Some Math for Thrax
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Don't worry, I doubt if it will be more than $49.95, but if it were it wouldn't be $69.95, it would be $59.95, and that would depend on if everybody else was moving up in price too.-]P[-Veor said:
I'd make it $99.95 in North Carolina only, but it's not my decision
rilkean panther said:
I was explaining how you misused the word "inverse" in relation to game quality and sales. I told you this before, but you said I was wrong so this is my explanation.
Just because you don't remember your own posts doesn't mean the replies are meaningless.
rilkean panther said:
Natural (the legalist; there are many around here I'm finding),
I remember my post. I have quoted it here and have emboldened the gnat which you have so aggresivelely strained out to show how ridiculous it is for you to carry on about such a peripheral semantic issue with a grandstandish sense of moral high ground.
But, since you are such a keen editor, I would repost as follows so that those like yourself do not so easily get sidetracked in the course of discussions:
rilkean panther said:
Let the record show that I have removed a prepositional phrase so that Natural would not be further sidetracked by peripheral semantic issues during the course of discussion.
Lastly, as it turns out, "inversely" as an adjective, as in the phrase "inversely related" has more than just an application in math. If you are interested, Natural, you can do some dictionary work to see even further how eroneous your objection to my prepositional phrase is.
n. (nvûrs, n-vûrs)
Something that is opposite, as in sequence or character; the reverse
New releases of major titles intially sell to those people who want the game and who are not concerned with price. They are interested in getting it first. They buy full-priced games (usually at EB and Gamestop) and they buy even more high priced "Special Editions" or "Tin Boxes" and that kind of stuff. They find $49.95 to be an equitable price for a "A" game, and can swallow $59.95 for a "AAA" title like a WAR3.
Depending on the title, sales to these people span one to six months. Once the volume of sales for a title trickles off (and it does it quickly and dramatically), retailers start threatening to send the remaning product back to the publisher. At this point the publisher reduces their price on future and existing stock, spurring a brief upsurge in sales. These sales typically come from casual gamers buying at Target and WalMart. Once a product starts dropping price, it can't ever hold it unless it's a Half-Life caliber title. From $39.95 it drops to $19.95, and after another small upsurge in sales, it drops to $9.95 in the bargain bin where it will sell until its stock is exhausted unless its one of the top bargain sellers. This whole life cycle for an average game is about 9 months. There are many exceptions, but this is typical.
The proportion of sales between full price and reduced price is quite interesting. Typically, a core game sells 25% of its total units to the hardcore, and 75% of its units to the Walmart crowd at discounts. Simultaneously, the lifetime revenue for a game typically measures out to be 75% from core gamers who bought at full price, and 25% from casual who buy at discount.
The higher a price the product can support, the longer a shelf life it has, the more sales it generates. Therefore, Rilke, the higher the initial price of the product (as long as it's not prohibitive) the bigger the consumer base will be.
Edit: Be nice folks, this is the ON TOPIC forum. Take your flamage elsewhere.
Depending on the title, sales to these people span one to six months. Once the volume of sales for a title trickles off (and it does it quickly and dramatically), retailers start threatening to send the remaning product back to the publisher. At this point the publisher reduces their price on future and existing stock, spurring a brief upsurge in sales. These sales typically come from casual gamers buying at Target and WalMart. Once a product starts dropping price, it can't ever hold it unless it's a Half-Life caliber title. From $39.95 it drops to $19.95, and after another small upsurge in sales, it drops to $9.95 in the bargain bin where it will sell until its stock is exhausted unless its one of the top bargain sellers. This whole life cycle for an average game is about 9 months. There are many exceptions, but this is typical.
The proportion of sales between full price and reduced price is quite interesting. Typically, a core game sells 25% of its total units to the hardcore, and 75% of its units to the Walmart crowd at discounts. Simultaneously, the lifetime revenue for a game typically measures out to be 75% from core gamers who bought at full price, and 25% from casual who buy at discount.
The higher a price the product can support, the longer a shelf life it has, the more sales it generates. Therefore, Rilke, the higher the initial price of the product (as long as it's not prohibitive) the bigger the consumer base will be.
Edit: Be nice folks, this is the ON TOPIC forum. Take your flamage elsewhere.
Njal Storm
Veteran X
Njal Storm said:
WTF, he saunters in and says the same thing I just said (but all flowery like) and everybody say "Oh, OK" and gives up?
I need beer.
I need beer.
's OK. The beer fixed it.
Njal Storm
Veteran X
lol, the real underlying premise here is that everyone here will buy a copy, hehe they are powerless........
if they dont buy they will never know----> drive them crazy it will.
how else can they join thier "another tribes title fucked" army.
hehehe buy it they will........ it q0wns u.
if they dont buy they will never know----> drive them crazy it will.
how else can they join thier "another tribes title fucked" army.
hehehe buy it they will........ it q0wns u.
Thrax Panda said:Don't worry, I doubt if it will be more than $49.95, but if it were it wouldn't be $69.95, it would be $59.95, and that would depend on if everybody else was moving up in price too.
I'd make it $99.95 in North Carolina only, but it's not my decision
Good, I don't mind paying $50 for the next Tribes game, thats depending of course on how the beta goes.
re: north carolina
if that did happen you might want to watch your back, dawg.
MaxxCarnage
Veteran XX
God Games did it best with Serious Sam at 20 bucks. Shit they even made their own engine and could afford to put it out at that price...