10 Free Astral Shards for Everyone! Suggestion for 10th year of DDO

[Mindos]

Why not seed the Astral Shard economy?? Giving away some coinage is the perfect way to jump start spending and desire/consumption!

I suggest, in this here suggestion forum, that Turbine gives 10 free AS to anyone who logs on during the 10th Year anniversery.

[FranOhmsford]

Why not seed the Astral Shard economy?? Giving away some coinage is the perfect way to jump start spending and desire/consumption!

I suggest, in this here suggestion forum, that Turbine gives 10 free AS to anyone who logs on during the 10th Year anniversery.

10 is absolutely nothing!

Make it 100 and you might just be on to something.

[Uska]

10 is absolutely nothing!

Make it 100 and you might just be on to something.

At the very least

[lifestaker]

I would like the logic of rewarding people who are playing, but reward those that have played for a long time with something more. Astral shards are kinda meh to be honest. XP weekends and things along that lines are nice but again are kinda meh for they happen all the time so hold nothing special. Free items are the best road in my eyes. Birthday cakes per character were nice, but auto granted items per character have been short lived as of late.

So.... how about go big logic. Non VIP players are granted vip status for 10 days. VIP players are granted bonus points, and special items (would say ottos boxes or something along that line, but they would most likely be BTA and be hard to convince logically form a business standpoint) based off the length of time that the account has help VIP status (reflect back several years). Points and shards would be nice, but would make me feel better if there was more. Have real events, not just run after a dev while watching his twitch feed. And maybe a forgiveness period for those that wish to reactivate old accounts that may have been locked out years ago for questionable activity (might be able to get more people back into the game if they could have their old characters back.)

[knightgf]

Meh, despite how many times the developers bungle up the game, I think they have something in mind for us that is worth more than 10 astral shards. However, if they have no idea, I think they should hire 10 developers to make the game better. Why give away half a million dollars on gifts for every character when they can spend it on making the game better for all of us?

[Enerdhil]

So.... how about go big logic. Non VIP players are granted vip status for 10 days. VIP players are granted bonus points, and special items (would say ottos boxes or something along that line, but they would most likely be BTA and be hard to convince logically form a business standpoint) based off the length of time that the account has help VIP status (reflect back several years)

So if you're short on content you'll be encouraged to buy vip by 10 days trial (and if you're not no lifer 10 days means nothing). If you already unlocked everything via TP you're useless and you'll get nothing. If you're already vip you'll be encouraged to subscribe it forever to get special rewards. So you're offering 10th birthday based on making more money? I don't think it's a good way to celebrate anything.

[Enoach]

Above any trinket of celebration...

Personally I would love to see them schedule Trivia Events at various times on the Servers as part of the Tenth Anniversary doing giveaways. Nothing big but maybe things like unique cosmetics or 250 TP, or say 2 hours running quest/raid with a Developer. Its 10 years, let the Devs take some time to be in the game interacting with the players.

[lifestaker]

So you're offering 10th birthday based on making more money? I don't think it's a good way to celebrate anything.

As much as it might be a shock, Turbine is a business. The games of DDO and LOTR are games that they offer use of as a way to make money. They put new content out and fix things to make people stick around so they can make money. They put on promotional events on weekends when more people play to encourage people playing the game and wanting more so that they can make money. Why is it so hard to think that they would use an anniversary as an event to encourage people to play the game, so that they can make money?

As far as VIP being nothing if you paid for everything already, well maybe that is an entire other issue. Personally I think VIP should offer more then non VIP when it comes to rewards, for have more of a standard investment into the game. They should get more then 10% xp vs the people who got everything out of the store. But, you fail to see it from the F2P person that does not own everything. 1 or 2 weekends of seeing what they don't have might make them play the game more and stay longer.

[Tahkhesis]

Why not seed the Astral Shard economy?? Giving away some coinage is the perfect way to jump start spending and desire/consumption!

I suggest, in this here suggestion forum, that Turbine gives 10 free AS to anyone who logs on during the 10th Year anniversery.

This reminds me of when W gave everyone 50 bucks. I forget why, but I'm like 90% sure I used it to buy Turbine Points, haha.

That's all I got, no strong feelings one way or another. But if it--or something like it happens--I'd hope it was called a Shard Exchange Stimulus Payout.

That's it for me. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

[PsychoBlonde]

This reminds me of when W gave everyone 50 bucks. I forget why, but I'm like 90% sure I used it to buy Turbine Points, haha.

That's all I got, no strong feelings one way or another. But if it--or something like it happens--I'd hope it was called a Shard Exchange Stimulus Payout.

That's it for me. I'll be here all week. Try the veal.

They have some kind of big thing in the works. No details aside from what Sev put in the producer's letter, tho.

I wouldn't be averse to free xp stones like they did for MOTU release tho