320$ each month for a 6* ascension come on....

MiniMF

40$ only for 25 dust T2 is a bit overpriced if I wanna be honest.. I'm afraid for cyber now NGL !

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Ghostboytjie

Its actually $39.99 so it saved you $0.01 so its actually $319.92.
Hope this helps

MiniMF

This is huge saving ngl ! imagine saving 0.08 a month. STONKS

Gogi

Damn, I'm guessing Kabam are testing the waters

@MiniMF Off topic, why do you have two batteries in you picture?

MiniMF

This is my headset battery

, it shows the battery when connected

PistolcuApa

Was going to post this just now. Looks like I will be happy with my only 6s ascended ahhaha.

Rick_1

I would consider for a fleeting moment at $40 for the full 200 primordial dust then quickly realise it’s not worth it.
Must be targeting a different market I guess.

laserjohn26

You need to realize that everyone has different financial situations. Games like this are in business because of people who 320 dollars means less than nothing to, not people who live in countries where the average income is 50 dollars a month (not saying you live in such a place)

MiniMF

TBH i could afford this but its overpriced for what it is imo, if it was 100$ i'd probably take it every month. 25 dust, few ISO (which end players dont need) and 750k gold (which most end players also dont need) makes it you'd throw 80$ for 1/4 of 6* ascension... like it seems its not good value.

I'd rather spend 320$ on cyber / X-MAS or even unit offers. Its like an ascension 6* would be worth almost 11k Units. Would you spent 11k units for a 6* ascension ? i personnaly wouldn't but obv i agree that big whales will buy those

laserjohn26

And that's the point. And @DNA3000 mentioned it earlier. Say 1% of the player base will buy it now. In 6 months or so they will drop the price to 100 (or some other reduced price that is perfectly predicted for maximum profit by an algorithm) like you suggested and many more people will buy it.

Rick_1

I have no doubts some people will buy it as for the next few months an ascended 6* will be the strongest rarity available.
Time is ticking though, 6 months down the road and not even the blubberiest whale would consider it.

MiniMF

If they plan to make it 100$ later why not doing it right now so they instantly have more than 1% of the players buying it, i think the difference of numbers of players between 320 and 100$ is enormous and by setting the price to 320$ they should lose a s*** ton of money huh ? i dont have access to the stats but i feel like they should hit and target most of the player right at the start

laserjohn26

Ok so he explained it, but it was a different thread on the same topic. It might not be obvious to you, but there is a reason.

MiniMF

do you have the link of the explanation ?

Demonzfyre

It's just how offers in this game tend to work. They start high and eventually come down once the value of the item cos down.

The very first offer for T5B was 4500 shards and was $99. There wasn't even anything else included with that offer.

AverageDesi

You own a OnePlus?

MiniMF

Yup OnePlus 11

Vance2_jr

Equals 12. Bing bong ya welcome.

MiniMF

Good one lmao

AverageDesi

You own a OnePlus?

Nice. How's it. I'm thinking of upgrading to it or 12

MiniMF

Its really solid, i dont have any input issue or anything, battery last avergae of 2 days with a regular use. from 10% to 100% in like 15 mins approx. Im not regretting it, neveer been disappointed by oneplus devices. There's also their ipad that i might buy lol

Fit_Fun9329

It’s actually a good offer. Due to such offers the game continues to be ad-free and ftp for most players.

MikeHancho31

I want to talk to the people who buy this deal, cause I have some timeshares they might be interested in.

captain_rogers

Jokes that can get you dumped on first date itself

DNA3000

Let's say you're willing to spend $50 on a 7* crystal, but I'm willing to spend $200 on that same crystal. If you sell it for $200 then I buy it but you don't and you make $200. If you sell it for $50 then we both buy it and you make $100.

But, you say, way more people would buy at the $50 price point. And that's probably true, so let's say that ten people are willing to buy at $50 and only one is willing to buy at $200. If you sell at $200 one person buys and you make $200. If you sell at $50 then eleven people buy and you make $550. That seems better.

But the best strategy is to sell at $200 now and say that this is a chance to get that crystal early. One person buys and you make $200. Then six months later you sell that crystal for $50 and ten people buy and you make $500. You end up making $700. You make more money this way, by selling to the whales first, and then everyone else later. And notice you sold the same eleven crystals.

That's how many F2P games are monetized, particularly this one. You have to give value for people's money. The obvious thing you can offer is things, but there's another thing you can offer: time. When you tier offers by time you can sell things at a higher price to people who are willing to pay more, and then sell those same things at a lower price to people who can afford to pay less. In a certain sense, eleven people got crystals for $50 a crystal, and one person bought six months of early access time for an extra $150.

The net result is that you end up making more money selling fewer things, which reduces the impact of spending on the game economy. When you sell things, the more money you make the more stuff enters the game. But when you sell time, you make money without adding more stuff to the game. You instead offer a temporal advantage. And temporal advantages by their very nature expire quickly, which means the impact they have on the game also evaporates quickly. Which is another way of saying you can get people to spend a lot of money to support the game while not handing them any permanent advantage that other players will complain about in the long run.

captain_rogers

I believe time is the factor here. The human urge to not wait for things/events is the main reason for the so called early offers.

DNA3000

I'm not sure what you mean by "so called early offers." On the one hand, you seem to be agreeing with the principle that people do often value immediacy; they value time. But then you seem to be implying that the early offers are not really early offers, that they aren't legitimate even though they are explicitly selling what you assert people value.

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