E-Mail Inactive/Old Players

[Shisnaught]

My idea is simple:
E-Mail ALL player e-mails on file with more than 60 days inactivity, let them know that the game is now F2P; and that the people who bought full copies before F2P have massive benefits over the new F2P players. I never once got this e-mail; and it's painful to say so. I would have been back the very second PotBS went free. And, I know this would be an easy thing to accomplish.

[Wabbit]

Great idea. SWTOR is already doing this

[CaptainWallace]

5 stars from me. Maybe 60 days of inactivity is a bit low just to tell them it's F2P but it's practically free advertising.

[Shisnaught]

Originally Posted by CaptainWallace 5 stars from me. Maybe 60 days of inactivity is a bit low just to tell them it's F2P but it's practically free advertising.

I'm sure they'd set their own time frame on when to e-mail. But, yeah.... they HAVE the information of people who only left back when major overhauls happened (IE: PR's nerfed into the ground after release). A lot of us were unhappy with how tumultuous changes seemed to become and bailed. Which I now regret.

[BSho2]

Originally Posted by Wabbit Great idea. SWTOR is already doing this

Lol yea they told me my companion misses me

Great Idea, this could really help bring people back to the game.

[macer123]

Their communication has always been horrible. Their outreach to the gaming sites, non-existent. Look at some of the really umm, sub-par games compared to POTBS. I'll select World of Tanks...easy one, crap pvp, crap skill trees, crap conquest - yet they have tons more players, before they went public I doubt 3 days went by without e-mails, I still get e-mails from them. I think just about every game still e-mails me, even when I've asked to be removed from their mailing lists.....

This place just makes me wonder......

[Commador]

Originally Posted by macer123 Their communication has always been horrible. Their outreach to the gaming sites, non-existent. Look at some of the really umm, sub-par games compared to POTBS. I'll select World of Tanks...easy one, crap pvp, crap skill trees, crap conquest - yet they have tons more players, before they went public I doubt 3 days went by without e-mails, I still get e-mails from them. I think just about every game still e-mails me, even when I've asked to be removed from their mailing lists..... This place just makes me wonder......

Don't mean to pick on you macer lol. But yes POTBS doesn't really do much in the ways of advertising, etc. WoT is atleast doing stuff to fix the problems, etc. 10x faster than POTBS (a little exaggerated maybe)

It would be great to have the emails sent out. I'd love just to have some very old players come back on for a minute or so, just to catch up, etc.

[moneysnatch]

Not a bad idea actually, I know of 3 people that came back recently because they found out the game was f2p.

[coce19]

Well,they dont really gain massive advantage over ftp,as you can upgrade 95% of the content that captains club gets,thats unlikely in other games.

[Shisnaught]

FLS, seriously... please, do not miss out on this. The fact I was still able to access my old characters from ~6mo. after release is evidence that you have the e-mails on-file. Please, jump on this idea ASAP. More players means more revenue, and all for the cost of having one of your developers spend time making a mass e-mail script.
This is an idea that takes no actual effort on your part; no debate. It's a simple matter of reaching out to the oldies and enticing them back into one of the most original MMO experiences they've ever had. If it weren't for running into an F2P player on a browser game, I would have had no clue...

Originally Posted by coce19 Well,they dont really gain massive advantage over ftp,as you can upgrade 95% of the content that captains club gets,thats unlikely in other games.

By default (5 ships, 100 storage, 10 econ), that's not true. A lot of people come to "F2P" games and never buy a single thing. By comparison, I think the old timers might actually subscribe at a higher rate than F2P'ers; despite having fewer reasons to do so.