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[BagOfMeat]

Count Sacula, on 14 August 2012 - 05:59 PM, said:

I would suggest with so many mechs available at this time period that they could release one every couple of months and it would take years to release them all.

People seem to confuse pay to win with making enough money to keep the lights on......just because certain mechs would be only available for premium purchase does not make them any better than the more common ones. You can only pay for so much lolipop crap before it gets old. All those camo and fuzzy dice isn't going to be able for them to charge a premium amount because people just won't pay it. Sure maybe a few of you would buy a polished **** if it had battletech stamped on it but most won't and you need most to finance the game.

Well this is the fine balance of F2P games. They do need income from either other sources or from the F2P community but how they do that would be like. . . guessing when they release open beta . .

thing would have to be priced correctly with plenty of variety for plays to buy from. Say Clan Mechs (probably be the most expensive), Perm account and vanity items.

Clan ammo for me is a MASIVE NO NO as it gives an advantage over other players unless it just means u could carry more ammo than normal not dealing ridiculous damage.


If im really honest probably CBills and I would expect alot of players would too.

Edited by BagOfMeat, 15 August 2012 - 12:36 PM.

[Walter Kniep]

In addition to my previous comment, players who pilot light mechs would pay for Guardian ECM suites and NARC beacons. This would greatly enhance the tactical use of light mechs in a field dominated by heavy and assault class mechs.

[ODonovan]

Not having time to read this 48 page thread, I'm just tossing this into the pot. Feel free to just add me as a +1 if this has already been suggested.

I would pay a premium subscription price, $15/month or whatever, for an oldtech (3025 era) game server. When the reboot was originally announced, it was called 3015 and was supposed to reboot the game timeline back to before the Fourth Succession War, in the era of lostech. I have been wanting a 3025 era BattleTech MMO since the first MMOs came out.

When

was cancelled while still in beta, I was heartbroken.

Old style Battletech, please... No new tech and all weapons with the same recycle time to maintain balance as the game was originally made to be played.

I would seriously purchase a lifetime membership as fast as my old fingers could type my Visa number in.


Thanks!

[xanatran]

Я думаю что будет актуально сделать продажу игровых зон и премиум Аккаунт используя которые можно будет быстрее прокачивать навыки или опыт пилота. Сделать платную покраску меха, хочешь быть красивым то плати. По поводу игровых зон, сделать пару стандартных зон для тех кто начал играть, а для тех кто хочет играть сделать возможность купить зону или пакет зон для игры или возможность играть по другим правилам.
Продавать оружие и бонусы для получения преимущества нет смысла. Все должны быть равны, так интереснее.
Сделать ветки развития для пилота, его специализации должны сделать игроков уникальными, а премиум при помощи которого игроки будут быстрее качать пилота будет крайне востребован.

[Kagehiko]

P34C3 M4K3R, on 02 November 2011 - 06:13 AM, said:

Victory and taunting animations would be very rad. Gladiator matches would benifit so much from this if they include them. I would pay $2 for my mech to do a little river stomp.


Paint and camoflages in general would be cool[...]

Wait a sec. I wouldn't pay to have animations and stuff, I would pay to have costum animations. Or at least have basic animations and pay for more complex ones. Abou the paintings, well, once again, I would pay for costum paintings, but normal camouflage should be included in the game. You would have an advantage if you have camo and other don't.

[Kagehiko]

nyknyk, on 27 July 2012 - 11:02 AM, said:

(not for me, but) XP and credit boosts for late comers, say in a couple of years - gotta help the newbs;)

That would make MWO like Toribash... Where you can buy everything only by winning money (credits), but the simple fact that you only win 10 credits per win means that you would have to play for 1 year, every single day, to get a stupid looking texture for a leg that costs 200,000 credits. So, technically you can buy everything for free, but good luck with that, it will take you years of gameplay.

Edited by Kagehiko, 17 August 2012 - 08:24 AM.

[Ozark]

Here is a great idea... offer a subscription fee for people who really like the game. Once you are a subscriber you get unlimited acess to all the things your selling, a cool rank and or sir name to your pilots name, and access to special doodads only subscribers can have access too. However please stay away from anything which makes the game easier or gives the payer an advantage to other players. PVP games must remain fair to all players regardless of how much money you have. Oh yeah and one more thing... because this game is so hard on a lot of computers especailly using cry 3 engine, you should def offer a small free trial version. make it a 3 mission tutorial to introduce basic gameplay mechanics... but really it's just to ensure that yes my computer will run it. At the end of the trial, people will be more likely to buy your game, just a thought.

[David Decoster]

Possibility for character migration between regional servers once the server split happens.

[Kageru Ikazuchi]

Previous entry was only within the game itself ... I'm more likely to pay money for swag:
- faction patches, hats, or t-shirts
- figurines (metal would be awesome, but plastic works too)
- decals (a founder's case badge would rock ... as would a "my other ride is a Jenner" bumper sticker)

[JCP]

They are going to end up offering enhancements that provide advantages in play. They are not going to make any money selling smiley face decals to put on your leg armor. A large amount of money has gone into the development of this game, and the publisher deserves to obtain some realistic return on their investment. Just yesterday, Funcom laid off half of their staff (roughly). Is The Secret World going to suffer because of it? Absolutely.

By refraining from selling premium mechs (you don't know how badly I want to type "mecha"), clan tech, coolant dumps, enhanced ammo, etc., this game is doomed to failure before it is even launched. The publisher should not worry about establishing a parity between players who won't/can't spend money on in-game items, and those players that are willing to do so.

If they don't sell enhancements, the only way to make the game financially viable is to release it with a paid subscription model. For myself, I'd be willing to go either way. This is a game that someone should have developed 5 or more years ago, and I'd hate to see it ruined (when it finally gets released) by people who think they should be able to play the game without paying for it. The problem is that this game runs on large servers that require reasonably beefy Internet bandwidth. These things are not free, and they are a repeating cost. If the publisher doesn't make enough money selling smiley-face decals or pink camouflage, they are not going to let the game live very long. Tabula Rasa, anyone?

I think they should release the game under a subscription model, and be done with it. Failing that, offer enhancements as I described above. They can make things as fair (or unfair) as they like, but if the publisher has a player willing to spend $15 (for example) for an Assault Mech, they should take the money and let the player walk around in the Assault Mech.

As for my wish, I'd love to see single player content.

Edited by JCP, 23 August 2012 - 09:47 AM.

[TheTank]

A linux client. Or at least the support to get it running on wine.

[Ic4C0ld]

Hi all!
Hope im not too late with my point of view of the theme for what would i pay:
SOO .. some of my suggestion will have similaritys with others and some will say "aye" and other will say "hang him"
Beware now i shoot:
Things that ill gladly pay for:
1) Colors,camouflages,dyes,hud customization, reticles
2)Flares colors from exhausts (would be nice but not nececary)
3)Badges,custom badges,own badges
4) Visual modifications that will not affect game play just cosmetics.
4.a)Helmets,armor parts,footprints, lights.
5)Premium account
6)Special store items.
6.a)weapons,ingame 1x time use items, special items thatll give small but still some benefits then other.
7)Only 4 cash mechs, or mechs that are tuned by developers like for example experimental Atlas mk2 that has cool dye and with some rare unique features or parts.
8)Additional perks or skills. for my opinion beta has toooo few upgradeable perks.
9)In game currency that wouldn't be too expensive to acquire.
10)Wings. yep u hear me. f#"#kng awsome wings. instead of jet pack, mechanical wings . **** yeah.
11) in game chat "fonts" enhanced name clours etc.

Should that be it? dunno at least these are ideas that can be used or upgraded.

[Sims doc]

The ablity to remove chassis parts, Example - http://i.imgur.com/zw11q.jpg

The ablity to place different parts on a chassis like for an example a catapult with heavy assault legs.

[Gibson Khaine]

Id pay for a true MMO with a non static world/worlds where you could drop ship into a border world in another faction and take that world expanding your borders from a lance vs lance. Like Being a member of Steiner and jumping into Word Blake and Fighting for Hespereus II.

[Mojo Khan]

I would buy…
1. Password/Credential Security Tokens

a. Earlier rather than later before accounts are hacked.

b. Could be as simple as SMS codes sent to your cell phone.

2. Creation of Merc Units
3. Possibly rare mechs or weapons if they hold some designs back from the general distribution.
4. Campaigns

a. Could include Merc Units

b. Air Support

c. Control of tanks, hovercraft, mine layers, support vehicles (repair, reload on the battlefield)

[Tardstrong]

USMC themed paint job! Dress Blues for the **** of it...whatever else your art gurus can think of.
I'm sure other military branches would shell out good money for their colors as well.

[Skeet89]

Jerico Horns for Assault Class Mechs

0.5 tons, 1 slot - Uses a trigger like a regular weapon, but instead of shooting something, it makes an audible (imagine a horn that sounds like the world ending) that other players can hear - loud enough to be heard over environmental sounds and weapon fire, but obviously not grief-able loud.

Kind of an "I'm coming, run away" type of thing...


Oh, also - one shot missile packs, inferno rounds for SRMs, and maybe LRM deployable mines. You know, cool and unexpected stuff.

Edited by Skeet89, 28 August 2012 - 11:01 PM.

[Banekane]

i would pay for Build a Mech using a customize option using different mech parts like say a Mech with Jenner legs a Cat torso and Atlus head and some commandos arms with your custom readout and input a wieght tonnage for its size something you can grow with and use for whatever you want but caution the tonnage and parts you use determine its top speed and what hardpoints it gets for weapon types and armor loads as a prototype holder for said mech you can also sell the design to friends for ingame currency so you can go into battle and say *** is that mech or I WANT ONE and from a canon point of view these mechs are prototypes so they arnt officially classified for the canon military and as prototypes they would still be in development from a canon point of view

[Xenok]

Actually here is a list of things that I would be willing to pay for.

1) story driven content (single or co-op) It would be even cooler if you gained access to some additional weapons or mechs from playing through the story driven content for PvP matches.

2) Clan Tech and Clan Mechs, keep all the late year inner sphere stuff for free to balance it out.

3) Maps, more and more maps to play.

4) access to additional play formats. Steal the flag, capture a headquarters....

5) Additional hard points on a Mech, or the ability to convert one hard point to another type, thus making a custom variant. This one would be great.

6) Make a particular mech free to reload and repair for a month.

In short, If it does not give me some kind of an in game advantage why am I going to pay for it? If you want to keep getting my money it has to be for additional content or in game advantages of some type.

[Taj]

In Blacklight Retribution u can win/buy/get a "Weapons Tags" (http://blacklight.wi...iki/Weapon_Tags)



It would be wonderful, great, sensational! if you could afford to buy / win / get such a "tag" to the Mech cockpit.
Would have been hanged like Car-Freshner ... it would be soooooo cool!!!

Edited by Taj, 30 August 2012 - 08:11 AM.