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So did I, and I can say after playing that particular F2P game that it was worth every penny I spent on it. |
Originally Posted by Decorum
And I tried Dungeon Runners. Dull as dishwater.
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Thank you. That didn't show up when I was double-checking my memory. Probably because I was using "Advertising" as the focus of my search instead of "Subscribers".|
Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
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I appreciate your response.
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I'm unclear how wanting an official link with a premium attached is anything at all like the "grass roots"/"let's all help the game by advertising for it" suggestion by the OP.
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Perfect_Pain confuses me: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=201336 |
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Originally Posted by Decorum
I'm unclear how wanting an official link with a premium attached is anything at all like the "grass roots"/"let's all help the game by advertising for it" suggestion by the OP.
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I think advertising is essential to this games success. So why not as a player base promote the game we all love? Here are a few ideas I came up with. -Post a link to the main site on your social networking sites, (twitter, facebook, myspace, etc...) -Post links on your youtube page/Video |
I fail to see how you can't draw a line from A to B.
YOUR idea:
CoX sets up a site that you can link to that gives someone 7 days for free (if following the Age of Conan way).
HIS idea:
Lots of people on their own set up links from their favorite places to CoX's official sites, makes funny advertisements on their own and basically spread the word.
The only thing those two things have in common is that they're both forms of advertisement. Beyond that, they have little to nothing to do with each other. Just because you both mention Facebook doesn't mean your idea is the same as his.
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Because they're not at all "the same damn thing". I would still be in favor of his idea and not yours. Yours wants CoX to give stuff away and do extra work. His idea is that we just spread the word in various ways.
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Perfect Pain complained: Wow I suggested the same damn thing about 8 months ago and all the snobs came to the thread and shut it down. "Oh I dont want to have anything on facebook or twitter" "Thats a bad idea" "Just no". |
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Ya they are. Period. Same stuff different poster.
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DDO and LOTRO. You're looking at the future of MMOs. And this MMO.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yeah F2P worked so well for Dungeon Runners that NCSoft shut the game down and all the population problems went away.
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P.S. This game also needs it's own version of a $25 sparkle pony.
P.P.S. Oh, DCUO looks to be going with the F2P model as well. Like I said, the future is arriving.
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Originally Posted by Daemodand
DDO and LOTRO. You're looking at the future of MMOs. And this MMO.
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Yeah right. And the same people out there that are predicting f2p is the future of MMO's also predicted that Champions would blow this game out of the water. We all know how accurate they were on that topic.
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Yeah, whatever. Maybe someday you'll learn to read.
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Perfect_Pain stands her ground: Ya they are. Period. Same stuff different poster. |
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free to play will only become the standard if they begin jacking people like MAD with microtransaction fees.
and it's much more likely they'll just keep subscription fees and try to jack you with microtransaction fees for a new tidbit of content every chance they get.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
This is what Age of Conan is doing. It hooks up a cool link for your facebook page and gives 7 days for free.
I think this would be cool for this game as well, Could we maybe have a link like this before Christmas? Would be cool if we could have a Twitter link too and like AoC, we could have perks for getting more and more people to subscribe  |
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Ya they are. Period. Same stuff different poster.
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And to be honest, I remember this post (I even commented in that thread), and the thing that struck me more than anything else was the suggestion--again, clearly to NCsoft/Paragon Studios--for "perks for getting more and more people to subscribe." There were indeed a few posts in that thread about how some people hate Facebook, but the initial volley of "this is a bad idea" posts were really more focused on that suggestion, which I have to agree is a bad idea.
This thread and that thread are related, but they are not the same thing. Yours comes off as, "Paragon Studios ought to..." This one is clearly more in the spirit of, "We players ought to..."
We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.
(If you love this game as much as I do, please read that post.)
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Champions is subscription+micro, so that's irrelevant.|
Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Yeah right. And the same people out there that are predicting f2p is the future of MMO's also predicted that Champions would blow this game out of the water. We all know how accurate they were on that topic.
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By getting rid of its subscription, DDO's revenues went up 500%. The market is deciding in favor of no sub+micro (f2p).
The best comics are still 10�!
My City of Heroes Blog Freedom Feature Article: "Going Rageless?"
If you only read one guide this year, make it this one.
Super Reflexes: the Golden Fox of power sets!
WARNING: I bold names.
Oh, yeah, I got what you were saying. The confusion arose because I should have quoted Daemodand for clarity as to where I was referring.
And I tried Dungeon Runners. Dull as dishwater.
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