A message to GMs regarding Rank gear

If you think this issue will fall to the bottom of the sea and you can ignore it, it won't... You have just lost a good portion of your players some of which were heavy cash shoppers. Now you may or may not find replacement players with the expansion or not. However that is a risk and not guaranteed players which you HAD before you did this. A steady flow of money is better then a quick rush of it.

Effectively other free to play games will catch on on your issue here, continue to **** us over and big review sites such as MMOhut.com will catch the drift, big MMO blogger playing this game will move in and burst your bubble, effectively you lose money in advertising, Youtube and social networking sites will catch on your failure, facebook will crumble beneath your feet with bad rep and bad mouthing, not good for any business.

IF you get past that, and do get replacment players they still have to get through massive inflation, terrible customer support and massive power level gaps from 40 - 90 (rank gear)

That said, PWI is NOT the only free MMO out there and continuing to do this will push you to the bottom of the tower.

But hey don't take my word for it, keep **** us over, regardless of players leaving and coming back or leaving forever it's strength in numbers that will bring you down. The average life expectancy of a player has now fallen due to your "**** ups".


Bottom line: We don't need to do anything, effectively your digging your own grave

Short sum up
*Big reviewing websites such as MMOhut will catch onto these issues
*Other free to play games will move on
*Private server usage will increase (chain effect, friend to friend to friend etc..)
*Life expectancy of player reduced
*Big blogger who quit may effectively deliver bad rep via site if google ranks them high, PWI suffer advertising costs
*Loss in player base, around 1 in 20 players are cash shoppers, 1 in 5 of those are heavy CS shoppers.
*Flow of income to PWI reduced, advertising costs increased "milking" effect needed to keep profits high this will drive more players to quit/bad mouth game (strength in numbers effect
*Loss of control on the forums, bad mouthing off putting to players starting out

If you think that's bad! ...Check out this thread

The friend effect
(5 level chain)

1)You leave >
2)Your friend leaves >>
3)Their friend leaves >>>
4)Their friends leave >>>>
5)Their friends leave >>>>>

Faction effect
Faction Leader quits/disbands >
Faction leaves >>>>
Faction friends leave >>>>>>>>
Their friends leave >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Their friends leave >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Their friends leave>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Their friends
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Their friends leave >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Their friends leave >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>



> = 10 people roughly, stacking effect.


one > = one friend, assuming you only have 1 best friend this is not including the factions/small factions and or wife/hubbies/faction leaders etc... who can effectively have a cripple effect on other players, the stacking effect increases.

-Players please keep this bumped, thank you
b:kiss