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[Rocket2Uranus]

I wish you guys would do something about premium time being wasted away when people can't spend time in game. Always being awarded premium time through events and seeing he valuable hours gone to waste because real life happens.

[PyckenZot]

Welcome to Free 2 Play

[Beaching Betty]

PyckenZot, on 21 March 2016 - 09:02 AM, said:

Welcome to Free 2 Play

[Felicitatem Parco]

Yeah, premium time should ONLY be purchased at year-end sales when it is 50% off and you should ONLY buy the 360 day pack. That lets you play premium for a year for $50 USD.

All other premium time prices are a rip-off due to the time spent not playing. The free premium time given away during events are meant really juat to be used during that event.

[Malagant]

Free to play can be a good thing. The system used here, is not. It needs to be fixed, which would probably necessitate a change to the way premium time works and accrues. Rather than days of premium time, it would be hours of login time. I would think that 8 hours of game time would be equivalent to 1 day that is currently available.

[Roadkill]

Premium time is like a subscription. Your WoW account doesn't suspened when you're not playing, does it? No, of course not.

Premium time is the same - it's your subscription to MWO. PGI just made a mistake by showing hours and minutes remaining... they should have simply stopped at days and had all Premium time expire at 11:59 pm UTC.

[Gyrok]

Rocket2Uranus, on 21 March 2016 - 08:59 AM, said:

I wish you guys would do something about premium time being wasted away when people can't spend time in game. Always being awarded premium time through events and seeing he valuable hours gone to waste because real life happens.

Since someone who is clearly so pro they took the name "as$rocket" started this thread...why is this thread lacking teh funniez?

[LegendaryArticuno]

At some point you will accumulate more cbills than you need.

I have about 70+ million cbills with three open mechbays, but since there hasnt been any cbill sales in ages, I just keep saving up to no end.

[Rocket2Uranus]

Gyrok, on 21 March 2016 - 09:19 AM, said:

Since someone who is clearly so pro they took the name "as$rocket" started this thread...why is this thread lacking teh funniez?

oh look he has a twitch account must be amaze-bawlz.
1 follower!!! that's cool your mom knows how to watch streams.

now thats funny

Edited by Rocket2Uranus, 21 March 2016 - 09:37 AM.

[Chuck Jager]

Premium time is about $12 a month. That is lower than most gyms, and many gamers play online more than folks use their gym account.

or if in USA $12 is about 1.25 to 1.5 hours minimum wage at a crap job. This sounds more than fair.

During an event the award of Ptime is free and made so more people stay in game while helping MM have a wider pool.

Do not complain say thank you.

[Rocket2Uranus]

Chuck Jager, on 21 March 2016 - 09:41 AM, said:

Premium time is about $12 a month. That is lower than most gyms, and many gamers play online more than folks use their gym account.

or if in USA $12 is about 1.25 to 1.5 hours minimum wage at a crap job. This sounds more than fair.

During an event the award of Ptime is free and made so more people stay in game while helping MM have a wider pool.

Do not complain say thank you.

As someone who dumped more than $60 Dollars into the game, I don't think I have to say thanks.
Probably that's more than 50% of the players on MWO. If I have to guess, only 10-15% of the players here have spent more than $100. I know there are some players who probably have been dumping serious amount of $$$$ since the alpha/beta days.

Anyways, just making a point here that perhaps people would be willing to come back and spend more time in game if premium times gifted/bought didn't run out while they are at work or have to tend to real life things.

Edited by Rocket2Uranus, 21 March 2016 - 09:46 AM.

[TheArisen]

Pgi did talk about letting us active premium time in 1 month intervals. Idk how that's doing now though.

[TKSax]

TheArisen, on 21 March 2016 - 09:45 AM, said:

Pgi did talk about letting us active premium time in 1 month intervals. Idk how that's doing now though.

That is for Banked time, and you can do it now in your Profile page.

[Mechteric]

TheArisen, on 21 March 2016 - 09:45 AM, said:

Pgi did talk about letting us active premium time in 1 month intervals. Idk how that's doing now though.

It's already in effect


But 1 month isn't granular enough, 1 week would be better, or even down to less if they had the heart.

[Bilbo]

TheArisen, on 21 March 2016 - 09:45 AM, said:

Pgi did talk about letting us active premium time in 1 month intervals. Idk how that's doing now though.

You can do this from your forum profile. If OP takes issue with his day or two of premium time won in an event being wasted, I doubt the one month activation will help him much.

[RangerGee412]

TheArisen, on 21 March 2016 - 09:45 AM, said:

Pgi did talk about letting us active premium time in 1 month intervals. Idk how that's doing now though.

You can, have to do it on the website not the game. If you activate premium time ingame it activates all of it

[Cyborne Elemental]

Even if they allowed for single day PT usage, that would be great.

People got jobs, and real life happens, so yeah its just a complete waste if you're not playing 24/7.

I would be buying PT all the time if I knew I could use it economically a little at a time vs throwing a pile of cash down for a week or month of PT, when about 2/3 of it is just wasted because I'm not glued to my PC for that entire time.

[Rocket2Uranus]

Mister D, on 21 March 2016 - 10:04 AM, said:

Even if they allowed for single day PT usage, that would be great.

People got jobs, and real life happens, so yeah its just a complete waste if you're not playing 24/7.

I would be buying PT all the time if I knew I could use it economically a little at a time vs throwing a pile of cash down for a week or month of PT, when about 2/3 of it is just wasted because I'm not glued to my PC for that entire time.

What I'm trying to point out. At least someone gets my point.

Edited by Rocket2Uranus, 21 March 2016 - 10:08 AM.

[PyckenZot]

People tend to forget PGI and other F2P developpers are not a charity.

Being able to activate PT per month is already nice. Per week would be even better but that's up to their accounting department. Anything more granular is sheer greed on the customer's part. My EVE account is also paid per month. Whether I log on or not.

[Destoroyah]

They should add activating premium time by week.
I'm a casual player with probably about 2 years of premium time banked up. I hardly ever use it cause I'd be wasting so much of it based on my play schedule, but if it was on a per week basis also I'd use it a lot more for those times I got 4-5 days to play regularly. This works in PGIs favor too as I and I'm sure other players will start actually using their PT so will be more likely to purchase PT when they run out.

However I wouldn't be against them converting Premium time to online time only even if that ment a time decrease to 6-8 hours to per day ratio.

Edited by Destoroyah, 21 March 2016 - 10:24 AM.