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As most of you I was also really glad the devs have listened to our concerns and actually make the MC consumables available for CBills, no more would it be P2W. But after a minute when most of the giddiness left my body, I started to do the numbers again. One consumable costs 40000 CBills (let's just forget about the 10K Coolant because seriously who wants to use a coolant that can give you the heat to fire off one medium laser and one small laser?), and that's not counting the 15K GXP needed to get the consumables to be as good as the MC counterpart in the first place. I don't know how much most of you make per match, personally I'm averaging around 70K per match from when I started out. So if I'd use just 2 of these consumables, it would mean I could very well lose CBills for playing that match. Some might think that using the consumable should give me a bigger chance to win the match, thus more CBIlls? Not at all, because everyone else could use them too, so I'm effectively just trying to even up the odds! And here's the thing with adding consumables to MWO: It's a huge CBill drain.
Now when we don't have consumables neither team can toss a lot of CBills into the match to try and win. But when we have it, you'll end up having to use it because if it's a weapon and it's there, if you don't use it and your opponents will, then you'll probably lose. So what some might think, I can just play more and get more CBills. Yes, you can still do that when consumables are in effect, but only if you're willing to lose a lot more, because you still get the loser check of 25K. But really who wants to lose a lot so you can save up for that new mech you like? I know I'm not alone feeling frustrated with a long losing streak, so I want to up my chances and so I buy consumables and I lose a lot of CBills.
So in the end if I want to keep buying things at the rate we are all dong now, it all points in one direction. It will cost us all a lot more real money to keep up the rate we're currently buying things in MWO. If it costs more CBills to play matches, you'll end up earning less after each match and it'll take a lot longer to afford any new mechs, equipment etc. And the only way to keep getting new mechs as often as you're used to? Real money, whether you use it to buy consumables or to buy mechs because you've spent so much CBills on consumables already. So knowing what I do now, I'm going out there and grinding hard for the CBills, because when all these new consumables are in effect, these CBills will be worth 2-3 times as much as they are now!
Edited by armyof1, 07 March 2013 - 02:06 AM.
