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[Canadian Bacon]

As a Founder, and long time mech warrior before that, I have taken a huge liking to this game. I took part in the founders program, as well as both package features since then. This weekend's Centurion Give-away leaves me feeling like there is more that MechWarrior could give back! I will now ask the devs to start incorporating more and more "achievement based" give-aways (mechs/cockpit items/paint colors) on a more regular basis, to give back to us fans, and to even the new guys just getting acquainted !!

[Fut]

Don't be greedy.

[oldradagast]

I think it's a great promo. Give out a decent mech - I hope lots of new players get this one since it's a solid starter mech - and at the same time, encourage those who haven't leveled the Centurion to perhaps buy the rest, get a few mechs bays to hold them, etc. Win - win all around.

[Heavenly war]

Greedy? how is that Greedy? I don't recall anything like this even since closed beta. I don't personally consider the operation 24 and the other hanging item or cockpit items to be even worthwhile. Seeing this giveaway when i woke up the other afternoon blew my mind and was totally amped up to jump on and wreck people.

Though i sold the mech, because i'm not a centurion type of guy. The mechbay is just another large plus. As Radagast said, it's Win - Win.

[Canadian Bacon]

The idea of running more promotions like this is to bring in new players. I would love to see the community grow

[Deathsani]

It's a great first step, it will encourage more play until CW sets in.

[Roadbeer]

While I don't 'expect' them to do things like this, it is nice.
Don't be surprised to see a lot more of this when the achievement system comes in around the middle of March.

[RickySpanish]

Thanks PGI, this was a pretty cool promo you did with a really decent, tangible reward. Even for players that already own the Mech a free Mechbay is nothing to sneeze at. I too hope to see something like this again with possibly tighter tiers of achievements to encourage a bit of competitive spirit. For instance, make that 5 win requirement 5 consecutive wins... hehe

[LauLiao]

RickySpanish, on 22 February 2014 - 12:48 PM, said:

For instance, make that 5 win requirement 5 consecutive wins... hehe

The great forum lamenting and gnashing of teeth would be deafening.

[RickySpanish]

LauLiao, on 22 February 2014 - 12:56 PM, said:

The great forum lamenting and gnashing of teeth would be deafening.

It would also be a flipping cool achievement to earn!

[Levi Porphyrogenitus]

Promos are an amazing way to bring people back to the game, especially when they include things that everyone has a use for, like Mechbays.

I'm not sure, but this afternoon the servers seemed to have a slight overload problem for a little while, which is suggestive to me. I'll bet that the 5-win Centurion giveaway has pulled in a whole lot of simultaneous players (maybe more than PGI anticipated even).

Since players are content for F2P games, anything that can consistently bring in more people, especially during times when most people are able to participate (say, weekends and such), is pretty much an unmitigated good.

I anticipate that when achievements go live we'll see a bunch of rewards available for various milestones, which could especially help out the new player experience. Monthly or weekly giveaway specials (like our current Centurion deal) could be a great way to keep drawing in players too.

[John MatriX82]

Roadbeer, on 22 February 2014 - 12:42 PM, said:

While I don't 'expect' them to do things like this, it is nice.
Don't be surprised to see a lot more of this when the achievement system comes in around the middle of March.

I've never even thought it could be possible from them, althought we're speaking of a (c) mech and not a hero (but the task was very simple so can't complain for basically free stuff).

Later on I'm playing a lot of War Thunder and premium aircraft giveaways for achievements (like do a certain actions and such) are pretty common.

In one of the latest, they gave away an era IV premium plane (there are 5 tiers), so it's like they had a giveaway of a.. Ilya Muromets hero mech for a comparison. Or even better, maybe a Dragon Slayer considering the thing is extremely performing

[highwayman1981]

I really approve of this promo, ive spent cash on this game (overlord phoenix pack and mcredits) and am glad to see that they are taking steps to broaden the player base and bring in new fans Great Job!
Further event would benefit more from possibly a tier system of rewards but that would be something for the future, for now a free Champ and a mechbay is great.

[Hexenhammer]

Its a great promo and its a sneaky test to see what can be done with UI2 and achievement based rewards.

[Lupin]

And no one see's this give away as an act of desperation to increase player numbers, having pissed off a lot of them?

Though good boost for new player. And makes new bundles look a little week.

Edited by Lupin, 23 February 2014 - 02:14 AM.

[Sandpit]

Lupin, on 23 February 2014 - 01:33 AM, said:

And no one see's this give away as an act of desperation to increase player numbers, having pissed off a lot of them?

just conspiracy nuts

[Craig Steele]

Sandpit, on 23 February 2014 - 01:39 AM, said:

just conspiracy nuts

Well, in a commercial sense it is nearly the end of the month which is a pretty standard reporting timeline. So any spurt of activity is usually linked to a lower front end of the month so that the end of month 'numbers' are at budget.

Car yards for example often have bigger discounts in the last weeks papers or a sausage sizzle if the month has been slow.

So if you had a commercial background it would make sense to any come to that conclusion

But as for a weekend challenge bringing back 'pissed off' customers, probably not.

[Savage Wolf]

They have mentioned that they wanted to do more achievements and some of them with rewards attached to it. So we will probably see more of this as CW comes along and now that UI2.0 is out. Looking forward to it.

[Deathlike]

Craig Steele, on 23 February 2014 - 03:05 AM, said:

Well, in a commercial sense it is nearly the end of the month which is a pretty standard reporting timeline. So any spurt of activity is usually linked to a lower front end of the month so that the end of month 'numbers' are at budget.

Car yards for example often have bigger discounts in the last weeks papers or a sausage sizzle if the month has been slow.

So if you had a commercial background it would make sense to any come to that conclusion

But as for a weekend challenge bringing back 'pissed off' customers, probably not.

If there is some sort of metric to be reached by some audience (whether it be MS or IGP), having a free giveaway on the weekend would boost numbers. It happens a lot for TV networks/shows ("sweeps week/month") and this is a common practice.

I was told about some school system where the city literally PAYS for like a "fun day" for the entire city's school system to "inflate" attendance numbers for every school for some state funding. They also even count students that don't even goto the school as well, just for sole purpose of padding numbers.

Even if there's no obvious outside reasoning for this giveaway, you know exactly what this promotion intends to provide as a result (whether it is a short burst to increasing activity or simply padding numbers for a 3rd party). There may or may not be outside factors, but there's generally a secondary agenda that tends to exist for these things. I don't ponder it too much, but you cannot just say "it doesn't exist", because it's generally not true.

[Sandpit]

Deathlike, on 23 February 2014 - 11:14 AM, said:

but there's generally a secondary agenda that tends to exist for these things.

I agree 100% actually, no sarcasm

It's called running a business just like every other single business in existence that runs specials, give aways, pays sales tax for you, throws in free items for a purchase, etc.

Make no mistakes, PGI isn't doing this to be altruistic. They're a business and their ulterior motive is ALWAYS going to be increasing their profit margins. That's what businesses do. That's how they succeed. That's how they market, etc.

What I'm saying is there are a select few who want to turn it into some sort of "doom and gloom" conspiracy theory which is just idiotic in my opinion. That and/or they want to turn it into some sort of devious plot of some kind. It's ridiculous and makes me appreciate the fact that people like that are in the extreme minority here.