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Exploding Penguin -> RE: Re: Black Friday Sales (12/3/2015 18:38:16)
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I don't like to talk about marketing but:
What the staff wants to do is give all players a fair chance in PvP against each other. Disregard the matchmaking because I know everybody who just read that sentence will impulsively complain about that. However, varium working as a shortcut for stuff in and of itself really isn't that compelling, so they need at least some way of getting a fairly consistent influx of varium purchases. One wya of doing this is giving access to seasonal rares a year earlier than the F2P players. This is actually quite nice because it gives people who pay money a nice little benefit that they do enjoy but doesn't really ruin the integrity of having a "fair" PvP game.
The reason why certain things should stay seasonal, including promos, is because events would be really really lackluster without something extremely compelling and special without them. It's less of something people would instantly think about but it serves to produce a nice effect where people save up to get something they're really looking forward to. Of course, all this stuff I have just said may be invalidated due to poor balancing and whatnot but the base idea behind returning seasonal promos, while I don't like it myself, is pretty necessary after the removal of the ludicrous varium advantage players got in previous phases
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