jredd said: same thing as supports. good idea poorly implemented. hopefully they revisit at some point.
PiMacleod said: However, I do wonder if they can't change their business model due to potential backlash... if the 'whales' started to see reduced prices for things that they spent SO much money on in the past, would there be outrage? I'd think there'd be a bit of sour grapes there. Example: $75 costume now sold for $10 (which is still pricey, IMO, but that's just me) -- I think they'd be a bit upset on the 'loss' of $65. Some could argue that they had much longer to enjoy that costume... I'm not here to advocate either side, but I can see how it'd make people feel one way or another.
DAZ0273 said: I also don't think you can use any sort of "backlash argument" about making these costumes available again at lesser prices.I would liken it to getting free games on your PS+/X-Box Gold subscription - possibly millions of players paid full price for those games when they came out and that was their choice and they got the benefits of it then straight away. You can't turn around and complain if a year later Sony or Microsoft give those games away - that is just the way it is.
Ptahhotep said: There were costumes that came with VIP and changed every month. This could be brought back. If it cycled through all of the existing costumes it would be an additional incentive to purchase VIP access as well as a straightforward way of making the costumes available.
PiMacleod said: @DeNappa ... they've fluxed and changed that throughout time. Somebody here probably has the stats on it, but at one point, the $75 costume had only a few extras with it. Over time, as $75 costumes came out, they added more and more into the bundle. To me, it never quite equaled $75 -- but I find it hard to spend $75 on costume + resources for a game. Usually, a $75 gaming purchase for me would be a game + DLC content, or a game + funky/special controller... or even a good Rock Band guitar (man I wish plastic instruments were cheaper).
HoundofShadow said: I agree with that argument and I think this is where market segmentation comes in to play. The dev definitely has data to help them to do projection and what-if analysis on pricing costume bundles. $75 price tag is obviously targetted at whales, while anything less than $30 is targetted at the mass market. To sell all standalone costumes at $2-$5 is unlikely to happen. For them to sell at this price, we need about 1 million active players in MPQ who spend. You can keep on arguing that $75 can net you a lot of good or top games; therefore, costumes should be cheap. However, I think the main point is, you are not their target segment. $75 bundles are targeted at whales. I think this is how the typical market work. You can't expect Apple to sell iPhones for low price just because you can buy a few mobile phones for the price of one iPhone.
ZootSax said: PiMacleod said: @DeNappa ... they've fluxed and changed that throughout time. Somebody here probably has the stats on it, but at one point, the $75 costume had only a few extras with it. Over time, as $75 costumes came out, they added more and more into the bundle. To me, it never quite equaled $75 -- but I find it hard to spend $75 on costume + resources for a game. Usually, a $75 gaming purchase for me would be a game + DLC content, or a game + funky/special controller... or even a good Rock Band guitar (man I wish plastic instruments were cheaper). Just because I was curious, I looked up the $75 offers I could find. Originally I thought like you did that they varied through time, but actually they were more consistent than I realized (not including costumes offered for CP, HP or event placement/progression, as those are harder to objectively compare to a set cost of $75):-Costume-10,000 HP-5x Legendary tokens for the new-release 5* store-5 CP for allianceIt looks like this held true for Goblin, Carol, Dr Strange, Jessica Jones & Panther, at least. I thought Dr Oct was a VIP offer and I know Okoye was through a vault (I got her costume with the free pool, but never got her to use it). I couldn't recall any other 5* costumes, but I could be forgetting someone (Daredevil and Cable's costumes are cited in the link below to Dr Strange, but neither was a $75 offer). 5* Panther Costume:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/79750/costume-offer-black-panther-family-legacy5* Goblin:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/76962/red-goblin-bundle-1-21-195* Carol:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/77462/captain-marvel-celebration-updated-3-18-19Dr Strange:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/78518/all-new-cos-june-collection-updated-7-2-195* Jessica Jones:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/80150/mpq-halloween-events-2019/p3(quote from @bluewolf in this thread)
PiMacleod said: ZootSax said: PiMacleod said: @DeNappa ... they've fluxed and changed that throughout time. Somebody here probably has the stats on it, but at one point, the $75 costume had only a few extras with it. Over time, as $75 costumes came out, they added more and more into the bundle. To me, it never quite equaled $75 -- but I find it hard to spend $75 on costume + resources for a game. Usually, a $75 gaming purchase for me would be a game + DLC content, or a game + funky/special controller... or even a good Rock Band guitar (man I wish plastic instruments were cheaper). Just because I was curious, I looked up the $75 offers I could find. Originally I thought like you did that they varied through time, but actually they were more consistent than I realized (not including costumes offered for CP, HP or event placement/progression, as those are harder to objectively compare to a set cost of $75):-Costume-10,000 HP-5x Legendary tokens for the new-release 5* store-5 CP for allianceIt looks like this held true for Goblin, Carol, Dr Strange, Jessica Jones & Panther, at least. I thought Dr Oct was a VIP offer and I know Okoye was through a vault (I got her costume with the free pool, but never got her to use it). I couldn't recall any other 5* costumes, but I could be forgetting someone (Daredevil and Cable's costumes are cited in the link below to Dr Strange, but neither was a $75 offer). 5* Panther Costume:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/79750/costume-offer-black-panther-family-legacy5* Goblin:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/76962/red-goblin-bundle-1-21-195* Carol:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/77462/captain-marvel-celebration-updated-3-18-19Dr Strange:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/78518/all-new-cos-june-collection-updated-7-2-195* Jessica Jones:https://forums.d3go.com/discussion/80150/mpq-halloween-events-2019/p3(quote from @bluewolf in this thread) huh! Good research. Yeah.. I thought there were more differences... could've sworn it. Well... my bad.