How animals should be priced?

[tigris115]

So with many people debating the fairness of the Arctic DLC, I decided to give out my 2 cents

For animal pricing, there are 2 kinds of animals in PZ: Clones and Unique animals.

Since the word clone is a pretty abstract term so here's my fancy definition
A clone is any animal that shares many of the fundamental components of another animal such as the rig, general model, behavior, and other factors.

I'll go even further and say that there are 2 kinds of clones. These are kinda subjective so I welcome debates.
Clone Clones: Animals that have little to no difference between each other (Himalayan brown bear to Grizzly and Siberian to Bengal tiger).
Unique Clones: Animals that share many features but are still unique in several ways (Indian elephant to African elephant, Bison to Buffalo).

I think this is a fair price per all of these kinds of animals (These are in USD)
$.50 for every Clone Clone (Arctic Wolf)
$1 for every Unique Clone (Polar Bear)
$2 for every truly unique animal (Dall Sheep, Reindeer)

This would make the total cost of the animals in the Arctic DLC $5.50

This I think is fair and a good template for future animal packs.

 

[Imagin]

So with many people debating the fairness of the Arctic DLC, I decided to give out my 2 cents

For animal pricing, there are 2 kinds of animals in PZ: Clones and Unique animals.

Since the word clone is a pretty abstract term so here's my fancy definition
A clone is any animal that shares many of the fundamental components of another animal such as the rig, general model, behavior, and other factors.

I'll go even further and say that there are 2 kinds of clones. These are kinda subjective so I welcome debates.
Clone Clones: Animals that have little to no difference between each other (Himalayan brown bear to Grizzly and Siberian to Bengal tiger).
Unique Clones: Animals that share many features but are still unique in several ways (Indian elephant to African elephant, Bison to Buffalo).

I think this is a fair price per all of these kinds of animals (These are in USD)
$.50 for every Clone Clone (Arctic Wolf)
$1 for every Unique Clone (Polar Bear)
$2 for every truly unique animal (Dall Sheep, Reindeer)

This would make the total cost of the animals in the Arctic DLC $5.50

This I think is fair and a good template for future animal packs.

There are also 200 or so extra building items, that's worth something too, and the 2 scenarios. I honestly don't have a problem with the pack or the price. It's an add-on, it doesn't exclude anyone from any features of the game so it's completely optional. If a lot of people buy at this price, it will be a base point. If not many do, the next one might be cheaper or we might not get many more. I'm not going to buy it now but I might in the future. I want to see all the bugs worked out before I buy any DLCs.

 

[tigris115]

Oh yea and here's an idea someone on the discord came up with

Have a group of popular animals for voting, make the winner for the game, and sell it for a dollar.

 

[Swjosdotschka]

See. That's why I think the DLC is more than fair priced. If we take the $5.50 for the animals, less thank 4,50$ falls on unique and completely new career levels that have to be written, programed, composed (parks have to be made) and 200 building pieces that are all unique 3D models. Lets say it's 1 dollar per career mode level for all the building, progamming and stuff. We still have around 2,40$ left. So a litlle more than one cent for a 3D piece that builders can use. WOAH! Great worth for a DLC

 

[tigris115]

Well, I was just talking about the animals. I think the building and set beef the worth up by a lot. I assume we're gonna get animal packs so this should be a decent standard

 

[Thihi]

I really hope they won't start publishing packs with only new animals but no building blocks, props, centre-pieces, foliage and rocks. I want to be able to build new pretty habitats and viewing areas for my new spiffy animals. 10 euros? 20 euros? Don't care. Just don't go cheap on us. Churn out top content and new features and I'll keep spending.

 

[LN]

It's not up to me to determine the price.
It's only up to me to decide if it's worth it or not and still buy it.