Somthing to think about

Firstly, I don't know these for a fact. Simply I observe, form an opinion, and express my thoughts, nothing more.

Anyway, imo, Pwe like in a game of poker, was dealt a very good hand. The question that's on my mine is, with the good hand that they were dealt with, how did they choose to play it? Could they have played it better and win more money?

From my observation, theres a number of reason why they've done what they have done. The most likely reason I think is that, they chose to play it safe. The decided to take the easy path, come up with an idea (packs) on how to milk cs, and they focus on that, which incidently proves to be effective. My guess is, they made alot of money during the first year of packs but don't make so much now. They are however still profiting enough from this method which also requires very little effort.

Here's how i see it. They recognise certain human emotion such as greed, pride and envy so they created packs with items to stimulate those emotions. Also packs are a gamble which can be somewhat addictive for some, and these can increase prices of gold on demand. This meant that pw had the power to control prices therefore be able to make money from packs indirectly also.

The thing is, pwe was dealt a very good hand, and imo could have make a healthy profit from it without degrading and depreciating this game as much and as fast as it has. This lead to the question of how.

Instead of relying on and stimulating those basic emotions mentioned above with packs and over powered items, they could have relied on and worked on players more advance emotions of natural demands for goods and services. These advance emotions are the result of the force of nature, perhaps similar to the market force to some extent, which incidently prove to be a important part of our life in rl. What I'm suggesting is that, nature have already created demands for goods and services in players, which gaming company can and should supply these advance emotion to make money. Alot of money is there to be made if not now, in the future.

Instead though pwe have supply goods and services for our basic emotions and in simplistic ways. Although this proves to be effective, it does not create skills and experience in supplying advance emotional demands, which in the long run, these skills will generate more revenue.

The advance emotions I refer to aren't straight forward emotions such as simply greed, but exist in sets. Not only does the advance emotions exist in sets, the "I" exist as well as the "we" exist" simotaneously. Its not something i have taken the time to try to understand myself but it is in gaming company's interest to learn and understand them.

While majority of us will want to create 5 aps sins/bm or r9, we are more sophiscated then that. Our emotions through evolution are more advance and demand more from pve and pvp. We want to do more with people pve wise, and we want to do more with people pvp wise. With things such as 5aps and r9 in its early stages, they prevent our advance emotional needs and demand from expressing which may explain why so many people complain.

In regards to pvp, it should be simple enough that majority can get into, yet challanging enough that the better leader will win say 80% of the turf well before the others from different server. In doing so, requires members of the guild as a whole which rely on advance emotion I suspect.