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Rewards Program Update (and Release 66 Rewards)

Discussion in 'Announcements' started by DarkStarr, May 28, 2019.

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  1. Chrystoph Reis

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    Yeah, kinda sucks for you guys. I understand them limiting it, so they can focus on things in the game though.
     
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    Buy a car, a house, a gym membership, a spa membership, an mmo membership or any other membership (thousands of examples) and don't use it that month and you get nothing for it.
    It's beyond common practice these days.
     
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    If anyone can drum up a good reason why Port wants to punish people for paying them $9 and then not actually logging in, I am all ears. What a strange move - "You are going to give me $9 and then not use any of my bandwidth/resources? So essentially give me a free donation. I shall reward you by not giving you these items." Confounding logic, but what else is new.

    For Cordelayne - file this one under

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    Well the reduction to 3 stretch goals per month isnt bad for me - it means they can devote more time on fixing existing things and the main content

    while logging in once per month isnt bad I dont think its a good idea your subscribers to be left out if they miss on a month for any reason - it can potentialy be a problem
     
  5. Browncoat Jayson

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    This really just seems like this is a continuation of the "reuse existing functionality" to get rid of manual interaction. They tested the "log in for a reward" function in May, and it works. They can easily set up the same thing each month, and just create the assets ahead of time instead of waiting for stretch goals. Then, there is no need to fix the buggy ticker or even do long livestreams; there isn't anything "tied" to them now.

    I don't agree that this is the way to utilize these; login rewards for everyone is fine, that incentivizes players to log in at least once a month. That is good. However, that doesn't affect your subscribers; don't take away something someone paid for it they don't log in. That is bad.
     
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    @DarkStarr @Chris Since this thread allows posts, I'll write this here. The Livestream thread shows 4 items for Login Rewards:

    Release 66 Rewards (Dance)

    This month's exclusive rewards for Release 66 are dance themed! Just be part of the Rewards Program during Release 66 to receive these exclusive rewards.

    NOTE: You must login during the release to receive each month's exclusive rewards.
    • Hustler Hat
    • Hustle Dance Emote
    • Colorful Mallard Duck Pet
    • Discoball with VFX
    Discoball sounds awesome, but is this going in or was this a cut-and-paste mistake that it isn't in this thread?

    Sincerely,

    Engineer
     
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    Any chance I can get a diamond Pimp stick and a Coupe de Ville, to go with this hat next month? Possibly the title "Keeper of the Escorts"?
     
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    Subscriptions can be cancelled and restarted at any time. When you see something you like, set up your subscription to renew mid-month. In a month where you don't like the rewards, make sure you're cancelled. In month where you like the rewards, renew. You can do what you are doing now, pick and choose what you want.
     
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    Currently I have 3 of my many accounts subscribed and log in with one of them regularly. I don’t like to be forced to login to not loose a part of the subscription rewards. That’s not a good thing and make me think about cancel my subscriptions. Please don’t give me a reason to cancel them instead to farther hold them up.
     
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    lol
     
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    Thanks for the idea, but the monthly stretch goals (soon to be known as monthly reward items) would really have to be great for me to jump through this many hoops.
     
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    I agree with that, There hasn't been a stretch goal item I have been excited about in a long while
     
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    Is this mallard duck different than the old Shogun bundle mallard duck, or different than the The Vault (tm) Edition of the Mallard Duck?
     
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    I'm not sure the guy doing the art is responsible for helping fix game mechanics, atm, and whether reducing art assets created will give them more time on other things, but the team is small now so you never know.

    But maybe now that the devs are putting disco balls in the game, we can maybe get the orbs in game that we can wield in combat also placeable as decos? With orb stands to choose from. Pretty please? A disco ball is kind of a version of a magic orb, right?

    The stretch goals I've always been most excited about personally are RP-related stretch goals, especially ones that have the dual purpose of bringing equivalent craftables or tameables into the game or creating content for NPC/story elements.

    And I'm not sure there's a problem getting the dance party demographic logging in the game each release.
     
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    I'm not sure how that's applicable. This isn't about not using a service. The rewards program doesn't get you a service. The entire point is to get the COTOs and the rewards. Do the COTOs disappear on you if you don't log in either? The only reason why either would vanish is purely artificial... not because linear time prevents a month from being phase outside of the spacetime continuum and re-introduced later, as a time-based service would require.
     
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    it is if you have a year long deployment with the military to another country coming up :-(

    to be clear I plan on subbing the entire time I'm gone.....soooooo......you're saying I won't get anything for it?
     
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    First... Be safe, and thank you for your service! In the meantime cancel it... I know I would.
     
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    well... I mean the coto gain when I get back would be nice ^_^

    the other stuff sucks though not being eligible for the stretch goal stuff anymore even though I paid for it
     
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