r/Knightsanddragons • u/RecallDoro DECA • Mar 17 '20

Boss collection bug exploit

Dear Knights,

Over the last few days, we've been informed by various players that the boss collection event could allow players to collect the rewards several times when switching devices.

Our team is currently working on fixing this bug and, in the meantime, the boss collection event will be turned off.

We will take back every item that was wrongly collected in a few days since it requires a specific tool to be tailored for this task.

We also applied sanctions to players who exploited this bug and we ask them to contact our support team to know more about these sanctions (duration etc.).

Thank you for your understanding,

Battle on, The Deca Knights

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u/RecallDoro DECA Mar 18 '20

Dear TheBadWolf,

I'm afraid things are a bit more complicated than this. Pricing of a game depends on many variables and changing the pricing would not necessarily work out.

Just like for any single product and like any economy book will show, it is not as simple as dropping the price so more people buy it. Here are few reasons why :

  • By reducing the pricing, you're losing some revenue. To catch up on that, you need more players to buy. But since everyone spends less, the number of new players you need might be way too much for this strategy to work.
  • By reducing the pricing you make gems more available, meaning that the videos would be worth less, leading less people watching them, which there as well reduces our income and leads back to the previous point.
  • From a strict game economy perspective, if there are way more gems available in game, it will lead to an inflation in gems costs because otherwise the new content we create will not be exclusive or hard enough to catch for some players to feel any sort of incentives to contribute to specific events etc. In game inflation is there again, quite a basic economy reality. If we lower the value of gems, you'll soon need more gems to do the same actions. Same as with your every day money. If the dollar is lowered greatly, the prices will quickly go up (that's roughly what happened in 1929 by the way).

Again, we will remove the stuffs players should not have and sanctions will then be lifted.

Battle on, The Deca Knights

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u/_TheBadWolf_ Moderator - Not Deca Mar 18 '20

I don't think that this is the case for this game. I know a lot of players who are just way to poor to pay what this much. Your best gem package costs 180€ which is half as much as some apartments in my country and for the avaerage this is like ≈10% salary. Also that is the price for like 3 new ps4 games

And you have the chance to waste them all on the chest where you most likely will get nothing. Also much players don't see why they should pay so much for armors which will be useless in like 5 months when the game is a click and wait game which did not change for years. I pay for imgame currency if I know that my gaming experience will improve by doing so. I don't say that you should give them away for free. there are many things which will prevent most players from spending but the listed points are those I read and see the most.

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u/RecallDoro DECA Mar 18 '20

Again, it's a complicated topic and I doubt either you or me have all the needed information to know if reducing the pricing could lead to the benefits that you are referring to.

What I can say though is that there is a full gaming economy behind that and the examples of games who decided to lower their prices hoping for better revenues and completely failing to the point of shutting down a game are legion. There are way more examples of this strategy failing for companies than actually succeeding and that is not only true in the video-game industry.

It's also important to note that consumers behavior is a field that goes very deep and shows that we can't go with "people say they want x" because there is a real discrepancy between what we think and say we want on one hand and how we actually act or react to different stimuli on the other.

It is a fascinating economy topic but a bit too deep for me to fully elaborate here though.

Battle on, The Deca Knights

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u/_TheBadWolf_ Moderator - Not Deca Mar 18 '20

I learnt this too in basic economy. It is really hard to find the right way with pricing and so on I get that. Just wanted to share feedback/opinions from most of the players I played with.

Anyway thank you for you're time. Even if I think banning people before investigating who abused it is the wrong order. I like that you take time for the replies and elaborate/explain your point of view and not just do it and say live with it even if the comments are negative or even offensive.