DUST Search - ideas for ccp's marketing department to help fund and maintain dust 514

v4victory wrote:

here is a couple ideas and i encourage others to add more cause we are all getting a free game and devoloment isnt cheap and if we keep wanting more content and the game to grow and continue to be better ccp needs funding for this projects and not just pulling extra revenue from eve

merc packs and boosters

make them go across our accounts as far as bpo's and boosters are concerned i believe alot more people would be willing to purchase them if they weren't just tied to one character

this is something a lot of other games already do and it makes them a ton of money just from those purchases

optional respecs

charge 5 bucks for a respec as an adult i realized along time ago time is money and nothing comes for free give us free respects when say there is a lot of new content that is released say one free respec every 6 months and if we wish to respect between those 6 months then charge us a small fee don't believe to many people myself included would argue with that as it is taking time up for the dev's to give us the respec and that is time they could be working on other projects

bpo's

if ccp made bpo's and packages for more then just merc items say basic advanced and prototype bpo's also vehicle bpo's those alone would sell extramly well

now before you bust my chops everyone knows eve will have more of a connection to dust and eve players will be able to send isk to dust players either directly or via corp wallet now i personally am an ex eve player and dust player so i know just the ridiculous amounts of isk you can make in eve and with that option eventually coming and with corps already proto stomping this feature wont make or break the game you would still need the skills to wear the gear its just broadening a system already in dust 514

example caldari raven bpo has skill requirements to wear the suit same with sever logistics by no means am i rec amending making a proto bpo and have 0 sp requirement on it

i personaly would love to see other peoples ideas and i hope ccp incorporates them into the game as they will help support or game

have a great and wonderful day

v4victory

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v4victory The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 0	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:06:00 - [1] - Quote here is a couple ideas and i encourage others to add more cause we are all getting a free game and devoloment isnt cheap and if we keep wanting more content and the game to grow and continue to be better ccp needs funding for this projects and not just pulling extra revenue from eve merc packs and boosters make them go across our accounts as far as bpo's and boosters are concerned i believe alot more people would be willing to purchase them if they weren't just tied to one character this is something a lot of other games already do and it makes them a ton of money just from those purchases optional respecs charge 5 bucks for a respec as an adult i realized along time ago time is money and nothing comes for free give us free respects when say there is a lot of new content that is released say one free respec every 6 months and if we wish to respect between those 6 months then charge us a small fee don't believe to many people myself included would argue with that as it is taking time up for the dev's to give us the respec and that is time they could be working on other projects bpo's if ccp made bpo's and packages for more then just merc items say basic advanced and prototype bpo's also vehicle bpo's those alone would sell extramly well now before you bust my chops everyone knows eve will have more of a connection to dust and eve players will be able to send isk to dust players either directly or via corp wallet now i personally am an ex eve player and dust player so i know just the ridiculous amounts of isk you can make in eve and with that option eventually coming and with corps already proto stomping this feature wont make or break the game you would still need the skills to wear the gear its just broadening a system already in dust 514 example caldari raven bpo has skill requirements to wear the suit same with sever logistics by no means am i rec amending making a proto bpo and have 0 sp requirement on it i personaly would love to see other peoples ideas and i hope ccp incorporates them into the game as they will help support or game have a great and wonderful day v4victory
KING SALASI MAJOR DISTRIBUTION 146	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:13:00 - [2] - Quote Don't make free games, retail or subs is the best way to make money along with DLC's.
2100 Angels The Southern Legion 197	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:40:00 - [3] - Quote v4victory wrote: here is a couple ideas and i encourage others to add more cause we are all getting a free game and devoloment isnt cheap and if we keep wanting more content and the game to grow and continue to be better ccp needs funding for this projects and not just pulling extra revenue from eve merc packs and boosters make them go across our accounts as far as bpo's and boosters are concerned i believe alot more people would be willing to purchase them if they weren't just tied to one character this is something a lot of other games already do and it makes them a ton of money just from those purchases optional respecs charge 5 bucks for a respec as an adult i realized along time ago time is money and nothing comes for free give us free respects when say there is a lot of new content that is released say one free respec every 6 months and if we wish to respect between those 6 months then charge us a small fee don't believe to many people myself included would argue with that as it is taking time up for the dev's to give us the respec and that is time they could be working on other projects bpo's if ccp made bpo's and packages for more then just merc items say basic advanced and prototype bpo's also vehicle bpo's those alone would sell extramly well now before you bust my chops everyone knows eve will have more of a connection to dust and eve players will be able to send isk to dust players either directly or via corp wallet now i personally am an ex eve player and dust player so i know just the ridiculous amounts of isk you can make in eve and with that option eventually coming and with corps already proto stomping this feature wont make or break the game you would still need the skills to wear the gear its just broadening a system already in dust 514 example caldari raven bpo has skill requirements to wear the suit same with sever logistics by no means am i rec amending making a proto bpo and have 0 sp requirement on it i personaly would love to see other peoples ideas and i hope ccp incorporates them into the game as they will help support or game have a great and wonderful day v4victory oooookay. A couple of points. First of all, these are product development, game mechanics and balancing suggestions, not marketing (though admittedly product development is sometimes handled by marketing, I would be very surprised if this was the case in this situation). Second of all, these are terrible ideas to improve revenue generation. I'll address each idea individually. 1. Merc Packs and Boosters - I haven't heard a single person complain about how boosters are a "rip off", which indicates to me that they are fairly priced for what they provide. Following from this, it seems to me that purchases wouldn't necessarily increase by providing greater value. Without seeing sales figures, it seems that people are currently quite happy to purchase boosters, which indicates that this would hinder CCPs ability to generate revenue, as it limits purchases to one per person, as opposed to maybe 2 or 3 per person for the people that this matters greatly to. I don't have any personal objections to this idea, but in terms of revenue generation, this will quite clearly diminish the number of boosters sold. Introducing another, more expensive, booster that encompasses other characters on the same account might be worth pursuing, however. 2. Optional respecs - This would dilute the sandbox premise and mechanics of the game. The fact that decisions in skill point allocations have lasting impacts on how your character is shaped and your effectiveness adds to the value proposition of this game. This is part of what helps differentiate dust from other games, and would probably hurt it in the long run. Even though this may increase revenue initially, it would reduce the overall brand equity of the game and potentially result in less overall players long term. 3. BPOs - Advanced and prototype BPOs would break this game for the reasons listed in #2. Brand equity and value proposition would be diluted, reducing the appeal of the premise of the game, leading to less players over time. If people could run around with free prototype suits, this would break the game as there would no longer be (or to a lesser extent) the feeling of loss when you die, giving people no reason to run anything but the prototype variants leading to everyone using prototype at every opportunity. This is against what CCP have stated they are trying to achieve.
Cosgar ParagonX 2963	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:43:00 - [4] - Quote EVE's RMT market is probably more than enough to pay for Dust, especially since Iceland is still exempt from virtual currency exchange duties.
Cody Sietz Bullet Cluster 587	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:44:00 - [5] - Quote Advance BPOs, like the above poster said, would really mess up the game. However, I'd love to see BPOs for all basic suits for all races. GIVE ME MA GALLENTE BASIC ASSAULT SUIT BPO RIGHT MAO! I don't care if it only saves me 3000 isk...I want it...and I want it to be green and white....tasteful like...
Guinevere Bravo SVER True Blood 265	Posted - 2013.07.22 13:48:00 - [6] - Quote If the abiltity to pay for a respec will kill this game. Its' a persistant universe. Thus peoples characters hould not change. Itsd hard to comprehend the fact that 'your actions , have consequences' in a game but this 'game' has been going for nearly 10 years (EVE) and Dust for just over 1. If everyone could just skill into the 'best' thing of the month instantly then wheres the variety going to come from? When are you ever going to have the upper hand in different situations? NEVER. And thats basically what COD is.
v4victory The Unholy Legion Of DarkStar DARKSTAR ARMY 1	Posted - 2013.07.26 07:07:00 - [7] - Quote okay let me address some issues that already have been stated cause aparently people are missing the message about helping funding a free game issue one advaced and proto bbo's where to start oh caldari raven sever lgictics dren logistics dren sentnal blood raiders saga isakone watch saga with the above bbps none of which have broken the game and the people that own them down even get a thank you from ccp or a thank you from team mates with free lav's getting eliminated from the game only free lav's that exist are from the 50 and 100 dolor merc packs neither have broken the game and now people are dependent on people who speced into vehicals or have purchased the bpo lav's to get them into batle or suffer walking to the fight specing into vehicals themselfs dren sentnal dren logistics both are failly good suits and the abbilitiy to have a free logi or heavy on your team benifits the team cause that logi doesnt care if they get killed and are more likely to try to revive you or heal you while getting shot at and the heavy will draw attention from tanks as they wont fear standing in front of them now both suits are available in the 100 dolor merc pack raven and sever suits are bpo's that you must spec into in order to even use them both require a fair investment of sp just to access the free suit that the plaer has paid for also on a further note there isnt many of these items in the game due to players who dont want to spend or invest money into the game so adding advanced or proto bpps isnt going to break the game but it would help it how would this help the game very easy GAME DEVOLOPMENT ISNT FREE PEOPLE WANT TO GET PAID dont think for one second if dust stars pulling to much money off eve they wont shut it down in a second cause they would it would be smart business if you think proto and advanced tier bbo's would break the game run random matches and see how many big corps are already proto stomping every match cause they have more money then they know what to do with also add in eve when eve players can give money to there dust corp when you can make 1-2 mill isk just messing around on eve in the time it taks to do one ambush match small corps and new players wont even stand a chance in matches they will be dieing from even more corps proto stomping every match and we all know that that is never fun to be on the recieving or giving end of skill respects a option to purchase a skill respec for 5 bucks or even at most 10 bucks yes that is gonna be a double sided sword and also not even an issue first off the issue of it being a double sided sword well some people are new and spend skill points unwisly and well they have the option to purchease a skill reset wheen they want and reset there sp to put there points into skills they know they want when they get the experience under there belt now at the same time this could be miss used where people just pick the flavor of the month they want when they want and a easy fix to that is having a cooldown on the feature where you where stuck with your desicions for 30 days from the time of the respec of sp making it where they couldnt just change at will by paying also another important part to this feature you must pay for the respec or be allowed to have a free respec for the people who cant afford it say every 6 months cause first and formost this is a video game and ment to be enjoyed and if your not enjoying playing them people leave and further more if you made it this far i congratdulate you i appologise for all the spelling errors and lack of grammer an long windedness it has been a very long few days and its just after midnight here so i hope ya all have a great evening take care happy hunting and fly safe v4victory
GET ATMESON NEW AGE EMPIRE 85	Posted - 2013.07.26 07:12:00 - [8] - Quote Did you know DUST 514 is made by CCP. CCP has Eve with a large amount of players that pay for game time or PLEX. Money isn't a problem.


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