Bellatrix Khanista
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Posted - 2011.06.23 01:26:00 -
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 Originally by: Hans Jagerblitzen
Originally by: Vin Hellsing
OK, CCP. Since it's obvious your greed is driving these prices, let me point something out to you with an example of proper microtransactioning.
$5 USD for One shirt: People are very persuaded to buy it. 10,000 people buy. Company makes $50,000.
$15 USD for one shirt: People are offended, and those with more money than sense buy it. 500 customers. Company makes $7,500.
Now, which would you prefer to see?
A $50,000 income on lower prices because you are appealing to thrifty customers who are living on decided reduced incomes in their lives (HELLO, **** ICELAND'S ECONOMY. THE GLOBAL ECONOMY IS ALSO ****ED. TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT, DUMB****S!), where you are able to persuade them to open their wallets for a single PLEX purchase that would grant them a number of items and perks in the Noble Exchange.
Or would you rather have this?
$7,500 from people who have more money than sense and a very, very angry playerbase that would be apt to gut you idiots alive at the next CCP event?
Think carefully, morons. The economist you have on your payroll only looks at numbers, not at sense. He is a "Money over sense" person, and that is what ****es us all off.
Fire the moron. Also, fire whoever thought it was a bright idea to try to coerce us into buying multiple PLEX to purchase a SINGLE. VANITY. ITEM.
P.S. "Vanity" does not always equate to "EXPENSIVE-ASS DOUCHEBAGGERY".
I absolutely love that you crunched the numbers here.
Thanks for mathematically torpedoing the idea that CCP is trying to rip off everyone and fill their pockets with greed.
Does anyone here think that $50,000 means anything at all to CCP?? What a joke. For a company that brings in millions a year in subscription fees, the amount of revenue brought in by microtransactions in the form they've implemented is completely irrelevant in the greater scheme of things.
And yes, vanity most certainly does equate to expensive ass douchebaggery. Look at anyone with a pair of Jimmy Choo shoes, Louis Vuitton purse, or Prada shades.
This was never intended to be monocles for the masses. It was always intended as monocles for the l33t.
50K a year means a lot to a company with as much debt as CCP. Especially when the people behind those 50K dollars start bad mouthing the game, giving it bad press causing far MORE people to never give the game a shot, costing CCP far more than 50K a year.
Jimmy Choo shoes.... maybe 10x more expensive than a "cheap" version.
A freaking skirt costing hundreds of MILLIONS of isk, with which you could buy multiple *battleships* or other fun things that do stuff in game?
A monocle that costs more than some capital ships? No, that's just stupid. At least Jimmy Choo's shoes are USEFUL in reality. This is beyond a "fashion" statement.
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