How would you change the login bonus?
I've been playing a few other F2P games lately, and I've seen a few other ways that login bonuses can be handled. Some set the daily login bonus globally and per-person - keep logging in every single day, and you've got a 30-day calendar of what you'll get every day. What if you miss a day? There's a couple of ways to handle that - either you start over at day 1, or you just don't get the loot from the day you missed and you keep going. The latter is more forgiving, obviously, and lets people plan ahead for if they absolutely have to miss a day, to make it hurt less regarding what they lose. They can also be planning ahead, "I have to log into Warframe on Thursday to get that free Split Chamber!"
Some only have certain days set in stone for everyone while the other days are random for each individual. Imagine getting random login bonuses, but then one day you get a notification on your Warframe app that if you log in today, you'll get a Vauban helmet, or a fusion core. That would be pretty sweet! And it could be a way to mitigate the RNG of mods - once in a while, DE could just put a rare but desired mod into the login rewards, maybe have a Serration put in there once a month for the new players who haven't found one yet.
In addition, some games only give you the login bonus after you play one mission (so it's more like a First Mission bonus), while others only require you to actually log in. What if Warframe had both? I know there's already a "First Mission" bonus, but it's very easy to miss, and I'm not exactly sure what the bonus applies to (Affinity? Credits?). What if you got an extra mod and a 30 minute credit+exp booster after completing your first mission of the day? If its rarity was also dependent on how many consecutive days you've logged in and/or your Mastery Rank, you have incentives to rank up and to keep coming back day after day. So after 7 days, you start getting a free rare mod or fusion core just for completing a single mission every day. Sure, it might just be fodder for fusion anyway, but it's better than getting 1600 secondary XP or something! (and now that I think about it, XP rewards should be given as a token which you can save for later and apply to any weapon you want...)
Well, that's all the ramblings suggestions I've got, but I still want to know - how would YOU change the login bonus?
Posted Sep 16, 2015, 7:01 AM UTC · edited