Post by scorcherofthorns on May 19, 2012 2:30:07 GMT -5
I understand the dilemma; selling freeform slots would kill subscriptions, really? Didn’t they say the same thing when F2P was launched? Or so I heard some of you saying, Maybe Cryptic listened to the guys saying that and that’s why we get ATs, which is their way to say “hey subbers, these super small MMO that failed to grasp you through anything else but the freeform slots is still the same for you”. So apparently making a business model out of F2P is just not something they were planning for CO, or were capable of doing, which means the whole thing is just an unlimited trial. Then I would ask why not let the new entries make freeforms and then put a level cap and correctly level the thing “unlimited trial CO” Nobody would feel left behind, and nobody would complain for that.
Yes I do come from the fact that I think we Silvers aren’t getting freeforms slots and that the Cryptic guys are trembling underneath their desks at the thought of pissing off subbers while not worrying about the increasing discontent of Silvers who apparently are totally insignificant.
I think it’s important to understand the amount of Silvers CO have lost because of the lack of freeforms, I'm currently back at playing other games I used to play and deleted CO from my comp, because I have simply grown tired of CO's incompetent ATs, and then watching the subbers clean up the map with no trouble at all in this little “sub to win” orgy they have running. And in those other games I don't feel so impotent and underpowered compared to subbers, making their F2P more worthy of my time and my hard earned dollars, If subscriptions are so damn important to COs and F2Pers so insignificant, then maybe it was a mistake to go F2P after all, why even bother, why disturb subbers with us, because honestly I'm one of those idiots who invested in this game “unlimited trial” thingy believing it was going to change, but obviously I was just plain wrong, I deeply apologize to those wiser posters, mostly Golds, who argued with me in the past about the trial nature of COs F2P business model, I was in a state of denial because of my investment in the game, and because I was really convinced they were going to see the light, and also because it honestly didn’t make sense to me. But now it’s all clear isn’t it, if they do it, if they sale freeform slots they lose subscriptions, meaning we the Silvers who actually spent on the game and where waiting for it don’t get jack, except the same old stay in the back, randomly put together, good for nothing ATs. Bravo!
I’m totally loving those other games, amazing how they won me back after they lost me so bad during their sub only era, I really thought I was a goner, now on top of that Aion is also F2P, and god only knows how many more games will follow, and I don’t see them jacking their F2Pers with these almost completely incompetent ATs while giving their subbers almost instant invincibility with this freeform concept CO has, so maybe I never grasped CO, and neither did the so many who left, and perhaps going back to the old games, at least till the new era of games arrive, is what I needed to do, and is working out really good, I'm even considering subbing to those games, something I wouldn’t do for CO.
So based on my own case, and the fact that I know a group of around 20 gamers who came to CO and all left for similar reasons, I can propose to you CO is in dire danger that the very opposite of what many of you think happens next, and that the whole game could just wipe, because honestly with a B2P monster like GW2 coming and so many Sub to play giants also on the way, why would anyone sub to CO, and with so many games gone F2P, you got to ask, what is it about COs F2P streamlined char creation ATs that’s even remotely worthy of your time, is it because is free and super hero? When all remaining super hero MMOs are also running F2P and best yet they don’t render you instantly pathetic like COs ATs do.
Anyone who have read my posts in the past, and or played with me in the game knows I gave CO a long try, I really did, I’m not a hater, just a deeply disappointed gamer.
So I’m sad to say the “Off topic” board is now my only concern on these forums after this very post.
So long CO.
Yes I do come from the fact that I think we Silvers aren’t getting freeforms slots and that the Cryptic guys are trembling underneath their desks at the thought of pissing off subbers while not worrying about the increasing discontent of Silvers who apparently are totally insignificant.
I think it’s important to understand the amount of Silvers CO have lost because of the lack of freeforms, I'm currently back at playing other games I used to play and deleted CO from my comp, because I have simply grown tired of CO's incompetent ATs, and then watching the subbers clean up the map with no trouble at all in this little “sub to win” orgy they have running. And in those other games I don't feel so impotent and underpowered compared to subbers, making their F2P more worthy of my time and my hard earned dollars, If subscriptions are so damn important to COs and F2Pers so insignificant, then maybe it was a mistake to go F2P after all, why even bother, why disturb subbers with us, because honestly I'm one of those idiots who invested in this game “unlimited trial” thingy believing it was going to change, but obviously I was just plain wrong, I deeply apologize to those wiser posters, mostly Golds, who argued with me in the past about the trial nature of COs F2P business model, I was in a state of denial because of my investment in the game, and because I was really convinced they were going to see the light, and also because it honestly didn’t make sense to me. But now it’s all clear isn’t it, if they do it, if they sale freeform slots they lose subscriptions, meaning we the Silvers who actually spent on the game and where waiting for it don’t get jack, except the same old stay in the back, randomly put together, good for nothing ATs. Bravo!
I’m totally loving those other games, amazing how they won me back after they lost me so bad during their sub only era, I really thought I was a goner, now on top of that Aion is also F2P, and god only knows how many more games will follow, and I don’t see them jacking their F2Pers with these almost completely incompetent ATs while giving their subbers almost instant invincibility with this freeform concept CO has, so maybe I never grasped CO, and neither did the so many who left, and perhaps going back to the old games, at least till the new era of games arrive, is what I needed to do, and is working out really good, I'm even considering subbing to those games, something I wouldn’t do for CO.
So based on my own case, and the fact that I know a group of around 20 gamers who came to CO and all left for similar reasons, I can propose to you CO is in dire danger that the very opposite of what many of you think happens next, and that the whole game could just wipe, because honestly with a B2P monster like GW2 coming and so many Sub to play giants also on the way, why would anyone sub to CO, and with so many games gone F2P, you got to ask, what is it about COs F2P streamlined char creation ATs that’s even remotely worthy of your time, is it because is free and super hero? When all remaining super hero MMOs are also running F2P and best yet they don’t render you instantly pathetic like COs ATs do.
Anyone who have read my posts in the past, and or played with me in the game knows I gave CO a long try, I really did, I’m not a hater, just a deeply disappointed gamer.
So I’m sad to say the “Off topic” board is now my only concern on these forums after this very post.
So long CO.