AJack10600
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MA are trying to work like a bank and assume that withdrawals are minimal... but if the market was to crash and everybody was to withdraw then effectively this would lead to MA crashing...
That's why I don't deposit anything into the game I am not willing to loose. MA can give you no guarantee whatsover...
What this proves though is that once more, that theory that "MA only takes Decay" is totall bullxxxx... once you have deposited the money sits on an MA account and the money is used for MA operations, although it is still pledged to you as PED balance on your PED card. It's nothing more than a pledge... there is no guarantee, the money is more or less taken by MA already, assuming you will spend it anyway.
That small proportion of 47% cash is not just your PEDs... that's the cash flow that is left for MA operations...
I totally share the concerns mentioned, to me it proves that the MA business model is not able to survive based on decay only. The big investments, dev office in Mexico, CryEngine2, setting up of FPC... cost big bucks and MA can not fund it out of the decay bill.. The 3x skill events and the 2x skill events flushed a lot of cash into MAs bank account, cash that was deerely needed... otherwise the cash ratio would probably have looked even worse... much worse !!! The 3x skill was not just an event, it was a serious need for cash... and it worked...
I am very confident as to the current development of FPC, but the economic bit of MA worries me seriously...
I just hope that all this will not lead to an increased cost of playing once CE2 comes along... I hope MA will try to generate cash by number of players and not through increasing costs...
The question remains whether MA shoudl stick to a higher cash ratio or even be demanded to keep it at 100% PED balance... after all they still claim to only be taking "decay" off you ... what a lot of bullxxx...
That's why I don't deposit anything into the game I am not willing to loose. MA can give you no guarantee whatsover...
What this proves though is that once more, that theory that "MA only takes Decay" is totall bullxxxx... once you have deposited the money sits on an MA account and the money is used for MA operations, although it is still pledged to you as PED balance on your PED card. It's nothing more than a pledge... there is no guarantee, the money is more or less taken by MA already, assuming you will spend it anyway.
That small proportion of 47% cash is not just your PEDs... that's the cash flow that is left for MA operations...
I totally share the concerns mentioned, to me it proves that the MA business model is not able to survive based on decay only. The big investments, dev office in Mexico, CryEngine2, setting up of FPC... cost big bucks and MA can not fund it out of the decay bill.. The 3x skill events and the 2x skill events flushed a lot of cash into MAs bank account, cash that was deerely needed... otherwise the cash ratio would probably have looked even worse... much worse !!! The 3x skill was not just an event, it was a serious need for cash... and it worked...
I am very confident as to the current development of FPC, but the economic bit of MA worries me seriously...
I just hope that all this will not lead to an increased cost of playing once CE2 comes along... I hope MA will try to generate cash by number of players and not through increasing costs...
The question remains whether MA shoudl stick to a higher cash ratio or even be demanded to keep it at 100% PED balance... after all they still claim to only be taking "decay" off you ... what a lot of bullxxx...