Alright, here I go catching up again... Argh...
MovinTarget, on 16 June 2016 - 12:22 PM, said:
Before anyone else complains...
EVERYONE GETS SOME FREE STUFF.
BE HAPPY!
PraetorGix, on 16 June 2016 - 02:17 PM, said:
While you're right, there is free stuff, and then there is free stuff. The fact that Mechbays used to be a regular bag prize and now are the "grand" prize, added to the fact that they are actively ignoring the request for a MECH BAY SALE is a polite slap in the face.
MovinTarget, on 16 June 2016 - 03:33 PM, said:
I know what you mean, but the reality is that MB are the only things they can assuredly ding the cheapo players for... you the the guys that have never spent a red cent on this game because they are under the mistaken assumption that a f2p game can actually survive without them shelling out a measily $15 for ten mech bays.
What would suggest they do is simply give paying customers the option to pick from an assortment of bonus rewards when the purchase a mech pack...
It could be an extra mechbay, it could be more cbills, even a few days premium time (as a giftable code). That way you pick what you need at the time...
I know this won't be popular with the non-spenders, but for all the qualms you may have with the product, there won't be a product at all if they can't pay staff, pay for web services, etc.
I know others used to pump hundreds into this game, they should prolly have some kind of legacy status so that they get something regardless of new investment.
But for the guys that don't spend a dime, sorry, your opinion probably carries as much value as you've put into the game.
Your words hold truth. But then there is also the currently not covered group of those who started this game only in the last half a year to a full year, and are still trying to decide if they wish to spend anything on MWO. I'm talking about people who are rather discerning about where they put their $$$, but start out looking like 'cheapo folk'. After the 'FW, Phase 3' fiasco, and the fact that getting any Mech Bays to survive on has become like an opposing force trying to pull teeth out of the faces of 'French Foreign Legion' members**, there are more of those people keeping their purse strings closed now. Why, you would ask? Being choked for something rather critical to basic gameplay mechanics (
having your own mech designs built, stored, and prepared to play with), before you can even decide properly if you like a game enough to pay $$$ because you've actually had time to get a feel of things, tends to be an automatic turn-off that causes people to close their purse strings. This results in considerable self-hurt by PGI to their own revenue stream, which is going to break them in the end... not because they somehow still deserved money and were left hanging, but because they didn't due to their own errors. So, if they're not at least a little more willing to give out Mech Bays in events, or provide more sales for them in a reasonably timely manner, such that people don't collide with 'Pay Walls' and a 'choked feeling' so harshly, PGI will fall due to MWO getting considered another P2W mess. Personally, that's a result I dislike because I would have liked to see MWO survive a rather long time into the future, but that's naturally what happens to any company that becomes too focused on grabbing other peoples' $$$ without properly providing for their current and potential future customer bases. Mark my words, if PGI wasn't being so uptight over Mech Bays, they would have a larger revenue stream because newer players would be able to get into the groove and then feel like paying more $$$ happened to be worth it to boost MWO and PGI along.
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** -- a particular mental terminology I keep getting reminded about, because MWO's 'FW, Phase 3' is feeling much like a movie I watched a long time ago)
Triordinant, on 16 June 2016 - 06:32 PM, said:
LOL, maybe I'll do it for the hanging dice and moar free warhorns.
Grinster, on 17 June 2016 - 12:42 AM, said:
There is always a spot in my Mechlab for more warhorns
Same to be said of mine and many others. Let's hope we get some.
On one other note...
Various People said:
<<<various forms of harping over the Phoenix Hawk Redemption Bonuses>>>
I'm seeing people asking repeatedly about the Phoenix Hawk redemption bonuses. People, please, for the number of headaches and angry people it will avoid, READ THE WHOLE BLOODY DAMNED FLAMING THREAD FIRST BEFORE YOU EVER HAPPEN TO POST!!!
~Mr. D. V. "
Not usually swinging across this many emotional extremes at one time..." Devnull
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