Few Scars
Marauder
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- Bjorn Bjorn Longstaff
Reading the Compet webpage one thing stood out as a glaring hole in their marketing strategy. The expected 6 month player retention. This is very short sighted. The backbone of Entropia Universe are not the players who come and try it out for 6 months, have no money in real life and quit. The backbone of this game are the veteran players. The players who deposit.
Now you would think the executive would understand it's the veteran players who invest $1000s USD into the game every week. How are they rewarded for their loyalty? There are no loyalty benefits. Would it be wrong to give say an extra 5 points of agility/health/stamina to players for every year served? Would it not hurt to give storage bonuses to players who have deposited more than $500 USD in a 6 month period?
All the focus on the new player experience at the expense of the veteran player experience. Veterans have skills, they should benefit from them.
I think it's about time MA took a look at retaining it's veteran players. Listen to what veteran players have to say. If a veteran player sends in a support case, don't fob it off. Think oh shit, a valuable client isn't happy, we should address this. I can't even be bothered looking at Joakim|Calypso bug fix list as nothing has been fixed.
A note also to the Compet team. If you stick panda bears, and more cute creature pets ingame it stands to derail the whole theme of the game. The Kanin really, WTF are fluffy bunnies doing on the battlefield?
Get it together. Pick up your game, reward those who made your shareholders happy. Make Space competitive with the soon to be released space MMO which we all know is going to make Entropia Universe space look 1980s. You don't have much time, the most successful gaming companies do two things
1. Reward veterans
2. Maintain development and game theme! A game like VEV has 100 million active players, i don't see them adding bunnies and pandas to the game LOL.
Some respect to those who keep this game afloat.
Bjorn
Now you would think the executive would understand it's the veteran players who invest $1000s USD into the game every week. How are they rewarded for their loyalty? There are no loyalty benefits. Would it be wrong to give say an extra 5 points of agility/health/stamina to players for every year served? Would it not hurt to give storage bonuses to players who have deposited more than $500 USD in a 6 month period?
All the focus on the new player experience at the expense of the veteran player experience. Veterans have skills, they should benefit from them.
I think it's about time MA took a look at retaining it's veteran players. Listen to what veteran players have to say. If a veteran player sends in a support case, don't fob it off. Think oh shit, a valuable client isn't happy, we should address this. I can't even be bothered looking at Joakim|Calypso bug fix list as nothing has been fixed.
A note also to the Compet team. If you stick panda bears, and more cute creature pets ingame it stands to derail the whole theme of the game. The Kanin really, WTF are fluffy bunnies doing on the battlefield?
Get it together. Pick up your game, reward those who made your shareholders happy. Make Space competitive with the soon to be released space MMO which we all know is going to make Entropia Universe space look 1980s. You don't have much time, the most successful gaming companies do two things
1. Reward veterans
2. Maintain development and game theme! A game like VEV has 100 million active players, i don't see them adding bunnies and pandas to the game LOL.
Some respect to those who keep this game afloat.
Bjorn