Postby XTMalDoran » Mon Oct 22, 2012 11:51 pm
I've been playing valor since w2, back in the day we'd all get a compensation of gold when the server went down, whether you used gold or not, it's fake money. There's zero "loss" for playmesh to continue to do this, no matter who's to blame for the outage. It is easy for the non gold users to poke fun at the gold users for being lame, and relying on gold to be able to compete in your world of awesomeness, but the non goldies easily forget, it's the gold users who provide the cheese to keep playmesh maintaining this awesome game for ALL of us to enjoy. They certainly don't do it for the love of the game. So h e l l yeah, goldies need to be compensated, above and beyond. It's good business. What's an extension on every active purchasable item really going to cost playmesh? Or even to even up on those who lost troops or cities due to the outage make everything in the store a one time trial to be used at your leisure - for those who don't use gold get to try the speed ups an will possibly goad them into spending gold in the future, those who already spend gold will feel compensated and will continue to spend their real money on fake money. Those who are hard line no gold won't change their mind but may feel better about losing 7 cities worth of troops if they can boost their resource production in all their cities for a week for free. It's a win - win.