Does Kabam understand the game economy?

As if the unit cost wasn’t bad enough, the pitiful amount of gold is straight up insulting.

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Of course they do

6000 units for a champion with almost no meaningful abilities and some of the worst base stats in the game?

Bargain... 😉

Eb0ny-O-M4w

The fact that they have gathered 0 feedback from the last 3 years is just sad. Very sad on their part

Iamnike

They do this year around this time. The goal isn't to give you a good deal, its to drain your unit before the 4th sales

Colinwhitworth69

Why anyone would buy that champ is beyond me. Whatever it cost.

BigPoppaCBONE

Reallly? This couldn't have waited until Friday? Or better yet, a month ago? This would have been a must grab if they timed it better. SMH.

AverageDesi

The feedback is that players who want to buy it buy It. They've bought it for the past three years and they'll buy it this year too.

Unfortunately for you, Kabam doesn't care that you don't like this offer

BigPoppaCBONE

They should look around and see that no store puts out a 24 hour sale two days before an annual sales event. They didn't even bother to try to get people to spend more on 4th of July by doing some sort of tie-in.

They should care that enough people would buy the offer to bother making it. This isn't a good enough offer to put out at this time.

GroundedWisdom

Define good Offer.

AverageDesi

What's "enough people"? That offer is put out so that those who would buy it will buy it. It's not really a big issue.

Real life logic does not apply here.

iDestroyerZ

Anything but the thanos one, this offer it's not only trash...it's sad even, shows desperation from kabam to get people to spend their units
At least og vision is kinda useful with power gain and power drain, thanos needs to be x200 to start being useful

iDestroyerZ

With this type of thought we would never get the new version of the sonic movie....if something is clearly horrible, people shouldn't have to stay quiet

BigPoppaCBONE

Here's one, though many others can be made or found out and about.
An offer that sparks positive interest (nope), encourages sales (lol), and/or advances the organization toward achievement of short- or long-term strategic goals (Possible. Maybe they needed to squeak in another offer by the end of the month to make someone's quota for their bonus and making the offer matters more than it being successful?).

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GroundedWisdom

People still don't understand their personal spending habits don't apply to every Player.
There is no great conspiracy to get people to spend their Units before July 4th. That's just not a thing.
The Offer is for anyone who wants it. No one is forcing anyone into doing anything. If someone wants it bad enough, they'll buy it. If you think Kabam is somehow hurt if they don't, you're mistaken.
Not all Offers are meant to appeal to everyone, just like not all Players spend the same. Simple as that.

iDestroyerZ

Re-read the example i gave about the sonic movie
And what is with you and the ''it's a conspiracy'' comment every time? Not everything is a consipiracy dude, the offer is trash and since we are the consumers, we have the right to say something about it
''get people to spend their units before july 4th'' i know that you play this game long enough to know kabam releases multiple offers close to the july 4th and the reason we all know why, it's something that we already expect and almost everyone who plays the game know IT IS A THING, not a conspiracy
Btw i don't have a problem with kabam releasing offers like this close to july, just this specific offer is beyond horrible

GroundedWisdom

When you imply Kabam is desperate to get people to spend their Units, that's a conspiracy.
Kabam wants people to enjoy the game, but if you think they're itching to drain the Units out of Accounts by making Offers you personally feel are outlandish, then you're wrong. They don't care if you buy a Thanos or not, outside of the usual care they put into their product.

iDestroyerZ

Learn to interpret texts, i said ''shows desperation'' and not ''they are desperate'', you can do something and give an impression of another thing...they could very well not be desperate at all, but offers like this gives another impression

BeastDad

You have excellent posts/points.

GroundedWisdom

Okay, now you're really splitting hairs. Explain the difference to me between shows desperation and they're desperate.

GrandOldKai

As much as I would love to have a Thanos...

6,000 units? For a champion?
When units could be going towards... actual useful resources?

doctorb

It's sad how many thumbs down u got considering u nailed it. If ppl think an offer is bad then they don't buy it. Some ppl think it's a great offer.

iDestroyerZ

The game is a product, every product needs some sort of feedback to get better and etc, how do you hope kabam improves their game every year if we should never said anything bad about something we don't like? There has been in the past multiple cases where kabam had to reconsider something before releases, act 7 is the perfect example of this
This thing of ''oh it's bad so just don't buy it'' i don't have a problem with spending money or units, i wanna do it but with something that it's worth it

iDestroyerZ

Thank you

BigPoppaCBONE

Exactly.
Some people are saying, "It's an offer hardly anyone will want and the timing is horrible, but just ignore it. Don't give them immediate feedback in the venue designed for just that thing. Eventually, over time, they may happen to release offers their customers like based on their own internal interpretation of events. This may lure back the customers they lost in while they were figuring it out on their own."

World Eater

Lol you think GW speaks for Kabam?!

Vanitelia

The offer isn't good. It's a trophy champ and people love their trophies. You're defending Kabam's logic like you know what their thinking is. That's illogical in of itself. If that's not the case, then you need to supplement in words like "possibly", "maybe", and "might be". I have no problem with you defending Kabam (I've done it before), but I make sure to start off with "I think...".

Previous posts about draining units could be plausible. Unless you're the one making the decision to roll out the offer, you have no idea if it's a conspiracy or not. I'm not surprised that there have been comments because when you look at the quality of the offer, the timing of it, and who it's directed at, then people may very well feel buyer's remorse throwing away $300 worth of units after seeing the deals coming out soon. Then they have to replenish those units with cash and that reinforces the notion others have had in this thread.

Ashacekar

I can have him for 100 units

Demonzfyre

It's not desperation. it's just feeling out what people will pay for a trophy champion. 4500 T5B shards cost $99 when they were first offered for sale.

OG Vision has had like 5 different price points now. Here's the original-

I'm very upset I had to watch a Prof Hoff video for that.

30k units for a 6* OG vision and only able to go to Rank 2. You can now get him and rank him up for 9500 units to rank 3.

Offers will change over time. They aren't "showing desperation" when Thanos is 6k units and OG Vision was originally 15k units.

Ayden_noah1

If the offer was for Weapon X I would jump all over the deal and wouldn't care as much about July 4th unit deals since Weapon X is useful.

startropics

if they didn't understand game economy and player psychology this game would have died 5 years ago. they know it very well...