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Who Wants to Log In to Become a Millionaire? a Column at MMORPG.com

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129
edited December 2015 in News & Features Discussion

imageWho Wants to Log In to Become a Millionaire? a Column at MMORPG.com

If you’re the type of person who reads the MMO news, and since you’re here it’s a pretty safe bet, you’ve heard that Zenimax is offering the chance to win one million dollars just for logging into The Elder Scroll Online: Tamriel Unlimited (if you live in the right place, but that’s another story).

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  • MoiraeMoirae Member RarePosts: 3,318
    Except that, for decades, it is reasonable to assume that they will stick with what is the core market. Meaning... appealing to everyone without being actually good at anything but giving us different graphics. A million? Well it won't be me, it never is so why bother?
  • yaminsuxyaminsux Member UncommonPosts: 973
    Ineligible for me. Not in countries listed.
  • geremadygeremady Member UncommonPosts: 73
    Thanks zenimax for making me feel a secondrate customer.
  • SequSequ Member UncommonPosts: 8
    Ick, a million is not enough to make me login to this again.
  • iFruitiFruit Member UncommonPosts: 98
    geremady said:
    Thanks zenimax for making me feel a secondrate customer.


    I was actually surprised to see my country in their eligibility list, tbh. Guess that's because eso has a had firm supporter base here in Russia from day 1, despite a rather large price tag considering the state of the RUR.

    Anyway, I'm 147% sure the winner will be US-based.

    I've always participated in these events, here on mmorpg.com included, and have yet to see a Russian ever winning anything, even a digital item. I bet we won't see a single Russian getting anything from the current mmorpg.com holiday event, even though it's around 300 items in the prize pool.

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  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    geremady said:
    Thanks zenimax for making me feel a secondrate customer.


    That would be your countries laws making that feeling.
  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    edited December 2015
    Nice write up. It is indeed interesting to see what the future holds for us gamers and how creative game studios/publishers will go to get a piece of the market. Not a bad thing at all. I just hope that good game design and implementation doesn't take a back seat to monetary "incentives" in the forms of prizes to get someone to play a game. Extra income is nice, but I at least want the game to be fun as well or else it's just logging into a job.

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  • danwest58danwest58 Member RarePosts: 2,012
    Its sad when MMOs have to restore to tactics like this "LOG ON AND BECOME A MILLIONAIRE!" just to get people to play their game. Welcome to the world of what we turned MMOs into. Instead of understanding there was a balance between game mechanics, the game being fun, having just the right amount of MMOs on the market and MMOs being made for people who want to make the the game they play for years. Now we have MMOs that are expensive and created for players that jump between them easily. We have more than the market can actually sustain and we keep wanting more to be made. Plus we have MMOs which play more like single player games rather than MMOs which rely on player run communities, guilds, group content, and game mechanics that you can spend months doing and still have fun. No we rely on today's MMOs to make us happy and now we are showing signs that they are in the toilet and its proven to be true when now they want to pay you to log on and play their game.
  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    So game companies have gone from greedy to too generous....sometimes the MMO community just need to slap itself.
  • rodingorodingo Member RarePosts: 2,870
    Horusra said:
    So game companies have gone from greedy to too generous....sometimes the MMO community just need to slap itself.
    Marketing and generosity are not the same thing.

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  • HorusraHorusra Member EpicPosts: 4,411
    rodingo said:
    Horusra said:
    So game companies have gone from greedy to too generous....sometimes the MMO community just need to slap itself.
    Marketing and generosity are not the same thing.


    Neither is greed and charging for things.
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