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So with the first day of steampunk sales over...

afocks

By afocks,
Posted on: 2011-06-01 22:20 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Is there a point in the life of a booster that the sales diminish to a negligible amount? If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to offer an alternate method of unlocking said booster(s) without the need for money?
From a business standpoint, it would make more sense to eventually lower the price (either permanently or with a sale) so you can collect from people who wouldn't spend $10 on a costume booster but might spend $5. No reason to go from $10 to free.

 

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What I would like to see is the trend of Booster sales. How many do they sell in the first day? What are sales in the first week? Then the first month, then the next 6 months?

Is there a point in the life of a booster that the sales diminish to a negligible amount? If that's the case, wouldn't it be better to offer an alternate method of unlocking said booster(s) without the need for money?

Doing so would serve many purposes. It would be good advertising. Furthermore, it's new "free" content would help retain subscribers, just like the "free" issues have retained subscribers.

ps: In response to somebody's earlier estimate on active subscribers; It's estimated that CoH has around 120k active subscriptions, possibly more since the last data I saw was pre-GR.

If everyone knew 6 months after something was released as a booster it would be free, or easily unlockable, i think the number of people purchasing would decrease rapidly.

As it stands out of all the boosters, the only one I would have been tmepted to buy to get sooner would be the steampunk one. I'm still waiting for science to go on sale, as all I want from that is size changing... and i'll never buy the party one

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From a business standpoint, it would make more sense to eventually lower the price (either permanently or with a sale) so you can collect from people who wouldn't spend $10 on a costume booster but might spend $5. No reason to go from $10 to free.
Like they are doing right now with the Ninja Pack.

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