Hi,
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Originally Posted by MistyDawn
There has always been a 'high' turn over rate.
The problem is too many people put too much in, too early and expect too much back too soon and end up quitting after 3-6 months and whining about how crap it is and how MA 'ripped them off'.
They want to have top end equipment within 12 weeks but that's not how it works and no matter how much people are told this they still dump thousands of USD's in, and then when they realise how deep they are into EU they get scared and cry foul. |
The "Ghost people" @ Twins' Argonauts? SCNR ;-)
I'm rarely there, I don't like this place. There are better places to go for Argos, I feel.
But these (dumping thousands) are not this much, there's a lot more ppl that get thinking when they realize that even 2 or 3 times of the monthly subscription costs for [
popular MMORPG] isn't this much in
EU. When they start to read of people depositing thousands, when they check the prizes even of middle class gear.
When they are realizing that it's very easy to burn a monthly deposit of 50 EUR/ $ in just one day, should they get bored of "economical skilling" and try to have some fun ...
And when they realize that even bazillions of these little monsters slaughtered will never yield anything better anymore than some oils, hides, wools and ammo.
In "the old times" I have spent much time at the outpost N of Jasons, hunting tiny Merp and Caudatergus. I have looted quite some ESI's in these days, some Mk.I, EP-32, a lot of Goblin Harnesses (that usually yielded +2 in PA - today nobody buys anymore) and even my very first Gremlin part. Don't misunderstand, I didn't make profit - but while skilling with my TT swords, FAP-5 and Goblin I rather often looted something making me "
wOOOOOt!" Right, it was boring as hell - just skilling. But every now and then I had some small incentive, and this helped me getting over it, and to faithfully keep on depositing.
Not long ago I came back to this place, this time w/o any armor, TT swords again, and Vivo T1. Spent some days again, and actually profited some PEC's over about 40 TT swords wasted (have lots more Evade now, more HP and better 1st Aid ...). Looted a helluva of stackables, and
1 Goblin Harness (M) that I TT'ed after trying in vain to sell at Swamp Camp (for TT, and accepting 1 bottle - 1 PEC as usual). Had this been similar in "the old days", I had left since long.
The costs for the young participants have raised because of smaller average loot, and the incentive we once had getting something nice every now and then has vanished.
This takes away quite some fun needed to bear the long time grind PE/ EU always has been.
This makes quite some participants unhappy, and makes more of 'em leaving rather fast.
This isn't good for EU, this isn't good for MA, and this isn't good for us remaining participants.
And it's not a rant borrowed from other MMORPG's, it's an experience from the old PE itself!
IMHO.
This are not only my ideas, I have talked to a lot of new participants, and many have told me the reason why they whispered me to say "Goodbye". And I have seen a lot of long time participants leaving recently.
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Originally Posted by MistyDawn
Anyway, I digress, back to CE2...
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I'm waiting to upgrade my pc [...]
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This (waiting) IMHO is the wisest choice. We don't know what parts of the CE2 will be implemented, we don't know how much power
EU-CE2 will need. There's quite some range possible.
And whatever we could buy today, when
EU-CE2 will finally be out and acceptable bug-free, will be ways cheaper. And parts will be available ways better than we can buy today.
So I'd wait until it is here, maybe skipping one deposit or another, feeding the money to the piggy bank for new hardware. When it is here we'll very fast be able to read in the forums what's actually needed, and buying then will save us a lot of money. That then we'll be able to deposit, might buy us a nice hunt of some of the "big bad mobs" ;-))
Have fun!