Where's the bait?

[Colino]

I'm not sure where I wrote that I was quitting. I just started playing three weeks ago, everything is still new and exciting to me.

That's not what I meant. I was simply implying your thread is on par with (in quality) with all the QUIT threads and all that jazz.

[normalforce]

renew payment. (i hope they release 1.21 before the next charge)

According to the operational roadmap, 1.21 was tentatively slated to be released in early February. So that might not be too far off the mark. I'd say mid to late February would probably be more realistic but I guess we'll hear more about that towards the end of this month.

[Colino]

According to the operational roadmap, 1.21 was tentatively slated to be released in early February. So that might not be too far off the mark. I'd say mid to late February would probably be more realistic but I guess we'll hear more about that towards the end of this month.

Valentine's Day Event items are already in the dats, I'm assuming it's going to be bumped to march considering the 10 or so day delay almost every patch gets.

I'd love to be wrong of course.

[Vuen]

I had thought they were suppose to start charging in late November/early December. Pretty much when the patch came out. 1.20 that is, but they moved it to the sixth. This was also well said with plenty of time in advance. I think they made the right decision myself. Let people get a taste of the patch and decide from there. I do think though if they wanted more people to stay 1.21 would have been good bait, but at the same time that is one month extra people are not paying for. So from a business point of view... I'm not sure which would have been the better choice.

Yes, I would, that is the whole point of bait!

In reality the analogy of what Yoshi P is doing is more like this though. Pored his bucket of bait in the water, the fish ate everything and got their fill. Then he comes back with more bait, after the fish are stuffed with food, and tries to sell it to them.

[normalforce]

Yes, I would, that is the whole point of bait!

In reality the analogy of what Yoshi P is doing is more like this though. Pored his bucket of bait in the water, the fish ate everything and got their fill. Then he comes back with more bait, after the fish are stuffed with food, and tries to sell it to them.

I prefer to think of it in terms of you don't buy a car before test driving it first. 1.20 was our test drive, you try it out first to see if you'll like it.

But it's exactly like how some other MMO's offer a few weeks of free play initially. Try it out, see if you like it and if you do, continue on with your subscription.

I honestly don't see the problem here.

[Conradus]

I was expecting patch 1.21 on Jan 6th to lure me in and pay for a sub. I've already been playing patch 1.2 for like three weeks now for free.

1.20 is the bait. Not being douchebags, SE let you sample it so you could see if you liked it before asking you to pay for it.

[Zezlar]

Oh my god people. READ. READ. READ. READ.

If you cared about this game at all you would have looked at the road map for 2.0 and seen that 1.21 isn't coming out until at least early Feb.

[Yazuaru]

And here I thought this was a thread about fishing... T^T

Seriously though, I'm glad patch 1.20 came out before billing started, because I was really put off with the idea that they changed all of the abilities and such... but playing for that short amount of time solidified my desire to keep playing, as I actually find the new combat with the personal combo system a lot of fun!
So, yeah. I think 1.20 was the bait.

(Now if they can do something to make crafting more fun, I'll be all set!)