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Monthly Gold member rewards need to be better
thechampion
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The monthly rewards for gold members and lifetime subs are less than stellar and should be much more appealing items to help encourage people to subscribe.
Every item has been disappointing (in my opinion) so far, with the stovepipe hat being the worst yet.
Make items that people really, really, want and that are awesome and more people will want to subscribe.
If I wasn't already a lifetime subscriber there is NOTHING on the monthly styles that would make me want to sub, and that is should be the point: create GREAT items that entice people to subscribe and stay subscribed, not give basic, easily rendered, monthly items that some people think are ok.
Addendum: Having been informed that the goggles speedster goggles lesnes can be made glass makes them a really good monthly item and the raw muscle was pretty good but would have been better much better as a skin option imo.
Every item has been disappointing (in my opinion) so far, with the stovepipe hat being the worst yet.
Make items that people really, really, want and that are awesome and more people will want to subscribe.
If I wasn't already a lifetime subscriber there is NOTHING on the monthly styles that would make me want to sub, and that is should be the point: create GREAT items that entice people to subscribe and stay subscribed, not give basic, easily rendered, monthly items that some people think are ok.
Addendum: Having been informed that the goggles speedster goggles lesnes can be made glass makes them a really good monthly item and the raw muscle was pretty good but would have been better much better as a skin option imo.
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I have not heard any positive feedback and they could give MUCH better items than that for monthly subs. The better the item the more people will want to sub. A stovepipe hat and antlers are sub-par imo.
Give members something AWESOME each month and watch the subs go up.
If i wasn't already a lifetime subscriber there is NOTHING on the monthly styles that would make me want to sub, and that should be the point: create GREAT items that entice people to subscribe and stay subscribed, not give basic, easily rendered, monthly items that some people think are ok.
Then the Liberty Crown thingy...ok. Then a Pilgrim hat, Hockey Stick both rather meh.
This latest thought, the Stovepipe hat and beard, I was like "don't we already have those?"
I thought the Speedster goggles were good (Great would be if there were an option to make the lenses either glass, opaque, or solid) but I thought the monthly items were going to get better and not worse.
I completely agree with your assessments of the consequent monthly items .
I cannot see a multitude of people saying "YES! I HAVE TO SUBSCRIBE TO GET THAT STOVETOP PIPE HAT!!!"
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It is like they are choosing some of the most lame items when they should be creating "must have" awesome styles for the monthly rewards.
And I plan on using the beard, hat, and Zombie parts to make Undead Abe Lincoln, so there.
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You can. When you select the goggles you get another option to change the material of the lenses.
So to each their own I guess.
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For me, the rest have been pretty meh too......including the ones for February.
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So far only 2 Costumes Pieces makes me Eager to go Lifetime
Ah, i see, thanks. I didn't realize there was a "custom eye accessory" option. Ok, the Speedster Goggles are great now not just good. The rest is bleh.
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Oh and you're right then Jon, I thought we had those somewhere or they are unlocks I have that are very similar, but who knows...I'll probably need to make a Diesel Punk character to go with the nice vehicles.
June 2014 - Speedster Goggles - I use them a lot and great with the lens options.
July 2014 - Liberty Crown - was a nice touch for the fourth but meh for me...didn't mind though
August 2014 - Ninja Mask - I found this one rather useful as masks go
September 2014 - Emblem Headphones - forgot these...they are great and I use them
October 2014 - Raw Muscles Tights - make for great "Colossus" type characters in metal. I still want to make "The Mighty Meat Shield" as a tank character
Novermber 2014 - Pilgrim Hat - I was good with this in case I want a Van Helsing type
December 2014 - Reindeer Antlers - limited use so I felt meh
January 2015 - Hockey Stick - like the idea...wanted to make a Mighty Duck or Casey Jones type character
February 2015 - Abe Lincoln Beard and Stovepipe hat - not super excited, but I'm sure color options and seeing the whole thing (the pics I've seen are cropped) might change my mind
Yeah the option (I missed it too at first) shows up ABOVE the eyewear/goggles option instead of below so its easy to miss on the left "ladder" navigation in the tailor.
Combined with various heads, helms, and face/mouth/side pieces you can have some great effects.
Yes i noticed that it showed above the options after you informed me that you could indeed change the lense material which makes the speedster goggles a great monthly item imo (fantastic would have been all the lemsee options of , say, the holoforce layers).
Also i altered my OP to also include the raw mucsce tights as good monthly items (great would have been to make then an actual new skin option imo since they are hard to match with the head because of the "incongruent" skin/item colors)
And yet the population is very, very, low and many of the remaining populace are not gold subscribers so obviously all of these 'reasons" are not translating into "effective incentives".
Better gold rewards would make subscribing more enticing, especially if these were super-awesome styles that people really, really, wanted.
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The fact that a lot of items seem to be seasonally themed is possibly as much to do with what is on the dev's mind at the time.
These items were never intended to be the draw for subscribing. It was only after player suggestions that they made it so lifetimers could grab the items at any time. Before that it was intended that the items would be available purely for the month they were released and then would no longer be available. This is why they are a BONUS and not a subscriber BENEFIT (until such time as they rewrite the subs reward matrix)
Search back around June last year, I am sure you will find various posts about it.
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Then they should actually make items that entice players to subscribe instead of just giving leftover items only. Bonus, benefit. Semantics really, irregardless of what is stated on the subscription perks list.
I'll keep dumping money into the Z Store occasionally tho, so it's fine.
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Ya but if I do that then I have to pick two months where I don't eat u3u
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If they start making really badass costume pieces for the gold vendor, it needs to be upgraded. Gold members can get them free for the month they subscribed, lifetime can get them any time they want, and a new addition where anyone can pay Zen for any piece no longer available.