I wish they'd expand/ alter the T-point shop to include the Premium DX's instead of normal DXs. As well as adding some of the newer dungeon reliant potions and odd circles and such. Stuff we can actually benefit from instead of 90% of the stuff tpoints has currently.
It only makes sense to have items that you can use often bought from points earned from play-time.
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Man, have you ever gone to a store where they have a special sale on an item and let you buy an unlimited amount? No, they always have a limit. Does no one have common sense anymore? Lmfao
I don't think you understand what you mean. Most companies who does a sale does not go below their actual production value.
Example:
Hamburger Price: $3
Production Price -
Burger: $1
Buns: $.25
Condiments: $.10
Vegetables: $.25
Labor: $.25
Total Cost: $1.85
You sell your burgers below the actual production price, you start losing money. If, you really want to get into a business stand point. The only reason to lower the price of your hamburgers is when you can make a profit somewhere else. Like on your fries, drinks, and whatever.
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The example doesn't correlate to Cabal seeing as the created "merchandise" is virtual. Therefore the production cost is $0 so no matter how low you drop the price, it will never drop below production price. You still turn a massive profit margin when dealing with virtual items in a "free to play" game setting that has an in game cash shop. It really doesn't matter, the point is still the same.... if it were unlimited, what would the need for AH dungeon entries be? Players would lose the profit they would otherwise gain from these potential sales, essentially harming the players that prefer not to spend ton's of real money. Henceforth, altering the in-game economy in a negative fashion.
Well, "Production" costs would be the cost of maintaining the servers I guess.
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Wrong. the product cost for a virtual item is from the server resources being used. Hosting a server ain't free. More items = bigger database, more players running dungeons and using up resources from the servers.
aaaaaaaaaaand Val beat me to it. lol
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Obviously, but that's the purpose of Cash Shop in general, we were discussing one specific section(Dungeon Entries) And if you truly think about it.. ESTSoft Corp was valued at $82Million in total Equity and Liabilities and earned $27Million in sales as of Q4 2013... Then you add that current employment statistics state they currently have 370 Employees..whereas the current NA hub hosts 11-50 employees... This company profits off of very little man power.. Need I say more? And I believe ESTSoft is associated with some pretty notable awards for their services. Don't get me wrong, like EST and it's associates for all that they provide for the community(Cabal), but they aren't doing anything for consumer benefit. Like I said, it is a virtual world whereas the services don't provide any real life purpose other than relaxation and fun.
http://www.estsoft.com/financial-information
http://www.estsoft.com/overview
http://www.linkedin.com/company/estsoft-inc.
Not trying to say that they don't do things to please the consumer, I just don't buy that they get nothing from it.
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