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MMOSide Chat - Do You Like Log-In Rewards?
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MMOSide Chat - Do You Like Log-In Rewards?
We're talking daily log-in rewards on this MMOSide chat - love them, hate them, we want to know. Do you like log-in rewards in your MMORPG?
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Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
I feel the daily logins are just a way to make the game look more populated then it is. Aka all those announcements you see we have 200k ppl a day on the game... when half are just ppl logging in for 5 mins to get thier daily login.
Originally posted by laokoko
"if you want to be a game designer, you should sell your house and fund your game. Since if you won't even fund your own game, no one will".
I know my fave game FFXi started doing it but it was done pretty good because you gain points that you can spend on whatever you feel you need.Sometimes it is statues for the home or maybe a rare NPC that only comes around once a year or maybe it is a drop/item you need to do a rare craft.
Outside of FFXi i have not really seen any meaningful login rewards,sometimes it is like 10 or 50 free heal pots and i don't even like when games rely on heal pots.Sometimes the logins are a way to steer us towards their cash shop,again not a cool idea.
I guess what i am saying is not many games put much effort into it,more like a lazy baiting scheme.If the intent seems legit i see no harm but if it seems like a lazy idea,then yeah there is an agenda behind it.
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Players should be logging in because the game experience itself is fun, memorable, and addictive.
Not log in once a day for 1 min to snatch that crap daily reward just to get that 30th reward that is actually worth something.
Well I think you're both 100% wrong and don't have a clue what you're talking about.
See what I did there? Just like you 2, I made an over reaching statement without a shred of evidence to support it.
Are some log in bonuses crap? Sure, LotRO's instantly come to mind, but just because they have them sure doesn't mean the game lacks compelling content or the content they have is shallow.
100% in trouble? NO. DDO had a weekly lottery for a long time. They ended up destroying the database some how and replaced it with a daily log in bonus. Games not bad or in trouble.
Age of Conan pretty much straddles the line, while the normal one's can be ignored if you want, they do provide items for free that you'd need to pay money for in the store so that's not too bad, but during festivals you do need to log in daily to get the end of the 2 weeks main reward, but again the stuff they give you is pretty good and useful.
Daily log in rewards, loyalty rewards, free gifts, what ever. All I see them as is a small gift from the Dev's for playing the game.
SWG (pre-cu) - AoC (pre-f2p) - PotBS (pre-boarder) - DDO - LotRO (pre-f2p) - STO (pre-f2p) - GnH (beta tester) - SWTOR - Neverwinter
But I don't like like them. Ultimate EZ mode.
EQ1, EQ2, SWG, SWTOR, GW, GW2 CoH, CoV, FFXI, WoW, CO, War,TSW and a slew of free trials and beta tests
side of the coin . Is the reward used to get people to actually log in? or is the content lacking
that much that you need to be coaxed to log in ?
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!!RANT WARNING!!!
This is probably my first post on this website but I just had to chime in how fucking negative everyone on here is. Daily rewards do not mean a game is bad or dying, or doesn't have content to force me to login. I'm going to use the example game that everyone loves to hate, BDO.
I love BDO, but I don't have nearly the time I did to play it 3 years ago. I do however keep fishing, cooking, farming and a few simple things I can complete in 45min or less every night if time allows. But login rewards have really helped me continue to make gains in areas I don't have the time to collect materials for. Every few months I use the materials from login rewards to either make/enhance items or sell them for cash to use towards things I need. Without the login rewards my progress would be ALOT less then it is now. The developers have also given away plenty of cash items as daily logins that have rounded out my account and increased my personal QoL even during my short play sessions. Roast me if you want, but this place is a echo chamber of negativity and I check the comments alot less these days. Most of you people act like your opinion is a absolute truth.
/endrant
tldr: as a filthy casual I love login rewards
In short I love log in rewards, if done right.
lol @ Kano
Are they ever even done without accompanying ads for whatever they're pushing? In every case I can think of, the log-in reward is secondary to the ad they make you see while collecting them.
It's just a thinly disguised form of in-game advertising.
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Just a heads up, people here hate free stuff, they like being ganked in owpvp, they hate stories in games, hate reading, hate decent graphics, and anything mainstream for the most part. Really no one here likes MMORPGs ......So Welcome.
Bad of course being any game I don't like, right?
Keep coming back.
"True friends stab you in the front." | Oscar Wilde
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Don't just play games, inhabit virtual worlds™
"This is the most intelligent, well qualified and articulate response to a post I have ever seen on these forums. It's a shame most people here won't have the attention span to read past the second line." - Anon
Daily Log-In rewards are basically a daily quests little cousin. The only thing similar I can tolerate are loyalty systems, like the one FFXIV is using, where you get rewards based on how long you've been subscribed to a game.