Make store items that cost RL money obtainable by other means such as quests, events in-game currencies etc.
Not everyone can afford or has access to funds to purchase in game items with real currency, I believe anything that can be purchased in game with pearls should be able to be obtained by other means so success doesnt just apply to those with a fat wallet.
Make store items that cost RL money obtainable by other means such as quests, events in-game currencies etc.
Not everyone can afford or has access to funds to purchase in game items with real currency, I believe anything that can be purchased in game with pearls should be able to be obtained by other means so success doesnt just apply to those with a fat wallet.
Loyalty shop and you can preorder stuff on the market board. This is a non issue
Loyalty shop and you can preorder stuff on the market board. This is a non issue
Actually not true. The pearl store has lots of items that are exclusive to real money payments.
like, why would they do that???
literally no upside for them.
Maybe a better idea would be to make anything that can be bought on the pearl shop available to be placed on the market. Tent, ship skins, etc. as long as they're high enough silver might have a market.
This is a business not a charity -_-
Sure, they're greedy, but why in the world would a business give their products for free
Also ''for the less fortunate'' sounds kinda funny. I you own a gaming PC, buy games and have time to play them Im afraid you're not as unfortunate as you think you are.
At the least, if someone pays RL money, buys a hedgehog or tent, and wants to sell it for silver, they should be able to do so. With the daily special token, PA made it theoretically possible to get a hedgehog for free (after completing the free version of 10 daily special passes). However, PA removed the daily special pass token. It would be nice for there to be some kind of replacement option. We will see what the new loyalties system includes; I hope the opportunities for earning loyalties are expanded, and additionally new permanent upgrades are added to the loyalty shop. Perhaps hedgehog and tent will be available there, we will see. From the recent login rewards we got a choose your skill change coupon box, that could be a Theia's Orb; this is a step in the right direction, along with the Attaraxion pet.
Put some of these non-CM Pearl Items into a regular (daily, weekly) Imperial Auction. Let people bid big for items they want as a silver dump.
Let me give an example, Warframe its an MMO and have platinum currecy ( real money ) but you can play the game and gather different items and sell them in-game for platinum, yea its treadable, either you pay to get them easely or grind ( doing missions etc ) and sell. They give to people cool stuff to buy with platinum and also have version of paywall, result? Have more then 80k players while they give people opportunity to farm currency and buy whatever is avail with that currency. In bdo, you can craft for free ( doing stuffs ) permanent tent? No. Can you craft permanent free flute? No. Can you farm pearls? No. Can you buy pearls to get whatever you want? Triple Yes.
I'm not trying to make this game looking like the badest game and I understand the meaning of micro transaction but they gived the game for free few months ago and popularity haven't increased but even more is decreasing which means will drop the money income from those who daily spend some cash.
Feedback is the Red category where devs or whoever manage things around needs to carrefully listen comunity thoughts and reviews/suggestions, otherwise soon they will start to make this game for free and giving more stuff for free just keep sponsors and game alive, thats what I anticipate
Yeah I understand that. I dont mean to defend PA's business model or even claim that its average: its horrible and its backfiring to them now. Plus they dont even really care about the quality of their products anymore.
On the other hand, it doesnt make sense to walk into a shop, complain that its terrible AND stay in it. Its their shop and they do what they want with it, whether they manage to keep it afloat or not is a different topic.
To me the situation right now is... Tolerable, to say something. But if they keep dragging this for longer I wont even need to quit cause the game will have killed itself.
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