Gifts.

Contractor!

One thing that is very obvious by now; the internet is full of greedy, demanding people.

Everytime Contract Wars is making a milestone and is throwing in gifts, the whole community is like "GIMME FREE GP...5000...1000...FREE GP..i nedd fre GPZzz for nveskeplz....GIMMEGIMME"

For these milestones, all you had to do is press the "like" button, that's it, 1 click and your done doing your part. Now, pressing the like button, is that something worth GP? Really?

Now lets take a look at the word "gift" in the dictionary : "something voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation" in other words, you get something thats initiated by the giving party... Odd thing is, no amount of GP will make people happy, while our dad's are the most happy people on earth when you give them their yearly set of birthday socks. Life lesson : be thankful for whatever it is you get!

This week, the milestone of 400k likes was reached, and the GP whining started for the Nth time, last time we got 50gp and i don't expect any gp gift higher then this to be given ever again.

Q: Why no (big) GP gifts? Is is because the devs are asses?
A: No, i really think that the devs wouldn't mind giving a couple of 100 gp for free. It's players who are the asses. For example; a 200gp gift. Most people would say "jeezguyse thnx for teh gp" ... but a smaller part of the community thinks " 1x new character=100gp, 100gp+200gp=300gp...100x new character=30000gp .. now lets start a new clan and make 100 new characters" ... well, stuff like this will happen .. Do you still think free GP is a good idea?

SP gifts would be nice as well, but the devs are allready working on redesigning SP that can be bought or gained via the now gone "skill specialist" skill. Purpose of this probably is to make sure every player, paying or not, should have access to the same SP pool, so skill cannot be bought. A SP gift now, would mean a disadvantage to players who start lateron, so i doubt you will ever be given SP. (perhaps 1...roulette wheel can do it as well)

Now what would be good gifts? (this is purely speculation from my own perspective.)

* Xp buff for a limited amount of time. (i hope to see more of these. Last christmas's double xp was sweet as hell)
* Free carreerist buff (well minus the profile blocking =) )
* Free Skillresets (optionally with 100% gp or even cr refund.)
* A new map. (Do gifts have to be something you can physically own or would any token of appreciation do?)

I dont think giving free weapons away is a good gift, one player gets a P90Devgru, and the other gets the pmm12. Don't get me wrong here, the pmm12 is a sweet little pistol but, you can imagine a lot of dissapointment.

Anyway, whatever it is, i'm thankful for it. The pm gift we received last time cracked me up so hard that i kept on lolling at all the dissapointed and angry comments...this was one of the best gifts EVER.

Orgy out.