Aqil Aegivan
The Southern Legion
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Posted - 2013.03.05 17:26:00 -
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GeneralButtNaked wrote:Altina McAlterson wrote:EKH0 0ne wrote:
blueprints cant be purchased for free
neither can boosters
When the market is up you will be able to. So the playing field will be level "Soon". But that is still six weeks at least before a change, and that is even if a player market is coming around fanfest, which of course we can't confirm.
Yes, but there are a lot of other factors determining how level the playing field is besides SP. Treating SP as if it should be the sole way of balancing players is a doomed effort. When the devs actually put together a worthwhile matchmaking algorithm we will see an improvement. When we have PVE drones people will have the option of accruing SP there if they find the PVP opposition too tough while they're still learning the ropes. We can't reasonably complain about not having everything yet. Pointing out the need for change in a system you already know is going to be changed seems a redundant effort to me.
I think that debating the P2W status of boosters under the current system is distinct from debating the merits of the new booster.
For the record I don't like the idea of new boosters (though I would like to see 30 day boosters added to the market). I have no problem with the current ones or the their place in the larger game dynamic we are going to see. However, the 2x boosters seem to me to be an unnecessary exacerbation of the lack of a market we will have to endure for some time to come. Furthermore the addition of new boosters strikes me as an unimaginative way of adding to revenue. We don't even have cosmetic AUR options and they're cranking out more booster schlock? Along with lvl three proto suits and cheap prefit AUR suits that I wouldn't be caught dead in they are being forced to lean heavily on the one thing they know people will buy, because they can't create anything else we're interested in. If they'd start communicating with the community, rather than just pushing their message out and telling their own beta testers "take it or leave it", maybe we'd see more successful market items and more creative revenue sources than bigger boosters.
Whether or not we will have a good game in the future the current crop of content makes the beta more reminiscent of a P2W game being made in the mid nineties. I know it's a work in progress but why make matters worse in the mean time? I'd rather see them buckle down and do the work, maybe we'd actually see some progress in turning this into the triple A title they keep saying it will be. |