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[Rotaugen]

Khobai, on 17 December 2012 - 09:25 AM, said:

Yes but theres no incentive to buy smaller packages now. And smaller packages is where you make most of your revenue in microtransaction games. Thats why its called microtransaction.

So, would raising the smaller packages to 250 per $ be an incentive? I'm ok with that if the top is raised to 300.

[Toshiro Nigami]

Khobai, on 17 December 2012 - 08:34 AM, said:

Yes but the way its set up now is punitive because founder's packs set the 250:$1 ratio as the expected pricing. You get less for buying smaller packages and you get the normal amount of buying larger packages. Instead of getting the normal amount for buying smaller packages and extra for buying larger packages. Its a psychological thing... players are going to be less inclined to buy MC if they feel punished by buying smaller packages.

The way their pricing should work is this:
1) All MC packages should sell MC at the base 250:$1 rate.
2) The more money you spend the more "bonus" MC you should get on top of that

If i didn´t miss something then there was never a statement that said, that the founders packs set the base price for MC costs.
All i did read was "founders bonus" all the time, so imho the founders packs were already sold as packs with bonus MC and not as "base" packs.
So you should see the 1$=180MC pack as base and everything else as bonus. Just because its not written down as 180 MC + 70 BonusMC it still is.

And for the price balance, there will be no change i think. Simply because it would be slightly unfair for the people who already bought different things with MC. Maybe there will be different time restricted discounts sometimes, but thats it.
Compared with WoT, MWO is cheaper anyways, except the strange christmas items.

Greetings Toshiro

[Teljaxx]

The biggest problem with the variable MC per dollar setup, is that seriously discourages people from buying any MC at all if they were only planning on buying a small amount. For the players that are willing to spend $100 at a time, they will probably buy MC no matter how much they actually get. But for the players that only want to spend $5-10 dollars for some paint or a bobblehead, it will probably keep them from spending anything at all, since they will not feel it is worth it. there is even a possibility that it will turn them away from the game all together. I know I do not want to buy any MC as it stands, because I am not going to spend $100 on this game, and buying the smaller packages is a waste.

The flaw with the current variable MC setup is that it caters to the devoted players while alienating the casual players. This will not help attract new players, and the fresh income they would bring will be lost.