Economic Perspective of this Wonderful Sales

TwinDreams - Harshlands
TwinDreams - Harshlands Posts: 90 Arc User
edited April 2012 in General Discussion
Ok guys this sales are awesome because:

1)
Just like what most business organisations do, they focus more attention on the high paying customers and try to make leeching customers leave. By having such sales, it keeps the gap between the current 105 r9+12 dod and the usual r8+5 big, so that those r8+5 are not going to catch up. By doing so, r9+12 people continue to feel superior and they are the ones who will stay and continue to CS more. All those r8+5 are usually free players who leech on server’s capacity and they shouldn’t be given attention to. (This could also explain why 105 glitchers are not punished and that thread "FC Glitchers Update" is now unstickied)

2)
Most people who still stay in this dying game are game addicts. That is to say their demand for PWE’s item are price inelastic. As such increasing price of items will decrease quantity demanded proportionately less, resulting in higher revenue earned. With higher revenue earned, PWE would be able to have better updates to compete with the new upcoming games.
3)
If the sales are normally priced, non cs-ers will continue to farm 24/7 in the hope of buying those items. However, with such sales, knowing that the real earnings actually decrease because of higher inflation, this will result in them farming less. While keeping these free leechers off the game, PWI is also helping them cure their addiction to caster nirvana (hence less QQ) and instead work outside to earn money. And to thank them for curing their addiction, they invest in PWI for more updates

So watch out for upcoming patch soon!
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Comments

  • Aubree - Dreamweaver
    Aubree - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,868 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I think this is an honest attempt by PWI staff to bring down gold price. Just like they promised us. We have been having sales that previously put us at about 1.5m gold price. Gold doesn't drop anymore. I assure you that the big sale will be coming soon though.

    Don't forget that at one time 50g for an ocean was a good price.
  • _Nerox_ - Dreamweaver
    _Nerox_ - Dreamweaver Posts: 753 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    Another MMO is out soon....and so am I. b:laugh
    Atleast it cant have worse GMs than PWI
    Don't forget that at one time 50g for an ocean was a good price.
    One time gold was 100k.
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  • God_Exiler - Sanctuary
    God_Exiler - Sanctuary Posts: 78 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I think this is an honest attempt by PWI staff to bring down gold price. Just like they promised us. We have been having sales that previously put us at about 1.5m gold price. Gold doesn't drop anymore. I assure you that the big sale will be coming soon though.

    /School&CollegeIsOutForSummerSale ???
    No
  • Aubree - Dreamweaver
    Aubree - Dreamweaver Posts: 1,868 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    /School&CollegeIsOutForSummerSale ???

    /omgawesomegameshavebeenreleasedweneedhavesupersale!

    also have no doubt that:

    insanelong2xdropandexpcauseawesomegamesreleasedevent!
  • Julietoo - Sanctuary
    Julietoo - Sanctuary Posts: 20 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    I think this is an honest attempt by PWI staff to bring down gold price. Just like they promised us. We have been having sales that previously put us at about 1.5m gold price. Gold doesn't drop anymore. I assure you that the big sale will be coming soon though.

    Don't forget that at one time 50g for an ocean was a good price.

    If they wanted to lower gold prices all they would have to do is remove packs but they don't and there hasn't not been a discounted pack in shop for a couple years now.
  • Olbaze - Sanctuary
    Olbaze - Sanctuary Posts: 4,242 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    If they wanted to lower gold prices all they would have to do is remove packs but they don't and there hasn't not been a discounted pack in shop for a couple years now.

    Oh please.

    Packs are indeed pretty much the biggest cause of inflation of coin on the server. However, just because coin is "cheap" does not lead to gold being "expensive". The reason Gold is expensive is very much in the sales PWE puts up. Any good sale goes on and you'll see a dozen merchants competing for Gold prices to get the cheap stock, causing the Gold price to go up.

    There used to be a lag period caused by people having stocked up on "cheap" gold and using that to make profit on their initial batch of on-sale goods. However, with the European servers getting their sales several hours before the maintenance, plus with helpful people posting those sales on General Discussion, you end up with people having the option of keeping a significant amount of funds as coins (e.g. the full 200m) and buying Gold with those coins pre-maintenance based on that week's new sales.

    And btw, there's been plenty of "discounts", even if you go ahead and assume that the 100 Packs = 44 Gold is "not-sale". Not long ago, we had some pack on sale for 35.2 Gold for 100. Also, during December, we had Easy Rider, Anniversary, Wildlife, Sunshine, Coral, Tiger and Cosmic Packs for 22 Gold for 100.

    And really, it's not the packs themselves, it's the Tokens and Best Luck Tokens. Together, these make sure that every pack opened adds up to 200,000 coins into the circulation, majority of which potentially comes from Tokens, not the Best Lucks. Of course, now that Tokens are priced at higher than the 9,999 coin NPC price, that's non-issue.
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  • Vindrael - Lost City
    Vindrael - Lost City Posts: 165 Arc User
    edited April 2012
    One time gold was 100k.

    ^ This. PWI used to care about the players. I think the company is now just a front for the Chinese mafia or something.