11 replies to this topic

[Night Fury76]

So there is a lot of for and against out there for buying the mech grab deals.
I want to know your personal thoughts on how your cash dollar in your mind is used by PGI.
Since no polls, we'll have to do it this way.

My Example.

When I buy a hero mech.
I would feel well pleased with my purchase and would continue to purchase often if the dollar split looked something like this.

20% on making it
30% on upkeep cost of PGI - game servers/admin costs/etc
50% on research and development for the game - maps, ui, gameplay, bug fixes, graphics


So lets here it, Whats your split?

cheers

[Wolfways]

Umm...100% to go on anything in MWO (whatever PGI need at the time).

[Tekadept]

I want my hard earned cash to stay in my bank account thanks

but lets play this game, at the current state of MWO?
5% on making it (consider it a loss leader) 5% on upkeep and 90% on researching new maps etc.

[Alistair Winter]

I want 10% to go towards making the mech.

90% to go towards the salary of a PGI employee whose only job it is to tell us how our money was spent.

[cSand]

It's not really the responsibility of any company to inform you where the money they made off your purchase is spent! Once the transaction is over, it's no longer your money

if you are an investor, yes... but hey, none of us are investors here (though it may seem like it)

Edited by cSand, 19 September 2014 - 04:54 PM.

[CocoaJin]

100% - Persistent world, open sandbox theater of war. Large maps representing planetary regions.

[Mycrus]

50% poprocks
50% coke

To be fed to whoever thought transverse was a good idea.

[El Bandito]

No HAMIB, no hard cash for PGI.

[MischiefSC]

It's absolutely none of my business nor is there any logic to my trying to have a say in how a company spends the money I give them.

[Scandinavian Jawbreaker]

On a good night out in a fancy restaurant without possibility to read the forums or feedback

[Night Fury76]

Well this could have gone better.
I was trying to gather a view here as to 'Why the customers(us) purchases a mech"
You know to help PGI know us, the customer.

From a business point of view if you know why your customer buys, then you can always provide a product that suits his/her needs. Continued success here provides a constant income stream, a happy customer that will accept small failings along the way because of proven goodwill and will grow the customer base through word of mouth (a free form of advertising).

If you miss read your customer, one day they just stop buying, even though you have not changed the product you are selling and you have no idea why they have stopped buying. Gross income falls, profits are hit, price slashing to keep volumes high enough to support fixed costs, but its a losing battle.

With MWO having such a limited range of products to sell us they must understand they is more reason to buy them then just to have a mech? This was the intent of this thread.

Feel free to post eg '100% mech' and leave it at that, because you are a customer and that is what you think you are buying.

Cheers

[-Natural Selection-]

Night Fury76, on 19 September 2014 - 04:36 PM, said:

20% on making it
30% on upkeep cost of PGI - game servers/admin costs/etc
50% on research and development for the game - maps, ui, gameplay, bug fixes, graphics

Don't see to much in there to put food on the families dinner table lol

But this is all more of a "where it has to go" more that "where you want it". You have the operating cost that you cant avoid, and then decide how to split up the rest.

Your 20% (making it) and 30% (upkeep) are more like the 100% unavoidable.

Your 50% is more like the 100% left over. And that 100% is then split up over the things mentioned with it.


Who knows, but Im sure they do.