Marquee Merchandising Changes [MEGA]

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  • scuba
    14034 posts Member
    Padas wrote: »
    Players "stop over loading us with Marquee characters, add some characters directly to the stores for a change, and start putting characters back in the stores instead of all hard, fleet and cantina grinds. We want BALANCE!"

    CG "we heard you don't like marquee characters! We have reevaluated marquee character releases and have determined the best way to improve them is to double the price of the character bundle!"

    B1 will be the first Marquee character since Carth on Dec. 1st......that's over 2 months ago. We've had the 4 new OR characters that were Marquees and that's it since Jango on Sept. 20th. I'd hardly call that being "overloaded" with Marquees. They've almost never released new characters through stores other than ones like HY and Wampa in the GEC store and those are hardly easily farmable. We could always go back to the old days and release new characters through tournaments or just for sale in packs....I'd much rather be given a 3* for doing nothing but auto'ing a couple easy missions.

    This ^^ I don't really get the hate for marquee. Packs
    They have already stated Cantina, GW, Arena stores are done for characters (as in not getting anymore)

    As for the doubling of the price I think it is a bad move. I know many that are willing to buy the $9.99 pack (myself included) and it is now no thank you.

    If i wanted to buy crystals I would by crystals.
  • Ya not fan of being forced to buy a crystal pack to get the extra shards. If I want crystals, I'll buy crystals. If I want shards, I'll buy shards.

    Sales tip, if you're going to bundle two things together to pad your total sales dollars, you need to make the sale price cheaper than buying the two items separate. For instance, if you offered this pack for say $15 dollars, hey I'd be all over that, as I'm sure others would. But basically forcing your customers to buy something they dont want to get something they do, ya that's how you lose sales.
  • Iy4oy4s
    2923 posts Member
    edited February 2019
    $15 is what I would pay for this, not $20. Forcing players to buy a crystals pack inside the marquee pack is a bad idea. Please lower the price or restore back to the $10 original pack. Where’s the dislike button??
  • Flashback to citadel pack
  • "it hurt itself in its confusion!"

    It would be of no surprise if players are buying less crystals over the past few months, for various reasons, but forcing players to buy a £10 crystal pack with every £10 marquee bundle is taking choice away from the player and surely discouraging the impulsive purchase? Would a better deal on the amount of crystals (e.g. 1500+) not make sense, as they're a 1-time purchase after all, and might make it more appealing?

    Maybe it's just targeting the 2% that fund the game? Who knows, another baffling decision.
  • Okay, the extra crystals are nice and all, but it is completely overshadowed by the fact that it blatantly looks like CG is forcing us to buy those extra crystals. What if we don’t want them? It is much better to keep things like that separated in different buying forms. I never buy the marquee packs, so thankfully this won’t affect me. However, I was always tempted to buy one because of how "cheap" they look with the single digit. However, this kills any temptation I had.
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  • "all your money are belong to us"
  • This would be like going to MacDonald's and asking for a burger,
    "That will be $10 sir"
    "What! for one burger?!?"
    "well sir you are getting fries as well, so $5 for each is $10"
    "But I don't want fries, I just want a burger"
    "I'm sorry sir you cannot buy a burger without buying fries"
    "What! that's the most asinine thing I've ever heard! Where's your manager, I'd like a word."
    "I'm sorry sir I am the manager and and cannot change our policy. I can offer you a $5 drink though for a total of $15..."
  • Ozymandias1
    116 posts Member
    edited February 2019
    At the very least, you would think Cg would know that ten dollars is 1571 in crystals.
  • I normally buy the $10 packs for all Dark Side characters, I guess that ends with B1. I will not be buying these $20 ones. You've made a grave error with this decision and I hope you reconsider CG!
  • I normally buy the $10 packs for all Dark Side characters, I guess that ends with B1. I will not be buying these $20 ones. You've made a grave error with this decision and I hope you reconsider CG!

    This actually starts with Droideka, not B1, so..... you can still buy the B1 pack for $10. I'm not sure why they aren't starting it with the next release though.
  • It says standard marquee pack has no price change.

    So before we burn down the house let's get clarity if that's the $9.99 or the 1299 crystal pack.

    @CG_SBCrumb any clarity on this?

    Pack was the 699 crystal one. The previous 30 shard offer was a "bundle".
  • HK22
    644 posts Member
    It says standard marquee pack has no price change.

    So before we burn down the house let's get clarity if that's the $9.99 or the 1299 crystal pack.

    @CG_SBCrumb any clarity on this?

    I went back and checked the patch notes for the exact language they use. Packs are used to refer to items available for purchase through crystals, whereas bundles refer to the items purchased through cash.
  • I wanted to buy the £10 Embo marquee pack when he was released by my broke **** couldn't afford it.
    I did buy the Jango pack for £10 which although was not a good use of my Maintenance Loan, has helped with the farming of him.
    Hell-to-the-no I ain't buying any £20 packs for the same amount of shards and a few more crystals.
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  • HK22
    644 posts Member
    icanectc wrote: »
    You guys are really figuring out new ways for me to stop spending. Doubling the costs of packs 🤦🏻‍♂️. Apparently this game doesn't make enough money selling $300 characters per release plus whatever crystals might cost to gear them immediately. Let's find more ways to squeeze everyone's people pocket books so you can sell us more expensive virtualized characters.

    This also comes after the poor decision to limit the purchase of fleet packs during the Galactic Chase event.
  • You’re paying 0.0074 per crystal at 1350 for $9.99... you’re paying 0.0063 per crystal at 15710 for $99.99.
  • Pariah_Anchorite
    836 posts Member
    edited February 2019
    *creeks back in old-man rocker* /gummy voice, I remember when Dooku was $4.99... Highway robbery, Daggumit!!

    Google “how to run a casino” and pay extra attention to the “handle.”
  • absolutely anti-consumer change here. forcing us to pay twice as much.
    if we want the crystals, we can buy them separately. don't be so blatantly greedy!
  • So force us to buy $10 worth of crystals and the pack...but market it as a better pack. I do not want the crystals. I want the shards. I have even less incentive to buy than I did before. Who is running that place these days??? Stop focusing so hard on stupid money making changes and focus on improving the service/product. People will pay for the goods...not the gimmicks.
  • Riffinator wrote: »
    So it’s confirmed that Droideka will be a marquee release.

    It had been confirmed before in GC videos.

    I’ve grown tired of searching other sites for “official” information.

    https://forums.galaxy-of-heroes.starwars.ea.com/discussion/194819/kit-reveal-b1-battle-droid/
    I didn't realize their own forum was a different website O.o

    specifically, its was revealed via gamechanger youtube videos that had video footage provided by CG, in which it was noted in that footage.
  • Looking at what people are saying, I don’t think anyone wanted this.
  • What about ship packs @CG_SBCrumb? Will those double too?
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  • HK22
    644 posts Member
    CaptainRex wrote: »
    What about ship packs @CG_SBCrumb? Will those double too?

    A great question that was not addressed in the post.
  • Marquee Bundle
    Bundle price will be changed from $9.99 to $19.99 (USD)

    Is this EA trying to impress share holders. You have gone from something quite accessible to most players and doubled its price as a result will shut out most people like myself.
    Why not have both bundles run together with the new bundle have a better crystal per $1 ratio to entice people to spend that little more without pushing the pay wall further away from the main player base.
  • Minowara wrote: »
    Also, why announce this ahead of B1? If this change is indeed better for the community, as you say it is, why not do it for B1 too? It seems odd to announce it but have it not apply to the next Marquee.

    As per the original post, they're supposed to announce these changes a couple weeks in advance, so they're announcing the change a couple weeks in advance of the droideka marquee.
  • I cant get on board with these changes.
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