Alsmir said: scottee said: Why would they lie? If they wanted to just make an expensive package to "make more money", they wouldn't AB test. They'd make only the 3600 package. Forumites are such conspiracy theorists. If they wanted to acually test which option is better, everyone would be able to choose between A and B.
scottee said: Why would they lie? If they wanted to just make an expensive package to "make more money", they wouldn't AB test. They'd make only the 3600 package. Forumites are such conspiracy theorists.
broll said: The sinic in me suspects that if the 3600 did sell more, it's only because it was given as the only option to a larger group of players.
Sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Why in the world would they deliberately rig the results by offering the 3600 to significantly more players so they could claim it was more popular, instead of just charging 3600 from the start? What possible benefit is it to them to offer people a 2500 deal, knowing that they were going to change it to 3600, then rigging a test (that they didn't need to do in the first place and that no one asked for) to produce the results they wanted, ticking people off in the process? Are they just masochists who get their jollies tweaking us? Or are you claiming that it wasn't deliberate and that everyone at D3 is so monumentally stupid that they don't understand the concept of using buy rate rather than number of purchases when the populations are unequal?
MushroomGenius808 said: Bought 3 at 2500 (Nova, Rhulk, can't remember the first one I bought, but it was week 1)... won't buy any at 3600. Saw the announcement for the 300hp, didn't receive it.
scottee said: Not sure why everyone's up in arms. There's already a comment from an alliance saying the 3600 bundle was more worth it.Most of the sales on these will be from those in buyers' clubs, who have lots of spare HP. That'll account for far more sales than people who save up and only purchase the package every once in a while. The whales are adding up all the contents, and if they deem the 3600 package more worth, what's that to you?
astrp3 said: broll said: The sinic in me suspects that if the 3600 did sell more, it's only because it was given as the only option to a larger group of players. Sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Why in the world would they deliberately rig the results by offering the 3600 to significantly more players so they could claim it was more popular, instead of just charging 3600 from the start? What possible benefit is it to them to offer people a 2500 deal, knowing that they were going to change it to 3600, then rigging a test (that they didn't need to do in the first place and that no one asked for) to produce the results they wanted, ticking people off in the process? Are they just masochists who get their jollies tweaking us? Or are you claiming that it wasn't deliberate and that everyone at D3 is so monumentally stupid that they don't understand the concept of using buy rate rather than number of purchases when the populations are unequal?
Storm of fire said:
I was going to pick up War Machine blue since mine is missing that color when it popped up available for purchase for me tomorrow, but that's not looking likely anymore with the higher price point.
broll said: The sinic in me suspects that if the 3600 did sell more, it's only because it was given as the only option to a larger group of players. Sorry, but that makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever. Why in the world would they deliberately rig the results by offering the 3600 to significantly more players so they could claim it was more popular, instead of just charging 3600 from the start? What possible benefit is it to them to offer people a 2500 deal, knowing that they were going to change it to 3600, then rigging a test (that they didn't need to do in the first place and that no one asked for) to produce the results they wanted, ticking people off in the process? Are they just masochists who get their jollies tweaking us? Or are you claiming that it wasn't deliberate and that everyone at D3 is so monumentally stupid that they don't understand the concept of using buy rate rather than number of purchases when the populations are unequal?
Alsmir said: Simple answer is: for money.
Sorry again, but your "simple" answer still seems ludicrous to me. I agree that overall they did this to make money, but how do they make more money by running a fake test with a lower offer and rigging the results than by just offering 3600 from the get-go? The explanation that they did it to make us think they care seems even more far-fetched. Am I to believe that there are players who normally would not have bought the 3600 offer but were prompted to do so by the warm fuzzy they got from D3 doing a test then making them an offer they would not otherwise have accepted? If any players would be so prompted, I'd think they'd be more players who were ticked off that they jacked up the price on them or didn't give them both options. If you were just trying to push people into buying by making them feel like you cared by running a poll, wouldn't offering them both prices serve just as well? You can't say "no, then people would know about both offers and be ticked off" because the whole conspiracy theory that they were doing the poll to give us a warm fuzzy requires that players actually knew they were doing testing (which I find questionable).