DeletedUser1721
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I'm really not sure why the mods on the non beta forum told me that I had to come here to tell the players that don't pay attention to the beta forum that there's a really sickening update coming, but since they told me to take it here.........:
Hey, players who don't read the beta forum! There's an update on the beta forum that you should look at because you'll probably not know about it until after it hits if you aren't told about it on the forum that you do read. If you bought diamonds to buy premium expansions and haven't spent them yet you should spend them now before the update hits because if you don't, they will be severely devalued. Like, extremely devalued.
Of course, this is the beta forum, and since it's a post meant to warn players who aren't on the beta forum of upcoming changes, it really doesn't belong here. But according to those mods, it does, so.....
(this is me expressing my frustration with the fact that trying to alert players who normally have no interest in reading the beta forum to the fact that there's a change that's really going to flip their lives upside down, possibly encouraging them to come to the beta forum to complain, or if nothing else, letting them prepare for it, is off topic on the forums which are relevant to the purpose of alerting people who aren't aware of the change who will want to be aware before it hits. But it's apparently on topic here.... where people already know about it.... and don't need to be alerted to the fact that if they were saving diamonds to buy premium expansions later they're about to be made worthless...)
Again, I am reasonably sure that only a miniscule amount of people play Elvenar as their main game, which they are willing to spend hundreds of dollars a month on. Most people who play this game who are willing to pay are willing to spend a few dollars here, a few dollars there, but since it isn't their main game, I am assuming that they have other games or hobbies to spend their money on, and that furthermore, they have things they are saving their money for, because I'm pretty sure that everyone in this category has something that they need but don't have the money for at the moment.
I'd like to elaborate on something I mentioned earlier. Earlier I generalized saying that "people" don't like to spend tiny amounts on in game money each month followed by buying an item after they have enough, but rather spend all the money at once to buy the item they want to buy.
For specific examples, when my World of Warcraft friends want to buy tokens to exchange for gold, they don't just buy tokens every month and gradually save up for an item. They tend to buy tokens all at once, because there's a specific amount of in game gold they are trying to obtain to buy a specific in game item. Those who do buy tokens every month are doing it for reasons that aren't really applicable to Elvenar; their gear breaks down, they fail at farming gold to repair it, thus they're buying the gold to keep it repaired. Elvenar doesn't have equivalent maintenance fees that can be paid for.
$20 for a premium expansion, $30 for a snail palace, is about the maximum that I, personally, could see myself spending at once on this game, and I still haven't made up my mind about how I feel about the snail palaces.
Changing the cost of premium expansions to $50, $80 an expansion puts it beyond the amount of money that I am willing to spend on Elvenar, because it pushes that price high enough that suddenly, the money I'm being asked to spend on Elvenar is a significant portion of the cost of other things I am saving money for. Whether it's a vacation, a new doll, a new car, or other things that people might save for, $50-$80 is a much larger percentage of the cost than $20. It forces people to really look at it and think "..... I could buy this, but if I do, that's a quarter of the money I need to go to the Ren Faire this summer. I want to go to the Ren Faire."
From purely a business perspective, when you're in the business of selling tchotchkies to people, you don't want to make them stop and think about how much money they've been spending on the tchotchkies. This is also how the lottery works. As long as people aren't thinking about what else they could be spending that money on, they will continue handing over small amounts of cash on a regular basis. Increase the amount of cash they're required to spend on a regular basis, and suddenly it will be large enough that they'll see it as funds they could be spending on something else, rather than extra money. Yay for words that I learned phonetically from Polish family members but not how to spell but which fit perfectly.
Hey, players who don't read the beta forum! There's an update on the beta forum that you should look at because you'll probably not know about it until after it hits if you aren't told about it on the forum that you do read. If you bought diamonds to buy premium expansions and haven't spent them yet you should spend them now before the update hits because if you don't, they will be severely devalued. Like, extremely devalued.
Of course, this is the beta forum, and since it's a post meant to warn players who aren't on the beta forum of upcoming changes, it really doesn't belong here. But according to those mods, it does, so.....
(this is me expressing my frustration with the fact that trying to alert players who normally have no interest in reading the beta forum to the fact that there's a change that's really going to flip their lives upside down, possibly encouraging them to come to the beta forum to complain, or if nothing else, letting them prepare for it, is off topic on the forums which are relevant to the purpose of alerting people who aren't aware of the change who will want to be aware before it hits. But it's apparently on topic here.... where people already know about it.... and don't need to be alerted to the fact that if they were saving diamonds to buy premium expansions later they're about to be made worthless...)
Again, I am reasonably sure that only a miniscule amount of people play Elvenar as their main game, which they are willing to spend hundreds of dollars a month on. Most people who play this game who are willing to pay are willing to spend a few dollars here, a few dollars there, but since it isn't their main game, I am assuming that they have other games or hobbies to spend their money on, and that furthermore, they have things they are saving their money for, because I'm pretty sure that everyone in this category has something that they need but don't have the money for at the moment.
I'd like to elaborate on something I mentioned earlier. Earlier I generalized saying that "people" don't like to spend tiny amounts on in game money each month followed by buying an item after they have enough, but rather spend all the money at once to buy the item they want to buy.
For specific examples, when my World of Warcraft friends want to buy tokens to exchange for gold, they don't just buy tokens every month and gradually save up for an item. They tend to buy tokens all at once, because there's a specific amount of in game gold they are trying to obtain to buy a specific in game item. Those who do buy tokens every month are doing it for reasons that aren't really applicable to Elvenar; their gear breaks down, they fail at farming gold to repair it, thus they're buying the gold to keep it repaired. Elvenar doesn't have equivalent maintenance fees that can be paid for.
$20 for a premium expansion, $30 for a snail palace, is about the maximum that I, personally, could see myself spending at once on this game, and I still haven't made up my mind about how I feel about the snail palaces.
Changing the cost of premium expansions to $50, $80 an expansion puts it beyond the amount of money that I am willing to spend on Elvenar, because it pushes that price high enough that suddenly, the money I'm being asked to spend on Elvenar is a significant portion of the cost of other things I am saving money for. Whether it's a vacation, a new doll, a new car, or other things that people might save for, $50-$80 is a much larger percentage of the cost than $20. It forces people to really look at it and think "..... I could buy this, but if I do, that's a quarter of the money I need to go to the Ren Faire this summer. I want to go to the Ren Faire."
From purely a business perspective, when you're in the business of selling tchotchkies to people, you don't want to make them stop and think about how much money they've been spending on the tchotchkies. This is also how the lottery works. As long as people aren't thinking about what else they could be spending that money on, they will continue handing over small amounts of cash on a regular basis. Increase the amount of cash they're required to spend on a regular basis, and suddenly it will be large enough that they'll see it as funds they could be spending on something else, rather than extra money. Yay for words that I learned phonetically from Polish family members but not how to spell but which fit perfectly.
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