Aeon Amadi
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Posted - 2015.02.04 14:15:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:We are discussing this internally. This new idea, as in Faction BPO's in Strongboxes, that was supposed to be fun and for everyone is being viewed, unfairly in my opinion, as being "locked behind a paywall". If it were a better item, I might agree but then it would be pay to win.
As far as I see it, it's exactly opposite, if we put it into the market, then it truly is for AUR only, as it is visual customization.
Right now, anyone can get a random drop of a cool BPO, which, I thought was amazing, the first BPO that could be "gotten for free", not even grinding FW like APEX's. Obviously, it was going to be at low rates, to preserve the feeling of the rare drop, which I enjoy and most MMO players, which is why we raid and rejoice in world drops.
We are open to putting them in the market for AUR, but we are just honestly surprised by the hostile reaction.
Again, it's a gamble. You are not guaranteed the stuff you want that you are paying you for. It's like going into an outlet mall and asking for a specific jacket, only to have the employee go and bring you all the clothes in the mall and let you buy them one at a time until you finally get to the one you're wanting.
I understand what you guys were trying to accomplish but I don't think you understand the weight of what it is you're putting on players. When you have guys who just want the BPO's that go and spend $60+ on keys (one dude bought 250 of them last night) and still not get a single BPO with only a handful of actually useful items... How on earth do you expect anyone to actually get them for at the rate keys are dropped in salvage/daily missions?
Apart from the fact that a player can drop hundreds of dollars and still not get what they're looking for - let alone try to get one with the miniscule amount of keys obtained in-game - they're never "free" because you're still having to fight battles and grind away daily missions for those keys. I'd argue it's easier to grind FW and get APEX suits than it to grind keys and get even a single BPO 
Cat Merc wrote:[
Have you considered that Aurum STD and ADV items are extremely overpriced and as such, quite useless to us?
CCP Rattati wrote:
There is a 99% chance that you get 800 aur, or more of items worth from a strongbox, which is even better if you buy 10 keys in a discount bundle.
Which will inevitably have to be sold because it's illogical, inefficient, and extremely costly to restock Aurum items. If you give me 12 'Codewish' Tactical Assault Rifles (what I got last night), I'm going to be spending 50 Aurum for every single one of them trying to restock my fittings. If I die 100 times in a day, that's $2 just in rifles that I could have spent on keys trying to get that fancy Faction BPO.
Alternatively, I could spend ages making separate fits for all the trash I get from the boxes and just delete the fit whenever I run out of that individual item, which is insanely inefficient.
Again - I understand what you guys are wanting to do... but you're asking way too much of the players. Exorbitant amounts of money for the impatient or exorbitant amounts of time for those that will never buy keys... For that one precious shiny that they want that is no different than any of the other BPO's. It's not locked behind a paywall, but it might as well be 
Have a suggestion for the Planetary Services Department?
Founder of AIV
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