Posted by dahsdebater on 4/24/2017 5:52:00 PM (view original):
You see it still in this thread. People who weren't paying for the game, and thought it should cater to them anyway, as if their mere participation is valuable.
This, along with your offhanded dismissal of my workup of the financial situation, indicates your obstinate lack of understanding of the economics of this game. It's really extremely transparent. And the people who "aren't paying for the game" are just as valuable to the game as the people who are paying. If they aren't there, somebody else makes the tournament, wins in the tournament, etc. Until things get so bad that sims are making serious noise in the NT, the amount of rewards given away per season is basically fixed. The variable is how many human players are left paying after that.
I dismiss your "workup" because it's meaningless. You don't have any vision or understanding into the economics of FoxSports or WIS. Stop pretending you know what their revenue was, or is, or that it matters to anyone but FoxSports and WIS.
People who aren't willing to monetize are objectively NOT as valuable to WIS as the people who are. The people a game like this needs to attract and retain are the people who are willing to pay for it when they don't win free credits. Players who are willing and able to pay through rebuilding and losing seasons are *absolutely* more valuable.
I agree that in any given year, having more players overall means more revenue. But that's short-term thinking, and it certainly doesn't mean the people not willing to monetize are "just as important" as the ones who are. You are ignoring the tandem problem of the Big 6 logjam and the perpetuating gameability in the previous version. By moving from a deterministic to a more intelligent and realistic probabilistic recruiting model, which is undoubtedly reason #1 for the exodus at the top, 3.0 instantly made the game less gameable at the top, and more competitive at mid-major and even low conferences. So even if Big 6 conferences fill up again - which I say will be pretty rare in the long term, without the conference cash and rollover subsidizing the doormats - the game is more attractive to a player moving to a mid-major. That's huge in terms of getting people to monetize in the long term. But it's not going to happen overnight, because it still takes a long time to work up. The guys like Mike who are giving it a try now are still a number of seasons away from being eligible for D1.