Dev's Diary: Premium Accounts

[RonEmpire]

give us level 51-100 plz... we dont want other stuff before that...

i'm failing to understand why 51-100 is going to make the game better than what is right now from 42-50 ?
the only thing you're getting different from 42 to 48 is the cannon guys and even those guys aren't really necessary to do adventures with.

i'd be bored to death and annoyed with a 51 to 100 with nothing in between to make it a reason to level.

in this past 12 months I had no reason to level to 50 realizing that once you hit 50 the xp are wasted. star coins was a really good solution. now I have a reason to get to 50 so I can convert wasted xp into coins.

if you're saying you don't want other stuff. that's silly. i'd like new adventures and new content before a level cap is even raised.

[Schade]

As a lvl 50 since Jun 2012, I'm loving all the new content, the premium accounts and everything else BB is doing to keep this game going. Sure there are some "mehs", but I'm just glad they are actively developing stuff. Premium accounts are a solid business decision. And if the prices on the test server remain, then all the better.

[Skybuscus]

It's always amusing to me to see how the more intense, meta-gamers react to news that might affect how they play in relation to how others play. On a popular MMO that I also play, you see it in constant gripes about loot drops and epic gear items that they farmed for MONTHS for suddenly having an drop percentage adjustment and suddenly EVERYONE has the item and they get really angry.

Really?

How does what someone else having something that they paid for, or got through gem collection over months and months affect how YOU play this game? Your island isn't suddenly being overrun with tons of "newbies" with lasers mounted on their heads, laying waste to what you set up as a level 50 player since beta pre-guild blahblahblah. I purchased gems because I wanted a watermill. Boom, watermill. Did anyone get to level 50 slower because of my watermill? Did my guild suddenly come down with Browser Fever because I stopped playing for a few months? No, and no.

All you meta-gamers and Level Elitists are missing the point. This Pay-to-play feature affects you not one bit. None. Nope. Nada. If this game has 400 Level 50 players or 4, it doesn't affect your play experience, unles you're madly doing multi-player quests, and you should be doing those in a guild anyways. If this were a strictly PvP game, I might feel differently, but it's not. It's almost a stand alone browser game, with minimal interplay between gamers, and virtually no way to lose resources once collected. Which I like sometimes playing something without the looming threat of invasion or whatnot.

Now the price point issue and the whole Pay-to-play gripe. I loved the Settlers games. Thank you so much BlueByte for those games, I wish I could afford the entire boxed set from 1 to (what did it get up to , 10?), but I can't. Those games ran retail about 30 bucks at release and are about 10 bucks now on Gamespot and other sites. I don't think you want to charge more that that for a 7-day buff on a (mostly) free-to-play game, when the stand alone game only runs about 10 bucks, and you own it. I do not, however, have an opinion on what you end up charging. I'm sure every employee at BlueByte loves the new Bacon Bologna, and enjoys sandwiches made with Wonder Bread, Miracle Whip, Bacon Bologna and 'Murican cheese. But those sandwiches cost them money. Your 7 day buff could be buying a whole round of lovely bologna sandwiches for the entire TSO development team, and to be honest, they have been looking really, really thin.

In closing, meta-gamers, stop complaining. This new feature doesn't affect you. Buy it, or don't. Pay what is asked, and if it doesn't sell, the price will adjust until it does. If you want to continue to play for free, have fun! if you want to pay every 7 days, have fun too! Moral of this story; Play game, have fun.

And if you do have a bacon bologna sandwich it better have 'Murican cheese. Or the bandits win.

[Troll-Phu]

Really?

How does what someone else having something that they paid for, or got through gem collection over months and months affect how YOU play this game? Your island isn't suddenly being overrun with tons of "newbies" with lasers mounted on their heads, laying waste to what you set up as a level 50 player since beta pre-guild blahblahblah. I purchased gems because I wanted a watermill. Boom, watermill. Did anyone get to level 50 slower because of my watermill? Did my guild suddenly come down with Browser Fever because I stopped playing for a few months? No, and no. .

but all thiier bragging right go down the drain

[jsteele7666]

fu

[Schade]

Your island isn't suddenly being overrun with tons of "newbies" with lasers mounted on their heads, laying waste to what you set up as a level 50 player since beta pre-guild blahblahblah.

Now I want lasers mounted on my settlers' heads. Thanks for the imagery

[Carcator]

Well said Skybuscus!

Now if we could just figure out a way to get the stupid out of some of the player base...

[mrkiss]

So that works, take your free gems for a better account... I'm not mad.

[Koshko]

The last game I played, Empire Craft (a pvp game), was a hardcore money grab by the developers. It got to the point where they had massively overpowered things for people that spent $300 at one shot. Example: Orange heroes that could wipe out a group of purple heroes, and non-payers were unlikely to even get a purple hero ever, let alone that orange. Anyway ... one day they just quit updating the game at all and let it die.

This is okay.

[witchybee]

please make the time remaining, in hours and seconds, where we can see it, perhaps by the hover over the premium button. The only place it shows now is in the build queue, so i have to build a well or something to check remaining time. Telling me "one day" when it's really "one hour" doesn't help.....