eyeroll BS. Like what’s a macro transaction, then? But to put it out there as some sort of special is hilarious.
Dear team… If you actually put up decent micro transactions, people would buy them. I know people who will 99 cent a game to death. Like well over $100 worth of 99 cents. But they would never, ever, EVER do a $100 transaction. How do you not know this?
I get that there are those 10 guys who will vacuum up $100 things. But wouldn’t it make more sense to get 1000 people to get the 99 cent things and about 100 of those people spending $100 on those? I mean it’s math.
I guess they must get a handful of whales who’ll buy anything.
These items cost them nothing. It’s just increasing numbers in the buyer’s save data. Any sales are a gain for them, so it’s crazy they charge prohibitively vast amounts.
It’s also insulting our intelligence how they multiply the (already extortionate) asking price by 5 and claim that’s what it’s worth.
This is what I just can’t understand. I mean, it’s not like those whales wouldn’t hoover up cheap deals too. As you said, the items cost them nothing. So, unlike real, tangible goods, there is no price point where they would lose money on a sale.
I’ve tried to understand the logic of $100 (or even $50) micro-transactions, because there has to be a reason. The only thing that even almost makes sense is IF someone bites on that transaction, they are more likely to keep playing and probably more likely to keep spending. (sunk cost?) That’s certainly a valuable chump to have, if you are running a FTP game. Buuuuuuuuut…
Pricing things at the low end can also get people to keep playing (feeling good about a game that doesn’t feel predatory) and spending (spending $1 one-hundred times feels different than spending $100 once.) Meanwhile, a big goal in the ftp model is conversion. That is converting the “looky-loos” and “free-loaders” into paying customers. $99 offers is not going to help with conversion, at all. 99 cent offers would.