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6 years ago

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Is The Halloween Event Too Pricey?

I am disappointed that I can not participate in the halloween event because I am not comfortable with spending a lot of money on the game. Currently the only way I can get the heirloom for Lifeline i...

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Babbediboopi
6 years ago
@addarandombutton
Hehe no worries, Im not frustrated at all. I usually just bring up the phone and partake in discussions while Im at the toilet to pass time=)
And I, like most of us, have of course no real insight in Apex reasoning for the pricing of cosmetics. I just base my point of view on basic market principles, which is a little bit complicated since we are talking about a market of a non-rival, excludable good (the number of consumers doesn't decrease the supply but you have to pay for it).
But my main point is that demand of a good corresponds to how high they can price it, right? And who knows; maybe Respawn did overprice it terribly. Maybe their pricing doesnt correspond at all to the willingness to pay, thus they lose money. But who am I to say that? Apex sits on all the information and statistics of their sales. We can only speculate and frankly, I think its rather arrogant and clueless when people claim they know what the correct pricing is. Based on what? Their gut feeling?

All I see is people who argument basically is (if you simplify): "The price for something that I really, really want is too high for ME, one single customer of the entire market, to pay. This means that Respawn priced it to high for everyone on the market"
Cant they see how contradictory it is? The reason for this entire discussion is based on how high in demand cosmetics is for many people, so ofc the price will be high. Imao, its just childish to try to make Respawn the bad guys, and its even more childish to do the whole "Lower the prices or I UNINSTALL"-routine =)

Babbediboopi

6 years ago

@WastelandSociety

I dont defend Respawn/EA per se. I defend that any market of a good will have a certain pricing of a good. The price is set based on how much the market as a whole is willing to pay for the good, so consequentially, there will be a certain part of potential consumers who are NOT willing to pay said price.

And btw; those comments weren't official statements from Respawn. It was a couple of individuals who work at Respawn who used those terms on redit. And Respawns CEO officially apologized for those comments. So I think its just pathetic how you try to use that as some kind of leverage for your argumentation. So when you build your argument like this: "Respawn officially branded their customers freeloaders among other bad things, and now they have the oddacity to price their cosmetics above my price range, HOW DARE THEY", your logic is flawed before you even began.

You say they should price it "better". What do you even mean by that? Better by what comparison? So you can afford it on your weekly allowance haha? Dont use the term "better". Be honest and use the word that you really mean, i.e. "lower", because NOTHING any of you have contributed to this discussion even gives the slightest proof that a lower price would be "better".