329 replies to this topic

[deputydog]

Status symbol for rich gamers is all these are. Odd coming from a company in CanAda...

[HammerMaster]

Two words. NOT COOL.

[JohnnyC]

I've spent some more time thinking about this and... I'm offended by the pricing. I find it shortsighted, greedy, insulting, and completely outside of the spirit of Christmas.

Bah humbug to you PGI... Bah humbug.

[Dieselpunk]

I rigged Christmas lights around my monitor...good enough.

[xDark]

What the hell PGI. I've been super excited since this morning and have been itching to buy those christmas lights and the hero mech once I got home from work, thinking they'd be about 500mc and 4000mc respectively...and then I see this. You guys have been so good to us for the most part but these prices are just insulting. Don't you understand that you'd make more money if you lowered your prices? Volume is ALWAYS better considering you don't have to manufacture your items. I would love to give you guys my money but this makes me angry, and I won't be buying any of your awesome crap unless you bring the cost WAY down.

Or wait, does the publisher set the prices? If so then fúck you IGP. And you can feel free to redact that all you want.

Edited by xDark, 04 December 2012 - 03:53 PM.

[Harrels Badgerton]

I haven't even opened the store yet, but it doesn't look like I'll need to from this thread.
I had recently read an article about FTP "whales," or players with tons of disposable money that just throw it at a game for a quick boost. The examples given in the actual article (which three minutes of googling didn't yield) were a slightly different type of game but still the same idea.

The gist of it is very few F2P players ever spend any money at all, but sometimes a very few spend a whole, whole lot. The article has a quote from a couple players that passed $10,000 without even thinking about it. Obviously they have money just laying around.

Now the dev's jobs aren't to sell a butt load of christmas lights for mechs, or bobble heads, or whatever BS - it's to make a ton of money. They seem to be banking on there being a lot of whales out there (After all, look how many founders paid 40-120 bucks for a game that was TOTALLY FREE and wasn't even out yet) that will buy MC in the max quantity every time, see some neat little trinket and snatch it up without ever thinking about price. We could toss theories back and forth about volume sales versus maximizing a small number of sales but other than voicing our dissatisfaction you have to be delusional to think you're giving the marketing team some crucial piece of info they hadn't thought of yet.

I don't know anything about PGI's marketing or sales model and I don't care about them. I enjoy the game and hope it works out but I don't have thousands of dollars to toss away on virtual toys inside of a virtual toy.

[Gebda]

RumRunner151, on 04 December 2012 - 01:00 PM, said:

You wanna buy a pet in WoW...$10. So these are not outrageous. The difference is the pet can be used on all characters. This stuff is 1 mech at a time.

To be fair, you only pilot one mech at a time... It would be nice not to have to requip it each time you wanted to change.

I agree that the prices are too high... but bought the lights anyway (without doing the math). Regardless, I feel dumb now, and will be holding on to the rest of my founders MC until the prices change a bit, hopefully.

[soarra]

M0rpHeu5, on 04 December 2012 - 12:18 PM, said:

When the game has so many issues should you really waste time on this kind of staff?

because the same people doing the fluff items are also doing the coding and network? i think not

[Tigerchen]

Items are to expensive. I would by some stuff but not for that price. I would also paint my mech but not for losing the old paint after choosing a new one. PGI really need to learn how to bind customers. Call Valve they now how to make customers happy with Steam Sales.

[Alois Hammer]

Capp, on 04 December 2012 - 03:07 PM, said:

You're right. "Exiting Mechwarrior"... that's exactly what these prices encourage.

My monitor thanks you for the iced tea shower.

[JohnnyC]

Gebda, on 04 December 2012 - 04:04 PM, said:

I agree that the prices are too high... but bought the lights anyway (without doing the math). Regardless, I feel dumb now, and will be holding on to the rest of my founders MC until the prices change a bit, hopefully.

I really hope they pay attention to this. You shouldn't ever feel dumb, swindled, or anything like that when making what is effectively a "real money" purchase in a game. It's a bad user experience... something that ideally never happens in a game. Games are about being entertaining, engaging, and most of all fun. It isn't fun to feel like you've been "taken" and is antithetical to what many would consider good game design.

[Drabor]

Wait this sale cannot continue. I'm sure most houses would have some form of seperation of church and state. As such christmas items cannot be placed inside the cockpit of a House owned mech. The aethist would not have it. Merc's you go ahead.

[xDark]

Drabor, on 04 December 2012 - 04:38 PM, said:

Wait this sale cannot continue. I'm sure most houses would have some form of seperation of church and state. As such christmas items cannot be placed inside the cockpit of a House owned mech. The aethist would not have it. Merc's you go ahead.

To be fair, Christmas isn't so much a religious thing anymore as much as it is a huge ploy to get people to spend a metric f***ton of money on crap they don't need.

[Drabor]

yes but as i want these warriors to defend my families life i don't think they should be looking at the pretty lights inside the very war machine that my tax dollars afforded them to command. they should be killing not oogling!

[Xerkics]

I bought some previous cockpit items but these are rediculously expensive. 1000 mc for a cosmetic thing is a joke.

All items are overpriced need to be cheaper by a factor of 10.

Edited by Xerkics, 04 December 2012 - 05:24 PM.

[Cubano]

Xerkics, on 04 December 2012 - 05:21 PM, said:

I bought some previous cockpit items but these are rediculously expensive. 1000 mc for a cosmetic thing is a joke.

All items are overpriced need to be cheaper by a factor of 10.

Vote with your wallet.

[Henry Pride]

Painted my Commando today for CBills, its purple now

The prices for the items are way to expensive... 7$ for a light in my cockpit? Are u kidding me? No, pls not rly.
Lower the prices to a realistic level, make the colours ownable, not just for rent, and we could talk about me spending some of my MC not only for MechBays and Premium Time....

[Xerkics]

Cubano, on 04 December 2012 - 05:32 PM, said:

Vote with your wallet.

I got hula girls on like 3 of my mechs and 3 coin painted mechs but im certainly not buying any of the new Xmas stuff till its reduced to more reasonable levels. Im all for spending money on this game and support it but only when its reasonable.

Edited by Xerkics, 04 December 2012 - 05:41 PM.

[Irreverence]

I'd be more inclined to buy vanity items if the prices were lower. When it comes to the $3-5 range, I'd rather buy a bag of potatoes or some apples or something.

[Locan Ravok]

Overpriced.