With that you also say that every product and every company that is advertising stuff is scamming you as ALL advertisement is trying to make you make irrational and emotional decissions on buying the product. Thats just how the world works. People are willing to buy overpriced products because they think they really have to have it. The "overpriced" part is what the stores and the whole supply chain calls "profit". [tongue]
Not at all. It's not the same thing.
Advertising helps sell products playing on the unconscious. You will "unconsciously" buy a product that you know the brand over another.
What is very different to play on the emotions (eg, swindlers in the street asking to buy an item for "save the children" to take a strong exemple).
At the same time nobody is forcing you to buy -any- form of DLC/Expantion/Season Pass. When you don't think the content is worth's the price, then just don't buy regardless of how it's called.
Of course, nobody is forcing you to buy anything.
Nobody is forcing you to buy a phone, you can send letters. But it creates an disadvantage.
If you sell a full game, with the same content for anyone, everyone has the opportunity to create what he want.
But if you sell a game, and certain type of content or features are only available with DLC, then you create a disadvantage between those who have enough money to have access to all the features, and the poorest. (This is why, for exemple, the majority of the games offering a "cash shop", objects that can be purchased with real money are only cosmetic, to avoid this kind of disadvantage between the players according to their wallet)
Last but not least, when is a game overpriced? I always try to think of it in a certain way [...]
Wow ! I never said that the game is overpriced (To be 100% honest, Iam always, I even said the opposite, many times on this forum).
Thank you to read what I write before to forge your opinion because I never said that, I said that Iphones are overpriced, which is a fact (the "margin ratio" of an iPhone6 is 70%)
DLC's can be overpriced too, because the ratio between "working time" and the "selling price" of a DLC is sometimes 10 times, 50 times or even 100 times supperior than the original game. (this is worse than an Iphone here, we are talking about 3 or 4 digit ratio %, which is a real joke on som games)
But I never said that the game is overpriced.
In fact, I think that the selling price of the game (pre-order edition) has been undervalued, but they adjusted the shot since then.
So what i wanted to say basically, i find it a pretty difficult discussion... as so many factors come into play. (how often do i play? how much money i have to spend? how bad do i want more content) In the end of the day, Frontier will take the strategy that will make them the most money, thats why they are a company after all [happy] And it's up to us to decide if we want it or not.
It's not difficult, it's pretty simple :
1) If they sell DLC, they will necessarily have a bad image (it's like that in the gaming industry since the invention of DLC) and I don't want they have a bad image.
2) A DLC is ALWAYS overpriced (the multiplier is larger or smaller according to publisher/developper, but it's still always true), and I don't want to pay something which is not fair.
3) If they start to sell this kind of things, they will immediately lose the support of some members of this community (myself included)
4) More the sales techniques are aggressive, more the piracy rate of the game will be important (and after a certain level of aggressiveness, Denuvo will not be useful anymore, because the pirates will be many more on the other side of the fence)
This kind of aggressive techniques can fill the treasury of a company in the short term, but it is a very bad strategic choice for the long term because "customer confidence" and the "brand image" has its price too. (which can be two powerful allies for future productions, including "expansion packs").
So, no, Frontier should not take the strategy that will make them win the most money, but Frontier should take the strategy that will make them win the most money
OVER THE YEARS.
And it's not the same thing.
