Back in February, Lord of the Rings Online kicked off another one of its promotions that I assume is meant to get people who already pay for the game to actually log in, rather than to get F2P players to pay; the promo gives free gold hobbit presents to VIP subbers every day instead of once a week.
Even as I was grumbling about how I never get anything good from the gold presents, I set a reminder on my phone and I logged in all but one of those days to get my freebies. And you know, toward the end of that run, I was actually considering sticking around instead of just logging right back out. I couldn’t believe it was happening, especially since I am wise to the trick, but just looking at my house and my cute little toons and doing familiar things like shuffling inventory and oooooh I forgot I made all that food last time and ohhh what a great name past me gave that hobbit and wow I don’t remember that costume and I wonder what’s big on the AH right now… and suddenly my 30-second login became 30 minutes and I was mentally shuffling around my play schedule.
If it didn’t work, they wouldn’t do it, right? Have daily login bonuses ever gotten you to stay in an MMORPG?
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