dimanche 28 juin 2015

Balancing P2W players and Casual players

Long story short, everything available in N-store should be available
in the actual Lineage2 game itself eventually.

When you think about it, Casual players who haven't spent any money
for N-store yet = potential future N-store customers.
Most lineage2 players that I've met are mature grown-ups
and you shouldn't force them to do anything...like... purchasing items in N-store by making them only available in N-store...

Instead, how about this?
You introduce new items like LaVienda Jewels, Abundance Talisman but make an announcement, "Lavienda Jwls and Abundance Talisman available in game 3 months from now in the actual L2 game!" and make them as quest box item or drop item for Kartia 99!

Yeah! You can easily make Kartia 99(just remake it for 99+ players)
and include those items there.

So at least, there will be no sense of Unfairness among the players.

People who spend money at N-store will have the advantage of
having the items in advance and will be months ahead of everyone else
who doesn't; but still people who choose not to shop will have some chance of catching up.

Or the better plan will be, introducing Lavienda Jwls and Abundance
in Kartia99 first, making people taste the importance of those items,
and then Start Selling Them in N-store!

Create the Need then Sell!!!

This requires months of advance planning on NC-soft part but this would've
doubled or tripled the sale amount and also would've retained a lot of
good high level players who left this game out of disappointment.

It is not that people don't have money...it is Being Pressured to DO,
to Buy...that sense of having no choice...is what is so..disappointing.

Human beings are happiest when we are free, when we are the master of our own destiny..when we are free to choose and make our destinies.

That sense of having no choice...is what is making good players leave
this game whenever there is BIG SALE at N-store.

I know someone from the past, who spent $20,000 USD in L2 game...
but then God of Destruction came...all of his gears became just garbage..
so he left the game for many years...
He recently came back to L2 like 3 months ago...started playing...but
he vowed never to spend one-single-dollar at N-store...

For N-store to do well, you need to gently encourage people...not
force them....

You need to create an illusion of choice...

Give people the choice of getting those items by farming for months...
or the choice of spending some money they would've spent on dinner and a movie and save months of time...
If this is so, who wouldn't shop at N-store?

By the way, I'd like to Thank NC soft for making this game available
for everyone for FREE after all these years, more than a DECADE now!

I just want you guys do well.

You make us happy! We make you happy!
DEAL?


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