We urged CCP to delay plans for the omega booster until we had the talk with them about it.

When you have this talk tell them they need to make it only for players with less than a certain amount of SP. Say 5 mil or so. Get the price point where it needs to be and I'd wager that will be a fairly popular item.

We urged CCP to delay plans for the omega booster until we had the talk with them about it.

We urged CCP to delay plans for the omega booster until we had the talk with them about it.

Do you mean you did this as CPM? Did they have plans of putting them back in soon?

Is omega just a name for x2 and x3 boosters?

Yes, 5-14 is when they where supposed to come back.

If i remember correctly the omega 7 day booster was a x2 booster. The downtime of the day they were adding them they cancelled it and said they were delayed indefinitely

Yup because of that it gave us sufficient time to put a boot on that issue before it came back out.

Originally the problem with THAT booster is that when applied it ate your previous booster thus if you had a 30 days left then threw on an omega it would then those 30 days went poof.

That was fixed in uprising with booster queuing but CPM argued against it until we had a chance to talk about it in detail with CCP on the issue as most of the CPM views the 'super premium' item as not just 'pay to win' but 'payers would win.' sort of deal. CPM also knows that CCP IS A BUSINESS and needs money to continue to develop Dust 514 so we're going to be having talks about how best meet both goals of being fair to you guys, preventing rampancy spending, and keeping CCP funded.

PS. Once u introduce "Pay to Win" you can't try and say "Oh this is ok... but this is not.."

Ok I understand there has to be a "balancing act to keep it level"

butttttttttttttttttttttttttt

Chromosome build had 175 Multipliers TOTAL

Uprising: 581 Multipliers TOTAL

1 Multiplier is 310,920

175 x 310,920 = 54,411,000

So, It used to take 54 million to build a full character.

Now:

581 x 310,920 = 180,644,520

Now it takes 180 million for a full character.

Now I know that you're supposed to specialize in something which would mean you don't need 180 million SP but there's a million reasons why players need MORE SP, or even a full character, so when you look at the boosters as they are now, and do some calculations:

1. If you play every week for 1 year (52 weeks) and you reach the cap with an active boosters you get:

14,851,200 SP

2. If you put a passive booster for 1 year you get:

13,870,000 SP

so that's

28,721,200 SP Per year

now divide 180,644,520 by 28,721,200 which is

6.29 years for a full character.

I think we need better boosters :)

These boosters sound horrible. 2x or even 3x boosters definitely tip the whole "pay to improve your gameplay experience by faster progress" concept to "pay to have anything resemling a chance of a level playing field in all non casual content"

CCP has to be very carefull with adding such products. When the difference between paying and not paying gets too large people tend to stop bothering, rather than start spending.

Consumers like choice and incentive. Not pressure and necessity.

Just look at the math my friend, do you think players will play the game for 6.29 years?

Is the Playstation 3 Going to be around for that long?

How about the PS4 ?

Are games going to be the same in 6.29 years?

Technology gonna be the same then?

The skill system is not designed to be maxed out in the first place.

My point was when you make it so that people realize that they can never "complete" a character and play this game at the highest level then people don't see the point in continuing towards that goal and quit early.

It's like having a never ending game.

People like "endings"

I think you guys are scared of people maxing out a character cuz you see it's "unfair"

what you don't realize is players who dominate continuously get bored and move on ANYWAY.

What people want to see is a maxed out character going against another maxed out character, that's simple curiosity and what u guys are saying is "forget bout curiosity, the sp system isn't designed to be maxed out.. we don't want people to max out their characters"

Thank you for your comments everyone and Malkai Inos, I'm beginning to see things a little differently.

This game is a lot like life.

We all want to do everything and get to places as fast as we can so we forget that the most important thing is the journey. :)