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[Woodstock]

Hey

This is meant to be a free to play game right? I agree we can play for free but am I the only person that feels like the focus of events is for the pay to play people?

Why are there no events that include CBILL discounts. and XP boosts. things that would benefit all the players, not just the pay2play crowd.

So my poll is this ... would you like to see more Cbill, XP or MC events.

Rick

[Onmyoudo]

I don't understand. They're giving you some of the currency that you can only usually obtain by paying, without you having to pay - how does that not benefit the players who want to play for free?

Win a couple tournaments and you could buy yourself a hero mech or a bunch of mechbays. Now if they come up with a good ranking system and give out prizes for more than just first place... but that's not the discussion in this thread.

They have done a double XP weekend. I imagine they will do more. CBill bonuses are being introduced for "daily quest" type events in the next few months.

[Aedensin]

Slightly misleading title based on the poll but meh.

I'd like to see events that did not require MC, say.. a bobble santa for 900k - 2mil C-Bills during Christmas for example.

I love the game (minus the persistent game breaking bugs) and appreciate that its F2P. It would just be nice to have an event without the glowing "No broke people allowed" sign.

Edited by Aedensin, 24 April 2013 - 01:34 AM.

[Escef]

I'd be happy with any and all. However, I'd like to see being able to purchase (non-Hero/Champion) mechs with a combination of MC and C-bills, instead of one or the other.

[Woodstock]

The win MC events sure... they help everyone ... but everything else is a money spinner for the dev's ... This is understandable but should not be their only trick.

[Woodstock]

people seem to want events that include other things too

[Donas]

Is this really complaining about a cash prize for a F2P game event?

There have been XP events, and its been stated that there will be more of them by the Devs.
IIRC, they've danced around c-bill events, but didn't seem opposed to it.

might want to ammend that poll b4 you get your thread closed.

[Woodstock]

No this is not talking about cash prizes.

This is about the only events being a discount on MC products. = you have to spend real money to enter the event.

The free to play people who ...lets face it will make up the bulk of the community are not being engaged.

With all the errors/unfinished content in the game ... understandable errors etc ... it is beta still ... people are hesitant to spend real money yet. The devs should work harder to keep the regular F2P players in the game.

On event days there should be XP boosts for NORMAL mechs ... CBILL boosts for normal mechs ... not all of them but select mechs.

Encourage people to play a variety of chassis.

Hell the first win of each day in a chassis should have an xp and cbill boost to encourage people to log in every day. WOT really knew what they were doing when they implemented that idea.

Rick

p.s. I'm not entirely sure what is wrong with the wording of the poll.

It does not say ...why do events only pay out MC? it says why are events only BASED on mc?

[Ralgas]

i've seen 2 each of c-bill boosts and double xp bonuses in 6 months, not to mention every tourney is free to enter and *typically* gives away free mc to winners.

Catering to the "pay-to players" as you put it helps pony up to keep you from having to subscribe and keep the rented servers that run this game in credit. You planning on grabbing a Blackjack next week? According to interviews with them that's about $25k worth of R&D, which will only cost you pixels. How do you propose they recover that?

Edited by Ralgas, 14 May 2013 - 05:38 AM.

[zhajin]

they have done double xp weekends in the past, and may likely do one again soon. they have also done cbill boosts, though mostly just for heros/founders mechs. maybe they could do a general cbill boost weekend. tournaments have also had both cbill and mc rewards.

as for the sales (events?), they are mc based because they are intended to generate real money, not encourage people to spend fake money. 90% of the f2p market is based around selling fun stuff that has no effect on the game. There have been a few free promo items available in the past, but mostly that is where they make their money. So do not expect to many hand outs in that area...

[Woodstock]

those double xp events ...were they for hero mechs?

[Syllogy]

I feel like there is good business sense in having events and sales based around MC.

I have no problem doing XP or C-Bill bonus events, but IMHO, those events should require participating players to be running premium time.

Having C-bill-based sales and events don't require anyone to spend any money might be rewarding for people that don't pay, but that won't keep the lights on.

Edited by Syllogy, 14 May 2013 - 08:13 AM.

[Sephlock]

All at once.

[Ralgas]

Woodstock, on 14 May 2013 - 05:53 AM, said:

those double xp events ...were they for hero mechs?

No the c-bil/xp weekends affected everyone, although bonuses like prem time/heros stacked with it

[Neolisk]

Sephlock, on 14 May 2013 - 08:13 AM, said:

All at once.

Yep, all of the above, and keep the change.

[Edson Drake]

What I would really like: unique mechs. A free mech with an unique champion camo.

[Zolaz]

[Woodstock]

Okay lets look at this medium mech madness event.

30% off the MC cost of mechs. nothing else.

The free to play model works because you get millions of people playing and a small percentage of those buy stuff.

therefore the income is still high enough to 'keep the lights on' because there are sooo many people hooked on the game.

There are soooo few events that are designed to increase player population.

[trollocaustic]

As a WoT Veteran.

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They have done a double XP weekend. I imagine they will do more.

You'll regret asking for this.

[Necroconvict]

As an FYI though, they do as likely someone has already said, give double XP weekends. They may give more MC discounts... but you can't get MC by grinding. If you are really out of Cbills all the time, just take a weekend to just shoot the heck out of stuff, you will see your bank increase.