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rosetyler51
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Not saying this should happen but what if. Everything the c-store was free or at least took a big price cut...but there is now ads in STO. Nothing big most of the time but ads still.
Would you still play?
Would you still play?
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So someone can get a Z-Store shiny at a reduced rate or for free?
Which is, I strongly suspect, what you're really after OP.
No. I would stop playing STO faster than a Ferengi can hide his latinum from the taxman.
You were correct though. It is a bad idea.
No, I'd rather watch the bloddy news that be bombarded with advertisements in the little spare time I spend here for fun and relaxation.
If you simply mean replacing existing loading screens with adverts, i would suffer that for reduced prices. immersion is not something that really bothers me, and while id much rather look at a nice graphic of a space station than a picture of a pepsi max, i'd take the annoyance if it helped me financially.
if there was an increase in loading screen times, or adds put in on top somehow then no, i would not want that. thats going from affecting immersion to actually affecting gameplay.
either way, its not going to happen so dont worry.
Or seeing an advert at ESD for an SUX60000 Hover Car ...
For that, I'd say it would be fair to do the following: Remove all ships and items of functionality from the C-Store and make them available through fleet/rep/whatever. All species playable immediately, except Liberated Borg, keep that lifetime only. Restrict C-Store items to costumes and other cosmetic things, plus service and convenience purchases e.g. extra BOFF slots, ship slots, character slots, bank and inventory slots. Keep lockboxes and keep master keys in the C-Store, they make most of their money off that anyway, and I don't mind it as much as some do. After all i can just delete the boxes that drop for me.
Maybe keep fleet ship modules in the store, too. They're 500z, so a subscriber or a lifer would be able to get one a month for free, and you could require an FSM to complete whatever rep project or fleet store project to get ships previously in the C-Store.
That would make in-game ads worth it, if it was restricted to loading screens and banners in frequently used, but not obnoxious places.
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I'd rather be shot in the masculine organs than have ads in STO. That's actually one of my biggest beefs with ARC--I don't want the ads that come with it. Loading screen in-game ads are quite enough for me, thank you very much.
But now that the beancounters have seen this, it's probably as inevitable as ARC itself. :rolleyes:
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
you can give players the option to buy ships and services (up to LTS) with a bigger cut, but have to opt for a month long (ship/service) advertisment bombardment, whereas a Discounted LTS would stay for a year.
if it adds a few seconds to my load screens I don't mind, so long as it isnt permenant and optional, and of course gimmie a cut off the price.
Least it was not an other t5 Connie/Fed should have KDF levels of cloak/I want to be Section 31,Tal'Shiar,or Fek'Ihri/Rabble rabble rabble devs are nothing but ferengi rabble rabble rabble thread
You sir by making that reply is 1 or all of 3 things.
1. 8 years old
2. Completely uneducated, and oblivious when it comes to things of business and how they want to retain there customers
3. a troll that just wanted to insult or try to get a rise out of me.
I was going to say 12yr but my son understands about business. He has been raised in one. So I pray that you ether learn before or think before you post.
I agree with this. I preordered the lifer and I'll be rather upset if I see an ad in game. I never have, and I hope I never will.
Parallels: my second mission for Fed aligned Romulans.
This game is crazy easy for f2p to get cash shop items thanks to the dilithium exchange.
So no not ever and anyone who thinks this is a good idea is just....... well lets just leave it at that!
Although, and I'm not sure if it was mentioned but here's an idea I just had. How about an option to support STO though loading screen ads for those of us who want to accumulate more Zen. Like every ad gives 10 Zen. With that and the idea being that it would be an Opt in system. So people who want the game ad free don't have to see any ads in the game, but they don't get the trickle of zen that comes with it.
That would encourage enough people to enable ads to get a little bit on every loading screen, which would ad up nicely for some of us. Plus it would bring more revenue into cryptic, which leads to more development, and a longer lifespan for the game. It's also more exposure for advertisers and brands that pay to have the ads in games. So that will sell product for advertiser. Essentially, everybody wins.
I was thinking more along the lines of an integrated banner ad system exclusively in loading screens. Because it'd be easier to track who saw what ad, and you would eliminate the chance of an ad going unnoticed, thus being wasted.
As I said before I'd support this if it was a opt in rewards system. We see enough loading screens, and there already ads for in game content in them. Might as well rope in some external ads for added revenue for cryptic. Ad space is after all always worth money.
Make a mcdonalds decal starship and type "I'm loving it" in chat whenever you kill someone in kerrat with it.
Actually, make it so you get different benefits depending on which corporation decal you have, so the corporations paying cryptic more will have their decals do better things so more people would put them on their ships.
Imagine if you will, you go to the most populated instance of Sol orbit, where 75 others are flying around earth with your ship, now imaging that same scene, except with corporate logos splattered over all the vehicles and surfaces of ESD.....would you like it?
I think there you have your answer! :P