New Store - Heroes for Hire (4/11/17)

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  • ejm04
    ejm04 Posts: 47 Just Dropped In
    veny said:
    Different prices for diffent players are discriminating no matter what (unless its tied to taxes, special discounts etc. which i doubt).
    So if senior citizens and veterans and the poor got these offers for 1500HP, you'd be cool with it?
  • Merrick
    Merrick Posts: 198 Tile Toppler
    The only thing that made the 2500 hp offer worth considering was the inclusion of the 3* covers. 
  • bluewolf
    bluewolf Posts: 5,817 Chairperson of the Boards
    A small defense for this:  Players have been angry about vaulting.  Give us all our 4's!  So they tried Vintage Heroic.  Fail to us, fail for devs (prob not many sales). Then they start this store.  Yes, knowing you are being charged more for a cover sucks. Really sucks. But: if we assume they are trying to determine the right price point (aka what the market will pay) they had two options.  1. A poll, which means delayed implementation. (Gather results, analyze, launch, and evaluate).  2.  Put a store up with different pricing, see what happens.  Allow players to start buying covers that appeal to them.
    Remember that prior to VIP there was a poll.  The forumites quickly saw that there were two prices being presented to different people.  I think the lower cost option is what we have, probably because we shared that information. But we had to wait for VIP to go live.
    I would rather have a live store that lets me directly speak with my money than wait for a longer process.  I assume the 3600 option is not getting many takers...
  • orbitalint
    orbitalint Posts: 511 Critical Contributor
    Getting the 3600 "deal" for IMHB. Danny was way too expensive at 3600 with known 3*. This is just ludicrous.

    There is a serious misalignment between how much a single known cover is worth to me and the devs. I actually did use my hp stock to get 2 HB covers back in the day at 2500hp/cover but he was the best back then. There are more 4* than 3* at this point, he's barely top five in the tier and there is a whole tier ahead of him... And now you want me to pay more? Stop acting like there are three 4* like two years ago. 
  • Starfury
    Starfury Posts: 719 Critical Contributor
    bluewolf said:
    A small defense for this:  Players have been angry about vaulting.  Give us all our 4's!  So they tried Vintage Heroic.  Fail to us, fail for devs (prob not many sales). Then they start this store.
    I don't think this store is meant to address vaulting, but the problem of required 3* and 4* in DDQ (that's why they chose those respective characters)

    At least that's what I hope, if this was supposed to be the solution to vaulting, I'd have to question someone's grasp on reality.
  • Philly484
    Philly484 Posts: 173 Tile Toppler
    Realistically what needs to be done is that they need to just add the 4's back to the classic packs. Simple solution fixed. They could change the ratios of draw rates around and have older champs at a lower draw rate. Personally I would like to see what statistics their marketing person looks at, and feedback from players, because the solutions offered to what players are asking keep missing the mark; by a lot....
  • kyo28
    kyo28 Posts: 161 Tile Toppler

    Well, at 2500 HP I bit the bullet and bought the Medusa cover. He's almost fully covered and I have one of her covers dying on the vine, so might as well speed up the process so I can champ her and utilize that cover on the vine.

    But it's definitely not something I'd do often or spend and inordinate amount of money on. In this case, it was HP I had saved up anyway.

  • keitterman
    keitterman Posts: 127 Tile Toppler
    kyo28 said:

    Well, at 2500 HP I bit the bullet and bought the Medusa cover. He's almost fully covered and I have one of her covers dying on the vine, so might as well speed up the process so I can champ her and utilize that cover on the vine.

    But it's definitely not something I'd do often or spend and inordinate amount of money on. In this case, it was HP I had saved up anyway.

    Spend your money how you want, but consider that Medusa is still a token reward. You'd have had her soon enough. 2500HP has a lot of uses.
  • RhodeyWM
    RhodeyWM Posts: 13 Just Dropped In
    Why is the cost 3600 hp for some and 2500 hp for others?
  • STERLING21JJ
    STERLING21JJ Posts: 103 Tile Toppler
    RhodeyWM said:
    Why is the cost 3600 hp for some and 2500 hp for others?
    you get more iso, tokens, and cp for the 3600hp vs 2500hp. 
  • Nick441234
    Nick441234 Posts: 1,496 Chairperson of the Boards
    I was hoping day 2 might give me the chance to see some of these 2500HP deals but it seems I'm locked into the 3600HP club. Ridiculous. 
  • Wonko33
    Wonko33 Posts: 985 Critical Contributor
    keitterman said:
    kyo28 said:

    Well, at 2500 HP I bit the bullet and bought the Medusa cover. He's almost fully covered and I have one of her covers dying on the vine, so might as well speed up the process so I can champ her and utilize that cover on the vine.

    But it's definitely not something I'd do often or spend and inordinate amount of money on. In this case, it was HP I had saved up anyway.

    Spend your money how you want, but consider that Medusa is still a token reward. You'd have had her soon enough. 2500HP has a lot of uses.
    honestly if you have enough roster slots and are just needing slots when new character are introduced and you are not really into the top 50 scene in PvP there is no other use for HP - these stores are great for me. Easy way to get those exact color covers I want.
  • matthatter
    matthatter Posts: 151 Tile Toppler
    I read somewhere in this last 15 pages about 3 stores. I liked it and wanted to piggyback on it. 3 command point stores, who cares what they are called. One for 10 CP, one for 20 and one for 30. In reverse, newest 3 5* and 12 4*, next 5 5* and 12 4*, and the last, all others. Elite tokens have all 2* and select 3*, Heroic have latest 4* and select 3* and no 2*. Standard have all 1* and 2* and non select 3*.
  • killerkoala
    killerkoala Posts: 1,185 Chairperson of the Boards
    lol heroic as 3*/4* token that is a funny one; they give it out a lot so i doubt then would consider that. 

    but changing elites to 3*/4* token is a better solution cause 1) u can't buy them, 2) harder to get them as prizes.
  • matthatter
    matthatter Posts: 151 Tile Toppler
    killerkoala said:
    lol heroic as 3*/4* token that is a funny one; they give it out a lot so i doubt then would consider that. 

    but changing elites to 3*/4* token is a better solution cause 1) u can't buy them, 2) harder to get them as prizes.
    True, but if they were to change what's sold in the store, I'm sure they could change the availability of the tokens. Considering I have 60 plus elites and 10 heroics that I have been hoarding since the start of the PVP season...
  • Nepenthe
    Nepenthe Posts: 283 Mover and Shaker
    nick_chicane said:
    Its definitely a silly idea the pricing. The minute I realised people were seeing an offer 1100HP less than what I was seeing, that ruled me out of ever purchasing anything at the 3600HP price tag. Its the 4* cover you are buying more than anything else, I'm not paying 1100HP more for that than what someone else can get that cover for. 

    While I keep seeing the price tag at 3600HP, it will be an instant non purchase for me now. 
    Good.  Hopefully more people seeing the 2500 hp offer will make purchases, people with 3600 offer won't, and then they'll go with 2500 for everyone going forward.  

    They did A/B testing on this for event vaults vs the older event tokens back when vaults were a new thing, too.  Apparently event vaults won out.
  • killerkoala
    killerkoala Posts: 1,185 Chairperson of the Boards
    that is weird, i get more heroics than elites. my ratio is 1:4. 

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