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If a game isn't fun, it isn't fun; gouging your eyes out with a spoon isn't fun just because it's free. If you have to beg people to stay, then this game is done.
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Don't worry. Soon enough there will be T7 ships for $35!
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Exhibit A in why political discourse on the forums is frowned upon.
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Assuming that they didn't implement any new tech (probably a safe bet), they aren't going to give anything that can beneficially be reclaimed. So I suspect you just went 0-4.
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I'm sure they're going to raise the price. They're not going to pull the T5's from the store, so T6s have to cost more than a T5+upgrade.
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Completely wrong. T5-U is going to be markedly inferior to T6, for the obvious reason: Cryptic wants to sell T6 ships. If there is only minimal difference between T5-U and T6, no one will bother buying T6 ships if they have upgradeable T5s. Cryptic is disingenuously minimizing the difference in order to avoid getting more…
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Just like to stop in and blow a hearty raspberry at all the people who said this would never happen. So - told ya so. They had to do it in LOTRO, and now it's here.
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I think that you have some valid points, but it's unlikely that STO will change that much. Honestly, I think that what is more likely to draw the attention of the people you're talking about is Star Citizen.
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At the risk of turning this into a serious discussion, there are many valid definitions of what constitutes P2W. Insisting that there is only one true definition is what turns it into a religious war. Some will say that as long as paying doesn't guarantee a win, it's not P2W. Or if there's no real winning, it can't be P2W.…
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Your whole thesis is based on your personal view that the contents of a lockbox are worth $1.25 even without the chance of winning the grand prize. To hold that view, you must necessarily believe that lockbox keys would continue to sell even if the ships were removed entirely. This is a view that hardly anyone in the game…
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On the contrary, they are very much like lottery tickets, where the value of the grand prize greatly outweighs the average return. As opposed to cereal boxes, where the grand prize may be even less valuable than the cereal.
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Yeah, yeah, new updates always have additional downtime because of bugs and general wonkiness. It's true of every single MMO - predicting it here doesn't make you Kreskin.
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It wouldn't need to be 24x7. Just have a GM spend a couple of hours a week looking through random chunks of chat-log. Don't worry about context or repetition, and just swing a mighty ban-hammer. Eventually, people would get the hint.
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It's still a horrible analogy. Do you think people who buy lottery scratchers are buying them solely for the chance to get little silver-grey flecks over everything?
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As a free to play game, the ratio of disruptive players to GMs is through the roof. Even subscription based games have trouble keeping a civil environment, so there's little hope for FTP. It's Lord of the Flies from here on out.
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You missed his point, which is that opening 412 packs gives a 4.8% chance of getting one and only one JHAS. But anyway, the whole exercise is kind of silly anyway, in that it relies upon the assumption of a 1.1% rate, which there is little evidence for.
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It's more than just moral responsibility. Quoting from an NHTSA study:
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I would counter that with the example of casinos being required to stop patrons from gambling when they are inebriated. Or bars being required to cut people off. Clearly, the law recognizes that businesses have a legal responsibility to regulate their interactions with customers with diminished capacity.
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I am so sick to death of this analogy. If a court were to determine that lock-boxes are gambling, then it'd be a crime. No one has to be holding a gun to anyone's head. I'm sure that Cryptic/PWE/EA/SOE and whomever have legal opinions from their counsel saying it's not gambling, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything…
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Sorry, but this is completely wrong. Every published report of the FTP game-space has shown that the vast majority of spending comes from a small number of big spenders. That is who Cryptic is targeting. The player who drops five bucks for a couple of keys is gravy. The player who spends hundreds because they "have to…
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Found your problem.
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It's always amusing how many people think SWTOR is failing when it's doing better than the game they're touting...
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Apparently you've never played STO's ground combat...
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With regards to Star Citizen, I have only one thing to say - they've committed to letting people run their own servers.
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Wait, what?
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I agree that none of this is going to affect any of the big Western MMOs, but one thing against SWTOR is they recently made it possible to buy their currency from inside the game with a linked credit card. You still have to go through some set-up, as I recall, but it's a lot closer to the low-friction spending that the…
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Wrong forum. Probably wrong game too.
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Would a mirror-mod close threads though? Maybe the only threads that exist in the mirror universe are the ones opened by the mirror-mod.
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I've yet to encounter a person with a "No to Arc" sig deny that they think that others should dislike Arc. Clearly one side of this argument has reason and logic on their side.
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Better change your sig then.