Would you even be mad if

(watsyurdeal) #1
  • Proxy, Fragger, and Vasilli were added as the starter mercs alongside Skyhammer and Aura
  • Mercs dropped in credit and cash, 25000 credits for each merc or 4.99 in cash.
  • If Mercs were sold in bundles, like you could buy 3 mercs for 9.99.
  • If you can put loadout cards up for sale in an game marketplace, sell your Cobalt Phantom with a knife for 10000 credits and see who bites.
  • We got rid of this trade up business and added mercs specific cases of different tiers, standard, expert, and elite. Since the in game marketplace would basically make it obsolete.
  • Competitive mode gave you cases for each match.
(Faraleth) #2

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* Vasilli were added as the starter mercs alongside Skyhammer and Aura
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Please don’t make my nightmares become a reality…

Jokes aside however, I think Fragger and Proxy would be GREAT as free starter mercs. It would mean more people could play an engineer without having to take their chances on who’s on rotation that week, if they are new. I see no down-side to this, honestly.

Merc price drop on the other hand… ehhhhhh. I’m a little indifferent on it, honestly. 25,000 credits seems WAY too low for the mercs. Perhaps lowering from 30k -> 25k, and 50k -> 40k would be fine, but that’s just me. I’ve never really seen a problem with merc pricing - but again, that’s just my personal opinion and based off my circumstances on how I bought the mercs.

Merc bundles are a great idea, honestly I think it would be awesome if they scrapped the bundles they have now and allowed you to do some sort of “select 3” system, where you could chose 3 mercs from 3 pre-set fields. (Meaning it would allow you to customise it a little so you aren’t buying mercs you already own, but it also means someone can’t just buy ANYTHING they want, it would be fair/balanced with roles)

Selling loadout cards? Pfft, yeah. Why not? Sounds good to me. :slight_smile: They could make a hell of a lot of extra cash from steam market integration too (ie. if people could buy cards from each other with steam wallet, too).

I think changing the core trade-up system right now would not be great, honestly. A trading market would certainly make the trade-up system more redundant, however it would still be handy for getting rid of those pesky lead and iron’s.

Case per comp game? Sure, sounds like a good idea too. A nice incentive, but isn’t FORCING anyone to play for it. Win-win.

Just my thoughts ^.^

(Frogteam) #3

I would be fine with those three joining the starters.

I like the 50,000 merc cost actually, takes just long enough imo.

Indifferent towards merc bundles. I personally wouldn’t use them but that’s not to say others wouldn’t.

Always up for some sort of card selling/recycle/marketplace.

I’m fine with random rolls, I’ve not seen how other game’s marketplaces play out so I don’t know how the two would work out in the end, so no input really.

I’d like guaranteed cases for comp, why not.

(B_Montiel) #4

I’d prefer bushwacker as a starter engineer. Proxy is too close from Aura (speed, low health, 2/3 same main weapons) and bushy would probably add more variety in the starter roaster. Vassili and Fragger, well, why not but in my opinions recon and assault classes are not so “essential” compared to supports, medics and engineers. This is indeed something I’d be going for if they want to improve the newcomer experience.

Everything else has been debated over and over since the very first steam release. We know for a fact that at some point (surely in a very far future), they plan to add steam marketplace support. Every thing else is very strategical decisions(purely in terms of marketing and financial forecasts) they never really answered about. And personally I don’t really care, as long as it allows both SD and Nexon to sustain the game in the long run.

The only thing I’m totally against is giving more rewards for the competitive mode. There’s already too much people going there like “I have no idea what I’m doing”. They don’t need more incentives to go in there. That’s totally preposterous from my point of view. It is guaranteed that every players will go in comp mode without caring of the “comp” aspects just to get a case.

Currently I’d like to have something to put money on. Something I won’t have access unless I put 5 bucks on it. I’m grinding more than enough to obtain all the mercs I want and the associated loadouts. I’m not interested in gambling. I pay for something I want, not for some unwanted cobalt arty. As long as there are not any real money only cosmetics, the only bucks they’ll receive from me is the 10 I put in Bushwacker (partly from my cs:go wallet…)

(LifeupOmega) #5

Yes, maybe, no.

I feel that the credit cost is fine as it is, cash prices could be brought down a tiny bit.

That’d be pretty cool.

I’d like to see this alongside trading (in-game and steam market). It’d be pretty nice to give some cards I don’t use to friends just starting out and such too.

I feel like what we have is how it’ll stay due to the sheer amount of cash people have dropped on higher tier cards now - and SD wouldn’t want to piss off the people dropping the most money on their game.

But yeah, it’d be pretty cool.

Would also be pretty nice, would flood the mode with new players but I guess that’s no different to what it is now. There needs to be some kind of reward for playing the comp mode.

(Ctrix) #6
  1. That’s already why Proxy and Arty are cheaper than the other mercs. You can get Proxy with the money you have after you reach level 5.
  2. Sure, everyone loves paying less.
  3. Same.
  4. Not gonna happen because the devs make less money on resales.
  5. Same deal. The randomness is so the devs make more money. They already introduced the new packs as a compromise.
(watsyurdeal) #7

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The only thing I’m totally against is giving more rewards for the competitive mode. There’s already too much people going there like “I have no idea what I’m doing”. They don’t need more incentives to go in there. That’s totally preposterous from my point of view. It is guaranteed that every players will go in comp mode without caring of the “comp” aspects just to get a case.[/quote]

Funny thing is that’s what people said about CS GO matchmaking…and it fucking works great.

The bottom line is you’ll meet people who literally have no clue what they are doing. Hell I run into them on pubs constantly. You can’t really get rid of that, you just gotta get that mic and start calling things.

All it takes is a leader to get people to fall in line. And I don’t see any reason not to give an award for playing comp since if anything, it’ll drastically increase the population.

(DMaster2) #8

[quote=“Watsyurdeal;18396”][list]
[1]Proxy, Fragger, and Vasilli were added as the starter mercs alongside Skyhammer and Aura
[2] Mercs dropped in credit and cash, 25000 credits for each merc or 4.99 in cash.
[3] If Mercs were sold in bundles, like you could buy 3 mercs for 9.99.
[4] If you can put loadout cards up for sale in an game marketplace, sell your Cobalt Phantom with a knife for 10000 credits and see who bites.
[5] We got rid of this trade up business and added mercs specific cases of different tiers, standard, expert, and elite. Since the in game marketplace would basically make it obsolete.
[6] Competitive mode gave you cases for each match.
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  1. As long as i get a refund (except Proxy since i don’t bother with her yet) in credits i’m okay with it
  2. Too low imho, but ofc a discount would be welcomed
  3. Don’t care since i spend 0 anyway
  4. never going to happen and i don’t like it either. As long they eventually give us an option to trade-down or destroy (with credits back as compensation) a loadout card it will be fine
  5. Developers still need to make cash and i don’t know how that system would help that
  6. Would really like this
(Jostabeere) #9

Nothing of those things will happen like ever since Nexon won’t be so nice in terms of giving people things for less money.

(Ardez1) #10

Yeah! It isn’t like they have given away thousands of Elite cases and Mercs for free already :smiley:

(Jostabeere) #11

Yeah! It isn’t like they have given away thousands of Elite cases and Mercs for free already :smiley: [/quote]

Yeah, I mean, elite case or merc code here or there, but making 3 mercs for free where people can spend real money on them, cut the prices on every merc in half, cut merc prices by 3 if buy in a bundle, totally negotiating the income from cases because people will use marketplace only with traded-up or smurfed bronze-loadouts and so on is more than unlikely in my pov.
Marketplace could work, but not with the current state of the game.

(Amerika) #12

Fragger might as well have been one of the free mercs. He’s been used in multiple promotions including one that went out to millions of people.

(gg2ez) #13

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[*] If you can put loadout cards up for sale in an game marketplace, sell your Cobalt Phantom with a knife for 10000 credits and see who bites.
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(B_Montiel) #14

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[*] If you can put loadout cards up for sale in an game marketplace, sell your Cobalt Phantom with a knife for 10000 credits and see who bites.
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Oh noes. Don’t do that to us French people. Putting this word on top of Oprah is unacceptable. Translate it and you’ll enter into a new dimension.

(gg2ez) #15

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[*] If you can put loadout cards up for sale in an game marketplace, sell your Cobalt Phantom with a knife for 10000 credits and see who bites.
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Oh noes. Don’t do that to us French people. Putting this word on top of Oprah is unacceptable. Translate it and you’ll enter into a new dimension.[/quote]

Please explain.

(SirSwag) #16

I like all of those suggestions. But the thought of a whole team of beginners with snipers and landmines is a bit much. Noobs with an Aura or a Skyhammer are always going to be of some use to a team no matter how they play.

(B_Montiel) #17

You just talked about the shortened word for cockerels.

(gg2ez) #18

You just talked about the shortened word for cockerels.

Oh yeah! I remember now, it was the only word I said in French class last year! It’s pronounced like “bitte” correct?

(Vinos) #19

Why would anyone want to play any merc other than Proxy

(Sussepus) #20

because she cant revive like sparks :tongue:

[spoiler]proxy is my go to engineer[/spoiler]

and for OP: No, i wouldnt be mad!