Commander Prices: Too much?

I am calm, don't worry.
Also I think the price point of 5$ really is totally fine. 10$ is certainly pushing it, but out of 3 commanders 2 are only 5$.
5$ is 3,66€. That's 3 boxes of cookies.
Yes they have higher prices crossed out. But you know how often the higher crossed out prices never actually were meant to be used at all?

That might seem reasonable on the face of it but I really don't think it is. After all they should need to be more expensive because they've already been (at least partially) already paid for, to me it means they should be cheaper.

Sales aren't valid for these considerations. Just because some people can get them at a cheaper price(the discount % isn't even the same across the different price points and the reasoning behind the different price points is still a mystery) doesn't mean the rest should be happy with the higher price.

Mike

Why are everyone talking about the price? Noone cares about the rich guy get back the 1 dollar they backed and the regular joe with no money spending 90 bucks on it get nothing but the game? has to pay another full price for more commanders? The kickstarters ho allso payd alot of money gets nothing!
The way i see it. Let`s say i pay 90 bucks. thats alot of money, but heck i want this game to be out!
Then someone with ALOT of money pay`s 1 dollar not even care 1 tad about that dollar geting it back?
Unfair, cruel and evil. I don`t want that info! Lie!

They are perfectly valid imho.

Expansion packs back in the day costed at most twice as much as the expensive coms and had at least 10 times the content

Well, you have to see it like that: They invested more, took a higher risk and therefore have a greater yield...
I am not saying that I approve of this. But in a way it's actually fair.

But they never took that risk cuz its a different wallet, dont you see?

Wow.. jeez.. what a whining thread. Ppl said they really would like to get hands on different commanders and now when they can they whine?! WTH?

Srsly, get a job, dont buy sweets or pack of cigs and decide you want this or that commander. There is srsly no room to compare with DLC or what you can get somewhere else for this amount of money. You can get week of work of some1 in India - do you really care about that?

I see this as clue for marketplace that Blizzard promised one day for Starcraft 2 custom maps(which work like mods or a different game whatsover on the sc2 engine). Blizzard did not deliver. I like this. At the end it's the customer who decides if he can buy it or not. Free will etc

Of course I do. But they risked more money still. Their overall financial resources are irrelevant to the fact hat they risked more in absolute terms. So that shouldn't play a role.

Or maybe it should... I don't know. It's to complex a philosophical issue for me to ponder right now... I think treating everybody according to what they have done for the game is a safer bet. They have done more and therefore yield more in return.

Fair enough, it's now a case of finding the correct price. I find $5 an acceptable price, as a kickstarter backer, but I suspect a bundle offer of say, 3 for $5-10 would do pretty well. Again, if it leads to free content later, then I'm happy.

A regular man giveing away 50 buck(huge respect) What a nice man!
A rich man giveing away 250.000 dollars to children charity or whatever ( oh wow, what a man right?) Best man in the world right? much much nicer then the regular guy thats for sure

That's not the point. And I assume you actually now it. I have said "I think treating everybody according to what they have done for the game is a safer bet. They have done more and therefore yield more in return."


I didn't say they have been more generous. Because that would depend on how much they actually have on the bank. I said they have done more for the game.

Never did quote you

if he pays only 1 dollar he doenst get crap ...
i linked you the kickstarter and it´s pledgetiers before ...

of course they can, but that´s not the reason the majority bought into the KS

It's true that after the first unit they're each virtually free - but who are you gonna find to pay $1000 for that first Commander? That's crazy talk! Oh wait a minute ...

Yeah it might be too high but it seems like pretty typical game pricing to me. You start out high, then keep dropping sales until you hit all price points for different people, until you've gotten the (theoretical) most out of each price tier. PA is going to be a big seller for a while. There's still plenty of time to hit those low tiers.

And then scrape humble bundle for a dollar just before the sequel.

Setting a price isn't just about what your cost per unit is. Prices are the maximum agreeable price per unit that the consumer will pay. Only theoretically, of course - there is no way to know with certainty whether you chose the "optimal" price. So possibly Uber could have charged more, even, and have been more profitable still. Maybe they should have charged less and sold more units. There just isn't any way to know for sure. It's a speculative jump for the producer. Then they'll have to speculate on what the next tier down is and go after that.

Originally I wasn't concerned so much with whether or not Uber was tactically correct with their prices. I was just responding to people who, because Uber wasn't meeting their personal price thresholds, were calling it morally wrong to charge so much, which is pretty ludicrous.

I think the price is too high so I won't buy them yet. I'll probably bargain basement that **** when the Steam Winter Holiday Sale rolls around like many people. I don't value commander skins for more than, say $2.99. Unless I've been drinking and they offer $4.99 .... Well let's see what's in the fridge.

First note, the first comment isn't from me.

Im not sure how you might get the information for why people bought into the KS, but for mine it can definitely be kindness, sure I want the game, but was also willing to pay above and beyond what should have been expected of me.

misquote, my apologies

i said the majority not everyone ... i have a hard time believing that 30000+ people just spend out of kindness just to then abandon or not even starting/trying the game
i merely disagreed with neumeusis on the statement that KS donations are like donating money to a random person on the street ... who says that that person offers me something for that donation? ... you have a clear offer here ... a offer people clearly wanted to donate to ...
and 40000+ people don´t go donate 2mil to ONE random person just like that for no particular reason but out of kindness ... were in the history of mankind would that have ever happened? 40000+ people giving one person 2 mil they don´t know in any way shape or form and have any information about him/her at all in timeperiod of 30 days ... ...

I think you misquoted that, because I never said that.

Wow. How long will this thread drag on?

They're priced how they're priced. Either buy it or don't.

If Uber gets a ton of sales, the future commanders will likely be priced similarly. If they don't get many sales, future commanders will likely be cheaper.

It is what it is.

I'm willing to pay 5 to 10 dollars for a skin I really really love So I'm interested in seeing what skins are coming!! ^^