"Erpe;c-16432438" wrote:
@JoAnne65 I could believe that an uneducated leader of a small company could think that way. But EA’s top managers are headhunted among the top managers in the business world by EA’s owners (banks, insurance companies and investment companies). Such top managers don’t make such primitive and foolish mistakes!
To do so would be such a mistake for the following reasons:
1. The sales numbers for the packs are everything. Therefore the packs need to be as new and interesting as possible. They don’t become interesting just by being split up in minor packs. On the contrary this will make the packs more boring and too much alike.
2. To reduce the content of a pack just to use the omitted content for another pack is completely unnecessary and will likely just reduce sales numbers for both packs. It is unnecessary because another pack with a different theme is just as easy to make and will likely sell better too.
So why omit small pets and other content in Cats&Dogs? There is only one possible reason why a company like EA would do that and it is that EA didn’t think that the customers would care! Yes maybe they would talk a little about the missing small pets. But only because they were in previous Pets EPs. Even those customers would likely just buy Cats&Dogs anyway. So why not just save some money by omitting such unnecessary content?
Usually omitted content wouldn’t be in later packs anyway - and exactly because packs with different content usually will sell better. But this time EA needed stuff for an SP and therefore EA decided to make MFP as an experiment. It almost certainly wasn’t planned until after EA had decided not to include small pets in Cats&Dogs but concentrate on the most important and most popular pets instead.
MFP was an experiment and I don’t think that it was one that EA will repeat and exactly for the reasons I mentioned above: It doesn’t cost more to make an SP more different from the previous bigger pack and such an SP will usually sell better.
Ok a $bn industry will never try to milk it's customers or
lie manipulate its target audience with packs created just for further fiscal gain. "There is only one possible reason why a company like EA would do that and it is that EA didn’t think that the customers would care!" or were too
gullible to care or notice...
