Hi All,

The current credit shop does not encourage game players to invest in larger cash purchases. All credit purchases give you a 10% bonus when you go above $5.00.

Example:  You pay $25 for 2500 credits + 250 bonus (10% bonus)  and for $250, you get 25000 credits + 2500 bonus credits for a total of 27500 credits  (Again 10% bonus)

So this does not encourage me to spend  higher value in a lump sum. I can spend $10.00 here, $10.00 there when I want, but if I really wanted to dump $250.00 into the game, it does not give me any more bonus than 25 x $10.00 transactions  ( $10=1100 credits) so 25 transactions  x 1100 credits  = 27500 credits.

Why not make it a increasing ratio.    It could be a sliding scale of some kind. I am just eyeballing this suggestion here to give an idea.  Below we're increasing the percentage 10% for ever doubling of the total payment.

Example

$5   = 500

$10  = 1000  + 10%  = 1000  + 100   = 1100

$25  = 2500  + 20%  = 2500  + 500   = 3000

$50  = 5000  + 30%  = 5000  + 1500  = 6500

$100 = 10000 + 40%  = 10000 + 4000  = 14000

$200 = 20000 + 50%  = 20000 + 10000 = 30000

So the above example would encourage me to spend larger sums to get points instead of a slow steady payment.  

Right now I have no reason/want to spend $250.00 on the game when I can spend $10 a week for the next 25 weeks and get the same in-game value.

Just my two cents.. or is it $200....

-wuff

Quote | Wuffie posted on 03.08.10 | 17:12

Why not make it a increasing ratio.

Sparkplay did this last Christmas. I'd imagine they got a fair idea about how it affects purchase behavior from that.

This idea would make happier customers but isn't 10% enough

I think that the current system is better, it makes it more likely that people will do smaller regular purchases [helping Sparkplay all year round with a relatively stable income] rather than them saving up and only making sporadic large purchases.

I don't think you should get a bigger bonus for a large purchase, and that's said by someone who's made 2 max price puchases and a bunch of smaller ones since the CS opened in order to support the game.
 

Either way you're still giving them your money.