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[Spleenslitta]

ABFalcon, on 30 November 2014 - 06:34 PM, said:

Warning: This post may contain dubious amounts of sarcasm.

ZOMG mech bays purchasable for C-bills would be so terrible! PGI/IGP would go broke! Everybody knows that mech bay sales make up precisely 100% of MC purchases!!!

No one ever buys MC consumables, ever.
No one ever buys C-bill mechs, ever.
No one ever buys premium time, ever.
No one ever buys founders or champion mechs, ever.
No one has ever bought a founders, phoenix, invasion, wave2, or resistance package, ever.
No one ever buys pretty paint colors, ever.
No one ever buys neat camo patterns, ever.
No one ever decorates their cockpit with vanity items, ever.

Making mech bays purchasable for MC would completely destroy the revenue stream and kill the game!!! NO ONE WOULD EVER BUY MC AGAIN!!!

*sarcasm disengaged*

C-bills need to be convertable to MC at 1/4 the MC to C-bill conversion rate, so mech bays can be purchased with straight C-bills. Involving GXP or nerfing subsequent C-bill earnings at all is laughably unnecessary.

6.5 million C-bills for 1000 MC would work nicely.

PGI/IGP will never make a penny on a patient gamer. They make money off of people that are IMPATIENT. That is their sole revenue stream, and will forever be their sole revenue stream. Selling MC for C-bills adds another C-bill sink, without costing PGI/IGP any statistically significant loss in revenue.

All i got to say is this- Unless you see how much money PGI gets from mechbay sales you cannot draw any solid conclusion.

Instead you should ask yourself this question.
Let's say mechbays can be bought with c-bills/GXP or any other of these suggestions....what could potentially happen to MWO as a result?
Imagine if this would mean MWO life gets shorter by 1-2 years.
Or PGI has to cut down on staff members and thus we get slower release of mechs, maps and other features.

There are all kinds of things that could happen.

[mad kat]

Your stuck with the extra mechbays via CW at the moment, while i agree PGI's blatant cash grabs wear thin and theyre obsession with adding new content rather than fixing what they have they are a business at the end of the day and they DO offer additional mechbays for free this way and if your lucky via the odd event.

[Steelmesh]

Mechbays are for the most part the ONLY reason PGI has come up with to force a guy like me to spend real money on the game. PGI needs that money to feed the starving children of the Innersphere... Many have been hit hard by the centuries of war, and let's face it.. sometimes, you just gotta lube up and kiss Russ's arse with a new shiny MC pack..

Kidding aside, Mechbays are probably a huge part of PGI funding.. and if they made them non MC-only, their funding would drop dramatically, and the game's development would suffer..

So.. no.