Is there anyone out there who actually buys iso?

Player1575
Player1575 Posts: 253 Mover and Shaker
in MPQ General Discussion
I'm really curious about this. The iso you get per dollar just seems so paltry that I can't imagine anyone actually buying it.
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  • Carnifexx
    Carnifexx Posts: 110 Tile Toppler
    edited June 2017
    Never have and I buy all kinds of dumb tinykitty in this game!
  • Fightmastermpq
    Fightmastermpq Posts: 995 Critical Contributor
    Yes, people buy ISO.  I've done it a couple times myself and seen it done by others in buy clubs.
  • Hadronic
    Hadronic Posts: 338 Mover and Shaker
    maybe in the past, today i think your better off buying HP and using the Heroes for Higher to just convert HP to ISO
  • DarthDeVo
    DarthDeVo Posts: 2,178 Chairperson of the Boards
    I've seen people casually mention they pull down between 30 and 40K ISO a day on average. I've never officially tracked my totals, but I think I come in closer to 20 to 25K per day on average, 30K on a great day. 

    At my worst, I can make the Mother Lode (78K ISO for $100) total in four days. That would be like forking over $25 per day. For those high earners, that would be like dropping $50 a day. 

    If I were blowing $100, I would expect to bring at least a 4* from 70 to 270, if not a 5* from 255 to 450.
  • Fightmastermpq
    Fightmastermpq Posts: 995 Critical Contributor
    DarthDeVo said:
    I've seen people casually mention they pull down between 30 and 40K ISO a day on average. I've never officially tracked my totals, but I think I come in closer to 20 to 25K per day on average, 30K on a great day. 

    At my worst, I can make the Mother Lode (78K ISO for $100) total in four days. That would be like forking over $25 per day. For those high earners, that would be like dropping $50 a day. 

    If I were blowing $100, I would expect to bring at least a 4* from 70 to 270, if not a 5* from 255 to 450.
    It's not always about the need though, if you are spending for CP and already have a massive HP stash then a little extra ISO might help more than the HP.
  • nigelregal
    nigelregal Posts: 184 Tile Toppler
    For a 100 dollars you should be able to champ at least a 5*
    I'm guessing they do not change it because people still buy it. If nobody bought the ISO they would change how much you get for the ISO. They are a business and want to maximize profits. I would argue they could extract much more money from people with better ISO from a purchase but we do not have the numbers as to how much people are buying. 
  • NMANOZ
    NMANOZ Posts: 108 Tile Toppler
    Mother Lode should be 1 million ISO
  • broll
    broll Posts: 4,732 Chairperson of the Boards
    I've never bought ISO and never will at the current rate.  
  • GrimSkald
    GrimSkald Posts: 2,645 Chairperson of the Boards

    People must buy Iso or they would change or eliminate it.  That being said, I don't, and I doubt many people on the forums do. 

    And again speaking for myself, I make around 40K a day on average (not including Iso from shield clearance levels.)  So yeah, it's a terrible buy for me at least.

  • BlackIC
    BlackIC Posts: 65 Match Maker
    No way...$100 and you can't champ heroes with the amount.
  • Arphaxad
    Arphaxad Posts: 278 Mover and Shaker
    Never have, and at current prices, never will.
  • mpqr7
    mpqr7 Posts: 2,642 Chairperson of the Boards
    Nope. I actually have been spending $2/month to support the game and get those sweet Shield Bonus Rewards... but I spend the $2 on HP and not ISO.
  • mckauhu
    mckauhu Posts: 740 Critical Contributor
    No. Never.
  • MissChinch
    MissChinch Posts: 509 Critical Contributor

    I've heard of big spenders that want iso buying cp, buying packs with the cp and selling the covers or champ rewarding with em to get iso...   I don't know if it nets more that way or not, but I was led to believe it may.... 


    I'd have to believe the iso cost of a max champ is negligible compared to the 113 covers needed to level em...  so if max champ is your goal, you better spend it ALL on covers (getting the 1 million iso or so to champ 5* thanos is trivial compared to getting 113 covers for him...)


    What surprises me is that there are still things left for whales to buy (short of just max champ dupes)

  • Jarvind
    Jarvind Posts: 1,684 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited June 2017
    I did once back in the day before I knew how bad it was. To be fair it was before intercepts and the extra ISO in the DDQ so it was...marginally less bad.

    If I need ISO these days I just spend some of my HP (which is usually fairly plentiful without buying any) on vault pulls. Champ levels give ISO plus other goods, and the pull plus adding all the extra levels gives a big chunk of SHIELD XP, which in turn leads to more ISO.

    I'll add what I always say on these threads, though: 

    A: People are really bad with money. You don't even know.
    B: The forums represent a small and disproportionately well-informed segment of the player population. I'd be willing to bet if you joined some random public alliances you'd get a whole bunch of CP rewards from people buying ISO.
  • Spidurman27
    Spidurman27 Posts: 184 Tile Toppler
    @Jarvind
    agree with both A and B soooo much.  
    Even right now I'm in an iso pinch, so I'm evaluating how to turn some spare HP into ISO last minute if I have to.  I'm never considering buying it.....factoring champ rewards that's about 1.3 days of iso for me, not worth $100 when I'm basically F2P
  • mpqr7
    mpqr7 Posts: 2,642 Chairperson of the Boards
    @Jarvind That's very true. I know of mysterious alliances where very few members actually play, and the alliance placement rewards are low, but if you can join that alliance, you get a deluge of 7CP bonuses.
  • dstann
    dstann Posts: 55 Match Maker
    For me the price of ISO was set back when it was just 2* and 3* heroes.  Now it is just too expensive when I am trying to level up 4* characters. 
  • cpeyton3535
    cpeyton3535 Posts: 256 Mover and Shaker
    Resurrecting an old thread but was wondering about the OP's question the other day.

    My price (in Cdn) for 78k ISO is a bewildering $131.99.  I can typically earn slightly more than that in 2 days of steady gameplay.

    So basically if I had no ISO and wanted to pay to champ a character the cost would look like this:

    2* = $126.12
    3* = $215.62
    4* = $640.31
    5* = $966.74

    I mean if I'm trying to entice people to spend a little cash, this sure isn't an effective way of doing it.  So why are the prices so laughably high for ISO?  It has to be by design, right?  They've actually thought this through and decided this is the optimal pricing structure?

    Is it a question of the long term health of the game?  Meaning that if ISO was cheap people would just buy a great roster and get bored more quickly and leave so they've priced it high.  

    Or is it to make us feel like the amount of ISO that we can earn by playing is actually incredibly generous when you put a dollar value on it?  "Look in 2 days you earned over $100 dollars worth of ISO!  What ISO shortage?"

    I'm genuinely perplexed.

    Maybe I'm overthinking and it's simply as @Jarvind suggests, people are just bad with money and if you don't know any better you're more likely to make bad choices.  Heck, I've spent way more on HP than I care to admit.  ISO, though?  Never spent a penny and never will at current prices - and I'm ISO-starved!


  • Dormammu
    Dormammu Posts: 3,531 Chairperson of the Boards
    It's when that 14th cover is wilting on the vine and you just can't quite get enough ISO to champ the character before it withers and falls off - that's when they get them on the ISO purchase.

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