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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 21:00:36 GMT -5
   figured it would be good to start a “500 Au bonus task for any payment” thread qualifications: - don’t spend RM long enough to get this task you can post your 500 club screen shot any time, these pics are from today the point is clear, to show newer players that spending RM in this game is of limited value in regards to competitive play. war robots business model is pay to win, by intentionally out-dating, gradual obsolescence and guaranteed out-classing your content on a continuous basis. This we all already know but if you don’t mind not having the latest Phildo soon after the Phildo release, you can upgrade this later, but the first priority should be getting a hangar leveled with gear that YOU enjoy. Pix tries their very best to manipulate your ego into spending RM. consider better options that are available to you and all players at no cost... paying players are appreciated and needed, apparently there are lots of them, but this thread is a beacon for the few and proud, 500 club players  |
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Post by railbait on Nov 15, 2019 21:09:19 GMT -5
I just got a 1000 Au offer for $.99 with a 200 Au bonus with purchase. Does that count? First time I saw it so grabbed it quick without taking a screenshot.
Edit: That's the first time in over a year of playing I saw the 1k gold for $.99
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Post by mystic spastic on Nov 15, 2019 21:23:11 GMT -5
@earlcampbell I have failed you. And it happened just this very day.
I bought the Hover for $2 and collected the 500Au as well.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 21:25:28 GMT -5
I just got a 1000 Au offer for $.99 with a 200 Au bonus with purchase. Does that count? First time I saw it so grabbed it quick without taking a screenshot. Edit: That's the first time in over a year of playing I saw the 1k gold for $.99 The way I feel about Pixonic, they can offer me whatever for 0.01 USD, no thank you. Until they slow their power creep pace to a somewhat reasonable level, Iâm not buying 「dookie」. They donât deserve it at the moment, and besides, there seems to be no shortage of players buying Leeches and crack. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 21:27:43 GMT -5
@earlcampbell I have failed you. And it happened just this very day.
I bought the Hover for $2 and collected the 500Au as well.
Ahhh, there is just one valid excuse.... Well done, enjoy her, she is a special bot....a Phildo like no other. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 15, 2019 21:42:03 GMT -5
 Edit: Yea, I'm going to spend my entire Friday grinding for that 50 coins task when you are serving me nothing other than TDM. Sorry Pixo, those days are over. As well as me giving you any money. Btw, I not entirely against giving them some money occasionally. However, my spending ban is for three things: nerfing operations, and going back on the shield breaker and line of sight for leech. |
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Post by Rollo Tomasi on Nov 15, 2019 22:04:18 GMT -5
Yup, sitting on the 500, been there for a while now. So far only the 600 0.99 and 45 days premium for 14.99 have come by to entice me. Meh, leveling up a Rayker for some fun. Takes no RM and man that think can climb!
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Post by milty72 on Nov 15, 2019 22:09:09 GMT -5
   Been playing since February 2016. Never paid a cent and surprisingly still win 50% of my games. I've got an Ao Jun and an Ares in the unused hangar lot and don't care if you use them. Please do because I make it my mission to hunt your sorcery bot down and kill it. I don't care if others do spend. That's their choice. It's just a game. A Mindfulness Distraction. There's plenty of other 「dookie」 in the world that's more important that's worth being pissed off and angry about. |
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Post by hicycles on Nov 15, 2019 22:19:32 GMT -5
Been playing for a few months. Haven't spent a dime.   |
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Post by mechtout on Nov 15, 2019 22:25:33 GMT -5
every time i hit 500 au make any payment i spend $1 for 1100 au
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Post by eluray on Nov 16, 2019 1:40:39 GMT -5
Damn.... another club i cant get in  |
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Post by aaronc on Nov 16, 2019 1:46:56 GMT -5
Hasnt offered me anything for awhile. This is my second 500Au in a row.  |
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Post by integeritis on Nov 16, 2019 6:16:52 GMT -5
 Oh yes  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 8:46:37 GMT -5
Another good thing to post, please, is if there is something that is so compelling to buy that you break your 500 club status to do so. This has happened to me a few times this year: 2000 Au x 3 for 5 bucks last spring, and the first operations. The combination of these purchases (around 30 USD, I think) finished 5 last Stans, allowing me to have one per bot. I can say I enjoy the game more with the last Stan, but I don't like the fact that this item is so OP that you're toast in Champions League without one. Like Bob Dylan told me, Champions League tax.
But all said and done: hundreds in 2017 (I feel stupid just to think about it), less in 2018, $30 in 2019 and 0 in 2020. If Pix were truly decent with the way they treat their customers, I would consider subscriptions, premium, operations etc. I think they see this as the future of their revenue stream, but by badly outclassing bots in a 12-18 months with newer OP content will do nothing more than force a churn, Ima playing Hover until they pull the plug from the servers.
Well, I'm rambling, uh, bottom line is don't feed the animals. And if you do spend, that's perfectly cool, but consider how pathetic it is in the eyes of most IF your purchases are motivated to keep a steady supply of crack....
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Post by Rollo Tomasi on Nov 16, 2019 9:15:06 GMT -5
Another good thing to post, please, is if there is something that is so compelling to buy that you break your 500 club status to do so. This has happened to me a few times this year: 2000 Au x 3 for 5 bucks last spring, and the first operations. The combination of these purchases (around 30 USD, I think) finished 5 last Stans, allowing me to have one per bot. I can say I enjoy the game more with the last Stan, but I don't like the fact that this item is so OP that you're toast in Champions League without one. Like Bob Dylan told me, Champions League tax.
But all said and done: hundreds in 2017 (I feel stupid just to think about it), less in 2018, $30 in 2019 and 0 in 2020. If Pix were truly decent with the way they treat their customers, I would consider subscriptions, premium, operations etc. I think they see this as the future of their revenue stream, but by badly outclassing bots in a 12-18 months with newer OP content will do nothing more than force a churn, Ima playing Hover until they pull the plug from the servers.
Well, I'm rambling, uh, bottom line is don't feed the animals. And if you do spend, that's perfectly cool, but consider how pathetic it is in the eyes of most IF your purchases are motivated to keep a steady supply of crack....
At least say no to crack. Use it to much and this will happen...  |
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Post by Rollo Tomasi on Nov 16, 2019 9:15:59 GMT -5
1000 gold for 0.99 might tempt me, but 600 has lost it appeal
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 9:21:08 GMT -5
1000 gold for 0.99 might tempt me, but 600 has lost it appeal Yeah, 1000 Au for a buck seems very reasonable, and good for those that buy that deal and enjoy it.
But also, it too sends a message to Stan..."we can still keep them running in the hamster wheel, keep them chasing something they will never ever reach, etc."
Not buying good deals sends Stan a healthy message too....just imagine Stan sitting on the Moscow royal Pixonic pay to flush toilet, reading through the many goofball posts on Facebook, Reddit and this forum, wishing he hadn't used so many hot peppers in his chili, and he stumbles across this message "HEY STAN, YOU'RE GAME HAS GONE TO HELL SO MUCH THAT PLAYERS ARE SNUBBING THEIR NOSE TO YOUR 1000 AU FOR 0.99 DEAL... "
He needs this message, it's healthy for the long term viability of the pay to win robot circus. This, choosing not to buy, is the only influence we have on Pixonic. Someone else will buy, good, let them, but you don't have to if you don't want to, and it won't make much difference, if any, anyway.
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Post by Garbage game on Nov 16, 2019 9:28:33 GMT -5
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Post by snk on Nov 16, 2019 10:56:14 GMT -5
only spend twice in 2-3 years in my account, so 500Au bonus task 99% there.
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Post by shivaswrath on Nov 16, 2019 11:27:41 GMT -5
I need to get there
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Post by milty72 on Nov 16, 2019 17:24:52 GMT -5
every time i hit 500 au make any payment i spend $1 for 1100 au I see why you would. Saves around a week of playing to save up a thousand gold. $1 later boom 1100 gold. That's called the patience tax. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 18:01:03 GMT -5
every time i hit 500 au make any payment i spend $1 for 1100 au I see why you would. Saves around a week of playing to save up a thousand gold. $1 later boom 1100 gold. That's called the patience tax. That's a great way to manage your spending, 1100 Au for $1 is a great way to fly.
I'm not pretending to have a moral high ground in this thread, not at all, by refraining from spending and encouraging other like-minded players to follow in kind. I acknowledge that spending players keep the lights on at the Moscow mothership.
I posted this to War Robots Community on FB, and someone there made an interesting comment, not everyone has the time to grind, so they spend. Yep, valid point. I've earned my silver the hard way, 26-27k games is a lot of games. If I were to run a crude calc, 26,500 games x 300,000 Ag / game average, I've earned around 8 billion Ag. I haven't been smart with all my Ag decisions, but I've earned enough to max the stuff I enjoy, and I haven't changed my hangar too much either, over 2 years.
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Post by milty72 on Nov 16, 2019 20:20:16 GMT -5
I see why you would. Saves around a week of playing to save up a thousand gold. $1 later boom 1100 gold. That's called the patience tax. That's a great way to manage your spending, 1100 Au for $1 is a great way to fly.
I'm not pretending to have a moral high ground in this thread, not at all, by refraining from spending and encouraging other like-minded players to follow in kind. I acknowledge that spending players keep the lights on at the Moscow mothership.
I posted this to War Robots Community on FB, and someone there made an interesting comment, not everyone has the time to grind, so they spend. Yep, valid point. I've earned my silver the hard way, 26-27k games is a lot of games. If I were to run a crude calc, 26,500 games x 300,000 Ag / game average, I've earned around 8 billion Ag. I haven't been smart with all my Ag decisions, but I've earned enough to max the stuff I enjoy, and I haven't changed my hangar too much either, over 2 years.
Same. No one should feel guilty about their choice in spending their money. Im pretty sure a lot of people would think spending over $2000 on one day of heli boarding would be a massive waste of money and that they really saw you coming. But that's my choice on what I put value on. It's also nice to know different opinions in how others play or on how the construct of Pix and other game developers in general work in order to maximize their profits. It's all psychology in the end. Once you know it you can play it to your advantage and maybe achieve better outcomes for ones self. |
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Post by foxypotato on Nov 16, 2019 21:33:14 GMT -5
What's up with the ECU on the Strider? Ares hunter?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2019 21:39:48 GMT -5
What's up with the ECU on the Strider? Ares hunter? Being greeted by 2 phantoms at beacons does not last long with out the ECU. And yes, I pulverize at least one Ares ever other game or so with my “super Bulgi”  |
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Post by mechtout on Nov 17, 2019 8:20:59 GMT -5
every time i hit 500 au make any payment i spend $1 for 1100 au I see why you would. Saves around a week of playing to save up a thousand gold. $1 later boom 1100 gold. That's called the patience tax. That and the $1 is earned through the Google surveys app so it's not out of pocket. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2019 11:25:59 GMT -5
1000 gold for 0.99 might tempt me, but 600 has lost it appeal Yeah, 1000 Au for a buck seems very reasonable, and good for those that buy that deal and enjoy it.
As a side note, message to all people who are regularly spending money: that 1$ offer might not be offered to you just because you spend/spent more. That comes directly from Pixonic's presentation where they admitted that. It might be ok with you, but if you do spend you need to be aware that Pixonic might adjust the deals based how much money you have forked over to them in the past. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2019 12:25:45 GMT -5
Yeah, 1000 Au for a buck seems very reasonable, and good for those that buy that deal and enjoy it.
As a side note, message to all people who are regularly spending money: that 1$ offer might not be offered to you just because you spend/spent more. That comes directly from Pixonic's presentation where they admitted that. It might be ok with you, but if you do spend you need to be aware that Pixonic might adjust the deals based how much money you have forked over to them in the past. And that's perfectly fine for them to do that too, as they know that you're already on the hook, nobody is forcing you to buy, and you've come too far to turn back with meta pursuit, crack etc.
But building a healthy long term relationship with their paying base has always been a low priority for Pixonic. The reason they can get away with these drug dealer practices is because they know the most gullible (e.g. Rhino/Lance users ditched their gear to buy the Inquisitor as soon as it was released, then dash bots, Spectre, Ares and so on) are reliable sources of large payments.
Some buyers leave, others get jaded and stop paying...but obviously Pix is still getting signals to phase out content in roughly 10-14 month intervals, and I'd expect this to get increasing smaller, we'll see. Loki/Tyr/Fenrir had to be a glitch in the matrix, as much as I enjoy Loki, these bots are clearly not a meta shift like Phantom/Leach replacing Ares/Ao Jun etc. If their power creep rate was say 50% slower, they'd probably retain and monetize the players more effectively. I'd expect the Titans to be their last and final monetization orgy until things get real.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 17, 2019 14:28:35 GMT -5
As a side note, message to all people who are regularly spending money: that 1$ offer might not be offered to you just because you spend/spent more. That comes directly from Pixonic's presentation where they admitted that. It might be ok with you, but if you do spend you need to be aware that Pixonic might adjust the deals based how much money you have forked over to them in the past. And that's perfectly fine for them to do that too, as they know that you're already on the hook, nobody is forcing you to buy, and you've come too far to turn back with meta pursuit, crack etc.
... Yea, I know it's fine for them because it increases their revenue. But I just have to say that if I were spending player this sort of practice would NOT have been fine by me, as paying customer I'd expect to be rewarded, not penalized for my spending. So in the context of this thread I just wanted paying players to be aware of it so they can decide what to do about it, if anything. I completely agree on the rest. |
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Post by WattTron on Nov 17, 2019 14:35:58 GMT -5
I'll join that club any time they got a buy 600 gold for 99 cents offer.
That's a great payout.
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