Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies 2/@comment-25546049-20151120001516/@comment-27557697-20151121170101

Master3530 wrote: RetroBowser wrote: DaddyB0yn3d wrote: Coolyoyo33 wrote: DaddyB0yn3d wrote: Coolyoyo33 wrote: The Ancient Pult Ancestor wrote: Salad200 wrote: still don't know if shrinking violet is premium or gemium (my damn internet broke) Let's see. Extremely useful. Plus points for being cute (not the most bada** plant, not a favorite, but certainly the cutest one I've ever seen in the series)

We all know PopCap. We all know EA. We all know what they need: MONEY!

Already confirmed in the previous comments, though I'm seriously hoping for a last minute change. You're wrong - They don't need money, they have a greed for money. They just want it like dogs want bones, they've stooped so low, if anyone says "You don't have to buy them" well, they made them the best plants in the game and nerfed all the free plants so yes we do if we want some actual firepower.

Also they never last minute changes CS or Grapeshot so I doubt they'll last minute change another virtual plant for $7. the last premium may even be $14 or somethin EA is a company. Companies are made for one purpose: make money.

Yes, they need money to support their company.

I hate premium plants as much as the next guy, but they're not greedy for money. Every company wants money. Yes but every company doesn't just selfishly look at the mirror and totally ignore their consumers, our feedback isn't given two sh*ts about. The only actual people they take any feedback from are famous youtubers who praise the game like it's perfect so they have free advertising campaigns. Every company does want to make money but there is an extent to which it goes to do so.

Now look, if popcap had kept to how they were in far future (1 money premium per world for $3-$4 they would've been getting better profit, increasing the price lowers the profit, haven't they ever learned a thing about economics or business? Now people are mostly hacking the prems in because they're NOT worth it. People have always been hacking the premiums.

Clearly the 7 dollar plants are working, since they keep making them.

The people who buy the 7 dollar plants are most likely the target audience: children. The children have no sense of the worth of a dollar, so they don't see the "$6.99", and only see the cool new plant that they want. They ask their parents, and the parents buy the plant for them. EA knows this, and they will keep increasing the price of plants. That's genius! But don't tell me that $7 is the max profit, noone here wants to buy those plants. $5 was best price. I mean people prefer $3 and $4, but $5 would be highest profit.

You consider $5 to be the best price and consider $7 to be out of the price range for you. Thus you drop and directly show the co-relation that people lose customers as the price increases. It still boils down to the fact that the higher price might be more than enough to make up for this loss of customers and therefore would still net more profit, even without your purchase.

Again I will say that if $7 wasn't getting them more money, then EA wouldn't be selling them at $7. The people figuring these revenue equations have figured that out. It works, and it earns them more money than selling them for $5. So while you and others are not getting the plants, they are still earning more money.