Comments on: Pricing Experiments http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/10/pricing-experiments/ The PlayStation Home Magazine Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.2 By: Burbie52 http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/10/pricing-experiments/#comment-232255 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:27:18 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=31492#comment-232255 Well said Norse, I agree totally with your reasoning here. As one of those “fools” who has invested quite a bit of real money in this virtual reality, I think it is no different than going to a movie, which nowadays costs as much as a 20$ PSN card with much less continued enjoyment. Think about it, movie -- popcorn, soda, candy + tickets + $20 or more per person. $20 PSN card -- up to 4 personal spaces or a combination of a lot of furniture and one or two personal spaces and clothing. Movie = 2 hours enjoyment, Home content will always be there.
Not only that but for free you can do quite a bit in Home including watch movies. I think it is a no contest decision, at least in my perspective.
The endless hours of enjoyment I have gotten in Home is priceless, and though I have decided to put a price on it by purchasing items, that was a decision gladly made to help support the great developers who brought all of this content to us to enhance our experiences here.

]]> By: KrazyFace http://www.hsmagazine.net/2012/10/pricing-experiments/#comment-232116 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 09:54:32 +0000 http://www.hsmagazine.net/?p=31492#comment-232116 I agree with all of this, except the part about the mansion not being worth it. Now, a year ago I’d have whole-heartily agreed that it’s not worth its price tag, now however, I think one investment of a part of it is well worth it. Why? X7.

I like the club scene and I’ll take it anyway I can within Home, but that wasn’t the attraction of it for me. The real ‘win’ moment for me with X7 was when I found there was a bunch of extra single dollar value packs, freebies and early access to various things within the place. Making the mandatory Mansion purchase a lot better value. Not only that, but the other 100 items for a dollar packs were very useful to a thrifty Scot such as myself. Because of this one single purchase (of the Mansion pool) I have hundreds of extra items on my US acc that I’ll NEVER fork out for in Pounds Sterling; because there’s very few value-packs over that side of the pond, and no such incentive to put down the same money on the EU Mansion.

Because of this, I have a wealth of furnishing and clothing choices in US (where I’ve been for about 1 year) as opposed to my now pathetic hoard of EU freebies that I’ve been gathering since Home opened its doors 3 (or four?) years ago.

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