VP's future/MCM sales - Forum

Elisia
International Star

Elisia wrote:

RaspberryPie wrote:
Maybe having a system where you get tokens for when you buy cr, the more you get the more you spend and than cr sets costs tokens, so you could spend less but get the set you want?

This!! I would rather have a rotating credit shop where you get tokens you can spend on sets
If they sell well they are removed next month
Ones that are left are discounted

Repeat each month?

For idk 8 tokens you get the 48 set
For 6 you get the 24 set
For 4 you get the 12
For 2 you get the 6
For 1 you get the 2

RaspberryPie
Streetmusician

RaspberryPie wrote:

Elisia wrote:

RaspberryPie wrote:
Maybe having a system where you get tokens for when you buy cr, the more you get the more you spend and than cr sets costs tokens, so you could spend less but get the set you want?

This!! I would rather have a rotating credit shop where you get tokens you can spend on sets
If they sell well they are removed next month
Ones that are left are discounted

Repeat each month?

For idk 8 tokens you get the 48 set
For 6 you get the 24 set
For 4 you get the 12
For 2 you get the 6
For 1 you get the 2

This could maybe also help with some not spending because they dont like the sets or only parts

Chat0yant
World Famous

Chat0yant wrote:
personally, i don't microtransaction because i am as cheap irl too...

it's not a vp thing. there are a dozen or two dozen dress up/avatar/creative/mobile/chill/etc. type games ive played over the years and i've never put money into any of them. i'll put an ungodly amount of hours into them but money...? that's just... it doesn't seem worth to me for some pixel clothes or neat little bonuses...

(sorry if that sounds offensive, i do care about vp and the pixel clothes are amazing!!)

that's why i've thought before of some sort of extra watching ads type feature. I would do that because i can multitask that and not have to actually spend money but it would get u a little money at least... (like dappervolks ad theater esp., i have not missed more than a day on that minus site bugs for like YEARS, consistency watching ads i can do)

Talent
World Famous

talent wrote:

Olympus wrote:

Solar wrote:

crime crime crime

"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

it just unfortunately means 2 ppl own it that have locked wardrobes, could very well be active players and theres no way to know

Olympus
Popstar

Olympus wrote:

talent wrote:

Olympus wrote:

Solar wrote:

crime crime crime

"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

it just unfortunately means 2 ppl own it that have locked wardrobes, could very well be active players and theres no way to know

still concerning!

Talent
World Famous

talent wrote:

Olympus wrote:

talent wrote:

Olympus wrote:
"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

it just unfortunately means 2 ppl own it that have locked wardrobes, could very well be active players and theres no way to know

still concerning!

agreed!!

Olympus
Popstar

Olympus wrote:
i think the low ig items deserve new life

Lamby
National Star

Lamby wrote:

Olympus wrote:
i think the low ig items deserve new life

agreed

Pawpad
National Star

Pawpad wrote:

Olympus wrote:I think often i've looked at MCM and the sets i want the most are always the highest ones, 48 euros is almost $80 after conversion. so it's like if my budget is say $16, i know i'm not getting that 48e set, i think "i'll wait for a month with a set i really like that's in my budget"

echoing this!

Aisaenic
Princess of Pop

Aisaenic wrote:

Olympus wrote:

Solar wrote:

crime crime crime

"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

These are items where the user who holds them have their wds closed, I don't think that would be fair

but absolutely for recolors, I am so on board for their release

Olympus
Popstar

Olympus wrote:

Aisaenic wrote:

Olympus wrote:

Solar wrote:

crime crime crime

"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

These are items where the user who holds them have their wds closed, I don't think that would be fair

but absolutely for recolors, I am so on board for their release

Why isn't it fair though. I feel there would need to be criteria or something, was it a comp item? was the item promised to never be released again? are these people actually not online?

I guess right now i'm not sure what they lose by there being a few more in game, as it is right now these items with 2ig aren't seeing the light of day ever

Private
Queen of Queens

Nanami wrote:
48€ or more each month is alot. It’s that or food. I choose food. I want to buy MCM but mostly just the 24 or 48 e set is good (for me) and I try sell the rest but no one want them so I don’t feel to buy. Also been off from VP a month now or so.
I think sometimes the shop sets or DM sets is more worth money than the 2€-12€.

Aisaenic
Princess of Pop

Aisaenic wrote:

Olympus wrote:

Aisaenic wrote:

Olympus wrote:
"this item doesn't exist anymore" - these are the exact items that need to be rereleased

These are items where the user who holds them have their wds closed, I don't think that would be fair

but absolutely for recolors, I am so on board for their release

Why isn't it fair though. I feel there would need to be criteria or something, was it a comp item? was the item promised to never be released again? are these people actually not online?

I guess right now i'm not sure what they lose by there being a few more in game, as it is right now these items with 2ig aren't seeing the light of day ever

I feel like it's a slippery slope, where if we start adding items that are low ig to the game, it'll balloon to other items over time and overall hurt the perceived value of items especially if folks have spent some time/money obtaining them. We don't really have a way of knowing that context, and we might not know if they see the light of day, but the owners potentially do.

I say this as an owner of some very low ig items, and someone who occasionally turns off wd public viewing. I'm totally ok with having wishlist items I added a decade ago that I probably won't ever get to own, if it upholds the integrity of item ownership. I know this is gate-keepy of me, but I need to be honest and say it wouldn't be fair to me or the owners of those items. If they are on long-term hiatus, they could also come back (I'm guilty of this bc I went away to college).

I do acknowledge the main issue right now is how to encourage in-game spending and boost the sale of in-game currency, so the big-picture impact of manipulating the rarity of items doesn't matter too much. However, having seen what happens in games (most recent example being CSGO2) where that does happen, the thought of introducing a change like this makes me uncomfortable.

I'm all for re-releasing items with an actual 0ig count (i.e imagine I deleted a 1ig item and freed it from my wd haha), or recolors though since that's not the same as adding more of the exact same item.

I also feel like an exception is the Auction account, where if someone deletes their account their entire wd ends up being saved for bidding, but I feel like that's ok bc the item count isn't really increasing. Something contrasting (tangent, sorry) is when an item gets deleted (even by accident) and general policy seems to be not adding it back ig. I have to imagine something different is happening there.

Dew
National Star

Dew wrote:
As someone who used to consistently buy the lower tier mcm sets, I don't buy them anymore because I don't care about the site as much?

It's remained stagnant for years, hardly any changes, hardly any additions of things people have been asking for for years. To the point where spending actual money on it just seems like a waste of time.

I think that if the site is bettered, the desire for people to buy items for it would also increase.

As the site is now, it doesn't surprise me that interest in spending has dropped. Also.. the economy is terrible everywhere.

Aisaenic
Princess of Pop

Aisaenic wrote:
Also totally random, but since I started this game I think I actually did at a point know who owns

. I don't exactly remember who, but I definitely added this to my wl back in the day bc I saw it in their wd. Trying to remember if they're in my friends list