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[BloodMate]

It would be great to be able to gift items to other players on our friends list!

[Karl Marlow]

*Sends BloodMate a friend invite*

Edited by ThomasMarik, 02 November 2014 - 11:18 PM.

[BloodMate]

Denied "Merik" Denied

[Troutmonkey]

Just let me create a dozen or so trial accounts who are kind enough to gift me all that sweet sweet new player monies.

[Xetelian]

I think league of legends did it right. This game should allow MC gifting. Not Cbill gifting but MC...

[-Natural Selection-]

Unit garage would be cool.

Buy mechs bays with real money (for pgi's pockets) and be able to use in pugs. Have a unit MC fund for cammo, paint, and bays. Builds only changed by leader/officers. Mechs would still have to be bought by the players to use in CW. Something like that

[BloodMate]

I think that with CW we should be able to fund everything with c-bills, Unit paint jobs, mechs, Faction paint jobs, and be able to gift items, as we can C-Bills, to the unit fund/warehouse.

Also... in CW you should be able to salvage mechs, weapons, equipment and cockpit items!

Do away with using mc to buy cockpit items and paint! These could easily be rewards for "x" amounts of drops or just c-bills. But the faction that you serve should be paying us for our work and rewarding us for completion and bonuses for jobs we do. Structure it after the others MW games.....

[Troutmonkey]

BloodMate, on 03 November 2014 - 12:12 AM, said:

I think that with CW we should be able to fund everything with c-bills, Unit paint jobs, mechs, Faction paint jobs, and be able to gift items, as we can C-Bills, to the unit fund/warehouse.

Also... in CW you should be able to salvage mechs, weapons, equipment and cockpit items!

Do away with using mc to buy cockpit items and paint! These could easily be rewards for "x" amounts of drops or just c-bills. But the faction that you serve should be paying us for our work and rewarding us for completion and bonuses for jobs we do. Structure it after the others MW games.....

All but the most basic of items should remain pay to get only. How else is a F2P game supposed to fund itself?

Edited by Troutmonkey, 03 November 2014 - 12:46 AM.

[Lily from animove]

it would also eb a chance for PGI to make more money.

[aniviron]

Troutmonkey, on 03 November 2014 - 12:45 AM, said:

All but the most basic of items should remain pay to get only. How else is a F2P game supposed to fund itself?

Yeah, cosmetic items for free? What a ridiculous idea! Can you imagine if hats dropped for free in TF2? Valve would be broke!

[BloodMate]

Sorry, but it just feels like PGI is trying to create MWO like microsoft would. $$$$$$$$$$$$$$


But this isn's what this thread is about... it's about the desire to have a gifting system.

[DYSEQTA]

Agree with OP. I have something like 33 or 34 empty mech bays that could use a good home :/

[Xetelian]

My friend offered to get me the Maskari pack back in the release of it but I declined because
1. I don't feel comfortable with someone I only know through teamspeak and MWO with my password and username
2. I don't feel right about taking 240 dollars from someone.


Gifting would have made that a lot easier and since he bought gold timber wolf and he could gifted me just a ala carte.

[Troutmonkey]

aniviron, on 03 November 2014 - 01:16 AM, said:

Yeah, cosmetic items for free? What a ridiculous idea! Can you imagine if hats dropped for free in TF2? Valve would be broke!

Well for several years TF2 was pay to own, and now there's tonnes of paid items you can buy, namely stupid keys for "free" loot crates. Outside of that Valve is a multi-million dollar company with dozens of titles and it's Steam service to back it up financially. PGI don't really have that going for them, with MWO being a very niche game. Hardly comparable.

[Ghogiel]

Troutmonkey, on 02 November 2014 - 11:45 PM, said:

Just let me create a dozen or so trial accounts who are kind enough to gift me all that sweet sweet new player monies.

like most games then... oh wait no that's not how they do it. You must mean something else as every game I can think of they lock new player monies/stuff to the account.

[Raizell]

@OP Yea, would be nice in deed.

[aniviron]

Troutmonkey, on 03 November 2014 - 03:09 AM, said:

Well for several years TF2 was pay to own, and now there's tonnes of paid items you can buy, namely stupid keys for "free" loot crates. Outside of that Valve is a multi-million dollar company with dozens of titles and it's Steam service to back it up financially. PGI don't really have that going for them, with MWO being a very niche game. Hardly comparable.

Alright: Spiral Knights. Three Rings i a small development house (much smaller than PGI) who released a free to play game where not only can you buy some cosmetic items with in-game currency, you can buy everything with in-game currency. The game has been running for about five years now, and you can still buy everything in the game with in-game currency.

Or maybe: Path of Exile. Again, a free player can get anything they want without spending money. It's been doing quite well on Steam, and again, from a small development studio with no other projects.

I don't have PGI's data. I'm sure someone very smart was paid a very large amount of money to determine the best way to get money out of people who play MWO. I'm not complaining about how it's done now; I'm just saying that it's not the only possible way it can be done.