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"This change already provoked hours and hours of complaining that IRE was stealing away people's "investments" (as if it was ever a good idea in the first place to consider credit purchases or artifacts as "investments")".
Heh... Th…(Quote) Well. Sarapis. I had to consider carefully how and if I should address this off-hander in your reply to Oystir. I suppose the reason that people like me, and Owyn, and Tyden, and Oystir not only played, but spent... real wads of money in…Setting everything else aside for a moment, let's just say that new Imperian is wildly successful, in all of the ways you'd expect of an IRE (this seems legitimately... rather unlikely without a paid staff, but let's suspend disbelief). It's a PK p…(Quote)
The difference is pretty much those thousands, yeah. Thousands, and the decision not truly being ours. This isn't a "got to play that one out real good" situation. Imperian isn't a game we got tired of, it's a game that starv…Agreed, @Oystir, there has never been a situation -quite- like this before, and as we discussed, I think admin is responding the way they are because in general, it…I'd like to point to my post on ToS in the other thread, which dicusses what -reasonable- negotiations about a major customer concern might look like (and also does allow that, of course, customers can be genuinely unreasonable sometimes).I think between all of people who posted, we covered just about everything (that is great, and is something no one person ever could have done alone). The last thing I want to point out right now is the ToS (Terms of Service). Not so much the…(Quote) Galt, we can still try out "new free Imperian" (former whales included), but I doubt a "whale" character is going to make sense on a game like that (it really -can't- make sense and is antithetical to the new model), even if it is fai…I will just say that it is heartening to see multiple players here, most of whom have been incredibly loyal IRE "whales", if you will, posting completely valid concerns about the kind of relationship you should rightly expect when you go "all in" on…Remember to transfer any membership credits to a character before the deadline. It does increase the value of that character (and I don't think they do anything for you before that, which makes sense).@Asai, I think you do want to transfer those membership credits to a char, yes. That's what I did, and as you'd expect, they bumped up the value of that char (but do…(Quote) "This is fun, and I will keep paying a little bit as long as it is" could look like a subscription, or it could look like the player buying some of the game's currency here and there - or even occasionally picking up a "perks" subscri…I mean, this is decided. That's clear. But going forward, let's start with the example of someone who decides to play Aetolia or Lusternia. Those are still viable games, despite not being flagship. For now. But should a player use a large sum o…As someone with multiple auction artifacts, and a combined char retire value just over 21570 credits (making my actual, "you paid this much" value according to IRE 43,140 credits plus auction artifacts), it's honestly just too big a hit for me to ta…Confirmed that trading in promo items that have a bound credit value does increase your retirement value.Something to try: "hire", say, minimum 3-4 team captains from other games to try to mix things up in Imperian. Literally do an all call to top group leaders in other games and say "If you think you're a good combat leader, send us an application. …Having a Septus and a Dyun or Khizan (and a Cyr who is no slouch himself) around unfortunately requires having at least an Owyn and say... a Sevhn around, with some solid third teammate. The Owyn and Sevhn team will be able to retool strategies qui…Oh I am not. And thank you, but I definitely wasn't trying to put down myself and other PK-ers that sit in a certain spot (roughly, a spot where you're still not a true theorycrafter when it comes to PK, but you've definitely put in the work and it…I love team combat and I love having benefited from lots and lots of low stakes practice. Also, team combat in Imperian is as close to a MOBA as I've seen in an IRE - just because team sizes always tended to be small, which is a lot of fun and enco…(Quote)
A heavily 1 v. 1 game seems to need harsh consequences for grouping up at all (think Proficy hunting down every last newblet that took him down in an event and making them pay dearly). I wouldn't want to play that game, but I'v…I'd be more than willing to try one last Hail Mary of some kind, but as far as I am concerned, it's definitely time to start looking at formally shutting the game down - and possibly even reimbursing some of the many big names that left already with…