With this community? Their best option is to keep going with how they are doing. Whenever they admit fault, the community uses that against them. Whenever they have two way discussions with the masses, people think that ideas are promises and then will yammer on for years about why X thing wasn’t implemented when it was said in passing that it is something they would ‘like’ to do, and not ‘are going’ to do.
Its a good direction, but it will actually take more than that. There’s metrics on everything a player does. From how they allocate points, to what they build, to when they login. Everytime you login, Funcom Live Services records that. Everytime someone opens up the challenges, its recorded, everytime you look at the bazaar page, that’s counted too.
Not only do you have to stop buying, but you need to stop playing as well. Like not even launching the application. The question is, are the issues great enough for people to actually have the fortitude to do so? That’s not my question. That’s Funcom’s question.
When people login to ‘just refresh decay’. Its a login. Even if they aren’t actively playing, its still a login. Which means someone still has the game installed. Someone is still getting updates. Someone is still able to view the Battlepass and Bazaar. And you know what? FC is correct to make that assessment.
Because even when a player becomes a serial refresher and doesn’t play anymore. They are going to eventually get curious and ‘just take a look’. Eventually they might see something they like and may be tempted to pull the trigger and purchase something, or God forbid purchase some crom coin to do so. Its human nature to give in to temptation if there is already a slight desire. Which there is if one isn’t quitting cold turkey.
This isn’t an advocation for a boycott. The information above isn’t my opinion, but just the stating facts of the situation for players to make better informed decisions. You can continue to login as normal and endure the issues you might have or decide not, that’s entirely up to you.
Just understand I won’t be partaking in such an activity (or rather the ceasing of such) myself as the issues I personally have aren’t frustrating enough to warrant such a response.
But the above mentioned actions are what is required from a good chunk of the playerbase to get drastic changes in direction. Right now a few forum posts or a few messages in a livestream chat are just the normal every day rumblings about changes. Don’t think for a moment that such activities aren’t expected or accounted for. They aren’t surprised or shocked at the responses.