Is PWI dying?

Ihnamere - Heavens Tear

lol thats not PWI dieing thats ur brain dieing everyday, you simply dont need to know annything else than things about PWI if ur online all day like me XD

Yulk - Heavens Tear

in sense of QQing free greedy players, then yes its dying.
Reality, its not

Of course, well, there are some NON-greedy fail players I know ingame that never quit. Anyways, I will be here till PWI dies. Whether or not I play same version. But I am willing to stay on PWI for a very long time


P.S: another thread like this lol

sleepcat

Rastelin - Heavens Tear wrote: »

I didn't know Southpark made Hello kitty Island Adventure into a real game.

http://www.hellokittyonline.com/news-and-update/hko-news/43-hello-kitty-online-announces-island-adventure-expansion-pack

It's official.

MsEvilness - Heavens Tear

It's obvious there can be some easy steps taken to improve gameplay, but PWE won't ever do it because as ppl have pointed out, it will hurt their profits.

What am I talking about? For starters, things like permanently reducing the prices of angels and charms so that more people will be tempted to PK. This won't happen for the same reason that charm packs had their 'permanent' status taken away from them- it affects profits. I remember the days of the huge PK wars outside west gate and orchid temple, which just won't happen these days because PKing is expensive.

Everything that PWE does is predictably based on profits. Anni packs, coral packs, and recently, BHs and hyper exp being a way to level up as many people as possible to lvl 100. What will happen next? Nirvana packs or something similar of course, as the many lvl 100s on the server these days strive to improve their equips. It's not hard to guess why refines, sockets, and gems don't transfer over to nirvana equips.

Lastly, levelling is just so easy these days, but there is nothing to do ingame after lvl 100. The PKing scene is dead for reasons mentioned above, there is no PK arena like there is in certain other games, and interesting events such as TW, CoA, and PK tournament only happens once a week.

Time to stop before i write an essay longer than monof's ones.

Ihnamere - Heavens Tear

lol well i wanna PK too one day i just think im like all ppl just want to get all my gear and bind it first, than im gonna think about pkin
thing i just mean, its too hard to get all gear and that makes ppl pk less nd such
grtz ihna

Selador - Heavens Tear

Adding my personal opinion with the rest,

Like someone previously mentioned, gold prices is directly linked to in-game coinage supply, and there's alot of coins flowing - ex. some 600m coins per week from TW income. Sure some of those would go into repairs, a little on potions, but reality is that there's more than enough left of those coins that the amount of gold people buy with real life money just isn't enough to offset that huge influx of coins. I'm singling out TW income in total as probably the biggest factor of in-game inflation (this is just my opinion, and it's not a proven fact). There's just so much coins that it bids up the limited supply of gold.

It's like what happens when a government prints up so much paper money over the weekend, then the money gets distributed to its citizens, so everyone ends up with more cash in their pockets. But the problem with that is most likely the goods produced over the weekend would be the same from the previous week. And with people holding extra cash it naturally follows that prices will be bid up because extra cash would be fighting for limited goods.

This can be fixed by limiting the money supply or in this game, the coin supply. We would think that a company with ample resources would hire an economic consultant to give advice on how to make a stable in-game economy, but looking at the current economy, it doesn't look like they hired someone. To PWE's credit though, they really did attempt at some solution, such as the daily CS, gotta buy the gems to do the quest; and the teleport stone, to name a few. But these little band-aids have proven through time to be non-factors in keeping coinage down.

Back to the thread starter's topic. To me, the game looks more accessible to a wider audience now, including the busy working people who aren't the grinding types. Despite some people who have reached end-game and moving on to other things, I think more people actually joined in on this game. The marketers have found that sweet spot, where the new changes wont please a few people but attract a bigger number of players to replace the displeased ones and even increase in-game population at the same time.
This is big business and they know what theyre doing except on a few things which we mostly complain about b:chuckle

GothicAngeI - Heavens Tear

MsEvilness - Heavens Tear wrote: »

What am I talking about? For starters, things like permanently reducing the prices of angels and charms so that more people will be tempted to PK.

Or just get the Damn Arena working already, granted wont affect charm use but not having to worry about the cost of angels would be a start.

Andromaka - Heavens Tear

Selador - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Like someone previously mentioned, gold prices is directly linked to in-game coinage supply, and there's alot of coins flowing - ex. some 600m coins per week from TW income. Sure some of those would go into repairs, a little on potions, but reality is that there's more than enough left of those coins that the amount of gold people buy with real life money just isn't enough to offset that huge influx of coins. I'm singling out TW income in total as probably the biggest factor of in-game inflation (this is just my opinion, and it's not a proven fact). There's just so much coins that it bids up the limited supply of gold.

Lol. As stated before... TW pay sometimes doesnt even cover charm costs. In a 2 hours TW u can use up to 800k charm or even more as a non-cata-puller barb. if you are a barb and u pull a cata 2 charms go like nothing. You would be right in a matter of no shows or noob factions wars but lets face it lately at least on HT, enrage vs Tao (the two biggest TW faction with the highest tw income) last about 2-3 hours... which is a charm **** for both sides, so you are very wrong thinking that the biggest money influx in game comes from TW pay. It came from the token of best luck... and chest of coins before that. Tokens of best luck (2 golds turned into 10 mils) made a lot of prices even gold price get higher.

whateverwhatever

I say PWI is trying to milk the game until d3 and sc2 come out. And unlike **** **** ncsoft, blizzard is wont let the game be over run by botters. Also, these games are guaranteed games of the year with all the development and already large fan bases. I also predict sc2 to be popular 10 years down the road just like sc was/is. Also with console games releasing games like final fantasy 13, i think the company knows what is going to happen.

This like other mmorpgs, will eventually devolve into a game that mainly middle schoolers play such as rune.scape/d2 as its adult population moves toward newer games. And as a result, since the population is now younger with less disposable income, they wont be able to buy as much gold and then gm's will be place on other newer games of perfect world international and pwi will continue its downward spiral.

Perfect World is basically trying to milk the adult population of the server while they still can and trying to get them too invested into the game to quit.

Yeefong - Heavens Tear

who cares..less ppl in HT cud mean less QQ b:chuckle
bad news for the OP is that now they get owned by Cashshoppers b:thanks

denesis

whateverwhatever wrote: »

I say PWI is trying to milk the game until d3 and sc2 come out. And unlike **** **** ncsoft, blizzard is wont let the game be over run by botters. Also, these games are guaranteed games of the year with all the development and already large fan bases. I also predict sc2 to be popular 10 years down the road just like sc was/is. Also with console games releasing games like final fantasy 13, i think the company knows what is going to happen.

This like other mmorpgs, will eventually devolve into a game that mainly middle schoolers play such as rune.scape/d2 as its adult population moves toward newer games. And as a result, since the population is now younger with less disposable income, they wont be able to buy as much gold and then gm's will be place on other newer games of perfect world international and pwi will continue its downward spiral.

Perfect World is basically trying to milk the adult population of the server while they still can and trying to get them too invested into the game to quit.

Why would sc2 affect pwi, it isnt even mmorpg game. It cant be mmo's competition.

Rytania - Heavens Tear

When you add the option "slowly, but surely" to any poll like this, it really only makes for the most intelligent, realistic decision. The minute you are born on earth, your personal timer of existence starts. Nothing is immortal. Every beginning has an eventual end. If PWI wants this game to last, they will need to do more innovative things (add new parts of the map, new dungeons, GM-sponsored and INVOLVED events, and the such). If 2 new fish characters and 3 new fish lands are going to be the end-all, grand-finale, climax of this game, please let me know now so I can put in my 2-week notice and in the words of Yoda: "away put my credit card". b:chuckle

WhiteMasaX - Heavens Tear

1) The Hp/mp Charm System Is Failed , I Explain Why

A) When Every1 Is Lv100 (very Soon) . Who Is Strong, Who Is Weak, Mostly Count On The Character's Equipments, Then People Take A Comparison On Their Equipments With The Others, Then Crazy Refinie Or Spend More $ On Anni Pack To Get The Godly Stuff

Dont You Think If A Lv 101 Character Stay Naked, Its No Difference With A Lowbie Noob? Each Level Only 5 Attribute Points That The Most Failed Part

It Will Turns Out To

Everywhere Have "high Hp" And H"igh Damage" Players, More Hp And Damage = Kill Your Own Charms Or Enemy Charms Faster In Pk Or Tw.


Pwi Is A Very Successful Gold Digger Program And Business

PWI SET GOLD CHARM AT 4GOLD EACH, IT SHOWN HOW GREED THEY ARE..


There Is Nothing Wrong With Those Cashshoppers, Stop Jealous

Because You Are Too Poor And Cant Afford To Buy The Gold By Real Cash, Loser!!!

Foxx_trott - Heavens Tear

PWI can't be dying if they are adding yet another server. I must admit, this surprises me a little even.