Postby GeneralZaphod » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:34 am
It is all about revenue, and rightfully so! You need it! We should be paying for this! I want to pay for this! BUT... I have posted about this before, and assume it has been read and promptly thrown out the window as rubbish. However, the bottom line is what you get for your $ is basically nothing. I simply can't justify the micro improvements I get for the major bucks I pay. $2.50 for a 5% improvement in scholars is WAY to much money, etc. Shouldn't need to say more. The app world is a world of very cheap game play, and frankly it is extremely abundant where games are either free, or $.99. For me to get a significant improvement on my game, I would need to spend about $50 per world. Sure, a few $5 drops here and there would bump me up a in the ranks some, but is it worth $5? You probably look at this like, hey, that is a coffee a Starbucks, and you pay that every day. But I look at it like, hey, I can get 50 apps for that 50 bucks. Not to mention that the improvements are ALL temporary only getting you a permanent leg up. I have to justify my 2-3 PC games a year costing $50 each to my wife. I am an engineer and make plenty of money, but no offense, this game is not BF3, or D3. It is an app, knowing how much I enjoy it (lots), that is worth about $5 in the app store, and I would pay that, but more. Think micro transactions, and you will see that volumes of purchases that seem like bargains will always out-do the ones that seem like too much for too little. This is a lesson the industry is now learning.
As I said before, I feel if you reduce your gold cost by 10-20x, then you would get a situation where most people are paying for gold regularly and repeatedly. I have no idea what your revenues are, but I can't imagine I am not right. What percentage of people are paying? If you gave 10x more bang for the buck, wouldn't the number of buyers and return buyers be well more than 10x? Maybe even 100x? I would probably dump a couple bucks a week in, but now I haven't yet spent any. Many of my guild mates have completely agreed. Based on the rankings, it seems only a small number of people actually pay, and some who pay only buy a bit, and likely never more when they see the fruit of their buck was so small.
Please, give me value for my $ and I will give it to you happily!
Thanks for the forum where we can post such ramblings.