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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 would like to share my thoughts about Hero Mages and the costs/character packs available.  I purchased the $3 Hero Mages app for my Android smartphone, and think it is a well thought-out game with a lot of potential, especially for a wide base of players.  There are a couple hitches, however.

For a game that costs $3, $10 character packs are highly expensive and don't seem justifiable for the casual, less-than-die-hard Hero Mages fans/players.  After playing the tutorial, I enjoyed the game and was willing to spend $3 for the full game.  I didn't realize I was not getting all the characters, which was disappointing.  Furthermore, I was appalled that it cost $10 for additional character packs (on top of that, you don't even get ALL of the characters for $10).  To have all the characters playable, I would need to spend $20, which is almost seven times what I paid for the game in the first place.

I understand that the developer wants to receive financial support, and I'm sure that some players are willing to pay the high costs for additional in-game content, but I would like to suggest to the developer to lower the costs of the additional content.  As an example, I recommended this game to a friend of mine, who tried out the tutorial for free and thought it was awesome.  Just like me, though, he was disheartened to see that on top of $3 to purchase the game (very reasonable for an Android App), he would have to spend $20 for additional content.  I believe the developer's most important resources (even more important than money), are the customers.  My suggestions would be to drop the additional content costs (or, worst case scenario, significantly lower it, ie $1 per character pack), and to possibly raise the price of the game by $1/$2.  The potential to gain many more players and build the game's fan base would increase significantly.

I am interested in hearing what other players and even the developer thinks.