Reduce the price of WitP to .01$

[Speedysteve]

Do it. You'll be wrong.....

First there was man
Then there was the wheel
Then the man used the wheel to make cool stuff
The man (me) became popular with the locals
The man decided to rule the peons
Despotism was created
Next day he invented electricity generation
Within 2 hours 12 minutes the PC had been thought of
Within 3 years and 4 months WiTP had been thought of and implemented.
21 years later the campaign is still ongoing

[fabertong]

No,
First there was the kite...
the kite flew high in the air....
it fell to the ground.....
causing the creation of man....
Women were created later that same day when a beetroot fell from the sky.....or maybe an apple...it's one of those laws of physics......
You know Isaac whatsisname.........
Electricity came later....
followed by the TV dinner.....
WitP is the result of millions of years of evolution
You know Charles whatsisname......

[Speedysteve]

Where's this New Testament thingy fit into it all?

I suppose Genesis could the creation of the IJN.

By the way your tech tree is wrong. Have you played Civ?!?

[fabertong]

Yes, but who's to say that their tech tree is right.........mine has been formed after years of hard research.....without the kite where would we be? Forget your pride and bow before the kite.....all hail the kite.....I hope I'm not getting carried away.

[Speedysteve]

No of course you're not getting carried away. You see those chaps behind you with the white coats. They are here to help you.....

[fabertong]

Here comes the blessed medicine......ahhhhhhh that's better.

[Tom Hunter]

ORIGINAL: Berkut

The problem is that cutting the price to a penny does not guarantee you sell it to any Chinese people anyway.

This is basic econ 101 stuff. When you have a product that has basically zero marginal costs, then your goal is to maximize revenue, pure and simple. You would rather sell 10 at $50 than 7 at $70. Ideally, you simply find the peak of the price/sales curve and price right there.

Of course, it is hard to know where that peak is, and what you REALLY want is for everyone who WILL pay $70 to pay $70, and everyone who will only pay $60 to pay that, and everyone who will only pay $50 to pay that, etc., etc. That is why there are things like "matinees" and "early bird specials" and sales. That is even MORE true for something like WitP. Which is why a graduated cost structure is a good idea, at least in theory. Of cours,e there are other factors involved (if people know it will get cheaper, they might wait and then end up not buying at all, value of continuing support, other products you are selling, perceptions, etc.)

So selling it for $.01 might get you lots of sales, but it is only worthwhile if it gets you enough to make up for the loss in per sales revenue, and at that price even the trivial marginal costs having to do with bandwidth and such becomes a factor.

So no, your suggestion is not really "just as clever". That doesn't mean a price cut is a good idea of course. But apparently it isn't a terrible one, since they just did exactly that...

"He was joking...[8|]" Terminus

NO! NO! I was not joking. I am completly serious[:'(] and Berkut has no idea what he is talking about [:-] my ideas are just better, and anyone with a differing opinion is just WRONG

Going back into relatively serious mode, I am amazed at the response this got. Berkut, I am a very litteral guy, so I know what I am talking about when I say this: You are too litteral, you need to relax.

[Nikademus]

Never underestimate the anal factor on Internet boards Tom.....

(If only you knew the POWER of the Dark side......)

[:D]

[Berkut]

ORIGINAL: Terminus

He was joking...[8|]

I know [;)]

[Berkut]

ORIGINAL: Tom Hunter
Going back into relatively serious mode, I am amazed at the response this got. Berkut, I am a very litteral guy, so I know what I am talking about when I say this: You are too litteral, you need to relax.

Actually, what I *really* need is for my PBEM opponenets to send me back a turn more than once a week...

[Admiral DadMan]

OMG the by-play between fabertong and speedy is killing me.

It produced a righteous nasal soda shower...

[invernomuto]

anguage barrierrrrr!!!

The only problem of this game!!

There is a person who is hesitating also for the Japanese to buy this problem,
too.

Well, english used in the game is not so difficult. Once you have figured out the meanings of some key concepts, playing WITP is like working with an insanely large excel sheet or database.
There is a language barrier if you want to partecipate to the forum, the discussions are interesting and for me it is sometime frustrating when you cannot post because you're not able to espress your opinions in another language.

BTW, to me it's real strange that there are really few japanese playing this game.

Bye.

[Speedysteve]

ORIGINAL: Admiral DadMan

OMG the by-play between fabertong and speedy is killing me.

It produced a righteous nasal soda shower...

Too much info[;)]

P.S. Fabertong PM'd me admitting my tech tree was right afterall[8|][;)]

[Mynok]

China!?!?! [X(] [X(]

Another billion Allied fanboys/grills?!?!?!??

God help us, NOOOOooooooooooooo...........................

[:D]

Oh, and Tom, you are required to put 20 smiley faces on all your jokes. Your literalism just overpowers your humor.

[:)]

[kumano]

BTW, to me it's real strange that there are really few japanese playing this game.

Hello,invernomuto

There are some games also in Japan.
I think that there are a lot of people who are buying UV and WITP though it
doesn't come to this forum.

Thanks

My translation of English is poor. [:D]

[Lt. Calley]

Even if it were priced at .01, it's probable that the Communist Chinese government might ban the game as they did with Paradox's Hearts of Iron. HOI had an independent Tibet as a playable country as well as giving the Sinkiang warlord his own playable country. Also, IIRC Taiwan was made a part of Japan in that game. WiTP does have an independent Tibet on the map as well as no garrison requirements for cities in Formosa which could be construed as a political implication that Formosa is separate from the rest of China. These factors in addition to the grossly inaccurate Red Chinese OOB would probably be enough to get the game banned. Actually, I wonder why it hasn't been banned already because of this. Maybe the game is simply not as well known to the authorities as HOI. Or maybe the public banning of HOI had the opposite effect and actually increased interest of the game.

Here's the official Xinhua news release regarding HOI's banning:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-05/31/content_335119.htm

[Charles2222]

Nah, the Reds would pirate it to the masses and you would get one penny in sales. How much do you figure they pay the slave laborers? One day India will be losing the outsourced American IT jobs to China.

[Charles2222]

A litteral guy? Would this be someone who is serious about his trash? [:D]

[Speedysteve]

I still think the wheel should come first......

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

I still think the wheel should come first......

How about the stick before that? You had to put sticks together to make a wheel.[:-]