The economics of a gaming company
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by Releasethe Krakken
I have read quite a couple of articles along the lines of why Plato just wants to make more money by introducing the Maverick Pack. More more more.....
During the start of internet new concepts saw the day of light Freeware and shareware. If you look at entertainment today the Internet is actually the place where you could still pay nothing for content.
Hence most games have an option that is free to use. And then later on introduce ways to make money. And that is usually where the problems begin. One can only sell an advantage over another player in an online game. BUT WE MUST ALL REMAIN EQUAL? You dont want them to make money although you use the bh's you get to buy your own packs. The players who buy your packs may not have the same advantage you have in a game? You want a basically free game and will quit if the status quo is changed and your competition gets better.
And Plato is the one being unrealistic? Right! This is still in the testing phase. Let them test it. If your correct then you will make less money and cant afford to by IK pack with game cash right meaning less IK Packs being sold . If your wrong however and their finances improve? Does it therefore not disprove your theory that this new pack is catastrophic.
Its almost if they transcended some primate Internet Law you wont make money from your talents. Games is funded by ads or in the alternative by the user base.
You say develop this game and entertain us but do it so that no one pay any money and there is no ads and so that all players can be equal.
Erepublik need money to pay for the update , upkeep and expansion of this game.
It needs money for salaries electricity bills and all the expenses associated with a game.
It needs more workers to expand its current lineup of games. Developers and project managers must bring updates that ring their tills
It said Test Pack? If everyone stop buying IK Packs then the test pack will be a better seller and implemented.
Their obviously sharing why they did it. Their obviously listening to your feedback. They called it a test pack and said that air battle changes will be introduced to follow the feedback they received..
They cannot remove all packs from the game without introducing ads.
At some point in a game there is a threshold where ether the players are wrong or the company is wrong. I am thinking that its the former. You dont want to gain any experience ever? You want to make hundreds of bh's medals a month and use them to fund your game for free. A game involves give and take.
We all know that true new players dont have any reason to be buy an IK Pack with uber tanks taking all of the bh medals. Your making it a new player thing. Yet your misguided in your arguments as it clearly is about an established low level old account that will lose some twerks it has.
In my viewpoint the tests must run its course. Complain if you want but dont expect the easy game to last indefinitely.
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Thank you for stating the bleeding obvious.
lol
They said new players will have the same chance as old players in air battle.
Is 100% not true.
Good job erepublik.
P.S. Can't post a comment because of the stupid CSFR attack
they said it older player said no that is not true big tanks have thousands of eb with which they will race away from everyone else. and what happened?
they dont play the game we do. although any player had an equal opportunity if he sold his rl car and bought eb's with the proceeds we all know that reality is not true.
to avoid CSFR attack in comments go back to your message copy/paste everything to a notepad. now log out completely from the game and close your browser reopen browser and then game. open your notepad and type what you wanted to say and press submit that is the only way to workaround that problem.
The things baby tanks do to new players or even medium aged players that arent online that much or that cant afford IK + PP wil now happen to them by the old folks in this game..
See the pattern?
Players 3-4 years old will have a taste of their medicine and 7-8 years old players will do the same thing they have been doing to new or 1-2 years old players.
Want easy BHs?
Everyone wants those..
The game is not set correctly from the start.
1.Level is not a propper thing to separate divisions.
Division change should get triggered by several things (like golden age on CIV)
by rank, level, strenght. Simple.
You get up to a rank, lets say "general" and you transfer to D2, you gain "legendary force" and you are D3, and you gain "titan" and you are D4
Also, you gain 30k strenght you go to D2, you gain 50k you go to D3, you gain 100k strenght you go to D4.
And in the end the level where you can keep the current setup or go for something similar..
So either of these things can trigger a division change. You either have a rank 2 big for your division, or you are 2 strong or your level is 2 high.
That way divisions would be nice and clean and fair and new players would have a chance to play and have fun and avoid old low level players give them a hard time and make them leave the game.
So the path to D4 would be faster but also more players would join the game and most importanly more players will decide to stay and play the game (since most of them leave after a few days or weeks).
You can always invent packs that would give you gold/damage/special bonuses/more regeneration and people would still buy those because they buy them in order to have an edge over other players and to be better.. More players = more customers
And also, give some 5 euro packs, 2 euro, 3 euro.. Its better to sell 2000 packs that cost 5 euros than to sell 400 10 euro packs (or whatever).. You get the point.
If the first purchase that gives you advantage is cheap than more players would buy.. and once they invested money its more likely they would stay and play on.. How many 1 time buyers are there? Not much.. People that buy stuff once usually come back.
Why dont admins use that?
If you give players more fun and more play in lower divs you would have so much more people.. doesnt matter that D4 would be full..
You can always add D5 with some new criteria that can trigger D5 - like legends rank, or 200 level or 150k strenght.. whatever happens first.
Why cant we have 5 divisons now or maybe 10 divisions in a few years ?
This would be awesome to play.
all good points and would make a good article.
cheers mate, i was thinking of copying this comment in a ticket and sending it to the admins.. but I am not sure its worth the trouble
yeah but then again one never knows. i anyway think there are admins among us.