Am I missing something

Bazooka_1

A simple comparison and a simple question. WHY KABAM, WHY?

By the way the better deal is 5$. 🤷‍♂️

DNA3000

Bazooka_1 said:

A simple comparison and a simple question. WHY KABAM, WHY?

Better question: why do you care?

If the deal exists, it is almost certain people are buying it. Kabam wouldn't waste space on deals no one was buying. Who buys these kinds of deals? Depends. Sometimes one is progression gated and one is not, so the two deals are not accessible, and thus not comparable to all players. Sometimes it is a question of limits: one or all of the offers have limits, and some people buy both, because once you buy one of them, there's no longer a choice between the two. Buying both offers above gets you more stuff than just buying one of them. The fact that they have disparate pricing is irrelevant (to the buyers).

But the real question you should be asking is: why do you care? Kabam is going to sell stuff, and they are going to try to make money. Their corporate masters, Netmarble, are going to try to make a profit above operational costs. They are going to try to maximize that revenue within certain limits. But the more stuff they sell, the more stuff the whales get for their cash. The more money spent on so-called overpriced deals, the more money this game generates while adding fewer stuff into the accounts of the spenders. They continue to spend, but the advantage they get for their money is lower than if every deal was a blockbuster value.

Again I ask: why do you care? Do you want every dollar spent on the game to generate blockbuster value? The $5 USD daily offers are pretty good value for light spenders. But they have a limit, so a whale cannot just buy a thousand of them. Once they buy them, same as everyone else can, if they want to continue to spend money on the game they will have to do so on offers that are more expensive, and contain less relative value. For the whales, this doesn't matter much. Their spending ceiling is so high that so long as they get anything for their money that is worth anything, they'll keep spending. They aren't concerned about per dollar value. They just want more stuff and willing and able to spend to get it.

I don't see the problem here.

[Deleted User]

Most games that rely on microtransactions gain a significant portion of their profit from overpriced sales. A small amount of people will spend a very large amount of money without caring too much whether it's a good deal or not. Obviously, in a perfect world, all sales would be reasonable and Kabam would make enough money to keep the game running and take their profit, but that just can't happen. These deals are for the whales, while daily specials, 4th of July and Cyber Weekend are for more casual spenders.