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#1 [HWK]ZamboniChaos

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Posted December 27 2013 - 05:07 PM

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Greetings Pilots!

In the next few weeks, we will be making some adjustments to XP/HC boosts. Right now we feel that boosts are too expensive and we also want to better regulate the XP/HC earning rates of players. These changes are yet another aspect of our ongoing economy rebalance. Here's a look at what's being changed:

    [*]Meteor Credit costs for XP/HC boosts are being reduced

    [*]The multiplier granted by XP/HC boosts is being reduced from 2x to 1.5x
    [/list]On January 7, we will be temporarily halting the sales of our XP/HC boosts for 30 days. This is so players will have the time to get the full benefit out of any boosts they may still have active. In February, they'll be available for sale again at the newly reduced rates and adjusted multiplier. If any players have codes for a 2x boost, redeeming them after the change will result in a 1.5x boost being applied to their account.

    ***UPDATE***

    The sale of boosts has been temporarily disabled. Boosts will return to the store in February with the changes listed above.

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#2 Cruzxavier

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Posted December 27 2013 - 05:10 PM

Not only the boosts but yeah keep it coming..
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Posted December 27 2013 - 05:11 PM

Interesting.

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Posted December 27 2013 - 08:26 PM

Any information about what the new price will be?

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Posted December 27 2013 - 09:10 PM

How did i know --
i thought that the Xmas break would be a good time to use that
7 day xp boost (x2) may as well use that
2 day boost (x2) i got as well
Got all 15 mechs nothing to spend it on -
maybe it will come in use in the future......


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Posted December 27 2013 - 09:48 PM

View Post-Tj-, on December 27 2013 - 08:26 PM, said:

Any information about what the new price will be?

What he said.  If the boost rate is basically being cut in half, and the price is only dropping <insert any number less than 50% here> then I'm buying a 30-day on January 6th.  I mean, I have no problem with this if the MC costs is going down more than half.  But if we're talking a 25% discount for a 50% decrease in benefit, then this is not a good thing.  Besides, my current 30 day runs out about 2 days before then :P

I've always been a fan of the MechWarrior franchise.  Yet, I love Hawken and hate MWO.  There's about 3 big reasons for this and yanno what one of them is?  The lack of grind.  I understand the removal of HC from achievements, and even this, but this is kinda like real world fiscal policy: just because there's an abundance of currency out there doesn't mean the best way to balance the economy is to stop adding currency.  In the real world, people would be bitching this is harming the newly poor while doing nothing to harm the already rich.

Guess what?  If you add too many more changes like this, it's harming new players without impacting level 30's who have already max'd out their mechs.  That's not good for the game as a whole.

But yeah, if you're going to make the boosts something like the "app store" price range, I could see myself running one 24/7, even at a reduced benefit.  If not, I need to buy my last one ever soon.
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#7 FakeName

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Posted December 28 2013 - 01:01 AM

so ... 3 weeks for 2 little changes? ...

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Posted December 28 2013 - 01:11 AM

we want 7 days Freeeee XP Boooooooo(B)st for new year...lol  :) ;)

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Posted December 28 2013 - 01:57 AM

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Posted December 28 2013 - 04:36 AM

So that means we're not getting the new patch until at least January 7 -_-

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Posted December 28 2013 - 04:45 AM

DerMax, on December 28 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

So that means we're not getting the new patch until at least January 7 -_-
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Posted December 28 2013 - 05:45 AM

View PostDerMax, on December 28 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

So that means we're not getting the new patch until at least January 7 -_-
and what did you expect, its hollidays, they are a small team, etc

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Posted December 28 2013 - 01:24 PM

View PostDerMax, on December 28 2013 - 04:36 AM, said:

So that means we're not getting the new patch until at least January 7 -_-

This announcement is not related to a patch release.

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Posted December 28 2013 - 02:51 PM

I know I wasn't expecting a patch for the end of this month. At best I expect it to come late January.

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Posted December 28 2013 - 05:12 PM

пусть обновляют
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Posted December 30 2013 - 11:57 PM

hmmm this doesnt effect me much really as they gonna make there money and i dont really use boosts tht often....what i would like is maybe being able to have diffrent f key skills on the types of mechs/more weapon options...

maybe a stealth sniper class (before ppl fuzzy bunny the steath is easy to see in game inless ur frigging blind as hell)

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Posted January 05 2014 - 03:35 AM

I couldn't care less about boosts. But I do care about the fact that to convert overflow xp into universal xp I need meteor credits. Why? It's my play time that generated that overflow xp, it doesn't seem fair to be paying to convert it and transfer it to a mech designated by me. I consider it a bug - feel free to read "programmer's way to generate more revenue like a bully".

#18 [HWK]ZamboniChaos

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Posted January 07 2014 - 05:57 PM

***UPDATE***

The sale of boosts has been temporarily disabled. Boosts will return to the store in February with the changes listed above.

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Posted January 08 2014 - 12:22 AM

hmm ,thats good but do u have any plan to solve the lag i mean the ping problem,thanks :angry:

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Posted January 18 2014 - 02:30 PM

Just started today, I really liked the whole product, so decided to use some real cash to buy some boosts, too bad they are disabled :)





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