Polandor -> RE: Ideas for Buffing Founders (4/27/2011 3:09:44)
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Founder Armor official reply From Nightwraith http://forums2.battleon.com/f/tm.asp?m=18897822&mpage=9&key=� It looks like a lot the broken promises cited here are actually assumptions. 1) Founder armor was never promised to be the best armor in the game forever. Any buff received after it's release was influenced by popular opinion, but entirely at the discretion of the developers. It can still be argued that it's one of the strongest and definitely one of the rarest items in the game. 2) Elites were not promised new bonuses each update. Their unlimited varium reduced to a finite supply (20k) because unlimited varium would never have balanced with most of the varium features in game. They also received Founder and Beta gear free, plus a hoverbike that is only available as a rare arcade drop. As developers, we are constantly faced with the challenge of pleasing our past supporters while not alienating future supporters. Each prior phase wants better perks than the more recent phase, so this creates a massive implied obligation on our part. If we went this route, each release would consist of creating content specifically for past supporters, which would devour development time on forward progress while discouraging new players from buying, since we would create a ceiling of super-premium content they could never penetrate. Games like AQW can award new content to members and founder because 1) it doesn't affect balance and 2) they have the staff to do so. Smaller games like MechQuest that promised perks like monthly mechs for upgraded members had to compromise on this promise due to lack of staff. I'm not saying we don't appreciate past support, but we are not obligated to create content specifically for Alphas, Elites, Founders, Betas and so on. Anything special we give these supporters is a gift given out of appreciation and kindness, not obligation. ********************* Polandor It has been the best armor for ever, and now might be just a little behind bunny lv 33 armor, stop the non sense the armor his fine. How could you justify us non founder, pay a lot for many new armor that will never be updated, and give more real $ to epic duel, and those who only paid a very little amount get their gear updated for free for ever ? I have spend 500$ on epic this is probably a lot more than most founders, the armor is good and look good, if the armor was sold has his right now, many would still buy it.
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