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Can we please gets some AAA or at least A contests please?
ishist
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For quite a while now all the contests on mmorpg.com have been ruled by the F2P trash. Can someone get a stick and smack the beehive of *real* games and get us some better contests?
I'd love to see more Hardware and AAA titles in your contest list.
Thanks
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All the "AAA" companies are busy putting togethe rtheir cash shops to get more money out of you besides your sub. They dont have time to actually put together a contest and give stuff away :-P.
But no, seriously, would be kind of nice to see some more contests for some of the better games. Used to see some pretty decent ones, but lately it seems to be either:
a) another contest for a game that has already done pretty much the exact same contest like a dozen times before, and isnt really worth anything
b) a contest to try and get new players into the latest crappy F2P game (not that all F2P games are crappy, just that the contests lately seem to have been for the worst of them)
They could easily make profit with this by adding another potential sub, if they get a sub off of the contest winner, there is a chance they will give them money for the cash shop/item mall. Also, advertising -- And really, does it /really/ cost them anything?
Contests on this site used to be great, there used to be some pretty nice hardware giveaways in addition to the sea of F2P chaff. Right now, there are seven contests: five are beta or item giveaways to crappy F2Ps I've never heard of, and 2 are in-game item giveaways for AoC and LOTRO. Pretty sad.
The only reason I could think of is that a a year or two ago, there was a mistake with one of the contests in which like 20 people got falsely notified as winners and some of them came to the forums and complained when they found out they didn't really win....otherwise, this site has only gotten more popular and I can't think of a reason for the decline in quality of the giveaways.
OP is right on the money. Every time I see a new FTP contest, half the time for games I've never heard of and will never hear of again, I wonder what is wrong with the gaming world?
http://www.mmorpg.com/contests/eve_plex_promo.cfm
I will agree 99% of the time the contests are just crap to rope you in to buying more cash shop items later on in another nameless forgotten-before-it-was-even-released FTPMMO.
Give Kingdom Heroes a try. It's CB so don't expect the world but I am having fun.
I won an inflatable sword for AoC long ago. Lost it somewhere in a move though.
I agree though, there are just too many "click now to get an experience potion for a game you won't play for more than 20 minutes!!" type "contests" lately.