Year 3 of the VIP Loyalty Rewards Track!
- Thread starter Cordovan
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So 500 extra DDO points and a 12 hour 50% XP pot for year 3. Nice !
Imagine running a company and rather than thinking about what cool things you can offer your clients, you instead only discuss the bare minimum you can do in order to have a minimal number of people quit VIP.
3 of my friends have stopped playing so I assume their VIP ends when that time runs out. I still enjoy the game and have VIP for another 2 months so have to decide whether I bother renewing.
There really is just so little worth bothering about with VIP. 10% more XP, 1% more XP per person in a group, and 5 or 6 weekends a year where there are VIP only bonuses which are good.
Am I missing anything else here?
Imagine running a company and rather than thinking about what cool things you can offer your clients, you instead only discuss the bare minimum you can do in order to have a minimal number of people quit VIP.
3 of my friends have stopped playing so I assume their VIP ends when that time runs out. I still enjoy the game and have VIP for another 2 months so have to decide whether I bother renewing.
There really is just so little worth bothering about with VIP. 10% more XP, 1% more XP per person in a group, and 5 or 6 weekends a year where there are VIP only bonuses which are good.
Am I missing anything else here?
Meh. I don't keep my VIP for the loyalty rewards. I'm not ecstatic about them, but I love the XP boost, faster movement, and the free saga skip (x2 if you want to skip another one for shards).
Vooduspyce
DDOCreator
I really want these kinds of moments to be an exciting time in DDO. We should all be excited for an announcement like this. But this does not generate enthusiasm.
I suggest rethinking another 10% bonus to crafting xp in month 32. If someone has been playing DDO for that long and hasn't yet gotten their crafting levels to where they want them to be then another 10% crafting xp probably isn't going to mean much because they either don't care about crafting or they haven't seen How to Level 300 in less than 30 minutes.
Also curious about the apparent duplication of 32nd month "uncommon crafting material token", which seems to be the same as month 19.
I'd really like to see this whole system scrapped for something that is perennial that doesn't require SSG to do more work every year to sustain it.
For example if you're VIP you get static benefits like:
That's what I will do when elected DDO President
Voodu
I suggest rethinking another 10% bonus to crafting xp in month 32. If someone has been playing DDO for that long and hasn't yet gotten their crafting levels to where they want them to be then another 10% crafting xp probably isn't going to mean much because they either don't care about crafting or they haven't seen How to Level 300 in less than 30 minutes.
Also curious about the apparent duplication of 32nd month "uncommon crafting material token", which seems to be the same as month 19.
I'd really like to see this whole system scrapped for something that is perennial that doesn't require SSG to do more work every year to sustain it.
For example if you're VIP you get static benefits like:
- No chest ransack
- Free unlimited feat exchanges
- Always on +5% xp buddy bonus
- Reincarnations may opt to start at level 4 and 7 for Veteran Status I and II
- Scroll tube, spell component pouch, wand belt and potion belt all added to character inventory as special new tabs for those items.
- Cosmetic Storage
- 1/day raid timer bypass
That's what I will do when elected DDO President
Voodu
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imhoteprises
player of Razzjunn
what about the veteran players?
Arkat
Founder & Super Hero
It really does feel like someone at SSG just phoned it in for 3rd year rewards.
Disappointing to say the least.
Arkat
Founder & Super Hero
Whomever writes the stuff on these pages really needs a good talking-to.
A simple spell check would have caught that.
Willsave20
Indie Game Developer
Whoever is making these cosmetic decisions needs that good talking to.
They phoned it in for 1st year. Since then its been a copy/paste.
droid327
Hardcore casual soloist
I'm not and have never been VIP and even I'm insulted by this slate lol
But in the interest of productive criticism, let's all list things that might be more enticing as a monthly offering in the rotation:
- +1 free chest reroll per day
- +1 free self rez per day
- Otto box or token for free PL
- box of 15 Jewelers kits
- reusable teleport to airship clicky
- rare item selector boxes of various flavors
- palette swap of previous exclusive pets
- permanent gold seal hires
- wishes for inheritance
- access to the Patrons Palace, a special hub that has literally every service NPC in a convenient single room plus exits to all the expansion hubs, a Farshifter as with guild ships, and teleporter access
But in the interest of productive criticism, let's all list things that might be more enticing as a monthly offering in the rotation:
- +1 free chest reroll per day
- +1 free self rez per day
- Otto box or token for free PL
- box of 15 Jewelers kits
- reusable teleport to airship clicky
- rare item selector boxes of various flavors
- palette swap of previous exclusive pets
- permanent gold seal hires
- wishes for inheritance
- access to the Patrons Palace, a special hub that has literally every service NPC in a convenient single room plus exits to all the expansion hubs, a Farshifter as with guild ships, and teleporter access
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Maybe add a crafting room to your palace idea with all the various gear upgrade npcs and altars you would normally need to finish a raid first to access, like the threats old and new ritual table, and some training dummies. Ideally added as an instance so you could cast spells unlike when using the airship training dummies where you get the cannot cast that in a public area message.
The dream pajamas cosmetic is just crying out for it to have a quori theme to it. If it wouldn't be too much effort, maybe have a semi transparent quori hashalaq overlaid on your character like it's being haunted, similar to how the corrupt water elementals in into the deep occasionally have a hezrou graphic surrounding them. Like a more advanced version of the thinking cap cosmetic. And maybe add a cosmetic weapon that looks like one of those old timey ebeneezer scrooge type candles that you see with night caps and night gowns in old cartoons. The bright purple color of the pajamas is just bad though in my opinion, something a little less garish would be better.
I wonder if the repeat crafting token reward is supposed to mean it will double the chance of getting a token.
Falkor
Well-known member
Third year of VIP rewards I'm glad to have not paid for. Nothing about this is appealing. In any way, under any circumstances, ever.
not to mention account hacks and hundreds or thousands being stolen from players, with no discussion, protection, action ... nothing.
Risk having money stolen vs these rewards? lol
::Laughing Emoji::
not to mention account hacks and hundreds or thousands being stolen from players, with no discussion, protection, action ... nothing.
Risk having money stolen vs these rewards? lol
::Laughing Emoji::
They will never give us anything for free which is available in the store and people are actually buying.