OPEN LETTER TO DEV's AND sparkiesoft

Hello sparkiesoft,


In order for a MMO to stay alive, it needs players. More players. Fresh new players. Why more players make sense?

1. It helps the current player base enjoy the game more, get the game environment much more competitive and thus: BUY MORE ZEN.

2. It helps the new player base that arrives, enjoy the game and fight harder to get to their goals which means: BUY MORE ZEN.

In order for the game to live, be supported and get updates, it has to produce revenue. This means, people have to BUY MORE ZEN.

Now the challenge here is HOW TO MAKE PEOPLE BUY MORE ZEN?

Well the targeted market is split in 2:

A. The current player base. They will buy more ZEN only to get to their goals faster, get items that makes them special, feel special. PWI is failing at this right now, because the player base is getting smaller every day, I play there I feel it. The game became a mission impossible with all the REQUIRED time to do the necessary dailies to be able to access the new skills. Sadly it is boring and BOREDOM kills the game.

B. The potentially new players. They will buy ever MORE ZEN, to make up for the game they have missed ingame, to get to the same level as the veterans, but...They DO NOT want to be forced to put in 3000 hours in boring and repetitive game-play to get there. That is unacceptable. They want to buy their time spent ingame from the boutique. They want fast access to all skills, to high levels and to end game gear thorough the boutique. It can be done. You guys can do it. The game in its stage now kills any wish from new players to even start playing. It is stupid, as they will never be able to catch up at this rate, even if they charge ALOT OF ZEN. I see PWE shooting itself in the foot if they do not adapt.



Now as I said what is the strategy to bring more players to a game that's been running for 4 years? Here are my suggestions AGAIN:

1. Make it easy! Make the process easy for them to level up to 100 fast, through the boutique. Put some insane 10mil XP pills to help them. Do some brainstorming and come up with something in this regards. They can CHARGE ZEN. Make sure you are prepared to get their money and satisfy their needs. Your purpose is a happy customer, because he will become a recurring customer, creating even more REVENUE.

2. Make it fun! Over 120 million people are playing MOBA type of games(League of Legends, DOTA2, Smite etc). PWI has a very similar system with TW, but...here are the downfalls of it: TW is too long(3h are a pain). TW is too laggy and crowded(160 players). TW is on a fix time(inaccessible to many). FIX THIS! Make PVP instances with the TW maps, NW maps, 10 vs 10 or 5 vs 5. The objectives can be: Destroy the enemy crystal, protect the flag etc...but make it so the players can create these instances or create them automatically every hour. Squads will register like NW and be randomly set against each other. Make prizes and statistics with rankings on this. WE, THE PLAYERS love to see our achievements ingame(Highest dmg hit, highest K/D ration/etc...). Give us unique and non-game breaking rewards like: Unique fashion, unique titles, forum titles, etc...

3. Make it attractive! What does that mean? Make a map/instance where new players or any player can go in and test different types of armors, shards, cards, builds, fashion, EVERYTHING that the game can offer. This "PLAYGROUND" will allow players to customize their unique and perfect build according to their game-play style, will allow them to test end game gear that they only dream about, will make them want that gear even more even faster(which they can get by CHARGING MORE ZEN). Let them fight against each other in duels on this magic land and test it against PVE(some mobs and bosses).

4. Make it challenging! How, you might ask yourself? Simple. Take Heaven and Hell maps, modify some mobs there, add new ones who are very challenging and that in order to be defeated, they require much teamwork and good gear(the mobs can be taken from the NEW SOT, or ABADON instances). This way, even people with amazing gear will need help defeating them, will need to team up as a server to defeat the MOBs invasion and free those maps. Make areas on those maps red, where the mobs are ruling, and green where mobs have been defeated. Make the mobs smart enough to take areas back from players if they leave them undefended. What do you get by this? You get to unite the community against a common enemy(the NPC invader), you make us players want to get stronger, better(and the fastest way of getting this is by ...CHARGING MORE ZEN). Make these wars non stop, so at any point in time, the players can gather and go and feel they accomplish something by defeating a very strong NPC army.

5. Make it rewarding! How? All players have pride! Pride makes us want things fast! Use the player's pride to make them feel special. Bring back the rankings, redo the rankings so they can show details about players, give them temporary titles. Also, reward the community for their efforts to make the game more known. It is fine to work with facebook and ARC but you need to use the players. Use them to advertise, to create content on youtube, twitch etc.


The community's involvement could be valuable to make this game better, to increase the revenue the game bring with very little financial costs from the company.

Please help us reach someone who has a power of decision in PWE in regards to this game.

Thank you,

(Spell_Caster - Raging Tides Server)