deezy dabest
2110
   |
Posted - 2015.02.05 10:31:00 -
[1] - Quote
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.
The reaction is hostile because no one has the ability to open strong boxes.
Before the event I had received TWO keys that did not require AUR to be spent.
I purchased a few keys on day 1 of strong boxes.
Telling myself there is no way it can stay this bad I have gone through some more keys through paying to complete missions and from buying a key bundle.
What did I get out of these keys that I bought? JACK ****
On the first day of strong boxes I loved them. I even posted a great review which you replied too. I received a couple of sets of officer weapons and some proto suits for my race. Basically these things were all useful to me and I was under the impression that you had built it to give random value while making sure it was something I was skilled into so that I could atleast use them.
oh man was I wrong.
Later the defender suits started and that was pretty much where I came to an end with strong boxes. No one in their right mind would spend 800 AUR on those things and then you count for the fact that I seem to almost be guaranteed to not even get ones that I am skilled into. So basically seeing defender suits pop out of over half the boxes I open makes me have absolutely zero desire to ever buy a key again.
What you are doing with this "random" drop system is telling users "Hey, we don't really value your money enough to make sure you get something useful but we would appreciate if you could spend hundreds of dollars on keys to open these boxes that we are going to spam you to death with every time you play a match."
No one finds it fun to be milked of their money for what will probably not return a single use. If you are going to stick with the randomization bullshit then it CAN NOT be one size fits all.
Players with X or greater skill points should only receive proto and officer gear that they are skilled into and advanced AUR equipment as a losers prize. Burn the freaking defender suits right out of that queue and do not ever consider putting them back. BPOs can stay random and not have to be based on skills.
Players with less than that skill can receive the defender suits as they are still exploring different fittings, specialization skill books, actual levels of a skill (how cool would this be, open a box and boom whatever skill you trained last to level 3 is upgraded to level 4), ISK amounts, and whatever else you can think of.
Finally you need to give out more keys. You keep saying things like not all keys are AUR etc but guess what in this so called random system a lot of us are being boned right out of this concept. I have had 1 key as a reward for finishing X amount of missions and 1 key for X amount of kills, other than those every single one has involved AUR on the missions which is absolute BS. At the same time the strong box spam has gone insane, after coming back from not having any desire to login my salvage for the first 3 matches was 12, 15, and 17 strong boxes. Currently on non paid keys to strong boxes I am at over a 250 to 1 ratio which is absolutely stupid. This is exactly why people call it a pay wall. Maybe if you came up with an actual mechanic based on merit and participation this would not be the case. |