
silvereyes schrieb: »You are making several unfounded assertions here that are by no means obviously true to me:I'm not saying that none of these is true. I'm just saying that I have no idea, and without access to the sales figures, I don't think any of us do.
- That Alliance War skills other than Rapids and Vigor (e.g. War Horn, Caltrops) are not worth paying for an instant unlock for some people.
- That the number of people willing to pay to unlock the Alliance War tree or buy AP boosters from the crown store just for Rapids is at all significant to the bottom line. Keep in mind that while the raw number of characters who lost Rapids access is huge, there will be a certain percentage (I would guess most) that will not have level 10 unlocked on at least one character yet, and even fewer that will have the means or inclination to click the buy button.
- That the net effect of a loss of Rapids may have on new players bounce rates (i.e. losing interest and leaving) and existing players' willingness to start a new character and buy upgrades for those characters (e.g. the character slots themselves, research scrolls, bag upgrades, XP scrolls, potions, food, repair kits, mount upgrades, skyshard unlocks, skill line unlocks, etc) or subscribe to ESO+ is outweighed by the net effect from increased Alliance War tree skill unlock sales and mount speed lessons by people just rushing to get Rapids back.
Also, even for those with access to the data (i.e. ZOS marketing), it's going to be really difficult to assign cause-effect relationships between the Assault skill line changes and sales figures, because too many variables are constantly shifting (e.g. special events, Greymoor price cut during sales, double-AP in Cyrodiil, announcement of Set Collections, announcement of AP scrolls, etc.), and customers don't make purchase decisions in a vacuum.



Opened 45 crates, not a single apex, only 2 golds, handful of purples, then rest just blue trash. I usually accept a bad stint of RNG, but this is obviously a low drop rate issue.
