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Originally Posted by Methril
You're telling Stefan what is correct about his own game? I think he knows the stats better than you do, seeing as he has the logs and you do not.
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First thing, Stefan said he presumes that the actions of a normal trial user are as he said. He did not say "According to my databases".
Even if he statistically does have how often trial accounts are used, do these "logs" account for trials made by people with P2Ps, trials made and never logged on, ect?
Personally I know tons of people who have used trials for over 2 months, forget 2 weeks.
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Originally Posted by Methril
I'm sorry but this is ridiculous. A p2p account costs next to nothing per month. I think I paid around 45 canadian for a year of VIP. That's 3.75 a month, I spend more than that on coffee and food every day.
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Well, I'm certainly happy to know your financial situation reflects upon that of the entire world.
However, now back to reality, as Raeiphon just stated, there are TONS of potential players out there who would play, but can not due to unavailable money.
Believe it or not, there are people out there without 40$ to lay out on an online game, be it no access to a payment method, bills that must be payed, pesky things like food and rent, ect.
Which also brings me to a new point.
Let's take the average trial user. Probably a 12-16 year old, with no bank account, nor credit card of their own.
Which, as a parent, would make you more likely to lay down the 40 bucks for this game?
"Mom/Dad, I've been playing this cool game for a week, and I need 40$ to upgrade my account before I can't play anymore!!"
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"Mom/Dad, I've been playing this cool game for a few months, and there are tons of features that a VIP account would unlock for me!"
Personally, I believe the first situation just seems like the kid has found a new toy that he wants, that he will most likely soon grow tired of. Why pay for a year of something for your child that you believe they will grow tired of before the month is out?
As a parent, seeing your kid sticking with something for a long time would probably compel you to invest your money into it over something that they just found.
Well, so far I have a lot of people completely agreeing with everything that I have wrote.
Willing to listen to me and talk about this yet without excuses, or are you really willing to ignore what the players have wanted for so long?