Why did you decide to take time out of your busy day to type this up? Is it on the wake of another bonehead move by the company in question, perhaps you're trying to solidify your choice for ambassadorship/guardianship, or maybe your day isn't filled enough and you just had to take up some of our time as well.
We are all aware that "STS is a business" and how are we aware of this fact, because players like you decide to toss that exact sentence out there as if it absolves the company of any responsibility it has to its players. Since you put it out there perhaps a play by play breakdown of your post is necessary:
Winter Fest 2011, brought us a pay per run feature that was viewed as greedy and defended with the idea that the devs were actually doing us a favor. By introducing a pay per play feature it allowed those without significant plat to get at least a few runs into the seasonal maps; however, if a one time price tag had been attached it's quite possible that there would have been more traffic through the campaign. Without any actual numbers it is impossible to tell if the move was smart or silly, but I personally just avoided the content completely due to the decision and I would have gladly paid for the campaign outright! As I recall it, the Winter Festival was 10p to run as much as you wanted, while the 2011 version was 2p each time, so can one really say that it was a better decision. Who really benefited from a 20% reduction in price that curbs one's playtime that drastically?
The "choice of free plat" is also a business move since they are getting paid by TapJoy and not the other way around. It's even quite possible that STS is being reimbursed for every free platinum that is awarded as a result of using the TJ wall. Free elixir (savvy business move) is used to show players what it's like to be buffed for an extended time; while giving away 5 min at a time, you're coercing players to want MOAR and subsequently priming them to shell out for the real thing. Finally, deal of the day is a subject I'm personally jaded with due to the
What old school item that you can't get would you like to see brought back thread. In this thread SamHayne asked what item players out there would like the most, and after all the posts were tallied and Big Luck won by a landslide. How did STS award us for voicing our opinion, they did bring the item back but this time it had a price tag of 75p from 15p which is a 5x increase or 500%. So if I was in the business would I give away items... sure, I would also take a hard stance on either not reintroducing old content, or price gouging once I noticed that a particular item may be more profitable, and contests are supposed to have prizes so that would remain intact.
Where do you get your number for giving away $300 a day in free plat to the fans? Did I miss a thread where STS actually listed their earnings? Yes, they pay for the server but it's not like they are paying for it out of the kindness of their hearts (STS is a business, as you keep drilling into my head), they are earning off of their investment aka it takes money to make money.
It is probably hard work (I can only assume because I'm not there) but I don't recall anyone saying STS is greedy due to the fact that they don't give out more free plat. These other areas you are talking about (pvp, pve twinks, kdr and farming) are all being affected by the platinum decisions that are being made:
1) PvP; depending on the level there are plenty of items that are only available via platinum and are the best available (premium character gear for L1-L20, Sniper's Helm, etc) so it's not like plat doesn't have any hold over that arena.
2) PvE twinks; again depending on the twink level the purchase of plat only rings and other various plat only items are necessary for the best possible outcome.
3) KDR; with the addition of the gain xp in any dungeon elixir (plat only of course), one can gain boost their kdr at the cost of plat.
4) Farming; same as the rest, depending on where you are farming there may be a plat entrance fee (Sandstone Caves) or you may invest in a Shamrock elixir to increase your chances.
With all of the rage building around many of the issues that you're bringing up, aren't you just pouring salt on almost healed wound?! Plenty of players have left, taken a break, or got themselves banned over these topics and you're just mentioning them in polite (unnecessary) conversation?! It is obviously your opinion that STS is "making their fans happy and at the same time keeping their business up and running," are we really happy or we hoping that STS hears our pleas and refrains from making such choices in the future. Why wouldn't I complain about a
little thing such as wasting plat, since that thing is equivalent to wasting
money! Perhaps it isn't necessary to buy platinum, but the game sure is quite a bit more playable with it.
So in closing, I will forgive your bad
grammar, but I won't forgive the fact that you took it upon yourself to defend the company with such a weak argument. You've said nothing new and almost every example you use has gaping holes in it. If you really want my thanks please don't make another thread that fails so epically.
Thank you.
STS opposite of greedy.
Originally Posted by Swords
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