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Posted on: 2012-05-09 09:44 in News, Events and Announcement Discussion
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Originally Posted by Robo_Knight
Well this sounds like fun...
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Originally Posted by Icelock
As I understand it, someone at Paragon will select (at random) an item each week that will be that Friday's freebie item, so all players get the same item available for free.
At least that's how I interpreted Zwillingers response to "getting something pulled from a hat": "Ideally, we want to do that, but alas tis not the case with the pilot program as it would require engineering time. " |
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Originally Posted by Necrotech_Master
yay for free stuff lol
that is all, i dont care what it is, free is free |
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Originally Posted by Energizing_Ion
Oh I see, start giving away freebies when I'm going to have my jaw surgery tomorrow (won't be able to login tom/Friday)!
 This is a slap in the face! And with my (upcoming) jaw surgery it really hurts! Oh, I mean...this sounds possibly cool  |
Nice. As other's have said Free is Free, no matter what.
Nice to see most of the repsonses so far are appreciative or amusing...I mean intentionally amusing!
Ahem. Though, offering actual questions:
I am wondering what the limits are on what is going to be in the pool for this thing. Enhancements? Inspirations? Costume pieces? Is there going to be that one in a hundred thousand or whatever chance that we might get something -big- out of this, like an enhancement tray or costume set or something like that? And if it's the desired goal to have it pull out something different for each person, is there a possibility we could miss out if it happens to pull out something we already have? Or are the only things on the table going to be rewards you can have more than one of? (like no costume piece unlocks, because once you have one of those, you can't get another of the same one, but enhancements might be on the table since you can always own an extra LOTG or something and pass it off to an alt? Just some of the things I'm wondering about.
I am going to go ahead and throw out a word of caution to everyone here: My experience is that when you start throwing around free stuff, people fall into a pattern of entitlement, and tend to get whinier than when they're paying for things and have a more "investment" sort of perspective. People do, in fact, look gift horses in the mouth. In fact, they're more likely to look gift horses in the mouth than horses they paid cash money for. I've never understood it, but in my experience, it's there nonetheless.
Free? Sure, why not!
Good use of classic marketing, too. The more people you get into your store (even if that's a web page), the more likely you are to get some of them to buy something.
Freebie Friday, the free stuff you get on Thursday!
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I see this more as "one free inspiration," "one free temp power," etc. People are really thinking big here, and it surprises me. The release explicitly says "only once per offer," so it's very unlikely to be anything else.
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*Squeeeeeeeee!*
I love free stuff! Inspirations, temp powers, costume pieces, what have you - it's all good.
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Originally Posted by milk_weasel
The wording is a bit confusing to me. My assumption is that it's saying if an SO were the freebie you could only get one that week. But I'm also reading it as "you get one "free item offer" and can use it this friday or next friday or two weeks friday but only one of these fridays and you get the item that is free that day when you do use it"
It's the first one, right? Each friday we get one free item? |
Thank you Paragon Studios for FREE STUFF WOOHOO!!! *huggles marketing* oh wait I huggled marketing does that make me evil by proxy???
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Originally Posted by Zwillinger
we plan for each promotional item to be available for 24 hours. For the trial run, we’ll be putting the item up at 4:00 PM PDT/7:00 PM EDT/12:00 AM BST this Thursday, May 10th, 2012. The item will be available until the same time (4:00 PM PDT) on Friday, May 11th, 2012. You can find the Freebie Friday item under the “Featured Items” section of the Paragon Market.
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Cant wait for this or the new Bailiwick Zone!
^Indeed. I'm a night shift worker, so there's a real risk of missing out for me.
Everyone should be aware by now of how video games try to make you addicted. The 'free friday' promotion would fall under 'Making the players press a lever'.
The time the devs spent creating this slot machine system would have been better spent on game improvements. I prefer games where the players are there because they *want* to play, not because they are *compelled* to.
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Originally Posted by Zombie Man
May I suggest that since you're dealing with a global community, the 24 hour paradigm for a 'day' is insufficient unless you had the capacity to stagger the 24 hour time frame for each time zone.
For example, you realize that starting at Midnight locally for you is problematic since:
However, ending it at 4 PM PT on Friday is not so wise for a program called Freebie Friday for anyone in the world who is not living in London's time zone. People in the rest of the world will get home from work or school on Friday, log into in the game to claim the reward and, WHAAAH whahhhhh, no freebie item. You will then deal with innumerable claims of you going around nazi slapping everyone in the clock face because they missed out on a Freebie Friday even though it is actually Friday for them. Mark my words, ending Freebie Friday before 12 PM on Friday in at least Pacific Time (should actually go to 6 AM Saturday PT for the islanders) will be very complaintful when the time comes and goes. A full 'global day' is 48 hours long. Any offer you do should ideally be that long, or, at least, 36 hours long. |
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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd
Everyone should be aware by now of how video games try to make you addicted. The 'free friday' promotion would fall under 'Making the players press a lever'.
The time the devs spent creating this slot machine system would have been better spent on game improvements. I prefer games where the players are there because they *want* to play, not because they are *compelled* to. |
If its free, and I don't need to stand in a long line to acquire it, I ACCEPT!!! Thanks in advance.
Couldn't get anyone to come in and turn this off on a Saturday, huh Zwill?
Looks like name was chosen long before someone considered the production scheduling.
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Originally Posted by DumpleBerry
I see this more as "one free inspiration," "one free temp power," etc. People are really thinking big here, and it surprises me. The release explicitly says "only once per offer," so it's very unlikely to be anything else.
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I thought that the Freaky Friday event involved War Witch and Positron switching minds/bodies!!
Stupid Freakshow have to ruin everything...
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Originally Posted by Chase_Arcanum
Add all the individual costume pieces to that list.
When you look at the total number of relatively low-cost items that could be in that giveaway, the odds of a higher-cost item getting picked free are relatively low. Still a great promotion, not complaining, just don't think people should expect "costume slot 6" for free anytime soon... |
well to me it smacks of desperation, someway they can show their bosses how much activity the market is getting, boosting numbers so to speak. I also think for the most part they will be "clearance" items. Things that are not selling,but they want to spark interest.
or they could be "nudging" us to buy sets, have one of them "free" then we may go buy the rest of the set.
Of course Diablo 3 comes out next week and I am sure that had nothing to do with it.
what I expect next is COH will have some promocode published in a game mag. that will give some sort of mini-pet.(yes I know about the codes on MMO.com)
I completely approve of this idea. In reality it's not going to get anyone to re-sub but it will get people logging in to claim their freebie and if somebody is thinking of unsubbing, it'll give them a reason to keep their sub going, especially if they loved last weeks freebie!
Good stuff Paragon!
