Skill booster, Unique armor/ weapons that are a one time buy, and the ability to change my skill loadouts, in MAG it was a respec....I think people want to try out new things and respecing is a way of doing that for a marginal cost. The key to a microtransaction game is to have very small convenient things to purchase. The trick is, the player can easily spend more money on the game without realising it....or caring. A small 5$ investment is nothing, but once they do that 4 or 5 times they feel invested in the game and if it is FUN enough they will want to keep playing because they have willingly put money into it.

LOL works so well because it has so many unique heros to choose from and people find their favorites and have a meta game stratagy built up. The only thing in a FPS that is dynamic and changes are the skills that are invested into, allow those to be more flexible with AUR and I think that will be an interesting cash cow for quite some time.

I seriously doubt that respecs will be in the game. If they were implemented it would effectivly make everybody an expert at whatever they wanted after a couple of months. What i mean is after you have 10million or so points you can just pay the aur fee and streamline respec into anything you want to specialize in, and then spec something else next month and be expert at that with another aur fee.

The closest i would say you would get to something along these lines is if they allow the option to sell characters like they do in eve for ISK. you buy aur which you can (hypothetically) turn around and buy ISK with. Which you then buy a "black ops tank toon" or w/e you are interested in.

I assume this because of the way EVE has been handled but honestly some of the things that have been put up for AUR are quite shocking to me already so you may get your wish.

I think CCPs big thing is that they want the skills to be vast and filled with possibilities. In my opinion if you make SP just a general slosh fund that you can reallocate for a dollar amount they will lose alot of that feel.

The whole point of the respec would be so someone could change their char instantly. People would be paying REAL money to do so and it isn't a game breaking mechanic at all, it is really, I am bored with being assault and I don't want to wait another year before I can skill up sniper...The point is to allow variety...microtransactions thrive on it and succeed on it....if several thousand people respeced a couple of times...maybe each repec would be 2.50$ that is an easy way for CCP to make cash, a way that no one would say "hey they are paying to win"

..maybe each repec would be 2.50$ that is an easy way for CCP to make cash, a way that no one would say "hey they are paying to win"

Just making it cheaper makes payed respecs a requirement to play and soon everyone needs to pay to compete thus win.
The act of changing your fundamental skills to fit the patch flavor of the month for any amount of money is pay to win.

Skill booster, Unique armor/ weapons that are a one time buy, and the ability to change my skill loadouts, in MAG it was a respec....I think people want to try out new things and respecing is a way of doing that for a marginal cost. The key to a microtransaction game is to have very small convenient things to purchase. The trick is, the player can easily spend more money on the game without realising it....or caring. A small 5$ investment is nothing, but once they do that 4 or 5 times they feel invested in the game and if it is FUN enough they will want to keep playing because they have willingly put money into it.

LOL works so well because it has so many unique heros to choose from and people find their favorites and have a meta game stratagy built up. The only thing in a FPS that is dynamic and changes are the skills that are invested into, allow those to be more flexible with AUR and I think that will be an interesting cash cow for quite some time.

Skill booster, Unique armor/ weapons that are a one time buy, and the ability to change my skill loadouts, in MAG it was a respec....I think people want to try out new things and respecing is a way of doing that for a marginal cost. The key to a microtransaction game is to have very small convenient things to purchase. The trick is, the player can easily spend more money on the game without realising it....or caring. A small 5$ investment is nothing, but once they do that 4 or 5 times they feel invested in the game and if it is FUN enough they will want to keep playing because they have willingly put money into it.

LOL works so well because it has so many unique heros to choose from and people find their favorites and have a meta game stratagy built up. The only thing in a FPS that is dynamic and changes are the skills that are invested into, allow those to be more flexible with AUR and I think that will be an interesting cash cow for quite some time.

I would buy exotic dancers.

In general, I think CCP should lower the cost of all AUR Items or make AUR cheaper to buy...

Maybe I am just really cheap, but if I saw that my 4,000 AUR could get me a lot more than it actually does, I would keep spending it rather than hording it and only spending it on 7 day boosters.

1,000,000 people spending $1 per week on AUR = $4,333,333.33 per month
20,000 people spending $20 per month on AUR = $400,000


Better to have lots of people spending very little than a few dedicated hardcore people spending lots.