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[Jay Leon Hart]

Xetelian, on 17 January 2018 - 08:46 PM, said:

Dailies in many games are doing a great job at getting the players to log in more and play more.

The reason I kept Warframe installed for a year or so after I stopped playing, was the daily rewards.

The reason I keep DDO installed for so long when I only go back to it for a month, is the daily rewards.

The reasons I still have Rift installed despite not really playing it for 4 years, are the daily & monthly rewards.

Bonus/free C-Bills. Bonus/free MC. Bonus/free loot boxes. SOMETHING.

[TheArisen]

Something along the lines of this idea should be explored

[Spare Parts Bin]

TheArisen, on 18 January 2018 - 11:29 AM, said:

Something along the lines of this idea should be explored

I agree. Today's challenge should have been part of multipart challenge. I had the challenge completed with my 1st game.

[Greyboots]

I hate to say it but dailies get old fast.

Then there's the people who don't log in every day who start complaining that others are getting more freebies than them and "something needs to be done dammit!!!" The same kind of "this is unfair" thing we see with events now.

I'm not against them in any way but I don't think we should pretend they're universally positive either.

Login bonuses? They're only to sucker people into logging in so the company can say "X active users!!!" and I don't think MWO needs that muddying the waters. Leave those in the dustbin where they belong.

[IllCaesar]

They really should've done something with the change to the XP skill system. Why does it make a difference when you're paying out the nose for it anyways? It should be complimentary now. Something like "that double XP you earned can be used to purchase skill points at half price." Another one that just popped into my head is "XP earned in your first match of the day for that mech is converted into SP for free." Maybe even go so far as to make it that your first match of the day, not per match but overall your first one, garners you significantly extra GXP or even GSP. That way you actually feel some encouragement to use the different mechs everyday. I know the addition of the skill tree killed a lot of interest in the game and caused a steep decline in mech variety so something like this could go a long way.

Maybe something like a one-time premium bonus per mech per day? That'd certainly give players a taste of premium time and could be quite tempting. Make it stack with actual premium time and you'd have some of the more active players easily spending more money on the game.

Edited by IllCaesar, 18 January 2018 - 11:56 PM.

[ice trey]

I don't think it would really bring me back, personally.

I mean, I pop into MWO every now and again, but what I really want - what I've always wanted - was to be able to feel involved and that what I did in the game lead to some sort of progress. In single player games, that means playing through a compelling story. I ended up choosing MWO over trying MWLL because it hinted at Community Warfare, which sounded like it was going to be closer to that sort of feeling that I was looking for. It turned out not to be. I've still skipped over MWLL because in spite of the ability to drive aerospace fighters and tanks, it doesn't have any story or progression. Either way you go, it's a Sisyphus rock simulator. Play a match, get a C-bill pittance, slowly level up your mech, so that you can get another mech, and start from square one all over again. It's tedious. Or play MWLL, play a match, have it mean nothing, and play another match.

Well, nothing but a leaderboard on MWO, but that's boring as hell and doesn't serve anything but bragging rights and ad-hominem fuel.

I can't speak for everyone, but personally, if anything was keeping me coming back every day, it would have been that daily bonus to get double XP/Cbills for the first match you play in a mech. It isn't, though. I'm getting more fun out of Megamek against the bot. I could at least watch my merc company grow into six. If everything started counting towards FW, and FW meant something, than I might get drawn back, but nothing in FW matters, and QP is a hamster wheel.

So I wait for HBS BT and M5M. I'm not going to delete my MWO account, but I only occasionally pop in anymore.

Edited by ice trey, 19 January 2018 - 12:15 AM.