Nick Makiaveli, on 25 January 2015 - 10:38 AM, said:
Not everyone bought everything they wanted the first few times.
This also encourages people to play more so they can buy the variants that don't go on sale.
Also encourages people to use MC to buy the variants not on sale.
See a pattern? Helps the game stay populated, makes PGI money so they don't fail and MWO goes away. Also, not like they have any obligation to have sales, nor do you have any right to demand them.
Hold on there big guy, I think there is a bigger picture here that should be looked at. I agree with you that PGI is a business and naturally a business needs to create revenue to survive. PGI is under no obligations to have sales or give anything away for free but they do nonetheless and in doing so it helps keep us happy and happy customers spend $. We, the player base, have every right to express our ideas, our requests and our desires to PGI even if that means requesting a cbill sale on anything but its up to PGI to act or not act on it. If PGI didn't want to hear our feedback then these announcements would be locked so we can't respond.
As I said it is very nice and generous of PGI to have these cbill sales on mechs and I do agree with you that repeating some of the variants over and over again gives people an opportunity to grab ones they may have missed in previous sales...but repeating them too frequently runs a risk of saturation (like in the case so far of the Thunderbolt, the 9s which is hugely popular right now and the 5s have been on sale in 3 or 4 of the past 5 sales and only those 2 of the 4 Thunderbolt variants have been on sale...sure there maybe the odd person who decides they want one now but most people who wanted them most likely already bought them so putting them on sale again has a very low chance of generating more revenue). So when a saturation point is reached what is the best way to continue the revenue stream in these sales? Put other variants on sale! If in this sale (or the final IS sale for house Steiner) for the example of the Thunderbolt, the 5ss and/or the 9se were to go on sale instead of repeating (or together with) the 9s and 5s sale yet again all those people who bought the 9s and/or 5s now have a chance to grab the variants they need to complete mastery/elite...and if they don't have enough cbills left after having bought all the other mechs they wanted in the previous sales, guess what they will do...buy MC (of course assuming they aren't sitting on enough to make the purchase without having to buy more). Sure, sale or no sale there is still a chance people will buy MC to purchase the last mech they need to finish mastery (for various reasons, because the grind takes too long, because its easier, ect) but without the sale there is less urgency for a person to typically make that purchase now (after all, until the first one or two are "basiced" you don't really need the third...but if the mech is 35% for 72 hours there is a much higher incentive). That in itself is a huge pro for PGI to add more variety to these sales because it stands to make them $. Hopefully you can see a pattern here too.
Now the next issue is one of lore. These themed IS house sales are supposed to follow lore based on how PGI has positioned them and I do appreciate that as well. Sure in lore there are some commonalities from House to House and some technologies are universal...but as has been pointed out in several other posts there are certain mech variants that were favoured (or even used exclusively) by certain Houses in lore that were not reflected in these sales (House Liao and the Raven 4x for example) while certain other mechs have every variant featured in every sale even though not every House/faction "favoured" the use of all of its variants (the Awesome). Also as has been pointed out almost all the variants we have in MWO were a part of lore (in some fashion) and at some point (for the most part) used on the battlefield by at least one or more of the 6 Inner Sphere Houses. All that people have been requesting in various posts is that PGI focus a little more on this in these "House themed" sales and give us a little more variation from sale to sale.
Edited by YUyahoo, 25 January 2015 - 02:17 PM.
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