September Strike #2(TO BE CONTINUED)

Yawn
Whatever

Pixonic doesn't care. They are doubling down on their business model hoping to sell the newest stuff to the big whales and will close up shop when people stop spending.

That’s what strikes often do. They become a hinderance to the unknowing or ignorant masses of people.

When strikes (or demonstrations) happen often enough, it creates awareness of a movement of displeasure, hopefully resulting in more people joining the movement (OCCUPY, anyone?). The whole idea is to make the people in charge, Pixonic in this case, listen to the concerns of the playerbase. If they don’t and think this movement is a temporary hinderance they can simply ignore it.

When the movement builds up enough force (unplayable games, minute long matchmaking, no revenues through ads, no reveneus through sales, no positive promotion resulting in less downloads [already happening according to another thread], they can do three things, basically.

Flip table and let the game die off.
Ignore everything and keep the current course.
Or listen to what caused the movement to come to life to begin with and change.

All I know is I’m joining the movement.

Stopped watching ads (hard to fight the urge, but I’m doing it, even though it’s detrimental to my hangar’s progress).
Stopped buying (even though the 500 gold for any purchase is very tempting).
Won’t play tomorrow (and every day of striking after that).
And adding the “We support September 10 strike” to the clan motto.

All I can do, they should not have taken our Au from the Royale with these upgrade times. It ?fluffernutter?s the game up. Or at least my joy in playing it.

Everyone makes up their own mind. I did. I’m supporting the strike.

Hey man thanx for spreading awareness of our movement by bumping and helping keep the thread alive so more people will be reached by our message.

I agree, money will be the biggest motivator.

But numbers matter on all fronts. Or else they would not be measured.

Ratings, players online, sales, ads, downloads, server stability. It all matters.

actually they do care (somewhat) and It does have an effect If enough people join.

First, they're paid for how many ads we watch; we take that away, stop watching, affects one source of their revenue.

Secondly, not playing for even a day not only increases wait times, but It forces the matchmaker to select players from an even smaller pool, placing much higher league players in matches against much lower league players, creating even more chaos in the game then there already was along with more frustration and discontent. The powergap in the matchmaker combined with the increased wait times will alert players. They will notice the difference, they will be pissed off, and they will look for answers. -And they will find them.

Thirdly, pix wants F2P players even If they don't pay, because anyone playing a match on the live server IS their product. We are all what they're selling. They need us to spin the wheels, be the gears of their machine. With less of those wheels spinning, less gears turning, their machine loses functionality. Doesn't run so well, slows down, generates less of the product (the gameplay experience), and ultimately affects their income. They want to keep their servers at peak capacity.

So yes, there are ways to impact pix. One employment containing these forementioned properties, takes place tomorrow.

No, you are absolutely right.

And yes, I was (and still am) fine with all the new content coming out, and even New Economy prices and durations.

What they should not have done, is taking Au out of the Royale. That’s what ?fluffernutter?ed it over for me, and why I am on board.

Also, what I do not like, is complaining for complaining’s sake. If you don’t like something, do something about it. Or stop it as a whole.

My being a promoter of the strike is me trying to do something about it. If we don’t get the Au back in Royale, or a decent substitute to lower upgrade timers, or upgrade timers back pre-NE, or something close to an equivalent.. I’m out.

I've been boycotting since 3.9..

I'm happy to see some of the community pull together on this and participate in the boycott. It needs a head on it though. Like a main set of goals/changes everyone can get on board with. Maybe even signatures etc under the list of those supporting that.

I know it boils down to change back to the old economy on upgrades from what I've gathered thus far. Realistically to me now, that's asking a bit much (not that I wouldn't like to see that myself). I mean we now have workshop 2.0 & it is easier to obtain things that were once harder to get. That is great. The company has to make money. If they go back to the old economy & still give you easier ways to get things. They will lose a big chunk of income. What they have done now is make having gold useful for many reasons. Speed upgrades, boosters & daily deals etc. Then took gold out of royals. Why? Because its what they are pushing us to buy for many reasons. The biggest being upgrade times IMO.

Now I'm not saying the boycott is wrong or that i think it's stupid. Just that there needs to be thought put into it. Because if you ask pix to change something. It's always a give & take. They might just change things to end up being worse.


I'd honestly like to see the premium that people buy utilized better. Like those that buy it get a discount on stuff. Also less waiting times on upgrades etc. Because then it's borderline paying a subscription that month to take advantage of REAL benifits. There's tons of players that pay in this game that could appreciate that.

Ohh WOOHOOOOO snow DAY!! WOOOHOOO omg we on snow day teACHEErs arent going get paid on snow day!!!!


as long pix's get this 「dookie」 in there pockets  this 「dookie」 will not do nothing. this exacty why pix do what they do and they love exactly this.

DBB* in the Hard Corp clan just instakilled my buddy 3 times. Maybe they got a instakill feature when you spend 1000+?

Just talked to clan leader of LOA (LeagueOfAssassins) on Android; he said he's going to display the movement thread on his clan's facebook page and fb chat.

*REMEMBER PEOPLE WE'RE AIMING FOR 1 FULL DAY OF STRIKING, 24 HOURS. WHEN THE CLOCK STRIKES MIDNIGHT DONOT PLAY*

obviously there will be some overlap and underlap due to difference in time zones, but we will still create a sustained, unified, concentrated absence.

I’m personally not going to participate in this “strike”. I play this game for fun and entertainment, and will continue to do so. But for those that chose to participate, more power to you.