[2021] Tweets by Kurlancheek on 02 Jun

@dirtytigerx Many moons ago, I was at a big party weekend thing and ended up giving a "class" on clash of clans because a bunch of folks were playing and my then girlfriend mentioned I was highly ranked and could give them sweet strats. It was... weird.

@dirtytigerx Basically, that... gotta hide the nerdy pursuits until the time is right!

But if someone wanted to send a message within a few minutes of the previous broadcast, the cost doubled. There was no cap on this and the timer reset with each message sent.

It was simple. A player could spend $1 (or maybe even less?) to broadcast a text message to every player's chat. Since it was a PVP game, it's not hard to see the appeal here and the main use case of talking trash to other players/guilds.

The best and wildest game monetization feature ever made was almost 20 years ago, unsurprisingly, in a PVP MMO:🧵

I think about that feature and the motivations of those players a lot these days. *looks pointedly at the internet*

You'd regularly see players or guilds have an argument or try to one-up each other and realize they'd just spent THOUSANDS of dollars to try and save face, get the last word in, or just show off their strong wordplay.