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Flash Sale Duration Poll

locutusofcactuslocutusofcactus Member Posts: 651 Arc User
edited April 2018 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
Let your voice be heard! Whether your opinion is that:
"It's their game. They don't owe us any sale so anything is welcome."
"I like the idea of a flash sale but it should be a bit longer as some people don't even get a chance."
"I have a life. I'm lucky to be able to be on a few times a week. Needs to be a normal sale." or
"Stop flashing me and just have a week long 30% sale to get it over with"

Interested to see what people think. Express your opinions but be respectful to others and Cryptic.

Flash Sale Duration Poll 52 votes

Flash Sale is fine how it is
25%
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Flash Sale should be 24 hours
53%
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Flash Sale should be longer than 24 hours and just be called a "Sale"
9%
platewearingbirdichaerus1leemwatsonxindax76ericrwilson 5 votes
Other
11%
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Comments

  • davefenestratordavefenestrator Member Posts: 10,511 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    I'm in North America so either duration works for me, but the 24 hour flash sales make more sense than the 8 hour ones for those outside the US.
  • protoneousprotoneous Member Posts: 2,982 Arc User
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    Might be nice to have them bumped up to 12 hours from this sale's 8 so more people could catch it. Eight hours is sleep or a work day.
  • locutusofcactuslocutusofcactus Member Posts: 651 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    Rule of acquisition: Always put the "exclusive sale!" sign in red.

    Also in the retail world, when customers see 40% off, they think "that's close to 50%" when in fact, it's closer to 1/3 than 1/2 (30% off is also a brain trick number). Put a red 30-40% off sale in a clothing store in a mall near the holidays and people will go crazy.
  • jaguarskxjaguarskx Member Posts: 5,945 Arc User
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    Make it a real flash sale... 8 seconds.
  • jamieblanchardjamieblanchard Member Posts: 556 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    Maybe 12 - 24 hours might be better for most people. A friend I play with is at work for the duration of previous sales, so they do her no good. As for me, I usually don't get to check STO until after it is said and done. Then, one must keep time zones in mind for players around the world.
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  • angrytargangrytarg Member Posts: 11,001 Arc User
    Why don't you ask Cryptic/PWE to simply reduce prices across the board permanently, since this is what all the fuzz is about. Doing so many sales leads to people perceiving the "on sale" price as the regular one and they stop buying. This actually put a chain of hardware stores out of business in Germany couple of years ago.​​
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  • mirrorchaosmirrorchaos Member Posts: 9,844 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    it should be fine as it is or extended out to a day at most.

    It is after all a "flash" sale for a reason.
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  • ilithynilithyn Member Posts: 903 Arc User
    mirrorchaos wrote: »
    it should be fine as it is or extended out to a day at most.

    It is after all a "flash" sale for a reason.

    This. I can understand having brief sales up with greater price reduction than usual for a "normal" sale, but Cryptic doesn't seem to realize that they have an international player base. Or maybe they simply don't care because due to timezones and real life commitments such as having a job it can be downright impossible to catch these sales as they happen either when we're asleep or at work.
    And truth be told, after these flash sales started and given how many it excludes due to the time frame, I've stopped buying anything in the game. So for this one player its been a net loss for Cryptic, but given that they're keeping the short time frames up I suppose that over the whole player base it has been a win for them.
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  • postagepaidpostagepaid Member Posts: 2,899 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    Global game so flash sales should cover all time zones.

    Flash should apply to the no advance warning side not the time of the sale.

    I'm in the UK but my regular game time usually means that I only see the sale has happened afterwards since they never update the launcher to remove the sale info.
  • leemwatsonleemwatson Member Posts: 5,342 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be longer than 24 hours and just be called a "Sale"
    Flash sales should be 24 hours indeed. They do not respect nature of the demographic.

    However, I can't see the figure on these sales, so I can't comment on how successful these are, especially for those folk who are close to the bread-line as it is. The Flash-sales, in effect are not targetted at those people, even though the apparent increase in the discount is larger.
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    it should change and make it into a real flash sale... you can announce ahead of time, but the actual sale time is random and only for 1 hour. but the discount is up to 50%.

    heck set it up so for 1 hour during the 2nd week of each month... a random sale @ 50% off will be held at a random time. when it goes live the system will make an ingame announcement... and that's it.
  • tyler002tyler002 Member Posts: 1,586 Arc User
    Flash Sale is fine how it is
    They never happen when I have money, so I see no reason to change anything.
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  • bubblegirl2015bubblegirl2015 Member Posts: 830 Arc User
    locutusofcactus wrote: »
    Let your voice be heard! Whether your opinion is that:
    "It's their game. They don't owe us any sale so anything is welcome."
    "I like the idea of a flash sale but it should be a bit longer as some people don't even get a chance."
    "I have a life. I'm lucky to be able to be on a few times a week. Needs to be a normal sale." or
    "Stop flashing me and just have a week long 30% sale to get it over with"

    Interested to see what people think. Express your opinions but be respectful to others and Cryptic.

    LOL did not even notice the cut off time was just less than 24hrs. If you are sleeping in other timezones or at work you would certainly miss it.​​
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  • where2r1where2r1 Member Posts: 6,054 Arc User
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    They have so many of them...I don't really care IF they happen.

    It is only a matter of waiting for WHEN they happen.
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  • tigerariestigeraries Member Posts: 3,492 Arc User
    coldnapalm wrote: »
    But why second week of each month?

    keep the odds up higher... they "lose" money during these sales. if it's a set day... some folks might camp it. keeping the time frame as wide as possible... harder to camp by saying it's possible any hour during the 2nd full week of the month.

    course folks can post it who are online once it happens... but that way not everyone and their mother will flood the server. sides the time is random so it could very well be at 2am to 3am pac time. =/

    this way if you happen to catch it... then you lucked out.
  • dracounguisdracounguis Member Posts: 5,358 Arc User
    edited April 2018
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    They run a game that is played around the world. Any flash sale should give everyone a chance to get something if desired.
    angrytarg wrote: »
    Why don't you ask Cryptic/PWE to simply reduce prices across the board permanently, since this is what all the fuzz is about. Doing so many sales leads to people perceiving the "on sale" price as the regular one and they stop buying. This actually put a chain of hardware stores out of business in Germany couple of years ago.​​

    Local marketing professor on the radio says "the sale price becomes the expected price". Now with virtual items like this it's harder to lose money on a sale since no real materials/manufacturing went into it. I assume with the frequency of sales Cryptic has that their sales has many spikes and dead zones in it. The dead zones are scary so they make more sales. Just like how there's ALWAYS some event going on to boost logins. Cryptic is addicted to sales and events.
  • spacehermitspacehermit Member Posts: 355 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    24 hours would be fair to all players. As it is, I usually wake up to find I missed the sale. Maybe they don't want European money?
  • meimeitoomeimeitoo Member Posts: 12,594 Arc User
    Flash Sale should be 24 hours
    crashdragon wrote: »
    Sure, I can respect others, but asking me to do the same for Cryptic, your burning the bridge while still standing on it there. =3


    They don't even make bridges any more. :P

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  • warpangelwarpangel Member Posts: 9,427 Arc User
    Flash Sale is fine how it is
    Only thing they really should do is advertise the sales in-game.
  • questeriusquesterius Member Posts: 8,309 Arc User
    dracounguis wrote: »
    They run a game that is played around the world. Any flash sale should give everyone a chance to get something if desired.

    To be honest i can appreciate that this sale actually favors those whom are not residents of the US for once.
    Almost every time there is a G.D action or promotion it is restricted to US citizens.

    Leave the flash sale like it is. There are plenty of other sales, but this one can act as a carrot or motivation for non US players.

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  • evilmark444evilmark444 Member Posts: 6,950 Arc User
    Flash Sale is fine how it is
    It's not optimal, but you can always remote desktop to make the purchase of you need to ... I've done it from my phone for giveaways and while it's definitely laggy and unplayable the store is still usable.
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