Strake wrote on Jun 3
rd, 2020 at 4:46pm:
Any idea why they're doing this as a limited time coupon? Seems counter to their interests. Anyone joining the game after 8/31 will find out that all the shit they need to buy was previously free... a major turn-off, I'm sure.
Actually not... they get the people that came back due to confinement by giving the m all the content they enjoyed as VIPs long ago, they get the new people enticed by the 'free for all' thingie... and they even cater whales like me with a VIP account ( even if I find that last bit underwelming )
It will get around and everybody interested will have an account by August 31.
I guess with that free quest coupon they are hoping to get more people... more people spending money on the Hamster wheel buying character slots, XP pots, Tomes and more... Well stuff everybody playing DDO at ( somewhat ) high end will buy.
It's a risky move, but on the long run it might pay off as nobody has a clue what the future is going to be shaped into. ( politically and economically)
Edit : The main revenue stream is not from quest packages, it's a one shot buy per server and people stick to their server.
It's from consumable ( XP Pots ), pets and cosmetics... where people are ready to buy multiples... over time....
and those are cheap to design compared to quest. ( but they brings in much more money )