Originally Posted by
Gank83
Why the hell do you think I mentioned all those cheaper games I play that are thriving? Their models obviously are working better and don't involve spending hundreds of dollars on a weapon alone. They don't don't price gouge their players...and they have much, much larger populations...go figure.
Or it would be corporate genius. Revenue upgrades are bringing in right now...ZERO. Revenue SES bringing in...minimal. Older players aren't buying many SES, nobody is buying upgrades. Sell 5 dollar upgrades, maybe will get an influx of new players and older players coming back that will buy SES...now your selling upgrades AND SES, and hopefully a larger amount of ASES going forward. Sell more overpriced crap and you'll just sell a handful to existing players willing to over pay and continue to not sell many SES.
Yeah...I do realize this, which is the problem. They want to gouge on every gear slot...they can't just be happy with people paying monthly for costumes and scrolls and dropping an occasional larger amount to forge/enhance things...so they just lose players. They've lost an army of players that would gladly be spending 10-20 bucks a month on costumes, ASES, and some scrolls who instead spend 0 because they don't want to invest ludicrous amounts of money in gear which may very well be rendered obsolete soon as they decide to have another upgrade sale and mod the stats again.
I'll just say it again...since its obviously hard for you to comprehend. Would it matter if upgrade revenue, which has been zero for months anyhow stayed in the gutter while revenue on every other item went up due to increased player base? I'm not spending a dime on a game where I have to continuously rent everything for a single alt for 50+ a month when some weeks I only have time to play 1 or 2 days yet all my timers are still ticking when I'm not even using the stuff, and I'm not spending hundreds or thousands of dollars to gear up when that kind of money could build literally go build a new PC if I wanted and buy a few new games. PW is literally stepping over a dollar to grab a dime and people can't figure it out lol.