This is basically a scam....
Instead of moving forwards with the series expanding on the packs and adding more features of the same concept, we go backwards making them smaller and smaller for the same price. $40 F O U R T Y for ...
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"Wulfsimmer;c-15811045" wrote:"SkewedReality04;c-15811038" wrote:"Wulfsimmer;c-15811031" wrote:"SkewedReality04;c-15811029" wrote:
The beauty of life is if something doesn't interest you, or if you don't like what a certain person, place, thing, or company is doing, you are in no way obligated to buy said product. :)
The beauty of criticsm is it gives an area for developers to improve :) Enjoy your fantasy world where you buy anything you are given. Say hello to the future of $100 asking price for half-baked games and $60 DLC.
And when and if the prices get that high I will chose not to pay for it.
And you will end up in a dead industry where prices have significantly been raised and quality is really low. :)
No, no really, that's not actually how capitalism works. Companies work out a price point based on how many people will be willing to buy at that price. Go lower, get more sales, but perhaps less overall profit. Go higher, you get fewer sales, but each one is worth more.
If a company, or an industry, start to overestimate the price point, they won't make the profits they expect and the market will move down into cheaper releases. The easiest way to see these kind of market forces at work are in the housing industry, where prices fluctuate and go through significant periods of growth or periods of decline. When that happens, people don't just keep trying to sell their house at top whack because that's what it was worth last year. They lower the price and they get the sale.
You may be disparaging of the plan to choose not to buy it, but that's exactly how this works. And it will be far more effective in pressurising EA to lower their prices than one random forum post. Your problem is that you find (your estimate of) the price too high for (your estimate of) the content. But many of the rest of us don't, so we'll keep buying it and EA will be happy with their overall profits, regardless of whether they get the sale from you.
tl;dr EA will judge sales, not feedback, when they set the price. I'd pay pretty much anything for Pets, even if it was only cats and dogs (which are clearly the staples of any pet EP).
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