Stop the boosters being actual day time

[Menphues]

Hey devs,

The game currently it’s a huge greed predatory and the boosts themselves are good BUT they are real time.

So although the boosts are active and running. If a family issue or something comes up, they will still keep ticking down without loading the game.

I understand it incentivises people to play but it’s more forcing really and if you cannot because of other reasons is a trashy way to smack the players more.

Why not make it in game time over a set time instead of real day time.

[LegacyXI]

Blame Warframe. They did it first.

[Zack]

I was about to comment that Warframe is doing it too, but someone else already did it.
It doesn't make it okay, but sadly, it does set up a precedent. Most games do that now.

[Menphues]

Not every game does it but I never played Warframe so I do not know.

Also for the devs if one game company does it, does it make it the right thing to do? You know.

[LegacyXI]

Originally posted by Menphues (Kyle):

Not every game does it but I never played Warframe so I do not know.

Also for the devs if one game company does it, does it make it the right thing to do? You know.

If that game company is successful with the way they do things you will most likely see others copy them. Warframe has been doing the exact same formula for years which has been profitable. It only makes sense another company would copy almost every aspect.

[Sir Meowthius]

Real Time Boosters have been a thing since the day Korean and some Chinese Games came over to the West. If you played Cabal Online, Rakion, Space Cowboy (and whatever it got renamed to when it was re-re-leased), and many many others from the early 2000's. While its probably easy to add to a script a pause code when a player logs out, there is already a script running for the timer when its activated. Think of adding another line of code at a random point in the script when the player logs out just to pause it, but now do that for thousands of players. Thats how much more one top of the timer runner that the servers now add into computing and server load. Its not on the priority list.

[WickedDKS]

Call of Duty boosters waste away even if you aren't in a game. It is, how it is. Just don't accept the boosters until you are ready, it has a 12 day timer. Plan your playday and then accept them out of your mail.

[X Swing King X]

Originally posted by LegacyXI:

Blame Warframe. They did it first.

m pretty sure that Warframes Boosters only count down when u are in game. or i could be wrong havent played that for a long time.
but yea i think the boosters should only count down when u are in game.

[Dusklite]

Originally posted by LegacyXI:

Originally posted by Menphues (Kyle):

Not every game does it but I never played Warframe so I do not know.

Also for the devs if one game company does it, does it make it the right thing to do? You know.

If that game company is successful with the way they do things you will most likely see others copy them. Warframe has been doing the exact same formula for years which has been profitable. It only makes sense another company would copy almost every aspect.

If they did we'd have player trading and premium currency trading.

Also, every MMO and live service game I remember since way back when that offered boosters were this way. Years before Warframe did the very same thing.
Just because someone did it before doesn't mean it's a good thing, by the by. It's one of the major gripes I do have with Warframe, how it tries to force you to play because of FOMO. Real time boosters are just an aspect of that very same problem.

Originally posted by X Swing King X:

Originally posted by LegacyXI:

Blame Warframe. They did it first.

m pretty sure that Warframes Boosters only count down when u are in game. or i could be wrong havent played that for a long time.
but yea i think the boosters should only count down when u are in game.

No, they are right. They are real-time. Always had been.

[Menphues]

I do not accept ‘it’s the way it is and always been done’ but why is it? It’s time to change, just because they do it that way, doesn’t mean everyone has too.

Just like in work when something just doesn’t sit right. You feed it back to change it.