38 replies to this topic

[Juodas Varnas]

They've been giving away MC as event rewards for at least a year now, dude.

It's basically like the hypothetical crack dealer that gives the first dose free to hook you. I've yet to meet this hypothetical crack dealer (or any crack dealer, to be honest) myself, but all the PSAs seem to imply they exist.

[Nightshade24]

there were many events before today that gave away MC and MC products... and events that gave away more MC than currently on the Rifleman thing. If PGI thinks they are dying they must think it was dying back when the game had nothing but a steady climb in player base and community growth ... oh wait.

[brroleg]

Juodas Varnas, on 18 February 2016 - 09:51 PM, said:

They've been giving away MC as event rewards for at least a year now, dude.

It's basically like the hypothetical crack dealer that gives the first dose free to hook you. I've yet to meet this hypothetical crack dealer (or any crack dealer, to be honest) myself, but all the PSAs seem to imply they exist.

So today PGI relies on "crack dealer tricks" instead of quality game development? Looks pretty dying to me. Crack dealers always end up in prison, and their customers always end up dying.

[1Grimbane]

brroleg, on 18 February 2016 - 10:15 PM, said:

So today PGI relies on "crack dealer tricks" instead of quality game development? Looks pretty dying to me. Crack dealers always end up in prison, and their customers always end up dying.

has russ been knocking on your door too, yelling how he "don't play no sh*t" ? man i thought i was the only one.

Edited by 1Grimbane, 18 February 2016 - 11:53 PM.

[Prof RJ Gumby]

WAT

If anything, the PGI actually cut back on giving away MC in events.
100MC in total? Grab bag events generated me 1,5-2x more than this. Not to say the just-pre-steam-launch events, where I got like 2 or 3k in total

Following your theory, the game's state is improving, because they went from actual giveaways of considerable sums to tiny, tiny amounts...

[meteorol]

PGI has been giving away MC for ages now.

I'm sitting on 7k + MC just from events and CW, while spending quite a bit on camos and mechbays. If anything, the recent events gave less MC.

[LordNothing]

yep, fewer mech bays and less mc it seems. for awhile last year it seemed like they were giving mech bays away for free every other week.

[Mechteric]

Stupid topic is stupid

[Kaeb Odellas]

They've been giving away MC as prizes since the first Heavy leaderboard event I think. Which I technically won.

[STEF_]

Thanks to this kind of giveaway, to free mc in cw, to 50% discount, I managed to buy 3 heroes without spending real money.

[Livewyr]

Alistair Winter, on 18 February 2016 - 07:27 PM, said:

Other F2P games with millions of players have been doing this for a while. I've been asking for it for a while too. It just makes sense. PGI finally made the right call.

It doesn't mean the game is dying, no. PGI just learned from other F2P games.

Let us hope they learn a few more things.

[Paigan]

Alistair Winter, on 18 February 2016 - 07:27 PM, said:

Other F2P games with millions of players have been doing this for a while. I've been asking for it for a while too. It just makes sense. PGI finally made the right call.

It doesn't mean the game is dying, no. PGI just learned from other F2P games.

As it was stated before: PGI does that for a long time already.

Usually around 5 - 100 MC.
Recently, one event netted me 1000 MC.

Anyone saying "They finally recognized ..." should check reality first before posting.

[Sorbic]

No it doesn't mean the game is dying. They've been giving away stuff like this for a long time. It just good business and the free colors/patterns I've won got me to finally try painting my mech and looking at other colors.

[Narcissistic Martyr]

It's like a drug dealer giving a new customer the good uncut stuff for a low price to get them hooked. Give folks a little taste of MC and well folks will notice they can ALMOST get that thing they want... only need to spend $10 for a little more MC... and bam PGI just sold some MC.

[Remains Intact]

It's pretty nice to use to buy one off paint patterns for favorite mechs.

[InspectorG]

Well, looking at the gift store and all the new mech-package deals, as a more streamlined method of revenue, MC likely lost importance as the medium to buy mechs and could have a better use as a upper tier currency and reward.

You still need Cbills to upgrade mechs but MC lets you get the other stuff, so a dual currency system to build the economy and a two-tier reward system might be good.

LordNothing, on 19 February 2016 - 12:17 AM, said:

yep, fewer mech bays and less mc it seems. for awhile last year it seemed like they were giving mech bays away for free every other week.

With the influx of Steamers and Mech packages there could be a glut of empty mechbays seeing as im sure many players will sell off un-used mechs.

Im sitting on 20 empty bays and have no aspirations of filling them all. I NO POKEMECH. I just roll in my faves.

[MechWarrior5152251]

They started doing this more than a year ago...

[Big Tin Man]

Escef, on 18 February 2016 - 07:27 PM, said:

I believe the free MC with events started with the Halloween 2014 grab bags.

Yup. And just for fun I added up all the MC I've earned/won from events since Halloween 2014:

6,900 MC from events and CW since 11/1/2014.

Save those pennies, because they become dollars kids.

[Ghogiel]

Escef, on 18 February 2016 - 07:27 PM, said:

I believe the free MC with events started with the Halloween 2014 grab bags.

Which iirc was just after IGP was out of the picture. Coincidence? I thnk not.