2013-01-18 Content Update (111696)

[Energizeric]

No, actually I didn't. Perhaps I should clarify a bit. The further away from actual achievement and towards plat purchases, the less the leader board means. I was fairly early to PL and have played all 4 games extensively (over 50 alts). I've purchased plenty of plat over the last several years. Not a problem with that.The leader boards used to mean something in PL. That was slowly eroded away with the ability to use a credit card to wipe out achievements that took others well over a year to accomplish. In 2 weeks we watched people buy their way onto the board, rendering them meaningless in my opinion. May as well have a 2500 plat Queen For A Day title. I like all of the options for customization and vanity items. I just don't like to see the leader board getting more tied to plat.

I agree, I was just pointing out that you shouldn't be surprised. The issue is the same issue that always shows itself which is that STS needs to sell plat in large quantities to be profitable. The only way for that to happen is for them to have expensive items that cost lots of plat, and have those items be very desirable so that lots of people will buy it. Having vanity items which do nothing for stats does not cause people to flock in mass to buy them. They need to have plat purchased items that lots of folks will want to buy, and which will be expensive, and the only way to do that is to somehow make those items necessary or at least give some kind of advantage in game. A good example in PL was the dragon sets. The helm and armors were found in game, but you needed the dragon pet which cost 200 plat each. So lots of folks spent the 200 plat and got the dragon pets. Without these sorts of items, the game is not going to be very profitable. Folks are only going to want so many vanity sets, and at 15 plat each they would not sell enough plat.