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Prinny Polling Predictions: Preliminary analysis of ToS token trends

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#81

If I had an idea on how IMC could make more money I would say ADVERTISMENT !!! haha think about it just having free player visit the game they are viewing advertisement hell have pepis sponsorship the game and put a in game item like pepis can that gives bonus remember world of Warcraft is sponsorship by mountain dew and doritos I believe at one point.

I don’t care if its considered “selling out” its still a viable means of making money just from people visiting your product and no one has to pay for anything when playing the game.

#82

This ruins the game atmosphere… but maybe if it’s cleverly done… like if they showed ads while the game was loading…

#83

yeah I’ve heard cases of games doing it like that and people did not mind it too much I believe it was a old mmorpg at one point I used to play I think it was called legion of mir or something.

#84

F2P mmos have basically 3 types of players.

The purebreed f2p -> Has absolutely no intention to ever spend a single cent in the game.

The average f2p -> Regularly buys whatever ViP is offered / spends some money here and there in the cash shop,

The whale -> Spends an enourmous amount of money in the cash shop either because he has the disposable income or because he wants to gain an advantage on the game. (p2w options suporter)

As it is now (with so many limitations and this ridiculous token price) ToS is on the way to completely alienate the second group of people, leaving the game with a majority of people who wont spend any money and a group of players who will spend A LOT (It’s been studied that half of the monthly revenue of some f2p games comes from a 0.15% of their playerbase. Yes, 0.15%, not 15%).

With this scenario what do you thing that will happen to the game? The majority of the income would come from people who support P2W items so more and more of those items will be implemented.

IMC needs to lower the token price to keep that middle ground player interested in the game and lift the restrictions it has put in place for token users. I’m not talking about free trades for everyone, but at least let the people who paid the ViP trade as much as they want, not just 30 times a month.

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#85

Since people are waiting for Klaipeda to go back up, why not some reading?

Now that the game has launched (when the servers are up) what do people think about the future prospects for the monetization route that imc has taken?

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#86

At first I thought the tokens were anti-bot measure but considering their limitations and bonuses, they aren’t. Will see how they will fare in long run once the hype is over…

#87

you forgot the 4th type the subscription adapter that will often treat a game that is F2P with a adaptive method that if a game for example has a $15 subscription and joins a F2P game will spend $15 a month on in game items as a adaptive subscription so for instance if they don’t spend the hole $15 that month they add it onto the following month.

I for one am a subscription adapter because I don’t want to abuse the fact I have money to spend but I do want to support the game as much as I can.