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Astra Rossou
Minmatar Private Security Counsil
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Posted - 2011.07.20 22:38:00 -
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Originally by: Ydnari Simple enough - just don't buy the low-quality, over priced and pointless things, ever.
Amen to that lol ;)
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Eilella Tralente
Gallente
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Posted - 2011.07.20 22:51:00 -
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Everything is still overpriced. They need to lop a zero. The only people who can really afford those prices are the super rich with billions of isk to waste on plexes however they're probably the last to want to play dressup. The ones most likely to want to buy clothes to play dressup are probably the poor.
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Wumpscut 4lyfe
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Posted - 2011.07.20 23:33:00 -
[93]
I'm just going to "wait" as long as the 2 months I have on my accounts to see if this game is even playable or whether to strike it from memory.
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Gurgeh Murat
Minmatar
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Posted - 2011.07.21 00:30:00 -
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Came expecting to read another protest thread, left pleasantly surprised by nex purchaser tears.
Nom Nom Nom.
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Ranka Mei
Caldari
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Posted - 2011.07.21 00:44:00 -
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CCP needs to fire a few people. Seriously.
Their marketing folks have developed some sort of tunnel vision: the "$1,000 pants syndrome," as I like to call it. It's a highly narrowed vision, based on the single observation that "others will admire you and think you are the coolest thing since sliced bread," in the words of CCP Zulu. And it works. There's already a whole toolshed who bought into the monocle, status-enhancing hype. It's still marketing tunnel vision, of course, as there's always only a very small segment of the buyer population who goes for this stuff. Base a store solely on these type of customers, ignoring more common sense business models, and you have a sure recipe for failure. One of these common sense business models, for instance, is that it's better to sell 10,000x $8 dollar items than 100x $ 80 dollar monocles.
Also, the prices in the NeX store are not harmless. Zulu said we don't have to buy any clothes. True; but if you focus your ingame store on just a few percent (if at that) of your player base, then you will eventually start to p*ss off your clientele. Not because they're jealous, mind you, but simply because you're basically spitting in the face of the vast majority of your other customers, who will increasingly start to feel you're completely ignoring them. Any 'sane' MMO business model caters to its largest common denominator. That's not to say there's not also room for expensive monocles; but essentially, yes, you need to offer stuff that will be within reach of most of your players.
And now a note on fashion. As it stands, there's WAY TOO FEW clothes in the NeX store. Even if I wanted to buy the outrageously expensive Executive Tier 3 dress (not yet in the NeX store), a dress is not a monocle: 'women' (even when role-played) don't want to walk around in 'the' dress, however fancy it is, when other are wearing the one dress too. Clothes are really not like monocles this way; trust me on that. For me, and my alts, it means I prefer walking around in the regular outfits, simple because they allow for rather varied permutations, making my look (relatively) unique. So, if CCP wants to sell an expensive wardrobe, they really need to pull some designers off Dust, and offer a much, much wider range of virtual, fancy clothing.
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Mr Kidd
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Posted - 2011.07.21 00:56:00 -
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NeX tears, best tears!
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Astra Rossou
Minmatar Private Security Counsil
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Posted - 2011.07.21 13:08:00 -
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Originally by: Mr Kidd NeX tears, best tears!
emmm who's crying? lolz
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Portmanteau
Gallente CTRL-Q
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Posted - 2011.07.21 14:26:00 -
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Originally by: Ranger 1
Different color, different trim, different buttons it doesn't really matter what it is that is different (or perceived to be different) that makes it more valuable to the buying public. If they feel that gold trim is worth a bit more to people to feel even more "elite" they have every right to do so.
When "gold trim" and "buttons" become serious topics of discussion on the Eve-O forums you know smth has gone very very f***ing wrong...
really.
what
the
****
is
this
****
I
don't
even...;.
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