The weekly allowance and lifetime benefits need to change
Jun 21, 2019 2:24:38 GMT 10
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Post by vandamoonfield on Jun 21, 2019 2:24:38 GMT 10
For star riders...or if sso wants to put incentive into lifetime.
Why? Let's talk about star coins first. It's evident and blatantly obvious that star stable is set on releasing horses faster than anyone can save star coins for. It never used to be like this. We have two to three reveals a month of new or special horses. What they hope this is doing would be to get people to buy star coins, but what this is probably doing in actuality is creating a very miffed playerbase due to the 'money grabbing' tactics. Now, I don't have the quarter results of how much money sso has made. I can only inference based off of social media replies, which may not be reliable, sure. But we know for a fact that we can't save for a new horse anymore by normal means (game allowance). Not to mention all these level 9 new clothes that want to be over 100 star coins.
This didn't start with the horses. This started with a cut of "free" redeem codes and a strong increase of 'promotional' star rider and lifetime packages. If they really want people to buy such items, why not up the incentive. All star riders have is access to the general game and 100 star coins a week. You can buy one month of star rider at your leisure, which is not what these packages are aiming at obviously. But why should I buy more? Why should I consider lifetime when I can just buy a month at a time and take a break? (hypothetical Q, I'm lifetime). Businesses are always asking this question to drive sales. Incentives for being lifetime in itself are lacking- a store that offers no stat clothing and not too often (it seems to have had additions though in the past few weeks). Perhaps allowance can be upped to a mere 150 or 200 star coins. This may make some people more likely to buy star rider/lifetime. How about a better lifetime store, perhaps with a color exclusive pet? How about some lifetime exclusive polls on a new addition to the game once in a while (nothing big)?
Lifetime is very much like company loyalty - which shouldn't be reprimanded. These are your players most likely to stick around and be invested into the game. Even multi-bundle buyers should have some recognition-- star stable likes to keep track of your purchases. Heck- even amazon rewards repeat buyers. People don't buy because they want to anymore- people buy because they seemingly have to (new horses every dang month, overpriced low level items) nobody wants to feel like they're being nickled and dimed. What you'll get with that is a disgruntled base. Don't become the next activision, star stable. You've see what that's done to the biggest mmo in gaming.
At this rate you'll run out of real life breeds before Harvest county gets updated. If we set aside the horses I wonder how far along we would actually be.
Why? Let's talk about star coins first. It's evident and blatantly obvious that star stable is set on releasing horses faster than anyone can save star coins for. It never used to be like this. We have two to three reveals a month of new or special horses. What they hope this is doing would be to get people to buy star coins, but what this is probably doing in actuality is creating a very miffed playerbase due to the 'money grabbing' tactics. Now, I don't have the quarter results of how much money sso has made. I can only inference based off of social media replies, which may not be reliable, sure. But we know for a fact that we can't save for a new horse anymore by normal means (game allowance). Not to mention all these level 9 new clothes that want to be over 100 star coins.
This didn't start with the horses. This started with a cut of "free" redeem codes and a strong increase of 'promotional' star rider and lifetime packages. If they really want people to buy such items, why not up the incentive. All star riders have is access to the general game and 100 star coins a week. You can buy one month of star rider at your leisure, which is not what these packages are aiming at obviously. But why should I buy more? Why should I consider lifetime when I can just buy a month at a time and take a break? (hypothetical Q, I'm lifetime). Businesses are always asking this question to drive sales. Incentives for being lifetime in itself are lacking- a store that offers no stat clothing and not too often (it seems to have had additions though in the past few weeks). Perhaps allowance can be upped to a mere 150 or 200 star coins. This may make some people more likely to buy star rider/lifetime. How about a better lifetime store, perhaps with a color exclusive pet? How about some lifetime exclusive polls on a new addition to the game once in a while (nothing big)?
Lifetime is very much like company loyalty - which shouldn't be reprimanded. These are your players most likely to stick around and be invested into the game. Even multi-bundle buyers should have some recognition-- star stable likes to keep track of your purchases. Heck- even amazon rewards repeat buyers. People don't buy because they want to anymore- people buy because they seemingly have to (new horses every dang month, overpriced low level items) nobody wants to feel like they're being nickled and dimed. What you'll get with that is a disgruntled base. Don't become the next activision, star stable. You've see what that's done to the biggest mmo in gaming.
At this rate you'll run out of real life breeds before Harvest county gets updated. If we set aside the horses I wonder how far along we would actually be.