@Polaris I’m not sure you could call Disney Heroes an economy. We as players cannot trade/interact with one another and the only items/resources in the game have been sold to the players base by PB.
I’m positive you have the data to help you understand what has been available / could be purchased and even what which was purchased and not yet used.
I just can’t see a regular situation where Perblue would need to “to balance an economy”.
PB sold us in-game items of no use/value outside of Disney Heroes for the sole purpose of improving our own roster of heroes that we purchased or played for - What exactly is being balanced?
Almost regardless of the answer to the first question - What I as a loyal customer am getting is highly reduce resources (value) for my cash at a time when Perblue have massively increased demand on said resources. I’m being punished for supporting the game as I have?
In my business customer’s are always first or the main focus, so a second question - Why should my experience as a top customer of yours be worsened for you to “balance your economy”?
The past 8 weeks (and counting) have been the worst 8 weeks in the game from a top players perspective (and the rate at which top players have quit over this time matches that of my experience) - surely the game plan at PB should be to improve the attractiveness of the game for all demographics of spend? idk… seems like all you want are new customers…
Your most supportive customers (myself included) are paying 400+% more for stamina now than we were 2 full patches ago, when resources needed where approx 60% of what they are now.
I am still buying it, why, because I am out of stamina… my whole guild is…and there is no other option, PB hold the supply and demand. Oh and just to rub salt in my wounds I see all the players that spend less than me getting HUGE value triple deals - value 10 times that of my deal value.
The watering down of deals with items the targeted player of that deal would not need is another tactic that seems to be ever increasing.
Please, If you need to target an audience for Raid Tickets, please do so in separate “Unique” offers - no veterans need Raid Tickets any and I’m positive PB has the technology to separate these offers by VIP level or any other metric you like.
The repetitive deals for 48.99 and 99.99 for 2 mods are some of the biggest culprits. A deal targeted at the “whale” ready to spend 600 in a week on mods to “get ahead of the pack”… bundled with hero chips and badges that no one who spends $100 on a single deal would ever need. Those that do need the chips know better than to spend $100 on them anyway.
Edit: I love the game (I’ve not missed a day in 500) and I want to keep supporting it but improvements need to be done to the fundamental deal structure to improve player retention. There must be creative and fair options for helping new players and veterans alike.