New survey for AO players - hurry! (Buying items wit RL cash

Post by **Chrisax** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:20 am

New survey live for AO players
Hello,

Funcom is conducting a very brief survey regarding feelings on virtual trade in games and would appreciate your feedback. Please take a moment to complete the survey at:

http://virtualgoods.speedsurvey.com

pw: currency

This survey will be live only for the first 5000 respondents.

Thanks as always,

Funcom

Krsfenris · Post by **Krsfenris** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:14 pm

You need a password to participate in this survey. Please enter it below to continue.. :\

Post by **Chrisax** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 12:34 pm

Krsfenris wrote:You need a password to participate in this survey. Please enter it below to continue.. :\

reread the post just above...

pw: currency

Ahhhh... Troxes

jk jk... Luv j00 Krs

(Unless the poll was closed now and the message is wrong)

Krsfenris · Post by **Krsfenris** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 6:53 pm

oh uh ups!

.. guess i didnt get Pw = password this morning, i blame the lack of coffee and ofc beeing a trox on top

teredoc · Post by **teredoc** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 7:18 pm

Don't forget being Norwegian, that counts double!

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 8:38 pm

Btw...

"Thanks for attempting to take this survey again but we have finished collecting results."

Joeenfo · Post by **Joeenfo** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:53 pm

lol @ FC trying to make more money by selling credz so others dont make money over them hahahah

Post by **Chrisax** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 10:20 pm

That's exactly what Sony does already, and has being doing for more than one year I guess. And they earn a lot of money like that.

Croke · Post by **Croke** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:02 pm

Imo the best thing FC can do is let players sell ingame credz to FC for free game time, and then sell these credz to players who dont have time to farm and just wanna play for real currency. In that way it the game economy shouldnt change.

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:49 am

Croke wrote:Imo the best thing FC can do is let players sell ingame credz to FC for free game time, and then sell these credz to players who dont have time to farm and just wanna play for real currency. In that way it the game economy shouldnt change.

Bumpity

teredoc · Post by **teredoc** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:13 am

Croke wrote:Imo the best thing FC can do is let players sell ingame credz to FC for free game time, and then sell these credz to players who dont have time to farm and just wanna play for real currency. In that way it the game economy shouldnt change.

They would have to not give more free play time than farming the cash requires.

At the same time they should allow normal players who wishes to use this to farm the cash in a more slow pace.

I'm all for RL cash for IG cash (1 hour of work = 24 hours of farming ><),
but I'm not sure there would be a good solution to this.

canuckg5 · Post by **canuckg5** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 2:45 pm

well it seems that funcom is taking the stance "if you cant beat em, take over the market" which could result in better ingame service. I am hoping that an increase in revenue will facilitate better service.

Kyttn · Post by **Kyttn** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:09 pm

I believe that as soon as FC legitimises any form of in-game/real-life exchange it will encourage farmers and all mobs will be supercamped. I have never had many credits on any of my characters, instead I have camped 95% of everything I need. When people can exchange credits with FC, even if only for game time, then I doubt I will be able to camp anything and will be forced to try and buy everything I need. This will mean I will have to try and camp other less rare stuff to pay for the rare items. End result, catastrophy and a ruined game, but FC makes money.

canuckg5 · Post by **canuckg5** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:57 pm

perhaps it will turn killing bosses into OD wars. On the other hand, some people that now camp stuff for days on end for credits would now have the option of buying it, saving them a lot of camping time, and possably lowering the numbers of ppl camping. Just a thought. here is my math
2 days camping a jame blaster=
4x extra large pizza, ham and pine apple, fetta cheese $49.95
103x bbq chicken wings $39.95
1x wife giving me the evil eyes because im ignoring her and playing the game.

Or Funcom giving me the option of paying 9.95 usd for 100 mills
and buying the jame blaster, all within 10 min.

But then again, what makes this game fun for you?

Alphacenta · Post by **Alphacenta** » Tue Jun 19, 2007 5:41 pm

canuckg5 wrote:perhaps it will turn killing bosses into OD wars. On the other hand, some people that now camp stuff for days on end for credits would now have the option of buying it, saving them a lot of camping time, and possably lowering the numbers of ppl camping. Just a thought. here is my math
2 days camping a jame blaster=
4x extra large pizza, ham and pine apple, fetta cheese $49.95
103x bbq chicken wings $39.95
1x wife giving me the evil eyes because im ignoring her and playing the game.

Or Funcom giving me the option of paying 9.95 usd for 100 mills
and buying the jame blaster, all within 10 min.

But then again, what makes this game fun for you?

lol

nice calc ;D