If MindArk Was a Perfect Company
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This nails it, but I'm sure MA would prefer to have it differently.
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To the OP, why bring in loot?
If you want more loot (of course everyone does), but do you want it at expense of the game?
More loot = less money for MA = MA goes bankrupt. I know it is not as clear cut as that.........!
Their revenue model works, they make money from decay, and they have survived for years on this and still going. If the model did not work, people would not deposit and the majority of people would leave, and MA would go bankr upt. (which is NOT the case)
TT returns hasnt changed in years....it is peoples gambling habits that are the issue not MA. Some just cannot resist, condition crafting and then complaining about loot.
To survive in PE is a lot like investing in the Futures Commodities......those that profit are around 5%, 95% lose, and they lose because they are not self disciplined, little patience and do not stick to a plan, or have cash to burn and do not care. Or do not understand how it properly works.
And i believe the majority of people play, only play because of the chance to get the BIG WIN. Take that away, and i wouldnt be surprised if the active population was a small fraction of what it is now
And just for the record, distributing those big wins out to everyone, would not make a noticeable difference in your tt returns. Perhaps 1 ped in a few hundred if not a thousand spent.
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If you want more loot (of course everyone does), but do you want it at expense of the game?
More loot = less money for MA = MA goes bankrupt. I know it is not as clear cut as that.........!
Their revenue model works, they make money from decay, and they have survived for years on this and still going. If the model did not work, people would not deposit and the majority of people would leave, and MA would go bankr upt. (which is NOT the case)
TT returns hasnt changed in years....it is peoples gambling habits that are the issue not MA. Some just cannot resist, condition crafting and then complaining about loot.
To survive in PE is a lot like investing in the Futures Commodities......those that profit are around 5%, 95% lose, and they lose because they are not self disciplined, little patience and do not stick to a plan, or have cash to burn and do not care. Or do not understand how it properly works.
And i believe the majority of people play, only play because of the chance to get the BIG WIN. Take that away, and i wouldnt be surprised if the active population was a small fraction of what it is now
And just for the record, distributing those big wins out to everyone, would not make a noticeable difference in your tt returns. Perhaps 1 ped in a few hundred if not a thousand spent.
Just my two pecs
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This is how ingame economy is setup up and has nothing to do with their RL financials. Unconsumed PED's are not considered in their balance sheet, they are only stated as possible liability. This is a quite risky approach and has been discussed several times.
To sum it up: deposited PED is income for MA and booked as net sales, although not all PEDs got consumed (decayed). At 2010-12-31 there where 68Mio unconsumed PED. Their profit in the last years was mainly due to this. As less PEDs have been deposited in 2010 and exchange rates were not favorable to MA, they've made a loss of about 22Mio PED. Their total assets are about 102Mio PED and totally equity is about 76Mio PED. Hence, financials are not looking good.
I personally do not have any problem with this as I'm still trustfully. They have however to rethink their strategies. More PEDs must get cycled so that there is more decay and this implies that we do need more players as playing costs are already high.
As Miles has stated, EU is not for everyone and it is quite difficult to recommend this game to others. Furthermore, I do get the impression that there has started some sort of melancholia among long time players. Not sure if they are a minority, but they are well heard over here. Hence time has come to react as refusing to confront or acknowledge the problem is the wrong strategy.
Unfortunately we have still to SEE.
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I always like to hear opinions like yours, always based in data. You are very different from many others who only speak from the heart. But to make things better, not only is needed a heart or passion. We need to understand what happens, to be able to correct it. Thanks for all your opinions Falkao. Are always have strong basis . 
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Hi,
one thing here is "hearing to the players".
This is a double sided sword. What players demand is often not exactly what benefits the game in fact. A game company "hearing to the players" will nerf this today, buff that tomorrow, and so effectively alienate all of the players they're hearing to. Hearing to one player will anger the other player, and vice verse.
The game company should acknowledge the problems and the sorrows of the players, it should react explaining and moderating, quickly and caring, but it never should get pressed. This would be a thing destroying games.
And a game company should never get hostage to a certain group of players.
But this is a mistake MA has done, IMHO.
They made themselves dependent of the high stake gamblers, ignoring a once healthy base of new comers and growing up players.
When I travel Calypso these days, or Arkadia, I find quite a lot of people whacking high HP, regenerating mobs exclusively. While wide areas, populated with lower mobs are literally empty, only visited by an occasional miner.
I don't find many traders selling or buying small amounts of loot anymore. They have been gone since long. The economy for the average Joes has collapsed, they feed the TT until they finally leave. I don't find this many people anymore crafting all over the place, and the global spam mostly reports the same well known names over and over.
Any event, any new addition to the game, caters those that are ready to risk a big buck. Few is done for those that are not ready to do this. But these are legion, and would be ready and happy to participate, and to fuel MA's needs, and to add to the success of this game.
And this is, IMHO, the most dangerous development possible.
It's dangerous to fulfill any demand of the community, trying to satisfy everybody. But it might be even more dangerous to concentrate solely to a specific groups of players, ignoring the requirements necessary to ensure a healthy amount of new comers, and growing up players. These might be the big spenders of tomorrow, if offered a satisfying game experience. Concentrating on a small number of big spenders poses the risk that they just hear a bad news, grab their money & run. With a devastative result ...
I see, like many others, a lot of potential in this game. But it's wasted potential, because a game like this needs people that participate to a flourishing economy, to the social aspects, and to the gaming experience. Running all over the place all day long, alone like in any off line game, isn't exactly what makes participants happy, and ready to drop money into it.
My 2 PEC, for sure. I'm sure that quite some of you high profile players will disagree, from your view, but think for a moment - not possible that there's a grain of truth in what I told you?
Have fun!
one thing here is "hearing to the players".
This is a double sided sword. What players demand is often not exactly what benefits the game in fact. A game company "hearing to the players" will nerf this today, buff that tomorrow, and so effectively alienate all of the players they're hearing to. Hearing to one player will anger the other player, and vice verse.
The game company should acknowledge the problems and the sorrows of the players, it should react explaining and moderating, quickly and caring, but it never should get pressed. This would be a thing destroying games.
And a game company should never get hostage to a certain group of players.
But this is a mistake MA has done, IMHO.
They made themselves dependent of the high stake gamblers, ignoring a once healthy base of new comers and growing up players.
When I travel Calypso these days, or Arkadia, I find quite a lot of people whacking high HP, regenerating mobs exclusively. While wide areas, populated with lower mobs are literally empty, only visited by an occasional miner.
I don't find many traders selling or buying small amounts of loot anymore. They have been gone since long. The economy for the average Joes has collapsed, they feed the TT until they finally leave. I don't find this many people anymore crafting all over the place, and the global spam mostly reports the same well known names over and over.
Any event, any new addition to the game, caters those that are ready to risk a big buck. Few is done for those that are not ready to do this. But these are legion, and would be ready and happy to participate, and to fuel MA's needs, and to add to the success of this game.
And this is, IMHO, the most dangerous development possible.
It's dangerous to fulfill any demand of the community, trying to satisfy everybody. But it might be even more dangerous to concentrate solely to a specific groups of players, ignoring the requirements necessary to ensure a healthy amount of new comers, and growing up players. These might be the big spenders of tomorrow, if offered a satisfying game experience. Concentrating on a small number of big spenders poses the risk that they just hear a bad news, grab their money & run. With a devastative result ...
I see, like many others, a lot of potential in this game. But it's wasted potential, because a game like this needs people that participate to a flourishing economy, to the social aspects, and to the gaming experience. Running all over the place all day long, alone like in any off line game, isn't exactly what makes participants happy, and ready to drop money into it.
My 2 PEC, for sure. I'm sure that quite some of you high profile players will disagree, from your view, but think for a moment - not possible that there's a grain of truth in what I told you?
Have fun!
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Correct, but I'm pretty sure MA would respond that EU is dynamic and so they do think that they are free to do whatever they want. At least it looks like this.
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