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[Mystere]

R Razor, on 27 November 2014 - 08:01 AM, said:

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Nope. I shop where I get to sit and drink champagne while the sales people get me stuff I like.

Edited by Marvyn Dodgers, 27 November 2014 - 03:12 PM.
Politics/unconstructive in quote

[Mystere]

mindwarp, on 27 November 2014 - 01:32 AM, said:

What is this Black Friday people keep going on about? Some kind of memorial for a massacre or natural disaster or something?

It's about massacres in the shopping mall instigated by shoppers on their fellow shoppers. It's Darwin in action.

Edited by Mystere, 27 November 2014 - 08:42 AM.

[Lily from animove]

Apocryph0n, on 27 November 2014 - 01:58 AM, said:

Wait, you get 35% Discount on all Heroes. You get Double XP + Double XP Conversion. You get 20% more for MC sales.


And there is still morons that are like "That's crap, we wan't more!". What the heck do you want?

All mechs gifted to you instantly for free? Holy cow, this community is a mess.

Edit: Have to correct myself: This community is full of spoiled brats that think they are entitled to anything. I hope PGI at some point decide to never do any sales again since "the community did not want it, apparently"

they want to complain, thats all, even if they would get everything fro free they would complain that its senseless to get anything for free.

Mystere, on 27 November 2014 - 08:41 AM, said:

It's about massacres in the shopping mall instigated by shoppers on their fellow shoppers. It's Darwin in action.

I heard people actually already died by the stamepedes caused by the people, so probably they should forbid it for security reasons.

Edited by Lily from animove, 27 November 2014 - 08:43 AM.

[Mystere]

Lily from animove, on 27 November 2014 - 08:42 AM, said:

I heard people actually already died by the stamepedes caused by the people, so probably they should forbid it for security reasons.

Capitalism >> Security. Big campaign contributors .. ahem, I meant ... corporations deserve to make more boatloads of money.

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Edited by Marvyn Dodgers, 27 November 2014 - 03:13 PM.
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[Burktross]

I'm literally not seeing any mech or bundle sales. Am I doing something wrong?

[R Razor]

Let me know when FAO Schwartz is burned to the ground because they're out of X-Box Ones and Elmos.........or a cop car is torched........or PS4 owners are surrounded and beat half to death because they are not X-Box Ones.

Until then, STFU because you are obviously either ONE OF THOSE or you're a troll.

[Agent 0 Fortune]

QuantumButler, on 27 November 2014 - 04:34 AM, said:

If PGI were sensible, Hero mechs would be 10 dollars at most, not almost 50, so...

Supply and Demand, even on items with an artificial supply restriction. It seem clear that PGI has performed an market analysis of this and found that if they lowered the price they would make less money, this is evidenced by all the Mech sales. If they made more during mechs sales than regular releases they would just lower the price on all mechs.
What they have found is that some mechs are crap, and don't sell well, which is why they are moving to mech bundles. That way they only need one winner in the package to make it appealing.
(Where it gets a little weird for me when they keep assaults as tier 1 mechs to promote the most expensive package deals, but enforce a 3/3/3/3 balance rule. They are essentially admitting that "yeah Assaults are OP, but that is why you buy them, so only 3 per match")

[Dragomir Zelenka]

Burktross, on 27 November 2014 - 09:23 AM, said:

I'm literally not seeing any mech or bundle sales. Am I doing something wrong?

Yes. You're looking for a sale starting Friday on a Thursday.

10 am tomorrow, man.

[Galen Crayn]

The best offer ist the new IS Package with 13 mechs + mechbay + premiumtime + lots of other stuff for 80 dollars. The rest is too expensive...

[Burktross]

Dragomir Zelenka, on 27 November 2014 - 12:50 PM, said:

Yes. You're looking for a sale starting Friday on a Thursday.

10 am tomorrow, man.

Yeah-- I heard of hero mech sales by word of mouth before I actually saw the posts.
There's not going to be any other sales, right? This is all we're getting? Heros, Champs, and MC?
(Not that I'm upset-- granted a bit dissapointed in percentages, but I want to make sure before I start buying other stuff)

[Ursh]

Marmon Rzohr, on 27 November 2014 - 04:19 AM, said:

Huggin ? Are you actually serious ?


Also this thread....

Yeah, I am serious. With the quirks, a good pilot in a Huggin can tear it up. Maybe not in the meta game of comp teams, but who cares about them anyways? The vast majority of players, and I do mean vast, as in cosmically vast, aren't on comp teams, so they can pilot something other than a jenner or ember in matches.

[Nick Makiaveli]

I love it when people are offered a discount and then whine it isn't enough.


Entitled much? Go ask mommy for more allowance...

[Kyrie]

I will note that another online gaming company, SOE, is offering a "double station cash" event. While I do not play any of their titles, that is still something that is "eye catching" and actually had me stop and look at what they offered.

A 100% bonus registers a hell of a lot more than 20%. ;-) Now if only they had a game I liked playing....

[SpeedingBus]

PGI sucks at pricing things in the store why change that with a good black Friday sale. I mean dear god they don't need to make money with a good sale that happens once a year.

[Bongo TauKat]

Mercules, on 26 November 2014 - 09:02 PM, said:

PGI: "Hey would you like a brownie?"
MWO Players "[redacted]that brownie doesn't have frosting on it!"

This is how it shall always be with the vocal minority. At this point, if the game is THAT horrible, go play something else already.

[ollo]

LORD TSARKON, on 26 November 2014 - 08:12 PM, said:

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Also the Largest Player Base is American (USA).... so for a Canadian Company to just completely ignore the main player base major Holiday is not good business...(PGI knows this)

How do you come to this conclusion? I thought there was mention of Europe being the biggest player-base, which would correspond to steam user statistics http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

[Asrrin]

So jut FYI, this ended up being a pretty good black friday sale, provided you live in the US. Just dropped $50 on karma koin via paypal to get the free stuff via that offer (at least a champion cat + maybe the lower rewards if they work like the mech pack incentives) and then on top of that I got 20% extra MC, and then on top of THAT I will potentially getting half of gxp conversion or 35% of of hero mechs.

I'll end up stretching that $50 purchase into potentially $100 worth of digital goods or more, if I choose to save up for another, posiibly bigger sale in game.

[Piney II]

OP wants a cookie,

[LORD TSARKON]

ollo, on 28 November 2014 - 02:47 PM, said:

How do you come to this conclusion? I thought there was mention of Europe being the biggest player-base, which would correspond to steam user statistics http://store.steampowered.com/stats/

Majority of the Founders were USA...

Mwo is not on Steam yet... so using Steam Stats for a Game not on the system is weird??? If anything it just proves that Europe players like to leave Steam on more often than Americans...

Also server load is ususally the highest during peak evening hours on North American side.... which denotes the highest player base...

This is not rocket science here.... FYI There was an interesting thread a year ago explaining how much the player base has fallen until the Phoenix Pack came out and there was a surge for a month or two and then it fell again and then the Clan invasion brought it back...

Expect to see these specific mech contents to keep rolling out... because it generates more players interested in the game...

[Zolaz]

20% bonus for MC? Other games got my money instead of MWO.