Add zc purchases discount
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Was wondering if it would be plausible to add a small discount to stuff you'd buy ingame with zc (purchasing gold poke, credits/relics, shelter star pass, shiny charm, PR memory stick, egg passes, ubercharm, super lucky eggs, treasure boxes, not sure if I missed anything here)
It would have to be an extremely small but helpful discount, like a 2-5% discount on Eltafez* or Garthic day. I understand why this isn't a current bonus but it'd help people who have limited amounts of zc to buy stuff.
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The point of ZC is to pay the staff, that run the site and use their skills to maintain it, a wage. As well as pay for the hardware and services involved in hosting/running a website.
It isn't free to run a website.
Giving a discount on things which cost ZC lessens the need for the amount of ZC purchased, and consequently lowers the income and profits of the website.
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QUOTE originally posted by Goatlady
The point of ZC is to pay the staff, that run the site and use their skills to maintain it, a wage. As well as pay for the hardware and services involved in hosting/running a website.
It isn't free to run a website.
Giving a discount on things which cost ZC lessens the need for the amount of ZC purchased, and consequently lowers the income and profits of the website.
No support.
Just like sales at stores, giving discounts often results in more total spending from customers - so I wouldn't automatically write this off as "takes money away from PFQ". But also just like stores, PFQ needs to make money so I'm sure any potential sales would come from a business/market analysis rather than a suggestion from users to make things cheaper.
I am personally not a fan of the concept of currency bonus counters in general. As it stands right now, anyone looking to make major purchases with Credits or GP simply stockpiles the currency and then spends it all on a bonus day. The bonus counter fills up slowly with the spending of people who either don't want to wait or aren't aware of the counters and their effect. I feel like I "have" to make any major GP/CR purchases on bonus days, which is difficult to plan around. It is especially annoying since the counters seem to fill up slower as they get more full - if a bonus counter is at 95% full, why would you spend your currency then instead of waiting for the impending bonus day?
Perhaps some of that is an intended mechanic of the bonus counter, but it's a feature I personally don't enjoy. If there was a ZC bonus counter, I would feel even more need to wait for a bonus day to spend ZC - since spending ZC can be directly paralleled to spending real money. I like the fact that right now I can spend my ZC whenever I want for an equal value.
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QUOTE originally posted by Kahuna
Just like sales at stores, giving discounts often results in more total spending from customers - so I wouldn't automatically write this off as "takes money away from PFQ". But also just like stores, PFQ needs to make money so I'm sure any potential sales would come from a business/market analysis rather than a suggestion from users to make things cheaper.
I am personally not a fan of the concept of currency bonus counters in general. As it stands right now, anyone looking to make major purchases with Credits or GP simply stockpiles the currency and then spends it all on a bonus day. The bonus counter fills up slowly with the spending of people who either don't want to wait or aren't aware of the counters and their effect. I feel like I "have" to make any major GP/CR purchases on bonus days, which is difficult to plan around. It is especially annoying since the counters seem to fill up slower as they get more full - if a bonus counter is at 95% full, why would you spend your currency then instead of waiting for the impending bonus day?
Perhaps some of that is an intended mechanic of the bonus counter, but it's a feature I personally don't enjoy. If there was a ZC bonus counter, I would feel even more need to wait for a bonus day to spend ZC - since spending ZC can be directly paralleled to spending real money. I like the fact that right now I can spend my ZC whenever I want for an equal value.
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