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A few things Funcom needs to do on this subject. First being with the bazaar they need to increase the functionality to include a section where you can search for any item that has been released and you can purchase them at any time. The rotating storefront can be kept for bundles and sales. This is pretty much an industry standard in most games. The limited time availability and exclusion (FOMO) practice is just counter productive. You have customers today, with money ready to spend… with no availability of the product they want. Anyone who takes a basic business course learns that this is lost revenue.
Next is add old battlepass items to the bazaar. Even add them as a bundle. Even better is a way for players to purchase and complete them after they’ve run. I mean you’ve effectively making money off of items people originally got for free by this method. Right now if I do Ch 2 Age of War BP without buying it, I get a number of free materials. With no crom coin spent, FC doesn’t make a dime. But a few months from now, if someone were to want those items and they’re willing to pay for it. Then why not? I’m not exactly against the idea of a battlepass, I just don’t like the exclusive way it is handled.
Next is add the pre-order items and twitch drops to the bazaar. I mean like I said in my above post, what sense does it make to let all that effort go to waste? There’s people with money, right now, willing to purchase many of these things. Like sure, allow the twitch drops to go out to help content creators for a while first to drive the hype on their channels and whatnot. But after a while when there’s no way to obtain these things, offer them for sale.
Also I’m certain that those who purchased these pre-orders in the past have well gotten their exclusive feel worn off by now. I have them and have no issue with others being able to buy them. Right now Everquest for example has House of Thule expansion pre-order items for sale as a “Collectors Edition Revival Pack” and they’ve done this with several of their past expansion pack pre-order stuff. And let me tell you… they have ALOT of expansion pre-order stuff they can make money on, its a gold mine considering the game has like nearly 30 expansions over 24 years. There are people who are buying it who literally weren’t even born yet when it was initially released.
FC needs to think about that. You could make money off of customers who aren’t even alive yet with these suggestions down the road. Items that are always available are always selling.
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