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[Coraxin]

The Problem: The current implementation of premium time makes me feel "cheated".

The Observation: Myself, and probably most of the community have families and real world job responsibilities. The current premium time makes me feel like I spent $1000 to spend 24 hours with a ho-oker and then her pi-mp (aka real life) only allows me to play with her for 1 hour. I also surmise that people might be running bots to use up their premium time while they work/sleep/etc -- this degrades the playing experience for other people.

The Solution: Why not just sell us X number of "Premium Games" instead of a time quantity that can decay with no useful benefit? Give players the benefit of the doubt and assume the following for the conversion:

Average Match Time:7 Mins - lucky 7!
Play time: 18H / day (6 hours for sleep) - assuming hardcore player with no job/family/etc.
So 24h / 7Mins = 205 Games, lets just Round it down to an even 200 Games / Day.

I would be happy with 100-200 "Premium Games" / Day converted over vs the current time decay model. This allows us players to enjoy our premium games without having to be pressured into running games as fast as possible or even running bots to make use of our premium time.

If that is not acceptable then give me a "Deactivate" button so I can turn on/off my premium time at will. This will give us the same effect since I'll just turn my time on when I play and turn it off when I go to sleep/work.

Thoughts?
Coraxin

Edited by Coraxin, 02 December 2012 - 12:58 PM.

[Suicidal Idiot]

Coraxin, on 02 December 2012 - 12:55 PM, said:

The Problem: The current implementation of premium time makes me feel "cheated".

The Observation: Myself, and probably most of the community have families and real world job responsibilities. The current premium time makes me feel like I spent $1000 to spend 24 hours with a ho-oker and then her pi-mp (aka real life) only allows me to play with her for 1 hour. I also surmise that people might be running bots to use up their premium time while they work/sleep/etc -- this degrades the playing experience for other people.

The Solution: Why not just sell us X number of "Premium Games" instead of a time quantity that can decay with no useful benefit? Give players the benefit of the doubt and assume the following for the conversion:

Average Match Time:7 Mins - lucky 7!
Play time: 18H / day (6 hours for sleep) - assuming hardcore player with no job/family/etc.
So 24h / 7Mins = 205 Games, lets just Round it down to an even 200 Games / Day.

I would be happy with 100-200 "Premium Games" / Day converted over vs the current time decay model. This allows us players to enjoy our premium games without having to be pressured into running games as fast as possible or even running bots to make use of our premium time.

If that is not acceptable then give me a "Deactivate" button so I can turn on/off my premium time at will. This will give us the same effect since I'll just turn my time on when I play and turn it off when I go to sleep/work.

Thoughts?
Coraxin

My first thoughts:
1: You need to find more honest service providers. I recommend Nevada, where it's legal in counties under 85,000 people or so (NOT in Vegas).
2: 24 hours is too long, keep that up and you're going to wake up unclothed, drugged and bruised in an alley.
3: The bots will pay off whenever used, so when the profit goes down, they'll just use them more often.
4: If you have a family and responsibilities, you might want to play MWO more, and with 'ho-oker's less, as in none. You open yourself up to blackmail, very hostile divorce attorneys, and unsympathetic doctors.

My final thought is you've made the best argument ever for when the significant other's complain about MWO taking away family time. Just say "You'd probably rather I play MWO at home than with Guido the Killer Pi-mp's ho-okers out in the bad part of town"

Disclaimer: I might not be 100% correct about that argument's effectiveness on a real world spouse.

Edited by Suicidal Idiot, 02 December 2012 - 02:58 PM.