Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Because it is pay to win, not game play.

Letting null sec corp leaders and rich newbies pay cash and ISK to create 200M SP characters will do two bad things:

(1) dilute the worth of players who spent YEARS training their character to 200M; how do you think some guy who has spent 10 years getting to 200M is going to feel about some rich newb having the same SP as them just by buying those points? Its going to make them feel like sh1t.

(2) demoralize the players who do not have the money to skill up their characters; consider your average 30M SP player; right now let's say he is in a corp with 2 other 200M SP characters, but now 6 other 200M characters suddenly appear--characters that used to be 30M like him, but the players have the $1000 bucks to make them go from 30M to 200M in one week. Now those new characters get promoted: corp officer, Titan pilot, whatever. How is that going to make that 30M player feel like knowing he could play for 10 years and never catch up to those guys, just because they have money and he does not? It's going to make him feel like sh1t.

This is not some HYPOTHETICAL outcome. It is outcome that has already played itself out in Runes of Magic. ROM is down to ONE server now. Everybody is quitting that game. Why? Because they got sick of pay to win. Everybody use to love ROM, they had like 12 servers or something like that and everybody was like "pay to win is fine", just like you are now. Well, two years later, now what? ROM is folding, its dead. All their loyal players left a long time ago, so nothing was left but a bunch of rich kids and when they got sick of buying diamonds they quit too.

Pay to win is false revenue, because it seems like you are making more money, but you are losing the core players. Eventually that catches up with you.