Its not the money directly, its the lack of demand or purpose to spending the points. I bought points when I first started, 20 bucks got me 40 points. I spent slowly but spent my first 20 in the course of about one every few days. The second I found out it was a pay system I have stopped spending points as it is no longer economical to do so and the drastic decrease in players means there is zero chance I will buy more.
Right now Im sitting on 20 points and will wait a good 3 more months, in addition to the 2 months I have already waited, to spend any more because 15 is the max you can spend at one time and get any credit for. I find it very odd that this is a Russian game apparently run by Russians and yet they fell into the same trap that caused the stagnation and decline of Russia under controlled markets. The reduced the demand, reduced the value, and reduced the customer base. Some how in Russian economics this means you will make more money...
Open the markets, make everything able to be purchased with game money. Get rid of the pay to play, and make the points worth buying. Customers will come back and want to buy the points as they give a real advantage. As others have said its amazing that a game about economics could have made such a stupid and backwards economic decision. |