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[Victor Morson]

First I want to say my primary game of interest is MechWarrior Online. Yet, this year, I didn't buy a single MC and I bought a considerable amount of Sony's Station Cash despite playing Planetside 2 a quarter as much.

Why? Because I, like many others, are waiting for PGI to consider throwing a worthwhile sale.

20% more MC on some packages is a fine middle of the year deal. Don't get me wrong. But as your Black Friday / Christmas bonus? That's horrible for a F2P game. This is the time of year where people who can't normally buy these things pay tons to stock up on them that simply can't, or won't, the majority of the year.

Sure, you might milk $10 or $20 out of me this year so I can buy some more hangars and paint jobs, so I definitely am willing to pay. But I just dropped several times that stocking up on Sony Cash, which I will likely spending spree and save only some of it. It's hard NOT to spend credit when you have it.

My point? Had PGI run a good sale this year, I'd likely bought far less Station Cash and far more MC. Maybe not 300% good, but even double MC would draw me in. Or if you don't want to do that, offering all MC 'mechs half off or something would work as well! If you increase the value of what I get for my MC with kick *** sales, then I will be willing to pay more year long.

Long story short? Either run a GOOD MC sale, or offer GREAT 'mech sales combined with a decent MC sale. If you did something like this, again, I would have sent a lot more money towards PGI. To be honest I feel guilty buying Station Cash over MC given how active in MWO I am, but this is just terrible.

PS: The low priced cockpit items were a GREAT start by the way PGI. I hope you make up enough money with the quantity that the smaller sums pay off.

[Psikez]

That 3050 holo tempts me every time I look at it...

[anonymous175]

I agree with everything Mr. Morson says.

The store needs alot more doodads to buy and the cheapo bling was a great start. Mech bays are in a good spot, but I'd rather buy patterns than pay for the paint as well.

So yes to more MC, mech, flair sales.

And have more events! Double XP is one I see from other games alot. Still would work with the current system if people are racking up the mechs. The giveaways for the Coconut Monkey and Dawn were cool too. Get your marketing squad going and get dem likes and tweets and all sorts of good word of mouth out.

Needed more Xmasy stuff though besides stuff to buy. I dunno if you wanna be goofy like planting Xmas trees in Frozen City but you never know what the crowd will respond to.

Just don't point people to the forums.

[Thirdstar]

Why shouldn't they point to the forums? It's not like even the Community Managers take part in the trolling..........oh wait

[anonymous175]

Garth's trolling? Ok, forum pointing approved.

[HurlockHolmes]

The biggest problem is that publishers/developers see all the success some of these f2p titles have gotten and want to cash-in despite the fact they have no idea in the slightest on how to make that business model work in their favor.

Who ever sets the prices and sales seems to have no idea what they are doing. Though I guess the lack of good sales means money well spent somewhere other than MWO now doesn't it?

[anonymous175]

Gotta catch all dem Vestas n lockboxes.

[Vassago Rain]

Zeno Scarborough, on 20 December 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

Garth's trolling? Ok, forum pointing approved.

Zeno Scarborough, on 20 December 2012 - 08:50 PM, said:

Garth's trolling? Ok, forum pointing approved.

No, the community manager would never do such a thing. Trust me. I'd have been involved in several verbal battles with him if he'd ever think of acting that way.

[anonymous175]

Vassago Rain, on 20 December 2012 - 09:02 PM, said:

No, the community manager would never do such a thing. Trust me. I'd have been involved in several verbal battles with him if he'd ever think of acting that way.

Curiously, I was expecting more blood. Both from your forum interactions and but more so from that arrow wound.

[Vassago Rain]

Zeno Scarborough, on 20 December 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:

Curiously, I was expecting more blood. Both from your forum interactions and but more so from that arrow wound.

I feel those battles represent the darkest days of PGI's development cycle, and wish for them to never repeat themselves ever again. So far, so good.

[Sean von Steinike]

I wanted to buy MC, but as long as the threat of infantile 3rd person exists, I won't. As for Planetside 2, there were some features I liked but, not enough to even play it after beta. Logged about 10 hours in it. That was enough for me.

[Vassago Rain]

Sean von Steinike, on 20 December 2012 - 09:18 PM, said:

I wanted to buy MC, but as long as the threat of infantile 3rd person exists, I won't. As for Planetside 2, there were some features I liked but, not enough to even play it after beta. Logged about 10 hours in it. That was enough for me.

The damocles sword of 3rd person is keeping me from doing this, as well.

[Harmatia]

Half the time in Planetside 2 I don't even know how I killed what I did.

[Victor Morson]

For those of you that didn't like Planetside 2, I recommend checking it out with a squad. The game is unplayable without a squad unless you know it VERY well.

That said I didn't want to turn this into PS2 vs MWO. I'm not leaving MWO for PS2. I like both games and play MWO more, so I really don't want to derail things that way.

This is purely a really good F2P sale versus a really bad one, and a hope that in the future PGI offers some competitive deals that make the user base HAVE to buy into it. 50% off MC for example and I know I would cave.

[Alaric the Arcane]

Victor Morson, on 20 December 2012 - 08:36 PM, said:

First I want to say my primary game of interest is MechWarrior Online. Yet, this year, I didn't buy a single MC and I bought a considerable amount of Sony's Station Cash despite playing Planetside 2 a quarter as much.

Why? Because I, like many others, are waiting for PGI to consider throwing a worthwhile sale.

20% more MC on some packages is a fine middle of the year deal. Don't get me wrong. But as your Black Friday / Christmas bonus? That's horrible for a F2P game. This is the time of year where people who can't normally buy these things pay tons to stock up on them that simply can't, or won't, the majority of the year.

Sure, you might milk $10 or $20 out of me this year so I can buy some more hangars and paint jobs, so I definitely am willing to pay. But I just dropped several times that stocking up on Sony Cash, which I will likely spending spree and save only some of it. It's hard NOT to spend credit when you have it.

My point? Had PGI run a good sale this year, I'd likely bought far less Station Cash and far more MC. Maybe not 300% good, but even double MC would draw me in. Or if you don't want to do that, offering all MC 'mechs half off or something would work as well! If you increase the value of what I get for my MC with kick *** sales, then I will be willing to pay more year long.

Long story short? Either run a GOOD MC sale, or offer GREAT 'mech sales combined with a decent MC sale. If you did something like this, again, I would have sent a lot more money towards PGI. To be honest I feel guilty buying Station Cash over MC given how active in MWO I am, but this is just terrible.

PS: The low priced cockpit items were a GREAT start by the way PGI. I hope you make up enough money with the quantity that the smaller sums pay off.

But MWO is Beta.

[Arkmaus]

Speaking of PS2 sales, SOE is running a 3x SOE Cash sale tomorrow for one day.

That's HUGE.

If PGI could do a 2x MC Sale I'd probably drop $50-$100.

[Crazycajun]

SONY .....pgi

SONY ..pgi

Comparing Sony and Pgi is like putting a elevator in a outhouse, ..don't belong

can you spot the difference ...

Vassago Rain, on 20 December 2012 - 09:02 PM, said:

No, the community manager would never do such a thing. Trust me. I'd have been involved in several verbal battles with him if he'd ever think of acting that way.

you ACT like u make a difference ..........

trust me..u dont

[Vassago Rain]

Crazycajun, on 20 December 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

SONY .....pgi

SONY ..pgi

Comparing Sony and Pgi is like putting a elevator in a outhouse, ..don't belong

can you spot the difference ...



you ACT like u make a difference ..........

trust me..u dont

The mods and admins would disagree with you...

[Trollslayer Mcgillicutty]

Vassago Rain, on 20 December 2012 - 10:54 PM, said:

The mods and admins would disagree with you...

Then this game is doomed to fail.

[Victor Morson]

Crazycajun, on 20 December 2012 - 10:43 PM, said:

SONY .....pgi

SONY ..pgi

Comparing Sony and Pgi is like putting a elevator in a outhouse, ..don't belong

You're right, yet wrong. It's been proven small studios in particular benefit from lowering prices. So really PGI should be the one running the crazy fire sales, not Sony.