How utterly fascinating. Do you have experience with Cryptic games? With Cryptic's history of being much less than honest with the community? Of outright lying to them not once, but multiple times? The loyalty you speak of is engineered through marketing nowdays, not through honest effort. I'll tell you what the difference…
Given that most of the people doing such things that the OP asks about are not handing out freebies, exactly what are you babbling about? And as for trade requests, with all the scamming going on, no thanks
Based on experiences in both CO and STO, astral diamonds will eventually crash. The exchanges run strong for a few months, then, as there becomes increasing numbers of drains on astral diamonds and people go very sour on what is available from the zen store, the value of zen lowers. So, since the game has no subscription ,…
I can't agree with that because it literally flies in the face of logic. It's akin to saying someone who has a contagious and debilitating disease shouldn't be put into quarantine because he has the same right to freedom as everyone else. The problem is not "everyone else" the problem is the person with connection issues.…
Unfortunately, with privately traded companies, too many executives look at the quarterly and yearly results and not the longer-term ramifications. On top of that, I think these people feel that if there is a F2P option that 'pricing fatigue' will not adversely affect the majority of the market because they aren't required…
Before people go off on a pitchfork wielding grognard rampage, consider Cryptic: Cryptic's habit is to have a HAMSTER game and refine it over time as it slowly drains it's playerbase of money. They don't really do much P2W in their outlying games like Champions Online and STO, and they've made a LOT of improvements. (and a…