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Originally posted by natallian
Well maybe you havent been playing the game since day one like me and a few others who posted here in this thread. If you payed top $ for a badly broken game that only just now started working, only to find you have to pay for a booster (was able to shrug that off ok) but now others get the whole game, all nice and polished for free with the booster. That tell's me that old players just arent important to FC.
Well, i have been playing since day one and I'll let you in on a little secret about the way the MMORPS survive. With more memberships you make more money, so the emphasis is on getting more memberships. The way to do that is offer new players incentives to get the game, and old players incentive to keep the game. For the old players the incentive is this new pack with new content and kewl stuff. For the new players is that when they buy this pack they get a free month and the full game. Since the game has been on the shelf a while its safe to say that for the most part people that wanted to play the game the way it is have already bought it, so to get new players you need new content. Problem is, if a new player hadn't already bought the game it is unlikely that they will buy it now for more money just to get the new material that convinced him to consider it in the first place. So, new material + low price = New players.