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#1 Dec 13 2012 at 6:52 PM Rating: Excellent
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Warm Milk Dispenser is bought with 100sc in Marketplace, I see no discount? Fresh Cookie Dispenser purchased also with 150 sc....the same nothing different or special... Please explain the marketing behind "daily offer"...usually some special price or deal accompanies this phrase. Does SoE's Marketing team plan this stuff or Just take 5 minutes to spin a wheel or throw darts? Is there a SoE marketing team????
Last year I enjoyed and looked forward to the DAILY gift we got with the FREE item in marketplace. A lot of us put them to good use.
So on the First Day of Christmas SoE brought to me....."Disappointment"



Edited, Dec 13th 2012 6:24pm by Vinney
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#2 Dec 13 2012 at 7:41 PM Rating: Good
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Well for once I have no idea what you're talking about. What and where is the daily offer? All I see on the SC market are fantastically expensive backpacks and red and green tiles and walls (which look pretty cool to be honest).
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#3 Dec 13 2012 at 8:17 PM Rating: Excellent
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Off SoE's forums and on game log-in screen Site one & thread 2
You are right...NOTHING on the marketplace screen showing any kind of speical feature or as they put it "Daily Offer"....just the normal items, in their normal place with their normal price.
BTW those walls you are talking about are New Player creations also found (linked) with tab "Player Studio"






Edited, Dec 13th 2012 6:22pm by Vinney
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#4 Dec 13 2012 at 8:50 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ah.. I hadn't looked at the SOE forums recently. You'd think if they were having a huge 12 day holiday promotion they would make it a little more obvious?!? So yeah, you're right again, poor marketing and poor implementation.

On the other hand, that's great that the player studio stuff is in!
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#5 Dec 14 2012 at 12:57 AM Rating: Excellent
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They've ONLY had 14 hours to look into this at this point. Er... I mean 14 hours since they announced the daily special for... uh .. yesterday.

I imagine a group of disconnected people on one floor setting up the [marketing blitz] for holiday offer_09 NOT talking to anyone. Then going home for the weekend. The people on [community] (not a presence here of course) then have to fend off the attacks for days as a result.

Seriously SOE... get with it.
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Itt is SoE's effort to save energy. They figure that they can lower their ceilings and in that way lower the cost of heating at least in the marketing dept. This is because everyone is walking around with their heads up their "You know what".
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#7 Dec 14 2012 at 5:12 AM Rating: Excellent
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Yes, I noticed this announcement re daily specials upon loggin in last night.
Yet nothing I noticed was discounted on the marketplace front page. Worse yet the 32 slot bags they highlight as new deals/specials are...Still 2500 SC = Way overpriced imo.

Poorly planned and I bet nothing good or no popular selling items would be discounted. Only the slow moving rubbish no one usually buys. ie the ugliest ornamentations etc etc.

Same old... same old ...SOE.

Edited, Dec 14th 2012 6:13am by hexeez
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Poorly planned and I bet nothing good or no popular selling items would be discounted. Only the slow moving rubbish no one usually buys. ie the ugliest ornamentations etc etc.

Same old... same old ...SOE.

Edited, Dec 14th 2012 6:13am by hexeez


It is not like they have an inventory...lol.... if something doesn't sell get rid of it... Virtual market products should only be placed what sells.... try something if it does't sell, oh well?
Trial and error is fine....my problem is how they lack marketing or misleading players..... Daily Special means just that ...something special at a reduced price, new or old was removed and now available....like the big bags.... they just got off a 2 for 1 on bags.... do the same, or knock $5 (sc) off... at least it is in RED....like all my ex wives... if it is marked "Sale" even if it is the same price all the time.... they followed it like zombies to flesh..... sale, Sale, SALE......

I was just expecting more from SoE....they just got through with a successful (but bugged) expansion. They are doing pretty well for a 13 year old game.....had a great give-away last christmas. You would think they would do something different or at least the same. Yes they have the holiday hats but you have to buy the "Forged Armor"...discount that... tie things together...their Dev's are creative is it to much to ask for marketing to add some excitement for this season...specially when there is the potential to get players that are off from School for the holidays. The fact thtat the economy is bad and people are hurting who play they game ....give them something for nothing... and put a smile on their face.... they have the pixels. Maybe they are over stocked on them and need to move them off their virtual shelf....lol
Anyway Merry Christmas and to SoE's marketing team think outside the box...or inside or just Think.
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#9 Dec 14 2012 at 8:25 AM Rating: Good
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Warm Milk Dispenser and Fresh Cookie Dispenser Now on Sale.....:D
Ton of other stuff discounted or are available now ...like last year's free stuff.. but you have to buy with SC as of Friday am

Edited, Dec 14th 2012 8:33am by Vinney
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#10 Dec 14 2012 at 9:41 AM Rating: Good
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I was just expecting more from SoE....they just got through with a successful (but bugged) expansion. They are doing pretty well for a 13 year old game.....had a great give-away last christmas.


You know, I was just talking about last year's Christmas thing they had in EQ1 (with a guildmate). If you collected all 12 items (which were ALL free by the way), you got a spiffy merc as a final reward. Was hoping they did something like that this year. :(
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Looks like SoE got the message.... milk and cookies are discounted plus a lot of other items too. They also brought back the old items from last year but you have to pay SC for them. And some other old items that the removed a while back.
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Looks like SoE got the message.... milk and cookies are discounted plus a lot of other items too. They also brought back the old items from last year but you have to pay SC for them. And some other old items that the removed a while back.
Looks like they shot their wad ....wonder what will be for tomorrow?

Edited, Dec 14th 2012 9:19am by Vinney
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Looks like they shot their wad ....wonder what will be for tomorrow?


I had trouble finding the milk and cookie dispensers from that enormous list of items that went up for sale. "Featured" included ALL christmas items, as you mentioned, obscuring the two daily specials completely. I'd guess they need a separate category for "specials". My point being that unless you head over to the SOE forums, you wouldn't actually know which items is/are the daily special.

NOT that I am complaining they put stuff on the SC store. More is better, almost always.
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Funny thing I just remembered when I heard about the SC market, I thought it was going to be every item from EQ for sale... from Blades of War to Warrior 2.0 epics.. lol

but I totally bought the cookies and milk lol
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Vinney wrote:
Looks like SoE got the message.... milk and cookies are discounted plus a lot of other items too. They also brought back the old items from last year but you have to pay SC for them. And some other old items that the removed a while back.
Looks like they shot their wad ....wonder what will be for tomorrow?


Yes finally..... They must have some serious lag between the marketing dept and developer teams at EQ (approx 1 day = 86400 sec = 8,640,000 millisecs of lag lol).


Vinney wrote:
....like the big bags.... they just got off a 2 for 1 on bags.... do the same, or knock $5 (sc) off... at least it is in RED....like all my ex wives...


Haha..Ex wives in the red lol Smiley: laugh

Sadly, the 32slot 100wr bags are still 2500 SC...But at least its available...





Edited, Dec 14th 2012 4:19pm by hexeez
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They should let players come up with the special offers, just like the player-made items coming up for sale. Let the players do EVERYTHING! Then Sony can just sit back and let the buck rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrollllllllllllllllllll in!

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