Fun for everyone
Yes, this season is coming to a close, I know everyone has been wondering why we have not yet started selling PAC's so I'm here to tell you.
Season will be extended thru Saturday Midnight
At this time, we will NOT be resetting the game just yet, and you can continue to login and play somewhat as usual. You will at that time, start to notice a few changes going on as to what you see on the screen as well as introduction of the new fight engine.
This is all in preperation for next season, and here are the 'current' plans
"SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUT NOTICE".
Season 13, will be completely FREE for all, with NO restrictions at all.
In order to do this, we will be introducing AD's, at this time we have 5 positions for ads, and at times all 5 positions may contain an ad, other times they may not. view the ads play for free, thats the deal, no payment required, we will consider your viewing of the ad as payment, there is only 1 real catch to this. We CAN and WILL track who actually sees the ads, and when we find players that are blocking the ads for whatever reason, we will consider this behavior as non-payment (since the deal is, see the ads in exchange for playing the game) Under these conditions, we WILL lock your account with no warning (unless we are being extremely nice). If an account is locked for blocking ads, it will take a great deal of convincing to get it unlocked, since it will be considered pretty much stealing. (remember, the deal is, ads in leiu of payment, whereas if you do not see the ads, you have broken your end of the deal)
There will be PAC's sold which will take away all ads (possbibly excepting the game exchange ads, which is still undetermined, since of all the emails i have received for opinions, tend to say its ok for those ads on paid players), these PAC's will cost $16.99 (which is lower than any of opinions I have got as to what the price for these NO AD PAC's should be)These will be on sale shortly for those that wish to purchase them.
New Fight Engine. this is coming very close to being complete and will be tested in live next week, and may be in place completely upon season start, depending on our test runs here, if it is not, it won't be far behind. Next week you all will be testing this new engine. and it will be the only engine in use, so, next week could be considered a very short Live Open Beta
Continuing on the idea of the AD's, please restrain yourselves from sending me complaints over it, I'll be happy to hear from anyone that has a real solution on how to get the currently 1600 non-paying players to actually PAY for a game they apparently enjoy enough to be here every day, yet do not pay, this is what has forced this idea of generating revenue by using ads. and, the price for regular PAC rises simply due to the nature of things, it has to be worth it to allow that at all.