2013-02-08, 10:12 AM
Justin Wrote:You know what also makes them lose business? Banning several thousand innocent players.
You know what also makes them lose business? Players quitting from not wanting to deal with hackers running the game (AGAIN)
You know what's the funniest part about that happy time box? A lot of the stuff in there hasn't even been in the CS in months. How can they lose money on something that isn't even buyable?
Why the hell that box should be at the top of the priority list is beyond me.
You know what makes them lose more money than all that combined? Giving out the s'hit they sell. The box is at the top of the priority list because it is NEVER a good idea to give out unlimited quantities of something that you're trying to sell for not free. How many prots do you think could have been farmed over the course of a month? More than enough to mean when they come back to the CS people aren't going to buy them as much. This isn't even considering the inventory slots which ARE available. Just because something isn't in the CS doesn't mean they can't lose money giving it out. That's a silly assertion because they lose money in the future, not in the present. If a cellphone provider gave out free cellphones that weren't on the market yet do you think that'd come at no cost to them in the future?
This problem effected their bottom line. Maybe not immediately but definitely in the future. As a business they have a responsibility to fix any problems that effect their bottom line. Unfortunately almost all problems effect their bottom line. Thus they pick the ones that have the largest and most direct impact and fix that first.
I would be ecstatic if they fixed all hacking. But it's not realistic. Realistically we're all still here even with the bannings and the hackers. The ones that spent money still do. Some leave, they're eventually replaced by others. Ultimately hacking doesn't cost them nearly as much as giving away free inventory expansions and prots.