We want compensation!

Or you could buy my +12 orbs instead?

We play a free game. The fact that there's even maint is a godsend.

ChiefZoltar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

We play a free game. The fact that there's even maint is a godsend.

f2p games tend to make more than p2p games, especially granted how p2win pwi is your logic is...beyond...shameful

The worst promo/compensation PWE ever gave were those +10 Orbs, not for the fact that code glitched but for the fact that it was something of value to endgame players and lost a decent amount of money based on the widespread of that compensation.

I would not mind it, but in a business aspect you can only sample food or place something of high value on display to give people a "taste." To actually have people buy it there needs to be a lesser valued item attached.

Example, Buy Flame Orb (12*) and get Dragon Ocean (10*) Free! Promo's like that sell often in the real world, and from the looks of things they would here as well.

I vote epic never before seen sale... like Mirth Packs at 60% Off... I'd like that very much

Normal compensation I'll see coming for this is... 2x EXP/Spirit for 1-2 weeks with maybe 1-2 Event Gold cards.

Mosz - Heavens Tear wrote: »

f2p games tend to make more than p2p games, especially granted how p2win pwi is your logic is...beyond...shameful

They may make more money, but they make money regardless of whether or not they actually pay attention to the game. They don't care about us. Ergo, having maint at all is a godsend.

Mosz - Heavens Tear wrote: »

so i can make a crappy f2p game and just watch my money multiply without doing anything?! woot!

so far everything youve said can apply to p2p games too.

In a p2p game, if there is no GM/Dev activity, people stop subscribing, they lose money. In this game, what draws people into putting money in is either the want for better gear, or the need to gamble.
If you make your own f2p game, it won't make money unless you get people to play. People clearly play this game.
Stop using flawed logic to try to disprove a point that we all know is correct.

ChiefZoltar - Heavens Tear wrote: »

In a p2p game, if there is no GM/Dev activity, people stop subscribing, they lose money. In this game, what draws people into putting money in is either the want for better gear, or the need to gamble.
If you make your own f2p game, it won't make money unless you get people to play. People clearly play this game.
Stop using flawed logic to try to disprove a point that we all know is correct.

>In a p2p game, if there is no GM/Dev activity, people stop subscribing, they lose money.
same can be said for f2p games

In this game, what draws people into putting money in is either the want for better gear, or the need to gamble.
>people in p2p games dont want better gear?

Requesting a free S card or a free 12* is like asking for a free piece of r9... Hope PWE never makes the mistake of granting this ludicrous request. People need to grow up. There's a problem and they've done/they're doing what they can. This broken sense of over entitlement disgusts me.

lel this thread again

i really don't see why anyone feels need to be compensated i mean they do give us things free all the time and when they do ppl still complain about what is given its free who cares if you already got it before or bought it and now you going to say you want more free stuff why so you can complain that wasn't good enough either just play the game and stop being greedy

free nueama portal set for all ! b:pleased

OH OH.... R9 GEAR FOR ALL b:victory b:victory b:victory

Anyway.....Any predictions when the next rank sale will be?

darkneko wrote: »

I have mixed feelings on this, myself.

First and foremost, I know what it's like to run and maintain a server (granted what I do is nothing to the scale of PWE). So I understand that things can, and usually will, go wrong when you least expect them. The reasons for those mishaps vary, but they aren't always preventable.

Now having said that, I will admit that it was an inconvenience for the servers to be down so long, then came back up long enough for people to start things, only to take them down again for maintenance.

However, I feel that they should have just escalated the time for the maintenance, done it right then since the servers were already down (especially after two hours had gone by and nothing was up yet). They could have got the maintenance over with sooner, fixed whatever the issue was, and allowed players to get back to whatever they were doing. That would have been the better choice, in my opinion.



Now, for the side of compensation. It's unfortunate that the servers went down for as long as they did, then teased us with 1.5 more hours of play before taking them away again for maintenance.

I have seen a lot of people arguing that it's a free to play game, and that they don't owe us anything. Technically, that's true. However, the fact of the matter is that, while yes we are playing a free to play game, the TIME and EFFORT we were putting into this game to get our characters to a certain point, was halted much longer than what was necessary (again, they could have done maintenance earlier and resolved two issues at once). Everyone's time and effort is worth something, because that's time and effort we could be putting into something else. But instead, we are putting it here, into this game.

The fact that every single one of us, whether we play this game for leisure, or take it far more serious than is needed, our time was wasted while we waited for them to resolve the issue (again, happening only long enough to whet our appetites for more, then wrench it away shortly after).


Whenever a company has technical issues like this, that affects large numbers of clients, whether a fault of theirs or not, their clients are going to want compensation for their wasted time. And it would be in the best interest of the company to give their clients something that is of equal or greater value to what their customers lost. Time is a very precious and valuable thing.

However, Perfect World International has a few million players alone (Not talking about all of PWE, being specific with PWI). Because of this, if they were to give out codes for some kind of compensation such as those ridiculously priced $150 Dragon Flame Orbs, they would lose a huge profit.

Then solution then, is for them to come up with some kind of compensation that will satisfy the majority of their players, while not causing them to lose a lot of money in the process.


Personally, I would be happy with 2x Exp/Spirit/Drops for a month, along with 200 Event Gol (since the prices of stuff in the event boutique are about 3-4 times more than the regular boutique, and everything is character bound, I don't see them losing much, or any profit from this).

But it's ultimately up to the GMs/Corporate (or whoever is in charge of giving the final word on these matters) what, if anything, they are allowed to give.

I've been playing PWI since the days of closed beta. I have seen a vast number of changes happen over the years, and know there will be more to come eventually. So regardless of whether we receive compensation or not, I personally will continue to play this game until the day PWI shuts down its servers for good.

You think 1 million people play this game? lol. Here's a hint. Count the number of people who attend NW. Now let's pretend they are all unique players. Let's be even more generous and pretend only 10% of the population attend NW. So multiply that number by 10 to get "the number of players per server." Now, there are 8 servers, so multiply that by 8 to get the "number of people playing PWI." Is it 1 million? lol.


Now with that aside, it is true that PWI don't owe us anything legally, so there is no reason for them to compensate us. At the same time, it is their responsibility to keep the server maintained so the players can actually play the game properly. If you think PWI can make money by doing nothing, then just lol. You think people will pay money to a game that doesn't work? Think again. People pay are only willing to pay money if PWI keeps it in working order so people can actually play the game. Annoy the players too much and there will be no one left to pay money to the game.

So in otherwords, they really only need to compensate us if enough people are annoyed by the server maint that they risk losing potential customers.

Genghiskhan - Heavens Tear wrote: »

How about getting some compensation for all of this? Free S Card? Orbs? something fun! Different. Not the usual 50 event gold, give us like a free flame orb (propel future sales by giving ppl a taste), or something like that.

Lets be ridiculous:
How about +12 orbs, a full hand of mogs + gst's and some summerwinds and some josd??

Aren't you a bit too demanding?

*Oh if S cards i want them anready rebirthed and level maxed, k? k, thx. *