- DEZARATH
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- Honorable Member
Something I noticed about avatars, gear, and armor in gaming is that people will go with some extremes to attain them. On your last endeavor you implemented a grinding and soul crushing test of endurance with cR. People cheated, farmed, and hacked to beat the system. They couldn't stand the time involved to attain the items.
It comes down to time and what people were willing to sacrifice to reach the highest tiers of the game's perks over their competitors or friends. Some tried to beat the system, while others still persist to attain the armor legitimately. If only there was a way to get the Haunted Helmet/McGuffin faster.
You should consider on your next IP teaming up with Education. You have pretty extensive data base for players and stats that could be used to better the lives of some students by adding some extra incentive in the classroom and implementing a system between yourself and say local schools for unlocking items for staying in and passing their classes.
Gamestop and a host of other retailers who exclusively enjoy the extra guns, or that cool suit if you pre-order have an incentive for gamers to purchase early. Why not make some of the same digital swag with the incentive for young gamers to excel in academics? You could add a "T-bag the SAT" as a campaign for PR.
Basically ever verified "A" turned in by a student unlocks a Armor/Gun/Perk or whatever McGuffin the community is hunting for. The time spent in a classroom actually busting the books would have shorter time span for the payoff of said items for gamers over senselessly grinding, as well as jumping through vid challenges on the next Bungie game.
Right now developers need some positive PR especially if it's a FPS, or any game of violence. You guys are on the starting line again as you say in your VidDoc, so you might consider getting kids to read and actually participate in school. Even if it's only a few compared to those who would scoff the effort would be an achievement.
It's like betting money on Secretariat if your a charity when it comes to your brand name. I'm sure educators would be open to anything that would improve test results.
Anyways it's Idea that actually puts an Gamer to work to better his or her's own life while ending their friends killing streaks with some shiny new shield or mini bad ass gun because they payed attention in Chemistry.
Peace.
[Edited on 08.30.2011 6:40 AM PDT]