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Stiletto, on 29 September 2014 - 08:34 PM, said:
For more casual players like myself, its not good enough. I might play 10 days a month. 20 days wasted. Nope. That premium time sits banked until I am counted only for days I play and not for days I don't. If PGI is willing to allow a very active player the benefit of that month playing every day, I should get the same benefit for the days I log in. I don't expect 24 hours of time.
The day ticks when and if I log in, really should be if I log in and drop in a game, but I'd take until I log in.
There is almost no difference for activating it for a month and having it all at once. Its still way too long.
Banked time was a gift from PGI for founders. This 30-day activation is to alleviate folks who have like 210 days saved up and don't want to activate it all at once and become dedicated to the game for 3/4 of the year to make use of their time. A month is absolutely nothing. Remember that banked time only affects preorders.
You should ease up on those crazy pill- WAIT! You said you don't expect "24hrs"??? Oh. Okay. *sits down and crosses legs with a pencil and notepad in hand* Lets discuss this. What is it that you do expect if it's not 24hrs? You sound like you know what you're talking about so, enlighten me in your modest and reasonable ways, oh Casual King.
How about a "[casual gamer premium time conversion button]", and when you press it, it divides all your banked premium time by ten (because you don't expect 24hrs so you won't be needing those). So that leaves you now with 9 days (or 216 hrs) of time that will only activate whenever you are logged-in. That's AWESOME isn't it? Isn't that what you wanted? Let me look back. Okay so you wanted time that activates only when you play. Okay.. .Check. Annnnd.... you don't expect 24 hrs... .. OKAY! Check! Great!
Oh wait..... Do I sense some variables in there that you might feel the urge to complain about? I think I do! Let's see them in action shall we!
"divides all your banked premium time by ten"
What?! DIVIDED BY TEN? NO!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY I SPENT FOR THOSE 90 DAYS AND BECAUSE I'M A CASUAL GAMER YOU BASICALLY RIPPING ME OFF BAIT AND SWITCH! BAIT AND SWITCH! WHAT IF MY NORMAL LIFE ENDS AND I HAVE ALL THIS FREE TIME WHAT THEN HUH? WHAT THEN????
oh, and, "when ever you are logged-in"
WHAT? LOGGED IN? NO THAT TIME IS SUPPOSED TO ONLY TICK FROM WHEN I FIRE MY FIRST MEDIUM LASER AND IS A REGISTERED HIT! AND IN FACT THERE WAS AN ECM SPIDER THAT SHUT DOWN IN MY LAST GAME AND I WANT MY TIME BACK BECAUSE IT TOOK THE LAST 10 MINUTES OF THE MATCH TO FIND HIM AND HE WASTED ALL MY TIME! (come on, we all know that if you're dutch enough to complain about premium time only running when you play, then you'll be dutch enough to send in a ticket for premium time refund because someone wasted your time. You are after all complaining about a generious feature that's been given to us already. So why stop there? Hell why stop anywhere? Just keep going man, just like this paragraph I'm typing. There's no end. I wanna be able to schedule when I wanna use Premium Time. Make it a freakin button. And let me tie it to my mouse click so when I click it uses just a little bit of premium time. And then I'll click just before the match ends so I get a bonus. Because I see someone commented that we should have control over what we buy! Don't you dare give me that burger that's on your menu, I want a custom grilled chilli cheese dog with 1tbsp of dill, 2 pinches of cilantro, and load it with beans, and use that special custom chili sauce from Arby's across the road. I like they're sauce better anyways. You following me?)
PGI needs to make money bro. Russ discussed the reason why it's only going to be 30 days in his town hall meeting. It's not going to change, and I'm happy for that because they've given us more than they wanted to already. This is PGI's product, and it's PGI's menu. You don't like what's on the menu then.. really, that's too damn bad for you now.
If you want incremental premium time, you can do so by buying individual days. That's on their menu. There's a complimentary service available for those who buy a whole bunch of pre-orders and banked all that time up. They're offering it in 30-day packages, and that's all they can do because of the SCREAMING deal you're already getting by pre-ordering. They need to make money. Giving your product away doesn't make you money.
Edit: felt good to rant.
Edit: nope, had to rant some more.
Edited by MoonUnitBeta, 29 September 2014 - 10:13 PM.
