Originally Posted by
Grimreepr
Bar none this has to be THE greediest move i have ever seen done in ANY "FREE FOREVER" game. Pay to play has been around for ages, but this new pay not to play is just one thing, GREED!
Those that complain that they may no be able to retaliate when attacked because the person threw up vacation mode: So what? Vacation mode wont last forever, and when he's in it he can't do ANYTHING. While you can build more of an army, so when he does come out of it he's dead.
They have the game mechanics already in place to negate the above instance. Once you attack anything, put a debuff on the player that blocks vacation mode for 24 hours. Much like the 12 hour debuff from a peace treaty. Once you come off of Vacation mode, put another 30 day debuff on that blocks any further vacation mode for a period of 30 days.
Once can never tell when a family emergency can hit, FORCING time away from the game. Weddings, funerals, graduations and many other things can force people to be away from the game. Making people pay to go to grandmas' funeral or watch cousin Sally get hitched, is just plain greedy.
There are many ways to implement a vacation mode without dipping your greedy mitts into everyones pocket book every time you turn around. Your new motto should be "FREE FOREVER as long as you play, when you don't play, we take your firstborn".
All this incorporation of Vacation mode does is encourage account sharing so people can go to that family outting and not have to worry, because someone else is playing their account.
Vacation mode SHOULD be free and have restrictions so that people CAN'T use it to dodge attacks. Plus vacation mode should NOT be able to be popped any time you want in quick succession. You use it, you are locked out for 2 days minimum or until cancelled, and once off, can't trigger it again for a set ammount of time. Be it one month, two months or three.
There NEEDS to be some form of mode that a person can walk away from Evony for a period of time free of charge, and come back to it knowing everything is still there. There should NOT be any kind of monetary charge for a person NOT playing the game. You did say this was a "FREE FOREVER" game, right?