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Post by majesticjazz on Feb 16, 2019 0:39:35 GMT
We know it wasn't the current build, we also knew it was one of the options on the table for the final build. I'm not putting down people unwilling to leap to the worst possible scenario, I'm correcting people putting out FALSEHOODS in order to paint those sceptical in the worst light. People did not take a placeholder image and run with it, people weren't deep in speculation city and building each other up to a fever pitch. We were talking about a confirmed, older iteration which we could take an educated guess on the price, and the super hyped up price pissed people off. I said I wouldn’t revisit the issue of whether people were speculating, so I won’t but I remain in disagreement with you. Regardless of how rational you felt it was, assuming the dollar to shard conversion was still an unconfirmed guess and reminding people who treated it as an absolute certainly to drumbup the clickbait circus that this was the case is not a falsehood. Maybe you were level headed enough to treat this as an iteration BioWare played with at some point rather than a glimpse at the final product, if so I have no issue with you, but many were not. Lol
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 16, 2019 0:48:02 GMT
At the end of the day, given you can't pay the exact amount for what you want, you end up paying more, probably with not enough shards left over to buy anything worth a damn. Thats a fair point. The deviation from the nominal 100 shards per $1 can vary in either direction, depending on how efficient/patient people are at spending. It’s not clear to me whether that helps or hurts BW. They already collected the money and the cost of making the product is already accounted for, so unspent shards aren’t like a liability they’d have to carry, in the same way frequent flyer miles are. Arguably unspent shards make people unhappy, feel like they were cheated, so too much of that will have a net negative impact.
All of this was predictable when Darrah said the game economy of the launched version was totally different from the demos. Personally, I anticipated this reaction along with EA's online monetisation policy.
At the end of the day, it's a player's choice to mtx or pass.
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Post by majesticjazz on Feb 16, 2019 12:26:52 GMT
Apex isnt a competitor to Anthem remember? Why the worry about who does better in MTXs? Shockingly, you missed the point of my post. (That's sarcasm. I'm not actually shocked.) My original post was addressing someone saying Anthem should have gone Free-to-Play. My response was that being able to charge $60+ at launch put them in a position similar to if every single person playing Apex paid over $7 in MTX. Then in top of that Anthem has their own MTX, but it's always interesting to see spending differences between F2P vs Paid games. So at the end of the first few weeks or month revenue for Apex and Anthem might be fairly equal, therefore keeping players engaged and spending in the long-run would be important for both games, and it wouldn't be until after a year or so had passed until we saw a clear "winner". Nope, still doesnt make since. You forgot to factor in items such as: 1) Marketing cost - Apex had a ninja launch with very little fanfare and VERY limited marketing after launch. While Anthem had TV spots, a short film, and a big rush in online marketing. 2) Distribution/Packaging cost - Apex is a digital game only so no cost here. While Anthem has to pay for the labeling/distro cost for the physical copies Anthem to include other production cost. 3) Overall budget - I would imagine given the scope of Apex, it had a smaller or a5 least smaller budget than Anthem. Anthem has to pay people to do all those voiceovers and stuff like cutscenes and other stuff eats up the time and resource cost.
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Post by Sartoz on Feb 16, 2019 14:56:24 GMT
I just don’t want people to take this as a victory for unfounded alarmism
Well, I'm not alarmed.
Bio did burn me with DA:I (I pre-ordered based on DA:O and Da2). not so with ME:A. I bought it after launch + bug fixes and for $39.
With Anthem? I'm waiting until it drops below 40$ and see what improvements are made to the game play before my buy/don't bother decision.
At the moment my feeling is meh...
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