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Thread: Holoemote priceings?
hehe.. ok my spelling sucks because english isnt my nativ language... trying my best 
Message Edited by mmaughme on 05-12-2004 02:21 PM
there ya go advertisment does pay .
your english is fine it's better then most people here, that live in the states
mmaughme wrote:
I don't charge, per se. I ask the customer to pay what they feel is right for the changes and time involved, and generally get about 11K per session. This morning, for example, I worked on seven customers. They paid between 1K and 30K. I made 76K total.
One fellow a rodian, I gave the full set of holo-emotes for free. He stayed in the tent so everybody could see the emotes. It was pretty cool that he was willing to model them for everybody.
Stat migration I'll prolly charge 100K. I have to sit there for 5 mins not doing anything else, and frankly we now have a captive audience for it since they've removed automatic stat migrations. Though I don't doubt that eventually, when people stop training ID due to the timer requirements, we'll prolly start seeing million credit charges for stat migrations -- and a subsequent outcry from the player base. I don't think this was well thought out.
Message Edited by mmaughme on 05-12-2004 02:21 PM
holy cr*p. Um, good thing I recently changed my stats to how I want them to be. I certainly have no intention of ever paying anywhere close to 100k for a stat migration. That's as bad as selling AV-21's for 2 million credits a piece, lol. You may find a few people willing to pay that much, just like there are a few people willing to pay for those new speeders. But, I'm pretty sure you aren't going to have many repeat customers. 
Sometimes you just gotta try to strike a balance between greed and actually trying to have a little fun and try to make your customers happy.
BTW, no outcry from me. You, by all rights, can charge whatever you want to charge. But, stat migration *is* something that I can live without, and fully intend to at prices like that.
For all other work, I'm fine with letting folks pay whatever they feel. At least that part of ID is interesting. Waiting for a migration timer to run out is as bad as waiting for a shuttle.
Message Edited by Drygo on 05-12-2004 04:15 PM
Show some love to a profession hard up to make money.
All the entertainer branches are arguably the least profitable of professions. But, I would never even *dream* of charging someone that much for my services. You do 10 migrations a day and expect to pull in a million? I've never even *hit* a million total and I've been playing for 6 months. Despite what some think, not everyone in this game is a millionaire, probably not even 1/4 of the people... 100K for stat migration is simply not worth it when I can buy a house, vehicle, and many articles of clothing for the same price.
I charged 2k each for the holos, 30k for the whole set of 16.
And honestly, I don't have any desire to do stats and I had 3 people ask me for it tonight. That's thirty minutes of me chatting someone up (not bad, b/c everyone was in a great mood), but otherwise doing nothing. By the second one, all I could think was "Oh god, not another one", so I charged for my time, 25k. Not outrageous for something that costs me 10 minutes when there's a line of 5 people waiting on me.