Phencer
08-18-2010, 06:17 PM
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">You have really gone too far by forcing players who enjoy the default UI to have a SC Marketplace button on their experience bars.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">I am not going to talk about the fact that Smed swore up and down that Marketplace goods would never offer stats in a way that players on non-exchange servers would be able to benefit from.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, we have how many SC mounts with stats now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Don't you love when people talk about things by explaining that they are not going to talk about it--anyway, digression over).</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">GU57 has made me realize that I actually resent how much energy you are putting into the SC Marketplace content because SoE now forces--yes, forces us, because who doesn't want to have their EXP bar open-- paying customers to have what is essentially an advertisement button on a UI widget. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">There is enough exposure to the Marketplace without you having to shove it down our throats. It is on our welcome screen, and there is a big, bright option in our EQ2 button menu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those spots seemed reasonable, making that pay content easily accessible for new and old players who choose to use it, and I had no complaint; it seemed sensible enough, and was not too intrusive. </span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Now, I feel intruded upon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Too much is too much, and FORCING players to have the SC button on the EXP bar crosses that line in a way that makes me worry about the integrity of the producers and devs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You made beautiful changes to the UI, and you ruined it for a chance at making cash?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To promote a feature of the game that is absolutely unimportant to game play, that has no place on the front of the UI attached to an important widget?</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For anyone who believes that there are easy fixes (i.e download a custom UI, or disable the exp bar within default), and I am just a complainer, know this: the SC Marketplace has been a slippery-slope issue for those who believe in paying real-life dollars for in-game items is a bad direction for our game to take.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It seems now that SoE is zooming down that slippery slope without brakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Look out folks who p2p, I foresee ads coming very soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like on loading screens, or on the end of hotbars.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If we let this go, next thing you know, in order for us to cast a spell, we will have to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>watch a 15 second video ad. </span></p></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: small;">Perhaps it is time the paying customers reel them in a bit and DEMAND that the SC Marketplace button be removed from the front of our UI. </span></p>