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#21
Posted 17 February 2014 - 07:31 PM
buy the only thing you need to, mech bays.
You will be much happier.
btw. im serious.
#22
Posted 17 February 2014 - 07:35 PM
#23
Posted 17 February 2014 - 07:46 PM
Zolaz, on 17 February 2014 - 07:35 PM, said:
riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight
Well all opinions are valid they say, this one doesn't make much sense to me but it's definitely valid for you
#24
Posted 17 February 2014 - 08:23 PM
You cannot demand the cable company to pay you back for days/hours you don't get to watch TV.
#25
Posted 17 February 2014 - 08:30 PM
However, I would like to Activate banked time by the day. Say I have 3 days saved, I Activate 1 and save the other 2 for other days to get max usage out of them.
#27
Posted 18 February 2014 - 02:23 AM
even battlefields boosts only count when you have spawned, thats right you can sit in the menu and it wont tick over
xengk, on 17 February 2014 - 08:23 PM, said:
You cannot demand the cable company to pay you back for days/hours you don't get to watch TV.
if i had cable tv, i would also have some sort of Digital set top box, tivo or what ever they are called
you can record what ever shows you want to watch and view it at your discretion
due to my work i cannot sit and play this game for 10 hours straight let alone 24hrs
im lucky if i get a few hours a day
if i do not go to work i do not get paid, while at work i must perform various tasks to have it count as doing work and be paid
so somebody explain to me this
premium time costs PGI NOTHING to generate
it costs them nothing to add or subtract it from a players account (unless doing it manually for CSR reasons)
it never expires and it never runs out of supply, it does not need to be mined or harvested
yet we must pay for it
not only must we pay for it, but it evaporates at a speed that is impossible to gain any value from
if this was food , your meal would be rotten before you were half way through eating it
im not asking for handouts
i just want a little fairness for a system that will benefit players as much as the company
#28
Posted 18 February 2014 - 04:59 AM
You have the choice of using PT, buying mechs with MC, or just taking a bit longer to get what you want.
Just see what gives you more profit.
If you use PT and play x hours for your 30day pack, or if you spend the same MC for x mechs, or if you spend your MC only for Mechbays and play the game as a game and have fun while you "wait" for enough CBills to get new stuff.
Ofc they could offer 5 matches for 150MC premium bonus, but somewhere the difference between match-numbers or days for PT would overlap and days would take over for efficiency anyways.
If you look at it like this, then PT 100% efficiency for MC price is at about 3-4h per day.
Now for players with more time, they have a lot more use and this gives them also a reason to play more.
Example1:
(numbers are for demonstration)
5 matches = 100 MC
vs
1 day = 150 MC
3 days = 300 MC
7 days = 600 MC
For a single day you could play 1-5 matches and would pay more MC and "waste" money, but if you play more games, you can get more out of it
For 3 days with less than 15 games you could use 300MC instead of 500MC and save money, but for anyone playing more than 15 games in 3 days, the 300MC of course comes up with better use.
Now for 7 days (and average 5 games), you would play 700MC for match-numbers or 600MC for 7-day package.
In your scenario, where you can't play much or often, the 7day pack would be not much better.
But if you just choose 2x 1-day pack and 1x 3-day pack, you can have 5 days of fun for the same price and get the PT for way more matches in one (the 5 days) evening.
The urge to use the time you "already paid for" is part of what gives players a reason to play.
If you see it more like a subscription (like WoW), you won't feel like wasting money.
All that said, you have to decide yourself, if you want to use MC for a little boost (30%), or just play the game and have fun 30% slower.
If you are not a collector (50+ mechs in a year), you don't NEED PT.
I got over 60 mechs, but my friends play the game like once a month with 6 mechs only and had them mastered and equipped in no time.
#29
Posted 18 February 2014 - 08:30 AM
Naduk, on 18 February 2014 - 02:23 AM, said:
even battlefields boosts only count when you have spawned, thats right you can sit in the menu and it wont tick over
if i had cable tv, i would also have some sort of Digital set top box, tivo or what ever they are called
you can record what ever shows you want to watch and view it at your discretion
due to my work i cannot sit and play this game for 10 hours straight let alone 24hrs
im lucky if i get a few hours a day
if i do not go to work i do not get paid, while at work i must perform various tasks to have it count as doing work and be paid
so somebody explain to me this
premium time costs PGI NOTHING to generate
it costs them nothing to add or subtract it from a players account (unless doing it manually for CSR reasons)
it never expires and it never runs out of supply, it does not need to be mined or harvested
yet we must pay for it
not only must we pay for it, but it evaporates at a speed that is impossible to gain any value from
if this was food , your meal would be rotten before you were half way through eating it
im not asking for handouts
i just want a little fairness for a system that will benefit players as much as the company
It's been explained. You just don't like the explanations.
#30
Posted 18 February 2014 - 08:39 AM
Naduk, on 16 February 2014 - 04:34 PM, said:
i am putting out the call the for nonsense to stop
premium time should only count for play time
i would settle for logged in time (ticks down in mechlab ect)
Based on what precident? If you buy a monthly subscription to another service (NetFlix, World of Warcraft, whatever), does that month stop dependent upon your use?
#31
Posted 18 February 2014 - 08:54 AM
mekabuser, on 17 February 2014 - 07:31 PM, said:
buy the only thing you need to, mech bays.
You will be much happier.
btw. im serious.
actually i value my time/fun ratio very different from you. If i want anew mech.. i buy a new mech. If i want some new paint. I buy some new paint. Why should i waste time doing things that are not fun ... I do that all day to earn money....
Any way back to the OP.
It is the same with magazine subscriptions, cable subscriptions, food, cinema-visits and so on and so forth.
None of them stop expiring just because you can´t partake in them.
Same with premium.
#32
Posted 18 February 2014 - 09:38 AM
#33
Posted 18 February 2014 - 09:55 AM
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