So, it was said in the patch notes....

Bellaire that was hands down the most **** thing I have ever heard in my life, you wanna see something funny? For ps3 game what do you need? A controller, a console and that said game, what do you need for it? Money what do you use it for? Fun. Where does the money go? To Sony and said game supplier and overall to the game developers.

Perfect world entertainment is a business, pwi is a product, cash shop is a means to get better cash flow. Whether you wanna get that through your head or not

_Ghostz_ - Archosaur wrote: »

Bellaire that was hands down the most **** thing I have ever heard in my life, you wanna see something funny? For ps3 game what do you need? A controller, a console and that said game, what do you need for it? Money what do you use it for? Fun. Where does the money go? To Sony and said game supplier and overall to the game developers.

Perfect world entertainment is a business, pwi is a product, cash shop is a means to get better cash flow. Whether you wanna get that through your head or not

She didn't say that if you cash shop you're an idiot. She said that she only buys gold to have fun and doesn't take the game as a job. There are people here who take the game as serious business and miss out on real life stuff for things in game. She said people nowadays on the game forget that games are meant to be played for enjoyment, not to spend all your time and money on when you're not even enjoying yourself and are only doing so to compete with other players in who can make the most money as though it is a job. She also didn't say the PWI shouldn't be trying to make earn money through it's cash shop. She said that excessive marketing is causing most people to tune it out instead of buying more. As it stands, PWE agrees with her and will muffle the Duke when there is maintenance. No company just wants to put out any old advertising, they want EFFECTIVE advertising. If all it is doing is keeping people from purchasing and annoying their customers then they are not going to want to do so. I really don't know how you could have possibly gotten what you did from what she said, but meh.

Shienage1 is right though, fun is subjective. For some people keeping up the joneses is fun. Having stock piles of money and uberpowered characters is their idea of fun, they just like nuking stuff. This is why many games have cheat codes on the PS3, some people enjoy the game the way it is and the skill it takes to win others enjoying blowing stuff up and causing as much carnage as they can with overpowered stuff. To each his own.

I happen to enjoy the pack announcements (I refuse to call it spam. Cause spam means annoying b:cute)

Of course, half of it is cause I love seeing my name up there b:laugh

ElfinCharm - Heavens Tear wrote: »

Sorry, but you are wrong. I am purely a merchant, have been a pack-seller for over a year, and my pack sales numbers shoot up massively immediately after every significant "red text" good item announcement.

When I say "massively", I'm talking of 370+ packs an hour after a Scroll of Tome, for instance, compared to an average of 25 packs an hour when there has been no nice red text for a while.

QQing on forums is not reflective of actual player behavior: As a matter of fact, I have seen certain very vocal critics of packs, and of red text, buying huge numbers of packs from my kitty shops just after a good red shout or two. Consistently. Don't believe what people will say in public just to fit in.

I agree with this.

And truthfully it shows developers mainly see it this way too because of likely revenues associated with people buying packs seeing others get ****.

Frankie is in a bit of conflict of interest because as a publisher he gets to field countless complaints about red spam that surely he agrees should be taken out, but a developer who is like "cool story bro" while diving in their money bins, and repeatedly up's the spammage quite frequently knowing how people buy packs.

There are some vocal minority that seem to confuse other vocal minority with a majority, and it completely falls out of their grasp that the ones who are speaking in disagreement do so by buying up packs following someone getting a red message, especially for stuff like a Scroll of Tome, not by posting on the forums. Business rule of thumb is there's ten complaints for every one compliment, but money talks much louder in a rather univer$al language.