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Posted by: pswendel.8179

pswendel.8179

Just a comment for future sales: you might sell more limited available items (kasmeer staff, Rox quiver etc) were people to know your intentions with changing the entire system. Communication between departments can be tricky, but this sort of thing is just a silly ball being dropped.

Hopefully the 31st is just a return of everything?

Thanks.

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Posted by: Rising Dusk.2408

Rising Dusk.2408

This is actually a very interesting point I was thinking of last night.

I said to myself:
“Man, wish I had known about the wardrobe for some of these sales! I might have spent more money on gems to pick those exclusive items up!”

I think if they had done the sale in April instead they might’ve secured a lot more revenue from it, considering the wardrobe changes and so forth. Meanwhile, everyone that got multiples will just be requesting refunds from ANet support as soon as the patch hits.

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Posted by: Vystirch.3418

Vystirch.3418

And yet isn’t it refreshing to have a company that isn’t looking to ink every penny from your wallets?

Meaning their thought process when they wake up isn’t, how can I make money off of player today?

Treebeard, “That doesn’t make sense to me. But, then again, you are very small.”

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Posted by: pswendel.8179

pswendel.8179

And yet isn’t it refreshing to have a company that isn’t looking to ink every penny from your wallets?

Meaning their thought process when they wake up isn’t, how can I make money off of player today?

While I agree, other indications of the sales would tell me the opposite. I still conclude poor communication rather than sneaky behavior – as poor communication between a net’s marketing and development has occurred plenty of times.

A refund of gems is not a refund of money. So if I bought a dupe set of armor during the sale – I’m not getting my money back. It’s an aggravating company to deal with. They are either incompetent or sneaky. Which is worse?

Edit to sound less trolly:
The refund policy is a great outreach by Anet, however. I just hope this comment gets brought up to some extent in a meeting and they can do better next time.

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

Wanze.8410

The Lions March Sale was clearly introduced to boost gem sales before the first fiscal quarter ends, which is normal practice. Unfortuntely, at the end of February, Anet was still thick into rolling out the last chapter of the LS and wasnt in a position to confirm all the features for the april 15th patch, so they couldnt postpone the monthly sale to april or announce the patch in feb.

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Posted by: Rising Dusk.2408

Rising Dusk.2408

The Lions March Sale was clearly introduced to boost gem sales before the first fiscal quarter ends, which is normal practice.

That’s a fair point I hadn’t considered. Cheers.

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Posted by: pswendel.8179

pswendel.8179

The Lions March Sale was clearly introduced to boost gem sales before the first fiscal quarter ends, which is normal practice.

That’s a fair point I hadn’t considered. Cheers.

I agree – good point. Yet still lacks that communication portion. Bundle the consumables for days 1-14. Then drop all the skins after the reveal.

Again, just hoping the message gets carried to the teams.

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Posted by: Wanze.8410

Wanze.8410

I agree – good point. Yet still lacks that communication portion. Bundle the consumables for days 1-14. Then drop all the skins after the reveal.

Again, just hoping the message gets carried to the teams.

Pushing the skins back to the latter days of the months is a good point but the QQ on the forums would have been big, if no skins would have shown up until yesterday.

And as the topic doesnt include “dye” in the header, it might be safe from being closed by a mod atm and your feedback might come through…

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Posted by: Celestina.2894

Celestina.2894

One thing to keep it mind: It’s very possible they will do a “best of sale” at the end. In fact I’d be shocked if they did not.

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Posted by: Healix.5819

Healix.5819

When everyone was complaining about legendaries the day the wardrobe was announced, my first thought was, who cares about legendaries, think about all the long gone skins that are now useful.

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Posted by: hedition.7261

hedition.7261

Yea I wonder what are they thinking of? I am sure if the wardrobe thing was announced earlier these skins will sell better.

Like for me I will buy the kasmeer staff skin even tho I have no intention of using it now.
Because I bought a few skins I like and store them in the bank.
Costumes too.

Won’t they earn more money that way? Isn’t sales their main goal?

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Posted by: ungascarlo.7459

ungascarlo.7459

i hope they do this…

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Posted by: Gnat.9405

Gnat.9405

I think it was kind of lame to sell a lot of the skins before the announcement. I’m sure they got a lot of money from people who wanted duplicate skins. Whether or not the timing was intentional it certainly was convenient.

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Posted by: Beldin.5498

Beldin.5498

Yea I wonder what are they thinking of? I am sure if the wardrobe thing was announced earlier these skins will sell better.

Like for me I will buy the kasmeer staff skin even tho I have no intention of using it now.

Haha .. and i bought a second kasmeer skin that i still haven’t used that i wouldn’t have bought if they had announced it earlier

EVERY MMO is awesome until it is released then its unfinished. A month after release it just sucks.
Best MMOs are the ones that never make it. Therefore Stargate Online wins.

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Posted by: lordkrall.7241

lordkrall.7241

And yet if they have done the sales after the announcements, people would have complained about how they conveniently added skins into the store so soon after they announced a way to duplicate them.

No matter what way they had chosen people would have complained about it.

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Posted by: pswendel.8179

pswendel.8179

And yet if they have done the sales after the announcements, people would have complained about how they conveniently added skins into the store so soon after they announced a way to duplicate them.

No matter what way they had chosen people would have complained about it.

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