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[Chaos7]

Apologies if someone has already suggested this and I missed it.

This is what I would like to see - having the option to buy premium account for number of games instead per day. We all know how cool it is to spend a day on MWO(I wish there was time for more), however we also have to work and have a real life!

That being said I would go for Premium Account Days during the weekend and Premium Account Games during the week. I think this is a win-win scenario and honestly I am a little surprised it is not implemented yet!

We all have seen this in other free to play games (e.g. LoL).

I imagine it will work like this:
* If you have Premium Account Days active - use them as premium(highest priority)
* If there is no premium time active - look for Premium Account Games and use them

Does that make any sense ?

[Li Song]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[JTAlweezy]

id be down for that, this way im not burning money for no reason.

[Jaynestown]

I agree. This would be a nice option because some players can only commit to playing a match or two per day, but they want to play every day. Those players are really missing out, given the current system, because they'd be playing maybe 15 games per week, tops (the same number I play in one night) but they're paying waaaay more per match than I am. A lot of people simply don't have the ability to block many consecutive hours into video gaming.

[Chaos7]

The thing is that PGI is also missing on such customers, because for example I would arguably buy more if I knew I am not wasting 250 MC on e.g. five-ten games.

Am I right PGI ? (We all know you are reading this)

[Jaynestown]

Not necessarily. They're also "winning" on customers who will pay for a month but only play 4-8 days (twice a week). It is a common marketing strategy, and it is not really meant to be dubious. You just offer bigger packages at better deals, because (theoretically) you make more and the customer gets more. Everybody wins, right? I just think that you're more correct about who the casual gamer is. It's not someone who plays for one day straight then not again for a whole month. It is someone who plays for 30 minutes one day, and 30 minutes some other day, probably barely getting 3-4 matches in each day, if they're lucky. Buying premium time per match at 30MC per match would be reasonable. It would come with other problems though. Especially, what happens if you DC or get booted from a match? Now it's a much bigger deal (to you).

[Firewuff]

Totally love this idea. I work full time with lots of travel on short notice and have kids. Some times I will only sneak 2 games in if I'm lucky. Premium time of a per game would be awesome. Even as an option it works out slightly worse than on a daily basis I'm fine with that

[Biglead]

Agreed, no reason not to give people extra ways to spend cash.