[Suggestion] ¿Can freemium games be less predatory? OR Spend Depth versus Loot Boxes OR Stop the Hide
Spend Depth and Loot Box
Click for Spend depth and Loot Boxes
Spend Depth ( annoying but ethical )
Grind
Speed Ups
Merciless RNG
Bundles
Short cuts
Uses behavioral science to encourage spending
Loot Box ( most profitable as predatory )
Hidden
The annoying thing, ZS knows this
Goblin Balloon is a perfect example of Spend depth without loot boxing
Summons
Just show the user what their summons gets before they spend
Example
1x Epic Hero summons gets Bane and HotM
10x Epic summon bundle gets
Vivica, Magni,
Rigard, Wu Kong, Melendor, Boldtusk, Belith, Gunnar, Dawa, Friar Tuck
This is basically an improved Censure summons method
Rerolls
Anytime a summons, that can be bought with gems, is performed, ALL summons results reroll
This would make all players HAPPY to get a Daily summons token ( silver ) since it would be effectively a summons reroll token
HotM and Daily summons
Users have been asking for YEARS that daily summons includes HotM
With this method it effectively does
If a Daily summons reroll indicates an Epic Hero Token can be used to get a 3* hero and 1x, or more, HotM, then the player can use an Epic Hero Token, or spend gems
It is basically Goblin Balloon with no timed paywall
Daily Summons
Make Daily Summons a server based action
Each account is assigned a time, and the roll happens at that time
After 24 hours without a log in, server suspends Daily summons until account reactivated by a log in
VIP
Instead of 2x Daily summons at the same time, change it to 2x Daily summons 12 hours apart to improve engagement
Raid Tournament
Roll loot BEFORE users join the weekly Raid tournament
Display that loot until the next tournament
Users that might skip a weekly Tournament, might join if guaranteed a good loot reward
Users that might skip a 75 gem continue, might spend the 75 gems if guaranteed a good loot reward
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Edit
Poor forum staff, and volunteers, if ever implemented the complaints will continue
“I wanted Top 10% Tournament loot, but some people sandbagged and I got Top 1%!!! Lost tons of cool loot”
“My Epic Summons showed 3x HotM! But I was out of gems and tokens!!!”
“I could have got costumed Miki, but I forgot my Daily summons on that account is at 3:17 PM UTC!!!”
“I was only FIVE gems short of a 30x summons so I missed out on Panther!! ! I have been chasing Panther for 4 years!!!”
Edit
Add a 50x, and a 100x, summon bundle
Edit
1x summons have a 3600 second ( 1 hour ) cool down
100x summons have a 36 second cool down
Active cool down applies to all summons
Example
With 30 minutes left in a limited time event
1x Summons would effectively prevent further summons and would have to wait for next appearance
While 10x ( 6 minute cool down ), or more bundles, would allow multiple last chance attempts
This would effectively bundle a summons speed up with larger summons bundles while extending spend depth for 1x summons and increasing player engagement with all summons
“My summons were only FIVE seconds left in cool down, when HotM changed!!!”
Now wondering if this is more evil than hidden
FIN