MoonUnitBeta, on 29 September 2014 - 09:53 PM, said:
Uhh... okay? Can't say I was wrong then...
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.
No I don't expect that for every "day" I get 24 hours of play time. Some people would expect that. I don't.
I get PGI needs to make money. They already have my money from founders and the Phoenix expansion. I foolishly activated my founders time. I refuse to do so with my Phoenix. Its a giant rip off, period. I will only use a tiny fraction of what I paid for.
What Russ (and I consider the guys at PGI generally well meaning but foolish people) don't get is that they would make MORE money from premium time if we could parse it out as we played because we wouldn't feel so screwed by the days we don't play but have day tick off.
Why should we have to pay their rapacious price for 1 day premium time? If I'm willing to fork over $100 or whatever for X number of days I should get to use those days. I've been nice enough to them to give them money for a game I can play and not have to pay a damn thing for and at a big chunk of money, not some micro transaction.
So yes I feed justified. As far as the snide attitude comments like "oh kings of casuals" shut up. Its the anonymity of the internet that gives trolls like you the courage and the stance to try and take some position of "rightness." Get bent and move out of your mother's basement.
Rant denied. Grow the @#$@#$@$ up.
Edited by Stiletto, 02 October 2014 - 04:24 PM.
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