Elevator passes and your friends- (a suggestion)
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 02:52
Let me start out by saying that I tend to spend.... quite a bit... on my games that I actively play. In the case of SK, I've dropped around $40 in the last 30 days alone. Kind of bad, but I have my guilty pleasures too. I am however, rather liberal with my ce and others. Those fortunate enough to have made runs with me and incurred my favor know me as running around as running around as "the holy dragon" Retoran, or Ret for short. I have a tendency to outfit the "noobs" and those less fortunate than myself with new and more appropriate gear to suit their play style.
The one thing I have come to loath about the game though is the elevator passes. The problem lies in that they aren't trade able or giftable. I have quite a few regulars that I play with, but their play time is shafted due to energy costs. I'm more than willing to shell out for elevator passes for some of the more worthy people, but I'm not able to. Can we get the elevator passes formatted like the heat amplifiers, trinket slot pieces, and the additional weapon slot pieces into an activated and unbound item that we can actually trade/gift please? Just keep them in the game as a pay-per-spawn item and let the player do what they will with them at that point please.
Sincerely your piggy bank, Ret.
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 03:49
#2
Open mouth, insert foot
Why yes... apparently I still make noob mistakes on forums. >.> *moved*
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 06:59
#3
Im sure we can and there is
Im sure we can and there is not technical problem with making them giftable/tradeable elevator passes, even expansion missions, the point is
OOO DONT WANT TO DO IT.
Thats how they support ALL players, by supporting only $$$ players and selling their soul to STEAM
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 21:03
#4
@Asukalan
Steam has brought many wonderful things to this game: A huge playerbase, mic chat, and a method of obtaining DLC for ingame currency rather than real money.
You can joke about it all you want but the program is probably one of the most used and useful programs ever made.
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 21:17
#5
Aw geez
I'd be lying if I said I have any hope of Askua stopping with the conspiracy theories everywhere.
First, OOO never said anything about a technical issue with Elevator pass trading. They have never even said they considered doing that.
Second, seeing as you're so confident, tell me: How do you trade a 'right' to do something in Spiral knights? Paid accounts can't trade their 'unsynchcronised mist' ability, and the Expansions work a similar way.
Thu, 03/01/2012 - 21:33
#6
I don't think there's any
I don't think there's any reason you shouldn't be capable of paying your real money to gift another player.. Anything that can be bought. It's still be bought, even if it isn't for yourself. Particularly when it comes to using Steam. There is absolutely no good reason not to let someone like Ret pay for my elevator pass. The money is still being paid, not in-game currency, real money.
Shouldn't this go in Suggestions?