Odd Thing About Upgrading Bundles...

Lord Dreamo · Jun 18, 2017

Now if someone goes and buys some of the shares in Portalarium they are offering now, that could be worth more than you paid one day! But that can also go the other way... :-/

Elgarion · Jun 18, 2017

zyxe said: ↑

I think we shall have to agree to disagree on how upgrades should be handled. I understand your examples may be illustrating what Portalarium is thinking, but I'm arguing that upgrade is incorrect terminology. Perhaps "exchange" would be a better use of words, because it appears to work as you've stated; you are essentially reverting your purchase back in terms of store credits for what you paid, not what the item is worth at the time, and using those credits immediately to get a new bundle. This is not the same as an upgrade, where the additional services you get should only be based on the additional cost of the new items or services based on the difference of the current sales prices of the higher value item and your current item. You should be set at a level once you've achieved that tier and should not have to pay extra to play catch up to get to the next tier.

Here's another analogy: if someone earns level 80 in a skill because it was easier early on, should they have a harder time to get to level 100 than anyone else just because they had an easier time getting to 80? No. what happens is that the rules may be adjusted because it was too easy to get to 80, but these new rules apply to all players. Once you're 80, you're 80, unless there's some weird exception or exploitation or other random issues.

You can spin it either way, of course. The only real course of action, since we cannot change Port's terms, is to indeed wait for a flash sale to upgrade, but I think that stinks and isn't getting Port as far as they'd like financially
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Now Zyxe, I think you nailed where my confusion is. I do agree, Exchange or Trade-In does fit the current pricing scenario much better.

Isn't it funny how so many heated discussions can simply be over semantics? And I do love the fact that we can discuss this with civility as well As it is, I plan to only upgrade during sales as suggested so the impact will not seem so great. Thanks for your help and setting me straight, folks!

zyxe · Jun 18, 2017

TheWanderingPoet said: ↑

Experience works differently.

But the fact remains, you payed say $5, for a $10 product. The amount of credit you have is $5 because that is what you paid. They can not and will not give you $10 credit if you change your mind. So when you upgrade you have $5 in credit, NOT $10 when upgrading.
Basically what you want is free money. Because when you upgrade to $20 they don't get $20. You get a full price product for only $15. If you hadn't planned ahead on your purchase you're expecting them to fork over the difference and that's not sensible.

Let me correct your analogy for you. If you had things your way, it would work in the sense that the player at level 80 needed say 5 mil xp to hit it. They change it to cost 3 mil instead. With your analogy they should experience a massive leveling effect and maybe reach grandmaster due to the change.
But no. The skill is lv 80 and that is as far as you have reached.
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What you're talking about is still an exchange. And no, I do not want free money, I only want to keep the discount I used to get to one level and not be penalized when I try and reach another level There's no difference to fork over, they were already giving the $10 for $5, they already "lost" the $5, why recoup it later? The sale is done for the $10 product.

If we were turning in our previous item for the new one, and it were marketed as an exchange, I think this would be much better understood, though I still wouldn't like it

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