Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-36180858-20190206153942/@comment-37145414-20190206192720

I think the problem is they probably get a lot people making smaller purchases like in the $5-$20 range when they are at near 0 GC and have to scramble to get some upgrades before they lose the opportunity to win a car. If they make 1000 GC cost only $10 or $20, then they are losing the opportunity to get that much money for just a couple hundred GC. Plus like they said, people willing to spend $20 would get 800 more GC than they do today, flooding GC into the game and inflating in-game prices, which lowers revenue.

If you only think about established players with a bank of GC who just want to pad it with another 1000 for a reasonable amount of money, that's not really the market they are after with the IAPs. The 1000 GC option is just there in the store to catch people who are swimming in money who want to throw it at the game real quick.

The number of people willing to spend $20 once or twice to save a down-to-the-wire effort is probably much larger than the number of people willing to pay $20 once to get 1000 GC so they don't have to farm as much. Personally I'm open to some kind of IAP but have just got it in my mind now that it's unlikely I'll ever get an offer that's worthwhile. Oh well.