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[sHr000m]

it roughly takes 2 weeks of playing 8 hours a day to buy a 15 mill mec so 6 weeks for all three give that you win all the matches and receive 100k per game per 10 min. the mecs are overpriced money wise and time wise. this game is a money pit. ppl are just willing to throw money at it all day. I have a friend who has spent 700 dollars in this game. THATS REDICULIOUS. most games u spend 60 dollars and receive everything.with 700 hundred dollars I could buy every game I have played sence 1995. this is just insane. I liked mwo when you earned 200k per game now its just a game that revolve around taking your money. every move in mwo is geared toward pgi making more profit. this I very clear and disturbing, but whats more disturbing is 500 dollar gold mechs and ppl spending over 1k in this game receiving basically a TDM. LIVING LEGENDS was waaaay more fun than this. if ppl only knew what they were missing out on....

Edited by sHr000m, 29 March 2015 - 07:09 PM.

[KraftySOT]

lol Hai. Welcome to 2013. Your attendant will be along shortly to strap you in.

[Armorine]

I stopped counting what I've spent. Also roughly 2-3 hours of game play will get you a mech. If you have premium time. Less if your rocking a hero mech

[sHr000m]

everything revolves around money, 1 new map with a dead lobster in the middle of it. that's it just 1 map has been added. seems like everyone who uses the crytek engine cant use it correctly but wants to charge horrendous amounts of money for the items within that game example being star citizen with a 15,000 dollar ship.

[delushin]

I am fortunate to have a huge bank of premium time from various events and such, does it really take 2 weeks at 8 hours a day to get 15mil without premium?

[Otto Cannon]

sHr000m, on 29 March 2015 - 07:18 PM, said:

everything revolves around money, 1 new map with a dead lobster in the middle of it. that's it just 1 map has been added. seems like everyone who uses the crytek engine cant use it correctly but wants to charge horrendous amounts of money for the items within that game example being star citizen with a 15,000 dollar ship.

PGI are making money by selling stuff like every other company. You only pay if you're too impatient to wait for things because you can get it all for free apart from hero mechs or gold skins that give no advantage.

There's no 15k SC ship by the way. You're thinking of the pledge package where people who donated that much to fund the game got all the ships and some other stuff like meeting Chris at the studio in return. You can get all the SC ships for free in the game too. In the case of SC none of the money raised goes to profit. It all goes to making the game and they start taking profit after release.

[FupDup]

Always relevant:

[sHr000m]

YOUR WRONG, star citzen did have a 15k ship for sale http://www.gamefaqs....71001783?page=1 please, before you open your mouth know the facts, other wise your just spewing. SHEEP. http://www.gameskinn...ivestream-event

[Titus Ryan]

Technically it was 15k for multiple ships not a ship, maybe you should read your own links.

[Reitrix]

A good match will net me 250 ~ 300k in a 10~ minute match with Premium or a Hero/Prime.
A bad match will net me 140 ~ 180k in a 10~ minute match with Premium or Hero/Prime.

Your earnings are directly related to how well you play. There are some days where i get more c-bills on a well played loss than i do on a reasonable win.

Its kind of funny, Damage and Component Destruction are our biggest sources of C-Bills yet the 'meta' has evolved to destroy targets with minimal damage done ...

[El Bandito]

The grind wouldn't be as bad if I wasn't forced to buy two more variants to unlock Elite trees. Why must I buy Darius and Volibear as well if all I wanted was to play top as Garen?

Edited by El Bandito, 30 March 2015 - 03:45 AM.

[Xetelian]

We could do with a raise to the general cbill earnings I get 90,000 -100,000 on an average win and 200,000+ on good games. This is low compared to what I used to get.

[DaZur]

If I had a nickel for every wail of indignation over the abrasion of the grind I'd have every flipping mech...

[Mister Blastman]

sHr000m, on 29 March 2015 - 07:08 PM, said:

it roughly takes 2 weeks of playing 8 hours a day to buy a 15 mill mec so 6 weeks for all three give that you win all the matches and receive 100k per game per 10 min. the mecs are overpriced money wise and time wise. this game is a money pit. ppl are just willing to throw money at it all day. I have a friend who has spent 700 dollars in this game. THATS REDICULIOUS. most games u spend 60 dollars and receive everything.with 700 hundred dollars I could buy every game I have played sence 1995. this is just insane. I liked mwo when you earned 200k per game now its just a game that revolve around taking your money. every move in mwo is geared toward pgi making more profit. this I very clear and disturbing, but whats more disturbing is 500 dollar gold mechs and ppl spending over 1k in this game receiving basically a TDM. LIVING LEGENDS was waaaay more fun than this. if ppl only knew what they were missing out on....

So don't give them any money. They aren't making you pay them. As you yourself has said, MW:LL was better, as are many other games that you pay sixty bucks or less for. So do what I do, buy those other games and don't spend more than sixty bucks here. I managed to get two years out of this one and tons of 'mechs so it can be done. And unlike those who spent hundreds or thousands, I don't feel any obligation to keep playing when I get sick of it because of my limited monies I paid into this one.

[PurpleNinja]

Marx agrees with you, I guess.

[Zen Idiot]

delushin, on 29 March 2015 - 07:31 PM, said:

I am fortunate to have a huge bank of premium time from various events and such, does it really take 2 weeks at 8 hours a day to get 15mil without premium?

only if you're bad..

[zortesh]

100k per a game?

Shoot better.

But yes cbill earnings are somewhat low...

[Vahnn]

I can play about 8 games in one hour. More if I die quickly. Bare minimum of 300 damage and usually at least 1 kill and half a dozen assists. Bare minimum I'll get 60,000 cb on a loss, 85,000 on a win. Average cb I'd say 80,000 on a loss, 150,000 on a win. And that's when I'm not in a Hero mech or with premium time. Premium time + Hero mech (I love my Wang) I'd say my average is 250,000 cb per match, most I've ever made was 410,000.

The grind isn't as bad as you say, unless you're a very unskilled player, but I will concede that the game is quite grindy from the start. It took me a while to get a good mech set up that allows me to perform as well as I do.

The cost of premium time isn't as bad as you think. $15/month is generally accepted as the standard subscription cost for MMOs these days. If you buy Premium Time in 6 month chunks, it costs about the same as your standard MMO subscription. I can't remember the exact math, as the $ cost of MC varies based on how much MC you buy at once, but I believe buying 1 year of Premium Time comes out to about $9/month, almost half the cost of your standard MMO sub if you buy the $100 MC bundle.

If you buy the $100 MC bundle to buy your PT, you're playing the game for pretty cheap. That's a full year of PT plus some money for a skin, warhorn, some colors, etc.

Buying mechs for MC is the real money sink. I bought a Hero mech of each weight class, which cost about $40 total, and the rest of my MC is for PT only. I just swim in Cbills, and it was probably a $130 investment, which is still cheaper than subscribing to 1 year of your standard MMO, even factoring in reduced $/month pricing for buying multiple months.

Edited by Vahnn, 29 March 2015 - 10:10 PM.

[RoboPatton]

The pre-nerfed-economy was leagues better imo.

[ACH75]

In 15 months of play i've spent very much $ believing at least that "supporting" PGI will speed-up the developing process

but sadly i've to admit that despite the latest efforts they're still not making things/content/enhancements fast enough...