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Originally Posted by LoneCat
Dude, I earn very well my life, thank you for caring. It is not a question of "bucks" but a simple question of respect. I would not have bought EQ2 at all if the AP system had been announced earlier. But I was stupid enough to pre-order the game, and this system was announced after the relase anyway.

There is no respect for the customers when you inform them lately that - should they want to have all the features of a game they bought - they will have to pay again, in addition to the subscribtion.

This is the reason why I expect an answer quickly, that is: before the pre-order boxes will be sold.

I become irate when the legitimate question I ask receives no answer, and when the answer I receive is deliberately off-topic. I do not care who had this brilliant idea of "episodic content" and I am not talking about the archetypes: I simply want to know if a marketing decision has already been taken (or not) to adopt this system.


Ciao,
LoneCat

Then, with all due respect, learn to read. I have already posted multiple times on this thread that I'm merely brainstorming and that no, no decisions have been made. I brought this to you guys to discuss.

I don't know how many ways or times I could have said it any other way. You're not asking a 'legitimate' question when it's already been answered multiple times. I am NOT taking anything 'off topic'.

Not only that, I'm talking about were we to do this, EXTRA features. Not the features promised to you. READ, please. Take some time to read the thread before you jump to all of these ludicrous assumptions.

You 'expect' an answer? You already got one in this thread. There are no plans. I was bringing this up as a discussion topic. Are the words discussion and brainstorming not in your vocablulary? Where did you miss 'extra features' and 'more new features more quickly' and 'a new idea of integrating episodic content into a game that also has conventional expansions'?

Respect for your customers? That's exactly what I was doing -- involving customers in a discussion, including them. Care to tell me how many other companies on message boards do and to this extent? How many bring ideas to their players and invite a dialog with them?

So one final time: NO decision has been made to do this, marketing or otherwise. Actually, that's not correct. The decision is 'no'. Perhaps the perception of something like this will change over time, the suspicions go away, and players will understand we're trying to figure out a way to deliver more content and features to you and make better games, but the budgets for these games have already quadrupled in 6 years as have the customers expectations, yet prices have only gone up once (from $10 to $15 bucks a month). Perhaps one day players will realize why there are so few AAA MMOGs in development because publishers and investors are terrified of investing $30+ million dollars to make an MMOG again when the prices have not gone up and the leader in MMOGs right now spent $80M. Perhaps one day players will realize they don't want a monopoly and that MMOGs are just about the cheapest form of entertainment that exists. Right now, I guess not.

And please let me know if your attitude about 'expecting' things and assuming the worst and not respecting you and becoming irate when I bring up discussion topics and your propensity to jump to ignorant conclusions is going to continue. Because, honestly, if so, the attitude you are displaying on these boards is one that will undoubtedly manifest itself towards others in-game and given the importance of community in Vanguard, you may not be compatible with that community.


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