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sdnever
Member, Neverwinter Beta Users Posts: 116 Bounty Hunter
Hey Cryptic, you should release the thank you pack today. You are losing a lot of "kneejerk" kids every minute. Yes they are a very small percentage of players, but they are also the ones that spend tons of money on this game and keep it free for people like me.
I'm not leaving this game even if you don't give us a thank you pack since I enjoy it so much. But I do realize we need to appease the people who pay for stuff, regardless of how immature or illogical they are. And you should go overboard with the thank you pack. You can go all out and still profit depending on what you include in it.
Things that I would like to see in the pack:
1. Companion that gives you his stats- This is a win for Cryptic since people will spend money to buy enchants for their companion. A week or two later come out with a similar companion that looks a little better. So that people buy the new companion and have to buy the enchants all over.
2. XP boosts - Win for cryptic as people will find they need to spend more $$$ the higher level their character is. Make it work for every character a person creates. So people spend more money on new characters.
3. Respec token - Neutral. Most people will need to respec more than once so not that bad of a hit. But it will please a lot of people.
4. 20 lockbox keys - Initial Loss for Cryptic. Lets be honest, you have to take some of the loss for this Cryptic. But in a week you can change the contents of the lockbox to include some even better looking mounts or companions or pets.
5. Piece of gear from PvP set. No impact since it is very easy to get this anyhow. But it might appease those who spent a lot of time farming glory yesterday. Its a weak set, so it will be replaced quickly.
6. As suggested by smulch- a blessed profession resource pack and a coffer of wondrous augmentation
But whatever you decide to give out.. do it today!
I'm not leaving this game even if you don't give us a thank you pack since I enjoy it so much. But I do realize we need to appease the people who pay for stuff, regardless of how immature or illogical they are. And you should go overboard with the thank you pack. You can go all out and still profit depending on what you include in it.
Things that I would like to see in the pack:
1. Companion that gives you his stats- This is a win for Cryptic since people will spend money to buy enchants for their companion. A week or two later come out with a similar companion that looks a little better. So that people buy the new companion and have to buy the enchants all over.
2. XP boosts - Win for cryptic as people will find they need to spend more $$$ the higher level their character is. Make it work for every character a person creates. So people spend more money on new characters.
3. Respec token - Neutral. Most people will need to respec more than once so not that bad of a hit. But it will please a lot of people.
4. 20 lockbox keys - Initial Loss for Cryptic. Lets be honest, you have to take some of the loss for this Cryptic. But in a week you can change the contents of the lockbox to include some even better looking mounts or companions or pets.
5. Piece of gear from PvP set. No impact since it is very easy to get this anyhow. But it might appease those who spent a lot of time farming glory yesterday. Its a weak set, so it will be replaced quickly.
6. As suggested by smulch- a blessed profession resource pack and a coffer of wondrous augmentation
But whatever you decide to give out.. do it today!
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Not sure I follow. These games are riddled with teenagers who have no clue what they are saying or what they are spending. If these guys are paying for the game and they want to be appeased..then so be it.
It's like your saying people shouldn't pay for cosmetic items. I agree with you, but that's not reality, so why argue about it?
No doubt. But a lot of players play for free. I'm nto worried about the overall player numbers, I think 99% will stay. But I worry the 1% who pay for the game may leave.
That's a little more important than sending out these "thank you packs" barely even 24 hours after the servers went down.
They've already said they'll get them sent out anytime after the middle of the week.
Fair point. But these kids don't use logic. They want instant gratification. I'm sure cryptic has people who aren't working on the AH that can mail out some goodies.
The difference being they said they wouldn't wipe once OB began so... That argument isn't relevant.
It's an issue. These players will be gone by friday. We can make them stay with a thank you pack today. At least I think so.
I doubt it, if they're going to leave then they'll justify leaving to themselves alone and just do it, instead of sitting around threatening to leave either way.
this thread just serves as further flame bait and appeal to ridicule, on a subject that is getting spammed to bits now, and more often than not twisted to make those who make decent point about how they feel things could be better, look like irrational immature whingers...
If it's beta then them keeping the stuff they got from Exploits wouldn't matter on launch day. Or is this game allowing people to keep their characters?
you are correct.
Just sad that is was a known bug and they did sit about it.
It's Beta with a fully functional cash shop and people already spending tens of not hundreds of dollars in the game to see some exploit carried over from a previous game lead to a rollback.
Yeah, they shouldn't have to appease anyone. Of course.
True. But what company do you know of that works differently? Your name is blizzard... are you sayign blizzard is altruistic and nothing like PWE?
I actually think calling this beta is a good idea. If you know anything about developing highly scaled software is that even small issues are HUGE. And no software is perfect so you will release content with HUGE issues no matter what. So calling it beta and releasing it is a good idea.I think most people would agree with me as long as the cash shop is not in my argument.
Now if we include the cash shop then we see the problem. I can't really come up with a good argument for doign an open beta with a cash shop. But some minor points are: no one forced you to buy anything. You could of waited until beta was over. And secondly it is very hard for a software company to be in development for many years without ever making any sales. I'm not making excuses for them, but if you know of a better company, I will gladly go support them instead.
So we can scream and rant how lame they are. :rolleyes:
I think so. I could be wrong though. These kids will probably be gone within a month anyhow. Still I'd like to give them another month to spend hundreds of $$$ in this game. Why stop them from spending money so soon?
Yeah and they probably contributed a grand sum of ... zero? They won't be missed
I hope you are right and I'm 100% wrong.
If, on the other hand, they simply want to say thank you to portion of their playerbase that is less prone to flying into a nerd rage, then Friday should be fine.
All die, so die well.