Acknowledged [All Main Servers Suggestion] Feature Price Adjustments

Although I think lowering feature prices is a good idea, I don’t think its reasonable especially for the big features like booster or wizard, as people have already bought these features at the base price and if they were to be reduced, I would expect that there would have to be a refund accordingly. And, I don’t think clar would be willing to refund users right now mainly because of this state of uncertainty. Idk abt you, but I would be pretty upset if booster was readily available to anyone with money in their pocket as it makes all the money I spent irrelevant and wasteful. Some things are meant to be kept exclusive, which is seen in the high price.

Going off of that, I agree that features like raffle master, coin master, and head master should be reduced as they are qol features and shouldnt be priced that high imo.

 

What would you offer as a way to balance it then? Would making these expensive feats cheaper not crash the economy? I agree they might be a bit expensive, but many people have shown that they do have the funds to purchase it for their advantage, and decreasing the price hurts all of the people who bought when the price is high and makes people hesitant to spend more money as it sets a precedent that feature prices could be dropped on a whim. Making these end game features cheaper would effect the economy in a very negative way as these features which are seen as useful and rare would now be seen as common feats and items. Giftcards from events exist and I have not spent a dime on this game while having 3000 in features bought due to ecd for usd exchanges.

 

-1 without more thought and research put into this.

If prices of features change, so to must the services they offer.
This in turn lowers the value of certain items and thus certain hourly profits.
This would also change many block prices and shop values.

It's not just as simple as "this is cheaper now"

 

"What would you offer as a way to balance it?" Consider that under the last few months years of previous ownership, there has pretty much always been a 50%+ sale as well as promo/crypto/god key/god drop/ultimate spin/whatever he comes up with this week crates and deals going on. If certain prices were lowered a bit the balance would be reining in sales and the amount of gc's and mythics being generated from crates. That said, given their massive impact on the economy, wizard related features should remain very expensive. Overall I'm +0 on the suggestion.

 

I totally agree that feature prices are way to much, but I have to agree that there is way more to it than just lowering the prices and calling it a day, both for the in game economy and the running costs of ECC.

Personally I think the whole feature structure and store should be revamped. It is way to overkill and complicated than it needs to be, currently the base feature page for main server has 33 items to choose from.

I like the idea of having rank packages (i.e. VIP, VIP+, MVP, MVP+ etc) and making these a "affordable" monthly/quarterly/annually purchase for example, and have the ranks include various base features like the 2 examples attached here - Imgur: The magic of the Internet. I could honestly envision this method making more recurring income for the server to cover advertising and running costs than the need to drop a random $200 feature every 6 months to bring a influx of cash in.

Looking at lots of different Minecraft servers they all seem to follow the above structure for donations in their store, while still keeping a separate section for create keys etc, I could easily see most of our features be able to fall into purchasable donation ranks.

Yes, supporters may disagree with this option as they have already spent their pocket money on ECC, but for the future of the server I think its time we catch up with the times and stop being so stubborn about change.

 

+1 on restructuring/condensing bloated features list and lowering the pay to win aspect (why is it the every prestige is locked behind a paywall?)

 

I'm gunna be dead honest with you if there was a recurring payment to use certain features it would kill the server. I'm not paying monthly or yearly to use certain things and I'm certain the majority would agree. It's not even to do with stubbornness either. New players and old players alike would more than likely prefer changing the economy and lowering feature prices long before they paid for things on repeat, if anything was to be seen as a cash grab it would be that.

 

Doesn't necessarily have to be a monthly cost, can be a one time purchase, regardless the combination of individual features into ranks and groups makes sense to me

 

One time purchase sure I could get behind but not repetitive.

 

Having feature packages instead of individual prices does seem better to me though honestly.

But if that were to be implemented I'd suggest allowing those who have already purchased features OUTSIDE of their rank package should be able to keep them. And then get a discount on the rank package that said feature is apart of.

 

I don't disagree with your idea, I actually think there's some merit to the idea of packaging our existing features up, but the way this is worded makes it seem like existing features would be wiped and that would absolutely kill the server. No one is going to stick around if all their features they've paid for get taken away. I could see restructuring to a new system that incorporates packages, but features that users have already purchased would need to be grandfathered in for them.

 

I like the idea of 'packaging' ranks but then we come to the question, how are we going to tackle the situation of what feature goes into what package? I bought /back and /vanish but they're no longer going to be in the same pack, do I have to chose between one or the other?