Market Discussions

This may be a little awkward to bring up, that's why I waited a couple of weeks before posting.

Here goes...

The day after Thanksgiving, as many of you may be aware, is one of the biggest, if not the biggest shopping day of the year in the states. People camp out outside of stores so they can get first dibs on all the sweet deals stores have for that day only.

Using the intergalatic transitive property (Life is real, Eve is life, therefore, Eve is real), I got up SUPER early (read: 8am) on that Friday hoping to scoop up some crazy sales, maybe even a buy 1 get 1 free kind of deal. In my head I was imagining the wonderful minmatar salesslaves at Jita4-4mart rolling out giant palletes of technetium or sterile conduits wrapped in plastic wrap as capsuleers wait at the docking point, clamoring to get in. This would have been a PERFECT time for CCP to stress test WiS as pilots would be stampeding (and pepper-spraying!) each other to get the low-priced merchandise!

Much to my chagrin, there were VERY few sales to be had. Not sure who should be more embarassed, CCP or the trade-bots. I will certainly try again the week before Xmas, as I hope this post makes people realize that they need to cut their profits for holidays so the 99% of us can afford that shiny monocle I have had my eye on this year *hint hint*.

P.S. Please don't feel too bad for me, I was able to get a Caldari Navy Raven named "Raven" on contracts for only 200mil!!!! Greatest deal I have ever seen...well, not since I bought my Caldari Carbon Freighter.

8am US-TZ? That was way too late. All us Euros had bought out all the best deals by then.

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No offence but I think you were being naive... - Or are you trolling?

However you do provide a nice segway into how real live activities effect the Eve market.

Rather than a replication of "black Friday" I think you should be looking for knock on effects. For example, it would be more reasonable to expect lower login rate from US subscribes (as they are all at the shops even the eve players... right?). Now the real secret is to find out how you turn that assumption into profit.

Lots of Germans play Eve, perhaps we can think about how German summer holidays might effect the market.

And if anyone has any ideas how a +10EVE time subscriber might profit from that time zone, I'd be VERY interested.

Perhaps we might request a dev blog about log in metrics broken down by region?

When do us white people get a Friday?

In real life it is a lot harder to buy out all the special offers and relist the items at their original prices

Eve also doesn't include the concept of loss leaders, extended warranties and so on.

it is funny that america is such an consumption based economy, funny that this reflects even into video games in all sorts of ways.

buy buy buy. waste waste waste, get fat fatter fatest and complain about how fat u are on doctor´s visits while the moment u leave doktor you go buy or eat something just to feel better,..


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I'd be in a bad mood too if my keyboard had no punctuation keys and was really spotty at capitalization.

Considering shopping holidays are really about manipulating and tricking the customer into spending more money than necessary on items they don't really need, everyday in New Eden in Black Friday.