43 replies to this topic

[Burning Chrome]

verybad, on 08 March 2013 - 10:25 AM, said:

Uhh, ten percent off ain't enough to draw muh favor. 50% or I grind the cb.

I bought all 4 mechs on the previous sale when they were 50% off. Which is the equivalent of 2 at full price.

I'm not going to buy any of them at 10% off, which is the equivalent of 0 at full price. Do the math.

All that needs to be said.

[DrNick]

Flippity floo!

When I was your age, we would have killed for 10% off! But back then, you could buy two Atlases and an Awesome for 10 MC, and still have enough left for a soda and a picture show...

[Felicitatem Parco]

It just so happens that I am not in the market for any of the regular Mechs right now, but I am thankful that they are exploring all these different sales every weekend.

... In a couple weeks, though... I might want some MC for der HunterMech...

Edited by Prosperity Park, 08 March 2013 - 01:25 PM.

[Toadkillerdog]

don't suppose there's gonna be any sales on mechs in terms of c-bills? My friends and I have been trying to keep MC spending limited to bays and small things that we really want (colors, for instance), so in a way, cheaper mechs for one weekend would cause people to buy more other items.....

[SgtMagor]

hmm, new sale I need the RS to round out my Atlas lance. but give me the Hero variant first (hint hint)

Edited by SgtMagor, 08 March 2013 - 01:57 PM.

[Dan Nashe]

I don't honestly expect to see many if any more straight mc sales. That's not really asking for a sale, that's asking for everything to be cheaper. It's also harder to make sales enticing. Also, it would have to be like 2-5%. Let's be reasonable. Their standard prices are there for a reason. Besides its an "or" issue. You can get 2-5% off everything or 10% off all mechs Or 50% off select mechs or 30% off one specific mc item. It's just good business sense. With that in mind, I would much rather see more "50% off selectected chassis" and "30 off this hero mech" or "30 off these 4 paint scheme" sales than more 5-10% off of lots of things sales.

I say this as someone who looks forard to every Friday's sale announcement.

My bias is that I see things from a monthly subscription model, where I'm looking to spend 10-15 $ amonth as long as I'm having fun. Not $100 for collector's edition once a year.

From that perspective, this sale is worth 300. Mc/750k cbills max. The last sale was worth 1500 mc/3.75 million.

A 5% off mc sale is something I wouldn't touch. You'd have to spend over $100 for it to even add up to a box of Girl Scout cookies and/or a night of cbill grinding.

Bundles might be neat too. But the programming on that is too complicated (e.g. buy a medium mech with mc, get a free bay and desert camo paint free... would be programmer intensive to implement).

[Void2258]

Get rid of the stupid requirement to play 3 of the same mech in order to unlock the pilot tree then get back to me. Otherwise you aren't getting one more cent of my money.

[and zero]

MC sale please. I have been waiting to drop a large sum of money on the game for this reason alone. Many of my friends are doing the same. Give us another 20-30% off of MC please. Thanks

[ProtoformX]

I launch MechWarrior and I see a huge 10% OFF and an MC symbol. Zomg 10% off MC!!! BUY BUY BUY.

Lies! You tricked me!!! Waaaaaaa.

[El Bandito]

Sorry PGI, I ran out of "MEH"s to give.

[SixstringSamurai]

I've been waiting my whole life to be able to spend real money to buy mechs I can buy with in game currency. Thanks PGI you guys are so generous.

[Butane9000]

Seriously PGI/IGP, generic variants aren't going to make you any money unless your discounts for 50-75%. With the exception of some of the Assaults (and high tech variants of other mechs) most standard variants are easy to grind out. Heck the Catapult chassis only costs 5-6 million C-bills per variant.

Start putting hero mechs on sale and you'll see a surge in sales as they are MC only purchases. If you add in more Hero Mechs, cockpit items, customization items, skins, camo you'll see a surge in sales. Your infatuation with peddling variants easily obtained with c-bills baffles me from an economic perspective.

It is good to see you treading the waters. But it's not good to see you floundering in your attempts.

[LackofCertainty]

Don't look a gift horse in the mouth. (then again, I also bought a mech at 50% off last week, so 10% looks kinda meh, I admit)

[Thorqemada]

Imho sales should at least have a 20% price reduction.

[Nick Drezary]

Come on, PGI, you've had so many discounts on the mechs, isn't it time to make discount on the mech bays (and only 10% for non-hero mechs is boring)

[QuantumButler]

This is a pretty awful sale tbh, no one should ever buy non-hero mechs with MC anyway and if they do they're insane.

I accidentally bought a 3000MC trenchbucket due to misclicking and there isn't a single day I do not regret flushing my MC down the toilet like this.

Edited by QuantumButler, 10 March 2013 - 02:02 AM.

[loliza]

Butane9000, on 09 March 2013 - 07:02 AM, said:

Seriously PGI/IGP, generic variants aren't going to make you any money unless your discounts for 50-75%. With the exception of some of the Assaults (and high tech variants of other mechs) most standard variants are easy to grind out. Heck the Catapult chassis only costs 5-6 million C-bills per variant.

Start putting hero mechs on sale and you'll see a surge in sales as they are MC only purchases. If you add in more Hero Mechs, cockpit items, customization items, skins, camo you'll see a surge in sales. Your infatuation with peddling variants easily obtained with c-bills baffles me from an economic perspective.

It is good to see you treading the waters. But it's not good to see you floundering in your attempts.

i bought 2 atlas a raven 3L and commando 2D yeah this sale is rubbish

3 ecm mechs in 1 day

edit: it takes WAAAY longer to grind an atlas ingame than it does on my job

Edited by loliza, 10 March 2013 - 05:52 AM.

[M0rpHeu5]

Give us a mech bay special offer

[PoLaR]

I've been lucky enough to purchase something every sale so far.

But come on... 10% Isn't worth my time or money. Hopefully some other players had a good opportunity to buy something
but this Is not enough for me to spend real money over cbills.

Hope to see more sales In the future PGI.

[vettie]

I see a lot of complaining on here about 10% off not enough or give me this sale or give me that sale or how about a CBill discounted price and blah blah blah

FIne I guess. These forums are for feedback.

Here is my take. The 10% off is not the best deal that they have offered. For some, looking to pick up chassis a or b, it might be a decent time to do so.

The other side is, they dont have to offer any sales. When they do, good. You, as a player, dont have to spend your real cash to buy anything. I almost promise you that Paul or Garth wont sneak up to your house in the middle of the night with a gun to head and force you to hit the "Buy MC" button.

If this sale is not for you, ok, save you MC til the next one, IF you like it and think it is a good thing, then spend your MC, MC keeps the game running.

ps PoLaR owes me MC for using our teams Voice Comms. I charge each member 1000 mc to use the comms. I think it is reasonable. I might have a sale tho, maybe 10% off?