Hello everyone,i’m opening this topic to express my humble opinion on this Open Beta (Early Access),i’ll divide my attention to some topics that i want to talk about and what actions IMC could possibly do and my opinion on those.
Trade
Bots and Silver Sellers
Premium Benefits
Cash Shop Benefits
Daily reward/Attendance (Reward for daily users/your player base)
Long term actions against Bots and Silver Sellers
Actions taken on other games
Server Issues
IMC Actions
Obs: I’ll not follow exactly that order.
Server Issues
We all well know that IMC Servers are not the best,and they can’t handle such large amount of players,and why is that? My opinion and my POV is that IMC is a new and small company that is trying to bring us a new game but they didn’t have any contact with a large player base,and thus that lack of experience is making it difficult to fix all those problems at once,it’s not their fault and those issues will(i wish) be gone soon,we can’t do anything about that only be patient and wait for a future increase on server capacity/size and better maintenance of those.
Premium Benefits/Cash Shop and the so called P2W
So,this is the most controversial topic,everyone have their own opinion on that but there are some aspects that never change,free to play games mostly of the time come with a Cash Shop and that’s obvious,a game can’t survive without an source of income but they can’t overcharge or make it impossible for free players to enjoy the game without that feel of being blocked because of some sort of Premium benefit you can’t afford/aren’t willing to pay.
Premium
That is a common option used for free to play games,you will support the game with a monthly pay and in exchange you’ll have some extra benefits in the game that DOESN’T in any term gives you an big advantage that those who don’t pay,in our case we have Trade and Market advantage (the base aspect of any Multiplayer game,this one impact is very big ,well talk about it later),extra EXP (a normal one,not a big thing since EXP is obtainable in any way),increased maximum buff (why appeal to that?)
Cash SHop
-Skill reset potion
Those one are the big deal is what makes a game p2w if not obtainable in any way on free to play game,you can simply resets your build until you make a perfect one capable to beat anyone with success because you’ve found the best balance between your stats,it’s a huge impact in the game,some will say that it’s not,it’s only hard for you if you don’t know how to build or know the mechanics of the game,but please…everyone do make mistakes and for that you’ll add an item for this sole purpose and only being acquired by Cash Shop?
-Consumables and EXP Tomes
Those are okay,and what doesn’t have an big impact on the game since they don’t give any advantage towards another player,its just plain convenience.
(We will talk about what we could do about those later/and what IMC can come with to increase it’s income and still not building a big pay wall between players)
@Edit
The enhance scroll is another item that makes a difference from p2p players and f2p players,an unacessible item that makes a non-useful item into an useful item giving an huge advantage of those who pay,this one is an example of thing you don’t do in order to not discourage players to play.
##Bots and Gold(Silver) Sellers and Long term actions
So,bots and Silver Sellers are on every game,wanting or not… Game is a market too,people can make money out of it because of players that want some advantage or easy access to the game content,you can’t completely wipe them but you can’t punish your player base because of that(AKA our trade restriction),i repeat;in every MMORPG Trade is what makes a game if you restrict or block it from players and only make it accessible via paying for it’s access (wich is not advisable) will only make it less enjoyable for the players and not totally making it hard for the Gold Sellers,let’s make some examples:
Runescape
Yes… a big and old game,very well known for it’s bot but they have a harsh punishment on those and they don’t take any actions against the players because they have a very efficient Bot Buster (as they call),and they don’t run any sort of anti-hack,just an algorithm that catch those pesky botters.
Blade & Soul
Another new game with a huge problem with bots,on every aspect of the game,PvE and PvP,but with the last update it seemed to be dissapeared,why? because Bots couldn’t make their gold anymore,they needed higher gear and levels to be able to get what is necessary and it takes time to do,and not everyone is capable,but this is not an action that they took against the Bots itself,it was an aftereffect of the update that made that,and i know that it’s not a good example but it made a difference and they didn’t took any action against the player base.
Extending the topic about the Bots and Gold Sellers,they’re wrong to make a profit from a game that’s free to play or even p2p but they don’t necessarily affect the players,they’re just there spamming and sometimes KSing low level players,they won’t go any further some point in the content of the game they will hit a wall and they won’t affect the players anymore,they will only turn the chat into a billboard and you can simply ignore that if you want.
##Actions i would take
So this is my feedback and opinion from my perspective as an MMORPG player from past experiences and what makes the game fair even if it have an Cash Shop:
- Don’t restrict the trade,please just don’t,it won’t make any long term change on the bots whatsoever,it will just decrease your free player base and thus lowering the amount of bots because of the lack of players.
-Cash Shop items,if you want to profit from it you could just simply add more fashion and cosmetics and helpful consumables that in any means doesn’t give you advantage from another player,or even restrict some for those who are premiums thus making a new option for those who want to support the game paying that monthly fee.
-If IMC decides to keep in with those actions,atleast give us the same amount of benefits,make our (Free TP) bigger or give us an Daily/Monthly attendance check events or quests or even Log In for some amount of time,giving the benefits for those who play daily and frequently and supports the game making the player base and not restricting/sepparating from the others that pay for an advantage.
##Conclusion
So about everything i wanna say that i know that we are on an Open Beta,this is new game only months old and it can grow to a better and fair game for every player,with time changes will be made (being worse or better) you can’t satisfy everyone,but if you wanna stick with the Free to play model of game,make it enjoyable and fair from everyone not making them regret not paying for the game.And that’s it,my feedback on everything that i’ve seen on this game.you’re all free to share your experience/opinion and thoughts on what you’ve seen or experienced so IMC can make this game better and enjoyable for everyone.
