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Activity sheet.
Frykman
Member, Alpha Two
Since most games run battle pass to support their game and to keep peoples interest up in playing the game it would be nice with an free activity sheet since Ashes of Creation run monthly subscribtion and no p2w to keep people wanting to log in in long run like a carrot so to speak. Does not have to be something fancy just a thank you for playing kinda.
Avid gamer and charity streamer. looking forward to stream ashes of creation alpha two for my charity hobby.
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nooooooo
Most players stop logging in as much to a game when they find it less enjoyable than other games. Most MMO developers monitor how often their population logs on, and use it as a metric (one of a few) to work out how well the game is going.
If people continue to log in to the game even when they aren't enjoying it as much, due to mechanics like what the OP is suggesting, then the developers don't see that drop in players logging on due to less enjoyable gameplay, and thus could be years behind in realizing they are going down the wrong path.
Something like a Season/Battle Pass ?
Because that would be bad, kinda. Everything that resembles a Shop or "payable Item to have something more", ends up being somewhat Soul-annihilating to the Game.
The only thing that You should "pay" - is the Monthly Subscription after buying the Game in general.
Everything else is part of what fxxxed over Retail WoW.
While i think the monthly Trading Post is nice, it is also a bit of FOMO as well.
We need the cool Experience like back then in Classic. The only thing that should matter ingame is Effort and Teamwork.
✓ Occasional Roleplayer
✓ Maybe i look after a Guild sometime soon
I like sparkles..... but also identify as
Also, these tasks provide opportunities and rewards for players who have less than 30 minutes to play.
Candy Crush is that way ——>
A lot has changed since then. Like the phenomenon of Endgame.
Also, as MMORPG players age past 25, many only have time for game sessions that are less than 30 minutes (and you can expect game devs over the age of 30 to empathize).
You can expect something similar to the APOC battle pass in Ashes.
Seems unlikely that IS will be pushing retention extremes, but... we'll see.
but then they cant log in and do whatever they want. they have to do the dailies...doing other things they want to do is also rewarding.
a lot has changed since then. remember those words dygz, they will come back to haunt you in another thread whenever you start talking about how mmorpg have deviated from what they originally were and how that isnt right,now things are worse, etc, etc, etc
Identifying youself thusly requires you to at least have the will to self evaluate honestly.
On the other hand, if someone else told you that this was the case, then hey, maybe.
does my wife count?
No does not have to be any game breaking stuff just some cosmetics
StrifeLords are a whole demographic.
@frykman_iam You must be new here. There is quite the active demographic of people taking things way to personally.
Daily logins "work" because they give you something valuable, so you feel bad when you don't log in every day. It's a preying feature that's meant to, kinda, punish the player for not playing daily.
And if you don't want to have this punishment in the system and don't want to have any login chains - we're simply back to the "game should have good content", which would include quests that give you cool cosmetics. And those quests could have daily resets in them, so that people who're interested in the quest and the cosmetic would have to return to the game at a later point, but they won't be made to do so daily.
So, once again, there's no reason to have daily/login rewards.
So essentially a list of activities to accomplish over a specific period of time for cosmetic rewards?
achievements with cosmetic rewards?
or
something more along the lines of a free battle pass for cosmetics?
all similar, yet different ironically lol
So you're advocating for AoC to literally go along with the current MMO philosophy of "cater to everyone". There's a reason so many current MMOs suck. It's because they try to cater to people with 15 minutes a day, to increase potential player pool. It's why so many gamers are dying for an "old school" MMO. They're dying for a game that caters to their "niche", and one of the components of said niche is long gaming sessions.
So there is no code of conduct you had to sign or terms of service or so?
You underestimate will to have cosmetics, and cosmetics in itself is good to have to have some fashion other than mix of different gear looks