Veteran Catch Up Systems

So every few years everyone gets all the rewards and people who started the day before roll over are earning the same as the people who have been in game since preorder of CoH?

So...how would it be a veteran reward program at that point?

I'm amazed this tread has made it to over 100 + replies

I just started a year and 3 months ago and LOOK FORWARD to getting my vet rewards when it's time . Yes I'd like to have the shoulder cape , boxing glove etc but it will come in due time , nothing wrong with waiting . The GAME ITSELF and the people I team up with KEEPS ME COMING BACK day in a day out , the VET rewards are just a nice touch in IMO .

i seriously think you have confused your self M_C_M. vet rewards are not used to keep players playing or to intice new players to join. it is the game itself that does that. there is no reason to add any other "tiers" of rewards. the only thing that needs to happen is to relook at the rewards and change out the costume rewards for something else or give all players access to some sort of generic costume pieces of the vet rewards.

Well I am fine with whatever you all want. I thought I would try and spin a few ideas here, and it seems among the people calm enough to address the OP not just the title, that these are probably a no-go.

Thanks for the info and feedback.

To clarify my earlier point, which I crammed in at the last minute of my previous post:

The problem being addressed here is that new players feel slighted because veteran players have stuff they don't, correct?

Your "solution" is to add another tier of veteran rewards starting approximately now.

Fast forward 2 years.

Now there are 8 year tier 1 veterans AND 2 year tier 2 veterans.

That means a player joining 2 years from now will have even MORE stuff to complain about not having. Instead of solving the problem, you have compounded it.

I read your OP, and to be perfectly blunt about it, I found it asinine.

Your "Pay to catch up" idea is BUYING VETERAN REWARDS, but you put a different spin on it so it doesn't sound like that's what it is. But if you strip away the marketing jargon you have: Pay money, get your next reward now instead of 3 months from now. How does that not meet the definition of buying vet rewards?

I explained the problem with the second tier of vet rewards in this post. All it will do is give new players who join later on even more stuff to complain that they don't get.

In reading your OP again, I have to say it REALLY sounds like you're trying to justify the entitlement issues of the "WANT IT NAO!!" crowd.

They weren't here, so they haven't earned the rewards they are clamoring for. If they stick around they will earn them at the same rate as everyone else.

No one gets a second tier of rewards to soothe the sting of not getting their way, and no one can pay to get their stuff faster. It's fair, it's balanced, and it SHOULD NOT BE CHANGED!

First idea is terrible, but second idea is rather good. It would keep the vet rewards coming for everybody, but make the whole business less daunting to newbies.

No, it wouldn't.

You'd just wind up with another group of rewards that they'd still never get, eventually, and then you have to start it all over again when other people start yelling about both reward types, which means a third tier, and so on.

/Unsigned

Rewards should be earnt not bought, it's seems to me that increasingly we are living in an "instant gratification culture" where no-one wants to wait or work for anything.

I don't really like this idea much; Veteran rewards are to show how long you've been playing the game. I can see maybe buying the "Rewards" themselves and not the badges but even still thats iffy.

1. No.
2. No.
3. Hell no.

You want to create a new revenue stream, that's fine. You do seem to forget however, that the veteran reward system already does just that. It tries to tempt into eople keeping their accounts running for a month or few months instead of cancelling during breaks from the game. I know I do just that, and I'm far from the only one.

Uhm . . . Do you guys realize the OP has posted the following in regards to the feedback he received?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mad_Cow_Milk Well I am fine with whatever you all want. I thought I would try and spin a few ideas here, and it seems among the people calm enough to address the OP not just the title, that these are probably a no-go. Thanks for the info and feedback.

Time to let this go, and stop beating up on the guy.

Moot, ignore.