Discussion: Pox Nora at PlayStation Experience Event

Going to attach a big giant WTF to this extremely random statement and the idea that gaming businesses somehow deal with the president

 

From what I understand, the trading limitation on PS4 is a Playstation limitation, not a Pox programming omission. The accounts aren't really linked. When you submit request to transfer, it is a one-time thing. Then when a new release comes out, you need to decide to purchase on PC or PS4, but they will ONLY appear on whichever one you purchase them on, not the other. This is also a rule from Playstation, as they do not make any money on PC purchases, but they do get a percentage of purchases on PS4. This is the disadvantage of marketing with Playstation, the same limitations would appear on XBox and Wii, if we went that direction. The runes you purchase on PS4 will be through the Playstation Store, not through DOG.

I had a similar issue with Nintendo with Rock Band on Wii. All song purchases were done through the Wii store, not directly through Harmonix (Rock Bank developer). The Wii store stopped supporting the Rock Band songs, so you could not re-download your songs your previously purchased or purchases new songs because they were all purchased through Wii store, not Harmonix. You also could not transfer your songs to Playstation or XBox versions. It was very painful to lose all those songs I spent all that money on. However, this has happened ever since online games/updates existed. I had the same issue with SOE (Pirates, owned every card they had, and they shut it down, also with Star Wars Galaxies, including the online card game). It happens on PC, Playstation, XBox and Wii. Bottom line, it is a limitation with the console, or the company that controls the purchases.

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i have a question, this game is great but is not new player friendly on the basis that even though you just joined if you did pvp you can still end up going against alot higher ranks, i think its great being crossplatform
and port our accounts over. but not for new players which is that not one of the main reasons going to psn get a new audiance. will there be a new ranking system to prevent this or a better intro into the game where you unable to do ranked?

 

Theoretically, once the game gets an influx of a ton of new players, the matchmaker would have an easier time finding someone of similar rank.

 

so I guess u eventually have to choose an account. (still just speculating) psn or pc..
I mean I guess u can have 2,,, but even if we have alts like here,, we all have a main.
like if buy a campaign to get an non-tradable lim,,, I think peeps would want them all on 1 acc.

 

can PSN and pc users trade together? i read they can fight together.

 

can you freely swap your pc and PSN accounts back and forth whenever you like? im guessing no from what a green said something like you can do this only once? why?

 

Short answer, Sony won't allow it. Long answer:

 

sounds like PSN trading will be all kinds of fkd up... are they unable to collect the previous limited runes?

sorry for posting q's and thinkings across multiple threads.

 

Plenty of card games have done away with trading altogether and focused on the collecting, and it doesn't seem to have done Hearthstone or Pokemon any harm.

To be honest, at this point, I think trading can be more of a chore than anything - it is slow, it is confusing, it is frustrating to be ripped off.

I wonder if pox wouldn't be better off as a pure CCG.

 

Sounds like PC will have a huge advantage over PS players around expansion times...

Can't wait to drink the tears of my victim console players!

 

Accounts will be duplicated (one on PC the other on PS4)? Or once I migrate to PS4, my PC account is erased?

Also, just to clarify. When you say PS4 accounts won't be able to trade, you mean PS4 players won't be able to trade with their peers? Or are you just talking about the PC-PS4 link?

 

It will just duplicate it, not erase anything on your PC account

They are saying trading doesn't exist on PS version at all

 

no ,, it wont be erased,,, but it will be like having 2 separate accounts,(after u clone it),,, if u gain things on one account,, it will not show a gain on your other account,,, but yea u can go back n forth and play on whatever one u want.

 

I see... They will probably make it up for the lack of trade with better forge ratios else it would make no sense to have a PS4 account. Would be hell to get the runes you want every expansion...

 

can you at least make it so you can clone your account multiple times? like buy everything on the PC, then just overwrite your old data? That would be MUCH better.

Also, the Japanese and the Chinese don't usually get along, I don't think we should cite Tencent as precedent for why something isn't pushed through on their end xD

 

making deals bra

 

@Sokolov can you comment on this. the free to play module has definitely improved a lot since you guys took over but definitely not enough that we could live without trading. soooo how are you guys approaching alternative rune acquisition. will rewards be better or will there be improved forge ratios