You rely on diamonds too much then.i will think twice whether to by or not or even if I will continue to play in FOE.
Like diamonds were SO cheap already you have to make them even more expensive. Considering they cost you nothing to produce, this is simple greed. It's also stupid. I already don't buy many diamonds because they cost more than I like to spend, and the items you BUY with diamonds mostly need a lot of diamonds. So now I will be even less keen to buy - and I DO buy diamonds and premium currency in other games, fairly regularly. It's always seemed to me that diamonds in FoE were poor value when compared with other games I play which operate a similar style of currency. This is not an improvement.
You bean-counting types ever stop to consider that offering more diamonds or cheaper packages might mean more people will be willing to pay, or people will pay more often, and make you more money? Another thing people like is money-off sales - it tempts you to buy if you get double the normal amount - and people who look at the regular price (including me) might think well, it's 20 bucks but I get double the normal amount so what the heck.
On another game I play they have "happy hour" every couple of weeks, with all premium currency 100% extra for 24 hours. I know quite a few people who ONLY buy when it's happy hour - but they DO buy then. Since the cost to you to offer diamonds is the same, i.e. they cost you zero, what's to lose? If you make the packages MORE attractive then more people will buy - simple human nature. Make the price go up, fewer people will buy.
Also, for the reason behind the change, well, here's second prize in the monthly bull-poop competition, 'cos it's not worthy of first. About the lamest excuse I've seen.
Like diamonds were SO cheap already you have to make them even more expensive. Considering they cost you nothing to produce, this is simple greed. It's also stupid. I already don't buy many diamonds because they cost more than I like to spend, and the items you BUY with diamonds mostly need a lot of diamonds. So now I will be even less keen to buy - and I DO buy diamonds and premium currency in other games, fairly regularly. It's always seemed to me that diamonds in FoE were poor value when compared with other games I play which operate a similar style of currency. This is not an improvement.
You bean-counting types ever stop to consider that offering more diamonds or cheaper packages might mean more people will be willing to pay, or people will pay more often, and make you more money? Another thing people like is money-off sales - it tempts you to buy if you get double the normal amount - and people who look at the regular price (including me) might think well, it's 20 bucks but I get double the normal amount so what the heck.
On another game I play they have "happy hour" every couple of weeks, with all premium currency 100% extra for 24 hours. I know quite a few people who ONLY buy when it's happy hour - but they DO buy then. Since the cost to you to offer diamonds is the same, i.e. they cost you zero, what's to lose? If you make the packages MORE attractive then more people will buy - simple human nature. Make the price go up, fewer people will buy.
Also, for the reason behind the change, well, here's second prize in the monthly bull-poop competition, 'cos it's not worthy of first. About the lamest excuse I've seen.
It has been a while since I've purchased diamonds, but I did not notice a state sales tax when I did (Ohio) I suppose it varies from state to state, as with purchases with companies like Amazon and others..Let me for the sake of argument spin this in a slightly different manner. My objection comes in the form of taxes i have to pay in order to get any diamonds. The good people at Inno find it necessary to charge me taxes in order to purchase diamonds. They claim they have to observe the state of Alabama law which is about 9%. but, that said, why is a German company that does business on the internet subject to Alabama law? and make no mistake about it, this is an Alabama law, not a US Federal law. why does a German company feel compelled to make sure they are in compliance with ANY state law of the US, a country they are not a part of? No one state, no one nation, owns the internet. mark my words on this, taxes will be the death of the internet. right now, many people flock to the internet cause they dont have to pay taxes. i have already changed my stance on buying on the internet. i buy only in those places that dont tax me. does inno really think that they will be sued in open court because they didnt charge taxes to the state of alabama. here is the bottom line. i refuse to buy diamonds if im gonna be charged taxes. how much will inno then make from me? so they gotta ask themselves, do they want to sell to me or do they not want to sell to me? its obvious they want to make more money simply by their diamond announcement. perhaps if they didnt charge taxes, they might have more sales....
Yes, the ones people buy the most..the cheaper ones..I think they only changed some of the Diamond packages, right?
Why are the changes always to our disadvantage and not yours? We dutifully support your packages and this is how you reward us...making us pay the same and get less for it....For once I would like INNO to do us a real favor.These changes hurt therefore you will see less packages purchased.Hello guys,
Please leave any questions you have surrounding the changes to our price structure. You can find the full list of changes in our announcement
Thank you,
The Forge of Empires Team