25% hit on costs

tigerfeet

So the cost of business due to exchange rates has finally rippled through to the game, where items may of been £79.99 is now £99.99. Smaller bundles now are also past a line i doubt i will buy, spent a bit on it as well but certainly no more until i feel value again which is unlikely....anywhere else other than the UK hit by this?

Panzer

Nice announcement on the price hike! I think UK just got shafted.

kryptonix

Keep in mind this is set by the iTunes App Store and not developers. Canada along with other countries got hit for 30%(?) I think last year.

iozzeg

Yeap, according to a new russian law, starting from 01/2017 all the prices connected to online purchases such as google market, app store, steam, etc have been raised by a 18% tax, never used on digital markets before

dhusagar

kryptonix said:

Keep in mind this is set by the iTunes App Store and not developers. Canada along with other countries got hit for 30%(?) I think last year.

Whilst technically correct, see the following:

"To mitigate the impact of the latest increase, Apple is introducing new lower-price tiers.
Publishers will be able to charge users 49p or 79p for purchases but will have to re-price their products to do so."

Therefore, it is still NG that make the pricing decision - I, for 1 won't be making further purchases at this rate and the market will decide whether the loss of revenue will be ameliorated by the price increase.

tigerfeet

What i was thinking too, NG could still make it more attractive to buy, boosters will be the only potential purchases for me.

DeanTWD

As if it all wasn't a rip off already... cheers NG.

carefree

Are you having a laugh! 200 phones might get you say, 500 odd tokens, and 1200 gold will upgrade one weapon, all for the cheap price of £50 lmfao. Anyone that buys this, would need some sort of serious help.

addicted4life

Yea these prices are insane. I had one pop up for 57$ yesterday. Lol are you kidding me. This is an app, not a console game with 10s of millions of players.

jimmorrison369

carefree said:

Anyone that buys this, would need some sort of serious help.

Unless you are rich.
In that case, you are being helped to get rid of your spare change.

jimmorrison369

Januari sales is actually januari-same(or higher)-enormous-prises.
Just more options of getting low value for your money.

carefree

It's the biggest ripoff I've ever seen on a phone app game. £50 lol.

Poppy

I made this video 4 months ago so the bundle is diffrent but the message is the same!

https://youtu.be/LffUwj5l2DE

Maverick1969

That''s the price you pay for leaving the EU. Deal whit it.

Maverick1969

With

JackBauer

There are enough people buying it otherwise it wouldn't be offered.

Reeconn

They are doing the same as Apple

Pain Walker

in 2012 the price for 14,000 gold would have been £60 and now it's a £100!!

DeanTWD

It's disgustingly greedy.

Pain Walker

Don't blame NG it's not their fault

DeanTWD

Well... it is a bit. It was all overpriced in the first place. Now it's ridiculous (yeah apple are partly to blame but NG set the bar too high initially). Over £10 for a weapon, a bit of gold and a few tokens? £5 for 500 gold that gets you what? Bugger all past level 20.

Captainslayer

It used to be for 200 phones only for the same price from memory so it's a better deal

jimmorrison369

Captainslayer said:

It used to be for 200 phones only for the same price from memory so it's a better deal

No, there are 2 varations to this deal. One with, and one without the gold.
Same price

jimmorrison369

DeanTWD said:

Well... it is a bit. It was all overpriced in the first place.

And here I was, thinking it was sarcasm from painclasher.
Of course it wasn't, silly me.

ricktada

Wow, thank all, feel this might be akin to a support group. I was stunned at the "deal" offered...it seemed so much money for so little?

Glad it wasn't just me who felt it wasn't NGs best moment.

Pain Walker

NG didn't increase their prices. But they can always add more goodies to the bundles

Poppy

NG could simply reduce the prices buy 25% and put them back to theur normal obscene price. Will they do that, nope.

carefree

> @Maverick1969 said:
> That''s the price you pay for leaving the EU. Deal whit it

Best thing UK could of done, I'll deal whit it as you say.

DeanTWD

> @jimmorrison369 said:
> Well... it is a bit. It was all overpriced in the first place.
>
> And here I was, thinking it was sarcasm from painclasher.
> Of course it wasn't, silly me.

I gathered it was, hence the 'LOL' I gave the comment... it's just frustrating that NG seem to have created a cool little game but rather than wanting to make it fair, they completely fudge it with these ridiculous 'deals' and crappy hero token business.

Reeconn

GREED!!!

zbot

@DeanTWD Please read the rules of the forum, don't be toxic and keep things constructive.

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