2010-11-26, 03:21 PM
SaptaZapta Wrote:Why?
Suppose player P has set aside $100 for cubes for Black Friday.
It doesn't even matter whether they bought the NX ahead of time, although of course if they did that money is already in Nexon's pocket.
Black Friday rolls around and player P manages to get maybe one cube.
Now what?
P has his heart set on cubing his gear. He can't stand to look at his pitiful damage any longer. He will spend those $100 on cubes at full price. He will rant and rave and maybe even rage-quit for a few days, but eventually he will buy those cubes at full price.
With any luck (for Nexon), the results will not be quite satisfactory, and P will somehow dig up another $25 or $50 for more NX and more cubes at full price.
What if the cheap cubes had been unlimited? Well, P would still spend $100 on cubes. With ~120 of them, the chances are higher that he'd be satisfied with the results and not buy any more cubes. Or that his conscience will say "we only buy cubes when they're on sale". So, it's a bit less likely that he'd spend more money on NX.
Either way, Nexon gets their $100 plus possible bonus.
Tho most people would not charge 232m NX in one go. I had some bunkered up and was gonna charge more if sale was nifty . The missleading info combined with the topic of my previous post makes that less than likely to happen. I'm confident many roll like this.