Oooooowwww
Squelch me in your school yard, lol.
You are funny.
And yes i will be having a good laugh on those that didnt sub from the start. VIP already has its value the loyalty program is just a bonus, i personally dont mind spending the cost of a average dinner date for a years worth of subscription, but i do understand that this is not in everyones budget.
Happy gaming!
I've been VIP the whole time I play... almost 3 years now since I've been back to the game (after an 8 year break)...and quite a few years before I took my break. I'm VIP because I like the perks I do get, the extra XP and stuff. Sure, it was never much perks, but I wanted them.
Looking at this new VIP program I can't help but feel this is a slap in the face...it's ALL crap
An extra 500 DDO points one time? WHOOPIE! Why would I care about that? I already get 500 a month, an extra one time 500 bonus is nothing!
The bag of many things? Nothing in there I would want...sure, some people seem to like some of the items, but mostly just cheap crap
A bonus character slot that disappears if you ever stop VIP? Well first off, why wouldn't I just buy another slot if I really wanted it... at least that way I wouldn't be worried about ever not being able to access my character if I suddenly stop VIP!
10% item durability ward? Maybe if it was 100% it might be worthwile... but I can get that in-game from some enhancements!
A cosmetic storm trail? Whoopdi-do... might actually look cool, but so what? Sure, some people love that kind of stuff, and I will say, I don't hate it...but on my list of things I want, for me personally, cosmetics is at the very bottom of my list of wants...still there but extremely low.
The greater VIP bag of holding? Well... this has some ok items with the TR stuff, but the 2 elixirs are garbage because they are 1 single 12 hour elixir...is that what I get for 8 months of VIP? 1 single elixir?
What about a 1% increased chance of named loot dropping? Seriously? 1%? That's insulting! Why not 10%? A 1% chance will almost never be beneficial and quite frankly you will NEVER notice it!
A Storm Cloud mount? I like mounts... I have about a dozen myself and got ALL of them from packs and stuff (none from in-game grinding). So I like having a choice of mounts... it helps to choose which mount I want to use based on the class (and race) I choose to play. So... maybe this might be decent, but the graphic of it looked a little lame to me...hope it looks better in-game!
What about the extra 5 shared bank slots on sign up and the other 5 after 11 months? Well, extra storage space is always nice... but 5? Really, that seems insulting.
All in all... I give this new VIP program a score of 2 out of 10. SSG should look to that other company that made a VIP program for their game called LOTRO....wait a second, it's the SAME company! How is it possible for the same company to make a decent "paid subscriber program" for one game while at the same time, making a crappy and insulting one for another game!
And most importantly... why make me (or anyone) wait for their rewards? Like I've said before, I've been VIP the whole time I've been playing...about 3 years now straight, and quite a few more years before that before I took an 8 year break from the game!
If you have VIP benefits similar to what you get in LOTRO you won't have to make people wait unnecessarily! So take a look at what LOTRO does...and read some of the replies here as there have been some really good suggestions. What about making it easier to flag for raids when you TR as it can get tiring needing to re-flag every single new life. I like that more and more new raids do not require flagging... but how about some help with the ones that still require flagging?
How about stuff that are not simply 1 use and gone! I still have about 15-20 sovereign elixir from all the packs and stuff I've bought over the past year or so, but even if I didn't, getting 1 single 1 use elixir is insulting! Why not 10 of the elixirs? It's not like 10 elixirs would prevent anyone who buys XP pots from buying more XP pots since those 10 elixirs wouldn't last very long either!