Quick question on the corporate brand
Posted: Sun May 01, 2016 8:11 pm
I never used the corporate brand much when I played, I always liked the range brand because it makes it easier to diversify into multiple product classes. From my experience with the corporate brand it always seems to work something like this.
I start the game focusing on a single product class, build up a strong brand in multiple regions, I eventually saturate the market for these products and want to expand into a new product class. I find a new product in a different class that I can buy the top techs for so I can produce a high quality product. New product is released which leads to my brand loyalty falling drastically into the negatives which leads to my overall brand rating dropping to almost 0.
I realize that corporate brands are supposed to be hurt by expanding into multiple product classes, and it makes sense because if I could introduce every product at a 90+ brand rating with no consequences nobody would ever use anything but the corporate brand. I'm just curious if there is any known way to recover brand loyalty after introducing a second product class? Or is the point simply that corporate brands are best for a single product class, range is best for multiple classes, and unique is best if you're only planning to produce individual items from multiple classes?
I start the game focusing on a single product class, build up a strong brand in multiple regions, I eventually saturate the market for these products and want to expand into a new product class. I find a new product in a different class that I can buy the top techs for so I can produce a high quality product. New product is released which leads to my brand loyalty falling drastically into the negatives which leads to my overall brand rating dropping to almost 0.
I realize that corporate brands are supposed to be hurt by expanding into multiple product classes, and it makes sense because if I could introduce every product at a 90+ brand rating with no consequences nobody would ever use anything but the corporate brand. I'm just curious if there is any known way to recover brand loyalty after introducing a second product class? Or is the point simply that corporate brands are best for a single product class, range is best for multiple classes, and unique is best if you're only planning to produce individual items from multiple classes?