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[Willie Sauerland]

Demoned, on 10 February 2013 - 12:17 PM, said:

in a sense we own nothing in this game, even skins and paint.
we only rent it.

they can take away, change as much as they like this way.

I would like to request a moment of silence for the innocent electrons who gave their lives so heroically to deliver this message to those who no longer care (or possibly even know) what the original post was about.

[n0e]

Willie Sauerland, on 10 February 2013 - 12:20 PM, said:

I would like to request a moment of silence for the innocent electrons who gave their lives so heroically to deliver this message to those who no longer care (and/or possibly even know) what the original post was about.

fixed

[Ter Ushaka]

Willie Sauerland, on 10 February 2013 - 12:14 PM, said:

Didn't somebody complain somewhere else about you liking your own posts?

People always complain about me liking my own posts, which I just don't understand. They are the highest quality goodposts, and I would be remiss in my actions as a goodposter to not like my goodposts.

[Willie Sauerland]

n0e, on 10 February 2013 - 12:22 PM, said:

fixed

You should stay out of my head.

Ter Ushaka, on 10 February 2013 - 12:23 PM, said:

People always complain about me liking my own posts, which I just don't understand. They are the highest quality goodposts, and I would be remiss in my actions as a goodposter to not like my goodposts.

As such a good poster, others are obviously remiss in liking your posts. Is this legally actionable?

I submit we amend the original poster's post to no longer seek legal action over a dollar and go for the full c-bill's worth of likes you should have received but have not due to other's negligence.

[Texas Merc]

op is bestest ever tho.

honestly.

beta

class action lawsuit


ehh now the more i think i wonder if its funny or sad and that makes me confused

i guess it needed tl:dr?

im new to posting

oh yeh beer run

[Mr 144]

Mr 144, on 09 February 2013 - 10:30 PM, said:

The breaking point in comparison is just a hair under 5 mechs.

5 phrankens @ 750 MC = 3750
5 phrankens @ 125 MC (single use) + 3000 MC (one-time global) = 3625.

It's funny the amount of defending. Excellent Smoke and Mirror marketing. The only way the new pricing is more economical, is if previously you went with matching paint schemes across most of your mechs. In that case, it's a huge cost savings. For those who had many different paint schemes on many different mechs and chassis's..it's a HUGE price increase.

They could easily fix this, and should have anticipated the problem in a micro-transaction economy, of cheap 1-time use paint colors. This would solve the unreasonable default pricing of schemes, allwoing for an upgrade to the global 1000 MC paints.

Single Use (500 MC colors) priced at 125 MC
Single Use (1000 MC colors) priced at 250 MC
etc...

This would maintain the threshold at 4 mechs, but allow tons of individual customization.

The goal of a F2P micro-transaction economy is to create small repetitive purchases that can net greater income than the seemingly large one-time purchase. This can be seen easily in MMORPG that also offer full-content subscriptions. It's almost more cost effective in most F2P games to buy the mid-level global unlocks.

*The full-subscription is rarely a good long-term plan, but results in instant access to everything with minimal initial investment.
*Mid-Level 'unlock for life' is the best long term investment, but expensive initial investment.
*Low-Level highly restrictive purchaces are desinged for repetitive spending (the nickel and dime approach). While not long-term player cost effective, they enable quick income from short-term or new players or the best money generation from long-term players.

As MWO is not really condusive to a full subscription service, the only revenue generation possibilities are 'lifetime unlocks' and 'Micro purchaces'. They seem to be only embracing one of the two non-mutually exclusive strategies. I think this is a ginormous mistake, both short term, and more importantly long-term.

Mr 144

Jalak Bali, on 10 February 2013 - 06:05 AM, said:

That next time you buy the burger you only pay $2 because the ketchup and mustard are free since you paid for them before. Did you read my second sentence?

Did you count how much it would cost to set up 5 mechs with Phranken camo+colors back then compared to now? How about 6? Is math too hard? Here, I'll help you out: 5 Mechs with Phranken is 750 times 5 in old pricing. New pricing: 3000 one time fee for 3 Phranken colors plus 5 times 125 for camo on 5 mechs. The difference goes up at a faster rate the more mechs you apply the camo. If you had less than 5 mechs with Phranken camo before, the new pricing will make it more expensive to get the same. But if you had 5 or more, you'd end up with MC leftovers. If you had 20 mechs with all Phranken, you'd get a LOT of MC left.

Like I said, reading more than one post is hard....guess you couldn't look 3 posts below the one you quoted and a whole 2 posts above your own...lol...way to "call me out" then say the EXACT SAME THING that I did...

Mr 144

Edited by Mr 144, 10 February 2013 - 02:46 PM.

[Ter Ushaka]

Post.

[Texas Merc]

i was going to post but it became drivel so w/e

[Mr 144]

Texas Merc, on 10 February 2013 - 03:09 PM, said:

i was going to post but it became drivel so w/e

That, and did you see where they moved buried the thread ? LOL...I don't even know what that that last wod means in the Topic Tree or how it's relevant to this thread?

Edited by Mr 144, 10 February 2013 - 03:12 PM.

[Texas Merc]

every post here is relevant.

its lifeblood.

144 et al.

dont get into the hating of the structure of anything, it will only bend YOU out of shape.

[SPencil]

Texas Merc, on 10 February 2013 - 03:25 PM, said:

every post here is relevant.

its lifeblood.

144 et al.

dont get into the hating of the structure of anything, it will only bend YOU out of shape.

Dammit, I forgot to bring my 'Shut-The-****-Up' stick.

Anyone have a spare?

[Texas Merc]

hey im no goon but I know a bad post when i see one

[Mr 144]

Texas Merc, on 10 February 2013 - 04:48 PM, said:

hey im no goon but I know a bad post when i see one

Agree the OP's was, but

I thought mine was well thought out, with examples, math, and suggestions for better profitability AND customer satisfaction...
You wound me like an AC/20 to the leg

Mr 144

Edited by Mr 144, 10 February 2013 - 04:52 PM.

[Willie Sauerland]

Texas Merc, on 10 February 2013 - 04:48 PM, said:

hey im no goon but I know a bad post when i see one

Ditto.

I think I could even like it here...

Edited by Willie Sauerland, 10 February 2013 - 06:40 PM.

[Mycrus]

post me not.

[Vandal]

[Willie Sauerland]

So, are we still suing somebody for something or what?

[SPencil]

We're suing the OP for being a dumb-***

[Willie Sauerland]

SPencil, on 11 February 2013 - 03:13 PM, said:

We're suing the OP for being a dumb-***

I don't think we'll get much money out of him given the level of posting skills...

[SPencil]

you never know...