**Mastery Loadouts**
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
Due to issues related to the release of Mastery Loadouts, the "free swap" period will be extended.
The new end date will be May 1st.
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Yes, I didn't exactly reply to OP's idea. Coz I'm against any talk of ads making their way into mcoc in general.
Anyone would be very naive to think kbm would find sponsors and let people opt out of watching at least a few seconds of ads. I don't see sponsors signing up for that either. Unless they make it be like a premium service (part of the sigil) where u pay not to see any of it.
So no (If I'm allowed an opinion..)
Let's examine those ideas one at a time. You're implying Coronavirus could have a negative impact on MCOC revenue. According to the same analysis that suggested Q1 2021 was lower than previous comparable quarters, 2020 was the highest revenue year for MCOC. So while anyone can say "yeah but what about in the future" it would be literally just making things up to say that even though 2020 was the best year ever, we should still assume Coronavirus could have a large negative impact. But let's say that this does have some future impact. People have less money to spend on things, and they will have to tighten their budgets. In that sort of environment, why would Kabam want to run in-game ads which divert their playerbase's spending towards other things? Isn't every single ad basically telling their existing playerbase to spend some of their very limited cash on something other than the game? If you think your players are going to have less cash to spend, why would you encourage them to spend it elsewhere? That seems highly counterproductive.
There is a new Marvel game coming out. There's always new Marvel games coming out. This is not the first, or the second, or the third time that's happened. To the extent that future games are a threat to MCOC, they've always been and always will be a future threat. The fact that MCOC has weathered them all so far suggests it isn't easy to steal players away from it. If anything, history shows MCOC's resilience. Of course, *eventually* something will come along and knock it off its throne, but that's the fate of all games, whether we add in-game ads or not. In fact, in-game ads could make MCOC more vulnerable to future games, because what are those ads going to be advertising? Swiffer mops? Anything that diverts eyeballs away from the game and towards something else makes the game more vulnerable to having something else steal players away. So to the extent that future games might be a threat, the one thing you don't want to do is lower player engagement from the game. While you have their attention, you want that attention focused on your game, not on other shiny things that distract them and take them away from the game. The more engaged they are in your game, the harder it is for another game to steal them away. The more they are looking at other things, the more the game experience gets diluted, and the easier it becomes for another game to steal them away. If you're spending time constantly breaking from the game to watch an ad, why not break away from the game and try out some new game?
So even if you believe the two looming threats to the game are serious threats, logically they would suggest in-game ads would be something to avoid, as in-game ads would exacerbate both threats to the game.
Hasbro is a toy company and admittedly it isn't what it used to be so they are licensing their ip everywhere to maintain profits but they won't be offended by other games running ads because those aren't treated as direct competition.
Marvel isn't going to want an ad for a DC game, or an mmorpg that counters their direct bottom line. Also we don't know what the extents are on the exclusivity deal with Kabam for mcoc. All we know about the Marvel deal is that they get access to early sketches and designs for all the movie tie-in characters so they can begin working on the constructs but that's it. We don't know how their marketing is determined, we don't know how the revenues divided up, we don't even know if by the contract, if they're even allowed to run ads because of Marvel. So as relevant as this conversation can be, there are still a lot of details we have no access to so it's all about the speculation.
They can’t even implement monthly content bug free more than 50% of the time, you want Kabam to put ads in also? Are you out of your mind?????