View topic - Spells Price Adjustment
It would totally suck not to get spells anymore, I only got one of my favorite colors on here. I understand the price increase and I am okay with paying it, especially with bundles, just PLEASE DEAR GOD DO NOT MAKE THEM CONSUMABLE AND CONTINUE TO RELEASE THE OTHER COLORS!!! ;______;
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Emy wrote:We would like to thank you for your feedback and taking the time to post your ideas.
We will be going over all of the suggestions within the next few days, and either let you know about the final decision, or take it to a poll with whichever options we think are the best for Ernya and its users.
This is one thing I've always love about you Emy... even though some of us have posted less than ideal responses to this turn of events (myself included) you still take the time to try to make people happy by going through all these responses and trying to make a decision that involves the feedback of the community. That's the biggest thing that drew me here was that you cared about our opinions. <33 Thanks! I can't wait to see what you come up with as a solution. :) Good luck!
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Elm wrote:Fallen_Atlantis wrote:Hm.
I don't get why don't you just release a spell every 3 months let's say. :3
Less work for you, more time for us to buy them and no destruction in economy. Nice and fair.
I mean..25+ hearts for a spell?!? You'll have the same amount of work to recolor all the items every month anyway AND noone will actually pay so much RL money for them ~.~ I know I won't.
A lot of ideas i read here were also more fair than that. But i guess decision is already made, so...:) Good luck.
THIS. Why can't they do this instead?
I agree, why not just increase the amount of time the spells are on the market and cut down on work for the artist. I can't see too many users going for spells if they're going to go up to as much as 40 hearts before we're done.
I'd say leave it at 10 hearts or go no higher than 15 hearts per spell and keep them available for more than a month, more people will buy the spell and you won't have to re-color items as often, this will free up time for you and make the cost of re-coloring more manageable.
I'll be blunt, a move like this could really mess up the economy of your site and at best the spell feature will become obsolete because users can no longer afford them. You're probably better off either discontinuing the feature or slowing down the rate of production. Jacking up prices is rarely the right business move and has, in the past, cause more businesses to fail than succeed. If your product's quality remains the same but the price keeps going up your customers will lose interest and seek other sites that can provided them with more affordable services.
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If you don't have the money for it then you don't have the money for it its as simple as that.
Right now I can justify paying a few $$$ for spells 10-25 hearts is fine with me and I don't mind. However most times I only have around $10 a month extra and I have to make that stretch to all the sites I play on. Doesn't go all that far any more. When spells get to be $5-$10+ each I can't justify a buy anymore. One item costing that much is just a waist to me, Id rather buy something in person that I can use.
I know the higher prices are a ways off, I just have standreds for buying pixel items for a game or website, ect.
Right now I can justify paying a few $$$ for spells 10-25 hearts is fine with me and I don't mind. However most times I only have around $10 a month extra and I have to make that stretch to all the sites I play on. Doesn't go all that far any more. When spells get to be $5-$10+ each I can't justify a buy anymore. One item costing that much is just a waist to me, Id rather buy something in person that I can use.
I know the higher prices are a ways off, I just have standreds for buying pixel items for a game or website, ect.
ThePurpleStuff wrote:I'm just gonna say one more time, if spells or jars were permanent, there are things that will replace them, people will still buy them with gold. Sure, they'll be cheaper but you can make money in tons of ways on this site and not just by selling for outrageous prices. We have four things already worth hearts, not counting the leveling item slot increase or the squad invites, so I think the economy will be fine if one feature is made permanent. I don't want them to stop making spells and remove them altogether, they should do it to make a steady stream of cash for all the hours that were put into it, I would buy them. I suggest stop thinking about what it will do to the economy that will adapt to anything and start thinking about the staff's hard work and future. I'm not trying to be mean or a jerk about this but it just annoys me when people bring the economy into this.
Once again I agree with ThePurpleStuff... I'm one of the older members on this site... I've been here since August of 2009, and if I can be okay with all spells being available in the shop at any one time, why can't others? We have so many other items we can sell to make gold off of on the site, who cares if the price of the spells changes because the original colors are made available again? I don't, because at least it would mean that the spell feature would be able to CONTINUE! I love spells... I'm addicted to them... but I won't pay 25 or even 40 hearts for them... that's just ridiculous.
I agree that having spells being a permanent feature would help out a lot of people, and it would make more money for past spells. If this would be a good way to keep spells around, I'd say do it... but otherwise, if the price of spells are just going to keep increasing... I don't think many people will continue buying them so it'll just be a waste of that 50-60 hours spent recoloring each month... or as others have stated... there are Volunteers who will help recolor them for free! That would take a lot of stress off things too.
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