Originally Posted by
Faq
Remim,
First off I want to thank you for the amazing game that you and the rest of STS have produced. I have spent a decent portion of the last 4 years of my life spending time and money on this amazing game. Non of this I regret because it has given me memories and happy times.
Now I want to present an idea to you. Today, Pocket Legends has been over run by trolls, scammers, and other people who just don't care about others. When Pocket Legends first came out, many people will tell you that there was much less of this stuff going on. As time went by more and more people turned to the evil side so to speak.
This brings me to my next point. PL's glory days are long past it. I am 35 and often here the expression "He's trying to re-live his glory days." Who is to say that PL cant try this to. Im not sure if this is true, but if you saved all the old coding from the start of PL you have pretty much all you need to start fresh.
On the forums moderators always reply that 3rd party investors don't want to invest money into PL because they think it is a lost cause. In its current trajectory I think that they are right. But what I am talking about could give you a chance to show the investors there is still more to PL. If you created a PL two think of the opportunities it would open up.
First off it would take a lot of man power to start this new game but think past to the long term rewards of this. You would not have to spend creative energy on Pl for four almost 5 years while you recycle old content. You always hear old players on the forums complaining how they are nostalgic and miss the good ol' days. Well why not try and give it to them.
I'm a major in statistics so I don't know anything about codeing. But I'll try and estimate here. Lets say the current cap gets complaints about PL off your back for one year. Then people will just start complaining again. What I'm talking about is a possible fix for 4 years! Here correct me if im wrong. Say that all the work put into to recycling the codes and creating a new game equals the man power it takes to make a new cap. I may be wrong on the amount of time it will take to make a new game, but either way the rewards are high.
Now I want to talk about the problem everyone at STS might think which is, will it bring good revenue. I say yes. If you created a new PL from scratch it might not be worth it. But the amount of time saved I think will make it a good investment. Please don't take offense, but that is what seams to be the question for STS when creating new content. "Will we make money?" In this case I think the answer is yes.
When this game is released I think people will spend quite a bit of plat. I think this Because now-a-days in PL everyone is jealous of the oldies with their COP's and the SOH's and such. So I think this game presents a chance for people to get what they could not in Pocket Legends. I think people will spend lots of money farming and leveling so when the elite caps roll around, they have the edge that they never had.
This presents with a opportunity to make a lot of money off the people who wan to be the best. If you make the xp requirements pretty high it will scare people off. But if you make them to low, you won't make as much money. So here it will be important to find a good balance between average players and platinum spenders. This is because people spend platinum to fell superior over others. But if there are no non plat spenders there will be no one to feel superior over.
If you do create a pl two I think it gives you two option for the current pl. You can either let it continue or, cut it. Naturally, both of these options have negative effects. First, if you do not cut it, then money will be wasted on servers that are under capacity because hopefully people will be playing Pl II. However if you do cut it then people will be very mad to see there money go to waste and the achievements of PVp and Pve go to waste. At first I would say that you don't own anything but this would anger people obviously.
So I think the second best option would be to create some sort of algorithm that takes an accounts overall value and turns it into a promo code that can be redeemed on the new PL for platinum. Kills in both Pve and Pvp, gold, platinum, and items would all be taken into account in this algorithm.If you are confused I'll give an example. Say you hade 10 million gold on your account. This could be redeemed on your new PL II account for 1000 plat. Hopefully this will ease the emotions that will come with losing you hard work.
I know this is a lot to read and I appreciate it if you read it all but also understand it if you can not.
Thank you for considering this Remim.
-Jim
Pocket Legends II
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