Any idea when the next sale will be?

Unknown

I'm on steam - just wondering if anyone has any idea when the next sale will be. For steam, the last sale was in late Mar during the 2 mil download celebration, and the one before that was for ISO during valentine's day I think.

Thoughts?

IceIX

We tend to keep our sales low in quantity and at somewhat unpredictable intervals. We don't do sales for every holiday for example. Everyone can feel free to speculate on when our next one may be but it'll be just that.

Unknown

Well...there wasn't one for Cinco De Mayo. Deadpool is saddened by this. He loves tacos. They tend to come and go a bit randomly and not always on all platforms.Sometimes only on Steam for example.

Again, deadpool loves tacos and wishes he had a sale so he could buy more tacos.

Unknown

Arbor Day?

Clintman

Sounds like they need to have a sale in the territories with the outrageous inflation in pricing.

Unknown

They spoke about thier sale strategy in the venture beat article. They do sales at a time where everyone is flush with hp. Right now everyone is starting to run out if thier hp from the last sale so my guess is that we'll have to wait for a bunch of people to buy non sale hp and then the sale will happen at whatever holiday occurs a few weeks after that.

My guess is that a sale will happen for 4th of July. Should be enough time for everyone to re-up on hp before then.

Bacon Pants

davecazz wrote:

They spoke about their sale strategy in the venture beat article. They do sales at a time where everyone is flush with hp. Right now everyone is starting to run out if their hp from the last sale so my guess is that we'll have to wait for a bunch of people to buy non sale hp and then the sale will happen at whatever holiday occurs a few weeks after that.

My guess is that a sale will happen for 4th of July. Should be enough time for everyone to re-up on hp before then.

I figured Memorial Day or the 4th of July. They make the most sense from a sale point of view at least.

Unknown

I thought the Steam sales coincide with when Steam is doing their twice yearly big sales events?

Unknown

So when do the big yearly Steam sales take place?

Unknown

alexyeo2 wrote:

So when do the big yearly Steam sales take place?

Typically, Steam does two big sales per year, the Summer sale in July, and the Winter sale in December.

Unknown

Fingers crossed for tomorrow. Lol

IceIX

Psykopathic wrote:

Fingers crossed for tomorrow. Lol

My Magic 8-Ball says "Unlikely".

Nonce Equitaur 2

The next one occurs on the Latverian Day of Ulitmate Doom, but only for full Latverian citizens, and only in their striketile currency.

Unknown

With all the new characters recently released, all 3*, we need a sale

Unknown

IceIX wrote:

My Magic 8-Ball says "Unlikely".

If it's true that Demiurge waits for people to be flush with HP before doing a sale, I'd just like to reveal that there will never ever be another sale again.

Ever.

Really.

Go ahead and buy now.

K?

IceIX

ZenBrillig wrote:

IceIX wrote:

My Magic 8-Ball says "Unlikely".

If it's true that Demiurge waits for people to be flush with HP before doing a sale, I'd just like to reveal that there will never ever be another sale again.

Ever.

Really.

Go ahead and buy now.

K?

Not the case. The actual quote from the referenced article was:

Design sale around instrumented excess currency: Keep an eye on how much currency is flowing around in your economy. If you detect that there is a glut, chances are the sale will simply convert players who were likely already inclined to buy.

What this really means is that when you do a sale, players that buy are strangely more likely to be the ones that already are doing well for currency rebuying in order to build a stockpile. All this is really saying is that counterintuitively, our sales have been most effective at raising the cap of spending for already higher spending users rather than converting non-spenders to spenders or lower spenders to greater spenders. It shouldn't be taken as "You should only run a sale when everyone already has money". Just that when we do, we see higher returns than otherwise. If you note another one of the bullet points in the same article:

Players will buy: They work. Sales, regardless of size, seem to at least double our daily take.

It really comes down to a delicate balance of when to run sales so that they're taken advantage of by the player population without allowing "sale fatigue" to set in where players have sales so often that the normal prices are seen as inflated instead of normal.

Unknown

Curses, foiled again.

Thanos

IceIX wrote:

It really comes down to a delicate balance of when to run sales so that they're taken advantage of by the player population without allowing "sale fatigue" to set in where players have sales so often that the normal prices are seen as inflated instead of normal.

Normal prices are already seen as inflated. It boggles my mind how F2P games think they should charge more for their content than a fully packaged retail game.

Unknown

Thanos wrote:

Normal prices are already seen as inflated. It boggles my mind how F2P games think they should charge more for their content than a fully packaged retail game.

These are the prices people are willing to pay. On the flip-side, I could say it boggles my mind how many F2P gamers think that someone else should work hard to provide entertainment for them for free.

Unknown

Nonce Equitaur 2 wrote:

The next one occurs on the Latverian Day of Ulitmate Doom, but only for full Latverian citizens, and only in their striketile currency.

But it will be based on location. If you're not in Doomstadt forget about it.

Raffoon

ZenBrillig wrote:

Thanos wrote:

Normal prices are already seen as inflated. It boggles my mind how F2P games think they should charge more for their content than a fully packaged retail game.

These are the prices people are willing to pay. On the flip-side, I could say it boggles my mind how many F2P gamers think that someone else should work hard to provide entertainment for them for free.

The economist in me says that if people are willing to pay the price, then it's fair. On the other hand, even after paying a considerable amount of money into the game personally, from a common sense standpoint and a comparison to any other video game, the pricing seems greedy.

The fact that you can pay 100 dollars into the game and still not end up with a single maxed out character as a result is ridiculous. Compare that to what 100 dollars gets you if you spend it on any other video game, heck even compare it to the original prices for Marvel heroes, which took so much flak for its pricing. In Marvel heroes, you could spend 200 dollars for the ability to play the first 20ish(?) characters to max level, plus receive a bunch of bonuses with the package. With the old pricing, the most, most, most premium characters were 20 dollars. We're talking about a game with 3D graphics, a greater server load, many more developers working on it, and patches with major balance and item changes, content, and characters added close to monthly. Marvel Heroes, which started with pricing that was more generous than Marvel Puzzle Quest ended up lowering their pricing in part because people complained so much, and in part to stay competitive.

At the end of the day, this game is undoubtedly pay to win and I'd argue that it's greedily priced too. It's also so fun that I've ended up paying into it anyway since I have a bit of spare cash. I just wish that I could feel like I was helping out a team of deserving developers, rather than participating in a corporate scheme to part me from my money in the most efficient manner.