Platinum As A Reward?

[FaetonGames]

Hello there fellow Tenno and Developers.

 

I love the game seriously being space ninja that's awesome you can never go wrong with that concept. I love the game beucase it can be challenging and it's fun.

 

But I think that my idea would make the game even more challenging. Or at least that's what I think

 

Platinum as a reward. I know that it sounds crazy but hear me out.

 

I will give you and example of what I mean:

 

You start a mission, at the very beginning you receive bonus objective or affinity boost as I call it for example I will receive "Killer" (Get 30 Kills) and along side with that one you will receive another bonus objective "platinum reward" let's say "Invincible" (Don't get hit once) after you get "Killer" and got the the extraction point you will be awarded with 10 platinum. 

 

In order to get the platinum you will have to complete affinity boost objective as well to complete platinum reward objective (that's given isn't it). The reward wil not be the same 10 platinum for every completed challenge, what is the fun in that right? Instead as affinity boost gives you various affinity these platinum objectives would also give you different platinum rewards for example, for the easiest ones you will receive 1-5 platinum and for the hardest ones you will receive 50 platinum and for every other between these two extremes you would receive from 10, 15, 25.

 

Right now I know what do you think. Having Platinum as a reward? You must be crazy my friend. But rest assured I am not crazy (or I don't think I am) anyway to prevent players grinding for these platinum objectives like there is no tommorow instead of 100% chance of receiving platinum objective (as we do have it now with affinity boost) why not give us 2% chance of actually receiving it? That will prevent players from grinding and then having so much platinum, this will also give chance to those players who won't or cannot pay money for platinum.

 

I know that developers have to make money and the only way for them to make it is with Platinum but come on we have around 239 missions from which 1% is 2,39 missions that means that 2% = 4,78 missions. I don't think that this would ruin everything I don't think that people will stop buying platinum.

 

Let me know what do you think about this idea. 

 

Thank you and have a nice day. Yours Faeton

[Xirka]

Sorry to burst your bubble but this is never going to be a thing.

[-dicht.ThanksFrost-]

It's a cool idea but people will just rely on those challenges instead of buying plat. And there's bound to be 1 challenge that is supremely easier than the rest.

[Rekkou]

Crazy or not, you're not the first and you won't be the last.

 

Plat is DE's way of getting income, paying their bills and staff who make this game. So if you want to propose plat reward, don't propose gameplay, propose an alternative income for DE to get money.

 

Additional thing about plat is that it exist as a proxy of real world money. So if platinum can be obtained in game (other than trading) then it is no different than credits and the plats itself won't exist in the first place.

Edited May 29, 2014 by Rekkou

[Paul_Pianoff]

People need to realize that this is a free-to-play game and developers need to get money. Free platinum is never happening, period.

[Endrance]

For adding a specific item like this, the income cash of DE, you need to know 2 things.

 

1st: Is it fair? If anyone can get it or just some. If all, then you can go to next step. Otherwise it's a fail

 

2nd: Can it be farmed? If yes, then you should stop here. If no, then there is nearly no point, since you already get 50 on account creation.

[izzatuw]

Yeah... Plats is DE's way of money. No buyers. No game. So giving plats by doing objectives like that is a no.

[izzatuw]

Maybe doing a set of challenges you gives a free slot. Followed by tier.

Easy: 10 objectives one free weapon slot. But they're only done once and once. They can't be repeated so people can't rely on it. Maybe 50 total objectives for 5 weapon slots. All for one warframe slot.

Medium:5 objectives one free weapon slot. Max of 30 objectives.

All objectives for a warframe slot

Hard: 2 objectives. For one free weapon slot. Max of 10 objectives.

5 for a warframe slot. Example: Finish a mission without taking damage (based on conclave ratings) kill X amount of enemies in X amount of time.

[ZeeSvk]

How about limit the ammout of Plat you can earn in a month.

F.e. You can maybe get 50 plat a month. (It wouldnt be enought to buy a weapon or warframe, colour, skin etc) so that you would still need to buy Platinum for that sort of stuff.

 

This way you would eliminate grinding and since the OP proposes lets say a 2% chance of getting a plat mission and considering you might fail that mission. This would be pretty hard to do anyway.

 

The rewards for slots idea sounds also cool

 

or maybe if you do f.e. 250 affinity missions you would get a one time 25% off of platinum.

Edited May 29, 2014 by ZeeSvk

[MSD3000]

Putting the Plat bonus payout on a 2% RNG would just tick people off, if they managed to complete the bonus.

But if it could be guaranteed, people would find a level that was stupid easy to complete challenges on and grind it. Even if the payout was only 1 Plat.

 

Your best bet for Platinum rewards would be Alerts, where DE could have direct control over how often, and how hard, it is to get. After all, every time they hand out a helm, forma, catalyst or reactor they are essentially handing out Plat, you just don't get to choose where it goes.

 

Alert runs of 10-20 platinum every blue-moon would be fine by me, and would not hurt the game's economy. And the good-will it would generate would likely offset the small loss of money on DE's part.

 

That said...I don't really care if this never happens.

[(PSN)atpbx]

DE need to monetise the game.

It's platinum, subscription, or adverts.

And I for one would uninstall it the second they sold out to adverts.

[DuWryght]

Only way to get plats for free is to watch the twitch channel on their dev streams/prime time and make 30 accounts, sleep with Nekros, and pray that RNG is in your favor during plat drawings.

 

You can also try trading for them with some mods/bps

[Weird_Stealth]

DE need to monetise the game.

It's platinum, subscription, or adverts.

And I for one would uninstall it the second they sold out to adverts.

I would too depending on how the advertising is, and rather nor not it's advertising that I'd be okay with like gamer related stuff.

I personally am sick and tired of the amount of advertising there is on the internet these days, and how evasive it is sometimes. And most of the time, it's advertising that doesn't apply to me, like baby things, or products for women, and then there's the stupid ones........... 

 

A subscription based plan I wouldn't mind as long as there's an option for players to spend a set amount of money and get a life time subscription, kind of like the founders.

 

But for now, Plat only is great.