Dominating pack 139 diamonds?

[blackfud]

Hi.i agree 100% with Yurko.
i think that increasing the price of dominating pack is a big fail.
i have many legend cards and i'm vip5 so if i need a legend card i can buy it directly(99 DIAMONDS!!!).

i write this post because i love this game(the only1 where i spend my money) and i'm afraid that many players can leaves it for the HIGH prices of cards and packs...
there are many good strategy cards games on line(with thousands of active players) that are cheeper than ECB and the difference between free players and "vip"players is no high like ECB.So make big attention in what you are doing with this price politic....

you need to give more chances to ALL players to have good cards at lower price(OR SOMETIMES FOR FREE) and the number of players will be higher

...for example.i bought hundreds of lucky star pack and i NEVER found a leggendary card....how much is the % to find a legend card?probably less than 1%....you can change the name of that pack in UNLUCKY STAR PACK...

AND REWARD THE PLAYERS THAT PLAY EVERY DAY AND KEEP THIS GAME ALIVE....
best regards
BlackFud

[yurko]

there is no hope. you should be focusing on making customers "want" to spend money not "have" to.

Bookie, that's good point. Very clear!

[ecb_admin]

Dear players,

Thanks to all for the feedback. We understand your concern so we would like to explain the change.

The truth is when we are implementing a feature in new version (about cards crafting, will be announced soon) that related to cards' value, we also found there was a calculation mistake in dominating pack's price. Which means the selling value is much lower than it should be based on the in-game value system.

We understand from players' point of view, its an unfavorable adjustment. But for the long good term of the game, it has to be adjusted otherwise the value system is broken because of one pack.

The intention of changing the price of dominating pack is not to "raise the price". Otherwise it won't be only the dominating pack is affected.

Thank you for your understanding.

[Floyd]

I don't see the problem of reducing the price of all others packs instead of raising dominating pack's one.
This way prices are coherent and everybody's happy.

Also can you check there is no mistake in the calculation of the epic pack because I wouldn't be surprised if it was overpriced !

[chronic222]

That has got to be the dumbest thing I have ever read. "The value of a digital card isn't correct" really? So after yall cut the amount of cards we get out the pack now you want to raise the price. You could have just told us you want to squeeze every penny out of this game that you can I would have been happier reading that then you blowing smoke up our.....

[Goce]

Thanks for your answer ECB. If you say so - no problem. We will see about "Cards craft system" and relation to this new price. I won't judge anyone before I see the result. I hope it will satisfy all the players and increase their interest about the game.


Best regards
Goce

[yurko]

Hey, ECB! Is this the real reason, to correct the price mistake? Guys, this i not serious if you are thinking like this. The topic, the problem, is how to grow the nomber of players to be not 330 online, but 2000-3000. Also, how to stay on game long time and to be desire to support this game. In this case your way is vrong.Why not heard the opinion of top players here? I WILL NOT PAY ANYMORE, till you change the system. Your answer and arguments are unacceptable not only for me, but for many good players.

[smoki2vu]

ecb- answer is so funny...i hope u will pay for my funeral because i will die laughing...

if this price rising because next version or card craft system u should raise price after v2.1 is out.. not few months before..

anyway u screw many things so far, why not another one..

(btw try to raise epic pack to 2000 diamonds (or more)..there always will be people who are ready to spent.. )
and yea, i m sarcastic

[gmelchior]

hi,

Me, as an almost free player second so many of the suggestions in this thread. I'm willing to spend small money on this game. After all there is no way of getting my money back, so there is a threshold of what will go into this game. Still i'm getting slowly but steadily tired of buying the money packs. i basically just buy them for the rubbies. because you almost never get something usefull out of them. btw: you should post the propabilities of the money pack somewhere.

Anyways, ecb -as you know- you need your playerbase and of course you need money to run your stuff. this is not easily brought into balance, but you need to do it somehow.

as someone said before, this game should attract more than 500 ppl at anygiven time. and if it'd be a bit easier to get 3* and 4* cards for free players the game would be a lot more enoyable.
My card base is not big, but after i was done spending all my dimonds from my initial purchase i almost never saw a new card again. For a CCG thats quite weak.

so you either need to motivate me to play on to gain new cards (quests would be great for that, as you do already, but i would extend that) or drop your prices so i know i get a good bang for the buck. Ladder is nice for new cards, but quite slow and last 2 ladders i got cards i had already. what a bummer...

and with only 500ppl online (and certainly not all of them on ladder mode), ladder sometimes gets sooo infuriating as someone without higher cards. this makes me sometimes want to throw my tablet through the rood, or immediatly uninstall the app. luckily there are even pros who sometimes make mistakes, but still there are matches where you just sit there and don't know what to say. i saw matches which i could never ever have won, even if i had known all of my opponents cards beforhand.

enough for now
--gmelchior

[Gracjan]

Free player here, neither top not down (rank between 100 and 200 in last few ladders).

I fully support what was said it this thread so far.
I started to play in April, I was never very active but I tried to play several games on a daily basis. I was saving diamonds for Dominating Pack, being prepared to pay 99, still with a light of hope for discount of 89. I was also planning to spend some real money on this game which I already started to like. Not a significant amount, say 10 or 20 USD, which is in my opinion a maximum one should pay for virtual game. Good board game costs 30-50 USD on averege and this is sth physical with real value, you can resell it in case you are bored etc. Android: Netrunner starter costs about 30 USD and this is one of the best LCG on the market, which can offer countless hours of fun.

The day you, ECB, increased price from 99 to 139 (hell, 40% price increase!!!!!!) was the day when I decided:
- not to spend any money on this game. Not a single penny. No way.
- to decrease my activity to absolute minimum. Last 3 days of ladder season 14 I played maybe 3-4 games total.

I do not accept your reasoning behind such increase (mistake in price etc.) But when you decided to make this increase, you should have announced that decision here or in game ("news") giving players like me chance to react. Maybe even to buy this missing 10 or 20 diamonds to get the pack. You have not done anything like that, you have not given any warning and for this I find no explanation

I have not uninstalled game yet and I might log in from time to time to have 1 or 2 games or maybe make a missing campaing quest. But I definitely not gonna spend my time to collect 1 or 2 diamonds per day to find out that you have increased your incredibly high prices up again.

That is a model example how to discourage a customer.
Cheers.