Simple Foundry changes to Incentivize Zen sales

eldarth

Simple Foundry changes to Incentivize Zen sales

Mount Requisition Tokens

• This (white token) is already given out at level 20 to “rent” a horse for 5 in-game hours. Simply add Green, Blue, and Purple five-hour rental tokens as loot or chest drops
  • 4% chance Green Mount Requisition Token
  • 2% chance Blue Mount Requisition Token
  • 1% chance Purple Mount Requisition Token
• And it's an old sales trick - if you want to sell something to someone make sure to get it into their hands, whether it's getting them to hold a piece of jewelry or test drive a car. You never want it until it’s gone.
• Who didn't lose that 5 hr horse and not want a mount? I’ll bet mount sales increase dramatically at 21st level.

Fashion or Companion Requisition Tokens

• Same as above Mount Requisition Tokens -- a fashion item or companion for a few hours.

Foundry Zen Store Coupons

• Perhaps a 5% off matching item also dropped to accompany a dropped Requisition Token?
• ...Or added to inventory when requisition token expires? (“Quick! Limited Time! Buy Now!”)
• Temporary -- these should probably also be temporary to encourage quick usage. Maybe each coupon lasts for a couple weeks?
• I think also having “tiers” (and different %-off?) for the coupons would encourage foundry play
  • 2% chance Green Zen Store 5% off Coupon
  • 1% chance Blue Zen Store 5% off Coupon
  • .25% chance Purple Zen Store 5% off Coupon
  • 1% chance Green 10% Coupon
  • .5% chance Blue 10% Coupon
  • .125% chance Purple 10% Coupon

Zen Store "Product Placement"

• If Zen Store costumes/items/companions were available “asset details” for use in Foundry, at completion of quest a button could allow player to display (i.e. “shop for”) any "Zen Store items seen in this quest..."
• "Product Placement" -- Free advertising for Zen store. Companies pay billions of dollars a year for having their products seen in movies and television.

Foundry Quest Limited Zen Store Item

• Foundry Quests could become a “Zen Store Showroom”
• Dialog/Interaction could “drop” a Zen Store item player could use only in that foundry instance.
• Just like a foundry Quest Item -- disappears when you leave the foundry.
• Perhaps limited that player can only carry one Foundry Zen Item at a time?
• Or maybe author “budget” limited to a couple or a few items?

Generally Improving Foundry Play to increase above Zen Incentives...

Make End Chest “Wow!” instead of “#%$&!”

• Take 5% of kill treasure and “shift” it into end chest instead of “fountaining” onto ground.
• End Chest becomes “Wow! Look at all that loot!” and is like Christmas instead of toilet cleaning.

“Featured” Foundry Quests Improved Rewards

• Developer vetted/featured quests could have improved end-chest rewards unlocked
• If it is only end-chest improved rewards, that likely prevents all exploit concerns.
• Guaranteed drop of (80% chance) Zen Store Coupon or a (20 % chance) Requisition Token?

Transmute Item Rewards

• A rare end-chest reward one of the existing transmute items for players class

More Micro-Transactions

• Very macro-transaction heavy currently.
• “Dye Remover” 150z ? Seriously? If free would probably encourage more dye sales
• Outfits are easily twice as expensive as they should be - RP’ers want outfit options and at those prices the option is undoubtedly “nevermind.”
• Green “Reanimated Destrier” grants a blue 80% movement increase???
• 300z “Retraining Token?” Really dissuades all those that like to experiment. 100z would probably sell 10 times as many.

Virtual Developers

• Leverage foundry authors to help generate new content.for Events/Skirmishes/PvP
• Provide “guidelines” for Events and PvP maps and allow authors to “submit” just map/environment designs without quest objectives that the Event/PvP teams could copy/use to rapidly bring new Events and PvP maps to the public reducing their initial efforts.
• Thousands of mapmakers/artists/loremasters could generate many quality maps given the slightest guidelines.

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micky1p00

eldarth said:

Virtual Developers

• Leverage foundry authors to help generate new content.for Events/Skirmishes/PvP
• Provide “guidelines” for Events and PvP maps and allow authors to “submit” just map/environment designs without quest objectives that the Event/PvP teams could copy/use to rapidly bring new Events and PvP maps to the public reducing their initial efforts.
• Thousands of mapmakers/artists/loremasters could generate many quality maps given the slightest guidelines.

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This with 'vetting', adding reward and locking maps, can change the game, just to look how steam workshop worked out.
More than that, release spec, guidelines and base models for fashion, weapons, OH's, etc.. and reward the accepted submitions with zen/ boundles / packs, titles, unique transmutes and other...

thefabricant

Love these ideas @eldarth its just a pity its not likely to happen. Still, giving a shout to @strumslinger to please pass these along to the devs.

valcontar73

100% agree

eldarth

thefabricant wrote: »

Love these ideas @eldarth its just a pity its not likely to happen. Still, giving a shout to @strumslinger to please pass these along to the devs.

They were (supposedly) passed directly to devs and management after mod 5. We were also told there would be a large foundry development push between mod 6 and 7. Crickets.

Figured I'd show the community that many in the foundry have been pushing and had answers and solutions to MANY of the issues the community have been BEGGING for for years -- Content, PvP options, Dungeons, Skirmishes, etc. They've taken their "golden goose" and thrown it in the sewers.​​

iandarksword

A lot of these are solutions that provide an incentive for players to participate in Foundry content, while keeping the creation of Foundry content on a level playing field.

kolatmaster

@strumslinger

Definitely pass these along like @thefabricant suggested Andy, please!

Well done @eldarth!

rezuron

@eldarth
Approve.