Hey Ross
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comments and am glad that you are working hard to develop such a fun game.
You are correct, I do not understand all that goes into developing, hosting, and keeping a video game up-to-date. There are three points I would like to make:
1) You would attract more players to Hero Mages if you lowered the cost of the additional in-game content. Many people do not like playing a game knowing there is additional content they do not have, and like you admitted, many players do not purchase the content (the high price being the reason).
2) If you lowered the cost of the additional content, more people would purchase it. For example, say right now 1% of the players will purchase the additional content. At 10,000 players, that would be $1,000. If the cost was, say $3 (I would definitely consider it at $3), maybe 5% would purchase the additional content, which would be $1,500.
3) With more players and more of those players paying for additional content, you would have a bigger and more dedicated customer and fan base. Ultimately this is the best for everyone, the gamers are more happy and you would be more happy because there are more people playing your game, which I believe is your number one priority.
I am not trying to be cheap and get you to lower the costs for my own sake, but I really do believe it would be to everyone's benefit. I am happy to discuss it and hope you understand the points I am trying to make. The reason I am willing to spend the time to write up these comments is because it is a fun game and I believe it has a lot of potential.
Thanks
Higgins
I appreciate you taking the time to respond to my comments and am glad that you are working hard to develop such a fun game.
You are correct, I do not understand all that goes into developing, hosting, and keeping a video game up-to-date. There are three points I would like to make:
1) You would attract more players to Hero Mages if you lowered the cost of the additional in-game content. Many people do not like playing a game knowing there is additional content they do not have, and like you admitted, many players do not purchase the content (the high price being the reason).
2) If you lowered the cost of the additional content, more people would purchase it. For example, say right now 1% of the players will purchase the additional content. At 10,000 players, that would be $1,000. If the cost was, say $3 (I would definitely consider it at $3), maybe 5% would purchase the additional content, which would be $1,500.
3) With more players and more of those players paying for additional content, you would have a bigger and more dedicated customer and fan base. Ultimately this is the best for everyone, the gamers are more happy and you would be more happy because there are more people playing your game, which I believe is your number one priority.
I am not trying to be cheap and get you to lower the costs for my own sake, but I really do believe it would be to everyone's benefit. I am happy to discuss it and hope you understand the points I am trying to make. The reason I am willing to spend the time to write up these comments is because it is a fun game and I believe it has a lot of potential.
Thanks
Higgins