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Conrad Makbure
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Posted - 2016.11.22 03:14:28 -
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Amanda Chelian wrote:Yup, it's the alphas that are running at half training speed. But "train skills at normal speed!" doesn't make for good marketing to get the Omega sub sold, hence the play with words.
Yeah, but saying Alpha is the new normal speed overnight is dumb. It would have been better to just not put a "2x" on the Omega skill window and rather have something that says "training at half speed, subscribe now for full training speed" for Alpha. When Alpha clones subscribe, they will see the difference in days reduced on their training queues. That's all you need, no need to put 2x on the subscriber queue window. |
Conrad Makbure
Trident Expedition
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Posted - 2016.11.22 03:26:16 -
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Scipio Artelius wrote:Conrad Makbure wrote:It would have been better to just not put a "2x" on the Omega skill window... Better for who?
Everyone. Omegas are training at normal speed. |
Conrad Makbure
Trident Expedition
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Posted - 2016.11.22 03:31:35 -
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Tyberius Franklin wrote:Conrad Makbure wrote:Amanda Chelian wrote:Yup, it's the alphas that are running at half training speed. But "train skills at normal speed!" doesn't make for good marketing to get the Omega sub sold, hence the play with words. Yeah, but saying Alpha is the new normal speed overnight is dumb. It would have been better to just not put a "2x" on the Omega skill window and rather have something that says "training at half speed, subscribe now for full training speed" for Alpha. When Alpha clones subscribe, they will see the difference in days reduced on their training queues. That's all you need, no need to put 2x on the subscriber queue window. That makes sense if you ignore who you're marketing to on a few levels. 1) It marks the new alpha accounts that you're doing your best to welcome as substandard with "half speed training" 2) It makes what we consider normal training a players prior to alphas seem more special than just "normal" 3) And since this is all marketed at showing alphas what they have to gain by paying as opposed to showing existing paying customers what they already have when it should be pretty obvious there is really no gain in doing it that way. Well, no gain except maybe this thread not existing.
This is one of the dumbest marketing angles. "We're going to say that normal speed is now 2x speed and half training speed is now the new normal speed." That just sounds stupid and that's exactly what this change is, I don't care who it's marketed to. |
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