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AxeltheDarkHero Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am Posts: 12	New Daily Deals? From what I've seen, the new deals are only for Gold purchasing (unless I'm wrong then this thread is kind of pointless, but I'm assuming that the deals only reduce Gold pricing), I'm just wondering why it doesn't reduce the item's EXP price in addition to its Gold price, considering items are pretty heavily EXP priced if you don't have a booster. Is there any real reason why it can't be both? Edit: Not to say this is a hurtful addition, but I'm just wondering what's there to lose by decreasing the EXP cost of a random item for a day as well? Last edited by AxeltheDarkHero on Tue May 08, 2012 10:58 am, edited 2 times in total.
Tue May 08, 2012 10:54 am

Ananasi Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:49 pm Posts: 1001	Re: New Daily Deals?
Tue May 08, 2012 10:58 am

NKuga Joined: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:55 pm Posts: 308	Re: New Daily Deals? Everything in a "well-designed from a monetary standpoint" F2P game is centered around luring a user into making their first real-currency purchase. This is just another way of enticing players to do so. Pretty much all of the research/data into F2P games suggest that once people have made that initial money transaction, they are much less hesitant to make subsequent impulse purchases. So really, it's just good business. Good for whom is debatable, however...
Tue May 08, 2012 11:06 am

DemoEvolved Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:28 am Posts: 2031	Re: New Daily Deals? Hey, a bargain basement price on a piece of equipment that the player wants in exchange for a game that continues to receive updates and new features sounds like more than a fair deal to me. 60GP for the soldier spinfusor? 230GP for the infil disk? Hell yeah.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:25 am

AxeltheDarkHero Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am Posts: 12	Re: New Daily Deals? DemoEvolved wrote: Hey, a bargain basement price on a piece of equipment that the player wants in exchange for a game that continues to receive updates and new features sounds like more than a fair deal to me. 60GP for the soldier spinfusor? 230GP for the infil disk? Hell yeah. Like I added into the OP, I wasn't saying it's a bad addition, I'm just saying that there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to have the discount not work on EXP prices as well when multiple weapons cost 100k EXP.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:29 am

Elysiume Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:33 pm Posts: 1058	Re: New Daily Deals? On the other hand the discounts are random and some people (in this case me) can get completely f*** over. _________________ 100% inheritance is something the game needs. Jetpacks need to behave more like jetpacks, at all speeds.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:41 am

Armoredphoenix Joined: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:59 pm Posts: 844 Location: Kansas Steam Gamer Name: Armoredphoenix	Re: New Daily Deals? For those people who have a wonky amount of gold that they can't do anything with i guess :\ _________________ Armoredphoenix http://www.generhaters.com
Tue May 08, 2012 11:42 am

AxeltheDarkHero Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am Posts: 12	Re: New Daily Deals? Elysiume wrote: On the other hand the discounts are random and some people (in this case me) can get completely f*** over. -Snip- -Snip- That's another thing that doesn't make much sense, if people have bad luck (assuming the discount % is completely random, and doesn't cycle through like if you had 25% off, you wouldn't get that again for awhile), they are constantly going to be getting worse deals.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:43 am

DemoEvolved Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:28 am Posts: 2031	Re: New Daily Deals? Its random. Emptor Caveat. I imagine most of the time players will get a standard deal and they will pass. Then sometimes they are gonna get a great deal and they will probably buy it.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:50 am

lamebot Joined: Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:32 pm Posts: 215	Re: New Daily Deals? They might want to check with their legal guys before straight up lifting the design from the steam store.
Tue May 08, 2012 11:51 am

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AxeltheDarkHero

Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am
Posts: 12

New Daily Deals?

From what I've seen, the new deals are only for Gold purchasing (unless I'm wrong then this thread is kind of pointless, but I'm assuming that the deals only reduce Gold pricing), I'm just wondering why it doesn't reduce the item's EXP price in addition to its Gold price, considering items are pretty heavily EXP priced if you don't have a booster. Is there any real reason why it can't be both?

Edit: Not to say this is a hurtful addition, but I'm just wondering what's there to lose by decreasing the EXP cost of a random item for a day as well?

Last edited by AxeltheDarkHero on Tue May 08, 2012 10:58 am, edited 2 times in total.

Tue May 08, 2012 10:54 am

Ananasi

Joined: Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:49 pm
Posts: 1001

Re: New Daily Deals?

Tue May 08, 2012 10:58 am

NKuga

Joined: Thu Apr 15, 2010 12:55 pm
Posts: 308

Re: New Daily Deals?

Everything in a "well-designed from a monetary standpoint" F2P game is centered around luring a user into making their first real-currency purchase. This is just another way of enticing players to do so.

Pretty much all of the research/data into F2P games suggest that once people have made that initial money transaction, they are much less hesitant to make subsequent impulse purchases.

So really, it's just good business. Good for whom is debatable, however...

Tue May 08, 2012 11:06 am

DemoEvolved

Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:28 am
Posts: 2031

Re: New Daily Deals?

Hey, a bargain basement price on a piece of equipment that the player wants in exchange for a game that continues to receive updates and new features sounds like more than a fair deal to me.

60GP for the soldier spinfusor?
230GP for the infil disk?

Hell yeah.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:25 am

AxeltheDarkHero

Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am
Posts: 12

Re: New Daily Deals?

DemoEvolved wrote:

Like I added into the OP, I wasn't saying it's a bad addition, I'm just saying that there doesn't seem to be much of a reason to have the discount not work on EXP prices as well when multiple weapons cost 100k EXP.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:29 am

Elysiume

Joined: Fri Dec 02, 2011 4:33 pm
Posts: 1058

Re: New Daily Deals?

On the other hand the discounts are random and some people (in this case me) can get completely f*** over.

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100% inheritance is something the game needs.
Jetpacks need to behave more like jetpacks, at all speeds.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:41 am

Armoredphoenix

Joined: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:59 pm
Posts: 844
Location: Kansas
Steam Gamer Name: Armoredphoenix

Re: New Daily Deals?

For those people who have a wonky amount of gold that they can't do anything with i guess :\

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Tue May 08, 2012 11:42 am

AxeltheDarkHero

Joined: Thu Jun 03, 2010 4:47 am
Posts: 12

Re: New Daily Deals?

Elysiume wrote:

On the other hand the discounts are random and some people (in this case me) can get completely f*** over.
-Snip-
-Snip-

That's another thing that doesn't make much sense, if people have bad luck (assuming the discount % is completely random, and doesn't cycle through like if you had 25% off, you wouldn't get that again for awhile), they are constantly going to be getting worse deals.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:43 am

DemoEvolved

Joined: Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:28 am
Posts: 2031

Re: New Daily Deals?

Its random. Emptor Caveat.

I imagine most of the time players will get a standard deal and they will pass.
Then sometimes they are gonna get a great deal and they will probably buy it.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:50 am

lamebot

Joined: Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:32 pm
Posts: 215

Re: New Daily Deals?

They might want to check with their legal guys before straight up lifting the design from the steam store.

Tue May 08, 2012 11:51 am

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