Do MA really want a big player base or just big spenders?
very happy about the changes we get in EU over the years.
very happy about the new planets and land deed.
but the core problem persist: loot!
until MA will not fix, balance the loot EU will continue to be considered around like a scam.
They can add as many planets they want but them will not bring new players (and in effect despite rocktropia, arkadia etcetc the whole player base didn t increase)
so after all this years is or not time to take care about that too, seriously??????
I think all players have seen a massive decrease in return, those who watch every pec and treat this game as a business may perhaps reduce the losses. But the feedback I hear from Miners, Crafters and Hunters is that the loot balance stinks. This is a game, we do expect to pay MA for the entertainment, we do expect them to take a profit and monies towards R&D, but we do not expect to feel ripped off.
As a hunter, if we want to hunt daily (TT or otherwise), we now have no choice but depo. Even the monthly depo crowd are now spending a lot of time in sweat circles, to try and stretch the budget.
Where they rebalanced loot, they seem to have totally forgotten the rule of all casinos, it's the regular small wins that keep the gamblers at the table, not the mega wins.
They need to increase the smaller globals and decrease some of those ludicrously large ATHs, this is what will encourage the players to stay. Give us hope!!
I had forgotten until last night the glorious feeling of a multi global hunt. A less experienced socmate and I hunted Trox (Breer M3a's) and in approx 2.5 hours of hunting we received 6 globals totalling 572ped and other loots were not bad either. Starting with around 200ped ammo each, after decay & restocking ammo, we both returned a profit of around 70-80ped I believe.
We were euphoric
I am regular hunter and I can't remember the last time I walked away with a significant profit. I have become accustomed to being grateful if the losses aren't more than 50% (and they have been - often). Yet last night brought a rush of memories of hunting the same mob, same place around 10-12 months ago, with the same result on a regular basis. Obviously not every hunt, MA clawed it back in due course but it was the pleasure of a successful evening that kept us going.
I already depo more than I consider reasonable yet, more and more, I find myself having to choose between another depo so I can hunt, or hiding away in a service centre chatting in pm, healing at a swunt, or skilling on a Mothership.
As General of NBK Army I should be out there teaching hunt skills to soc, hunting with friends, enjoying the game - instead I dread the pm asking me to go spend more than I can afford and the risk of offending others by an apparent unwillingness to join them.
I feel guilty asking my Colonels to run hunts, knowing that in the current climate it is going to cost them more ped than they can perhaps afford.
To be brutally honest, if it wasn't for the soc, I think I may by now have reduced my game-play in EU to occassional forays. I'm not bored..it's a fantastic game..but can I afford it?
Come on MA redress the balance..the founders of several successful companies know the adage 'pile it high, sell it cheap'. If you expect us to pay little but often we can accept that, but continue with this greed and new planet or not, more and more players will walk away. There are after all several new launches of known good games due this summer.
that is for you to find your way!
