The saying is "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" Funny thing about that. If you make fly traps out of soda bottles & add honey in one & vinegar in another one, the honey trap will be empty and the vinegar will have a few flies in there. But if you really want to catch the most flies... you have to mix the…
I fail to see the analogy. Starving, homelessness or suffering/dying from lack of medical care has no parallel with gaming. Then again I was blessed with owning a full set of normal human emotions which includes human empathy. I don't mind paying for others to play at all. In fact, I love that concept. What fails in logic…
Don't you just love the nerve of leechers? They are the first ones to pontificate at the paying players for wanting their money's worth. We pay for them to have a free game & they tell us to chill out & stop QQing. Irks me to no end.
Show me a game that doesn't have a single error, bug, problem that needs fixing? "Beta" doesn't have anything to do with perfecting the game 100% before "live launch". The game is live now (well when they bring up the servers it is). It's launched to the public now. The phrase "beta testing" does not apply because there is…
LOL this must be your first PWE game. I enjoy it too... and have enjoyed several other PWE games. But no... after 4 betas you learn. "Open Beta" = "Live Launch" New content updates happen in every MMO all the time. That is not what signifies "live launch". Those are new versions of the old game and that is why they usually…
I'd love to know how you will be able to tell the "live launch" from "open beta". If it's anything like they did in Forsaken World the only way you will know the game went "live" is a zen sale & new items in the cash shop. lulz
The problem with this is that you expect people to now trust PWE to fix all the game thrashing exploits that they have systematically ignored & allowed since closed beta. The saying goes... Fool me once shame on you. Fool me twice shame on me.
Players = Customers Don't forget that. If this was a restaurant that served you tainted food you paid good money for would you go back again for more? You would you be telling the world so everyone knows to avoid the place too. That's how life works. People who have spent money only to have what they bought poisoned in the…
thank you! The big clue is that they sell zen in closed beta then "return" it after the wipe. They run out of development funding so they are essentially bumming money off beta testers at 0% interest. The cherry on top is when they announce "open beta" but they are marketing founder packs for $200! and still calling it…
The key word in your comment is TESTING... beta testing. Nothing is being tested. PWE isn't inviting the public to put the game through it's paces to see if any exploits or bugs exist. They launched the final version and openly said there is no going back... this is it. That isn't what beta testing is. If this was beta…
What are you going on about? What patch that broke the game? Hmmm? I think you missed the entire thing. This problem has existed since closed beta. People talking about it and telling everyone & exploiting it rampantly broke the game. Reading is fundamental to understanding.
Question: How will you distinguish the "final launch" from the game now? What will be any different? Answer: You won't because nothing will be different. This IS the launch. LOL
I hate how the players who never buy zen and play 100% free think it's appropriate to scold those of us who have paid for them to play the game simply because we are concerned about getting what we paid for. How about if you are too cheap to pay Perfect World employee salaries you let those of who are paying their salaries…
This is why I always use the double method of payment... Paypal using credit card... where one fails to protect me the other picks up the ball. That said, I have gotten at least 2 refunds from Paypal regarding intangible things I've purchased. If it falls under the "service" category that changes things. Zen is a service…
If it had no real-world monetary value there would be no zen sold. Purchasing something, even a service, has a monetary value. If you do not receive the goods/services you purchased that is fraud. At least inside the USA (where the company is operating from) there are laws governing contracts. A contract is only a contract…
When is anyone going to realize that Cryptic has nothing to do with this? It's PERFECT WORLD. Please learn the difference between creating a game and owning/operating a game. Mkay?
Orly? I quote rogervee: "IT IS NOT THE END OF YOUR EXISTENCE. So chill, and if still you are not satisfied that the people who exploited aren't burned, crucified, lynched, beaten, stoned, shot, curb stomped, permanently banned and you feel the need to quit, by all means don't let the door hit you on the way out." Sorry…