1st April 2024, 10:16 AM
(1st April 2024, 6:23 AM)Eternal Wrote: This one is a tough one. Vault of Magics and especially Epic Everything provides Jiggmin with a little bit of income. Our intention is that he’s using the money to fund PR2’s server fees and to pay for PR2’s general upkeep.
Making all Epic upgrades free to obtain kills this income stream and also gives us an extreme disadvantage when trying to select prizes for future contests.
Hope you understand. If anything, I’ll buy you Epic Everything.
Wow! Well, while I appreciate you offering to purchase me epic everything, I'm less interested in actually using the epic upgrades for their cosmetic value, and more interested in the (self fabricated) prestige that comes with collecting them all through hard work and determination.
Regarding your point about withholding free access to upgrades so people are incentivized to buy epic everything, respectfully, I think it's a weak argument to make. I would argue that making many of the sets available, yet locked behind difficult contests or achievements, would actually add value to the parts, increasing the likelihood that someone might purchase epic everything, since owning the epic upgrade would have more significance.
With that said, I don't think it's necessary to release epic upgrades for everything right away, some could be reserved for future contests, I feel that there are just too many that are inaccessible outside of the jiggy shop right now. Even for contests, the prizes are sought after because they have full sets that are exclusive to their contest. Any future contests would be stunted as their are no new sets to offer (another solvable issue), and epic upgrades inherently hold less value.
Anyways, just my thoughts.. I'm a completionist and need to fill this gap somehow. If that means designing entite new contests just to beat them, so be it :p
AAt a minimum, I feel that the epic upgrades that have been given out in giveaways or through random staff events should be available to everyone somehow, without purchasing. That much, I feel strongly about.
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