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[Roland]

You know why?

It's not because I give a crap about it. Cosmetic stuff usually isn't up my alley.

I'll buy it because I support the direction it suggests.. and that is one where fluff items do not cost stupid amounts of money.

500mc for fluff is silly. 1000mc for fluff is REALLY silly.

But 50mc? Yes. That is what a micro transaction is.

Make more things like this PGI. Make colors and crap 50mc, and I suspect you'll sell a lot more stuff.

Although you charged $30+ for the highlander, and it looks like you sold a billion of them, so I guess that route works too.

[Victor Morson]

I already own one, but I might just buy another to support this.

They're nifty in cockpits anyway.

[Redshift2k5]

50MC is about 25 cents. That is not a sufficient cost for a permanent colour unlock. This game can't survive on nickles and dimes.

[Tickdoff Tank]

I refuse to buy anything that is priced less than 250MC. But that is just me.

[Conraire]

Tickdoff Tank, on 05 April 2013 - 04:09 PM, said:

I refuse to buy anything that is priced less than 250MC. But that is just me.

Yeah, but we already knew there was somethin wrong with you anyway .

[Psikez]

Or ya know, keep a spread of price points because theres people that will buy things because its $.25 (I don't understand?)
and theres people that will spend $40 for a pink assault with jump jets (I don't understand?)

[Targetloc]

After seeing the huge number of Heavy Metals in-game...

All the players making '$30 for one mech is ridiculous' threads = Adam Sandler.

PGI = Bob Barker. Grinning.

[Lorcan Lladd]

Psikez, on 05 April 2013 - 04:13 PM, said:

Or ya know, keep a spread of price points because theres people that will buy things because its $.25 (I don't understand?)
and theres people that will spend $40 for a pink assault with jump jets (I don't understand?)

Well, I would buy a pink Assault 'Mech with Jump Jets for forty bucks... If I had forty bucks and could still run MWO since last thursday's patch - which I don't and can't.
I do like the idea of making colors, camos and cockpit items cheaper, though the Sales seem to be sufficient to keep people interested in buying MC...

Also, I know I bought the 3050 holo in the New Year, though I don't remember exactly how much MC it cost me back then...

Edited by Lorcan Lladd, 05 April 2013 - 04:27 PM.

[Psikez]

Targetloc, on 05 April 2013 - 04:15 PM, said:

After seeing the huge number of Heavy Metals in-game...

All the players making '$30 for one mech is ridiculous' threads = Adam Sandler.

PGI = Bob Barker. Grinning.

exactly

[Kobold]

People here don't seem to understand how retail pricing works.

You always start prices as high as possible. Once people stop paying that price, then you drop it and get the next swath of people who will pay price number 2. Eventually you get to the people who never would have ever purchased your product at anything resembling a reasonable price, but will buy it after it is two years old because it is a sweet deal (see, e.g., Steam sales).

[Psikez]

Kobold, on 05 April 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

People here don't seem to understand how retail pricing works.

You always start prices as high as possible. Once people stop paying that price, then you drop it and get the next swath of people who will pay price number 2. Eventually you get to the people who never would have ever purchased your product at anything resembling a reasonable price, but will buy it after it is two years old because it is a sweet deal (see, e.g., Steam sales).

Whats that...are you...are you postulating its easier to DROP prices than it is to RAISE them?!

[ACfromDC]

While I do like the 50 mc price...I kind of thought they were a limited time item. Will I see Christmas items in July? If that is going to be the case I will just wait for things to come on sale...but don't mind me I've been having that kind of day.

Edited by ACfromDC, 05 April 2013 - 05:51 PM.

[anonymous175]

It'd be nice to just buy this outright instead of having to buy a MC package because it's all I'd want.

******* backend shenanigans.

[Alistair Winter]

If it was an item I liked, I would get it for 50 MC. But I don't even like real new year's decoration, much less fictional.

[Stoicblitzer]

ya 50 is fine. i bought one.

[Victor Morson]

Redshift2k5, on 05 April 2013 - 04:07 PM, said:

50MC is about 25 cents. That is not a sufficient cost for a permanent colour unlock. This game can't survive on nickles and dimes.

While I agree, some things should be priced that way (not colors though).

For example, my God they should lower the cost of the faction banners to 50mc or less, given you can't even see them!

[Tennex]

id pay 1-3 dollars for something like that.

in real life you can get the same kind of trinket. but real life is not digital. and you actually have owner ship

[Coole]

First, you have to spend atleast 7 dollars to get any mc. But honestly, the price seems like such a good deal, I might just buy all 5, even though I'm a Davion for now.

[Kattspya]

Kobold, on 05 April 2013 - 04:20 PM, said:

People here don't seem to understand how retail pricing works.

You always start prices as high as possible. Once people stop paying that price, then you drop it and get the next swath of people who will pay price number 2. Eventually you get to the people who never would have ever purchased your product at anything resembling a reasonable price, but will buy it after it is two years old because it is a sweet deal (see, e.g., Steam sales).

You seem to be confusing price discrimination with a good becoming a commodity.

[Fishbulb333]

Redshift2k5, on 05 April 2013 - 04:07 PM, said:

50MC is about 25 cents. That is not a sufficient cost for a permanent colour unlock. This game can't survive on nickles and dimes.

Nickels and dimes = legal tender... Many many coins and you get -