I had this Idea and would like to hear your thoughts on it.
These last days I’ve been thinking about all the Games I played, MMOs and others, and at some point I just have a ridiculous amount of money, and no idea what to use it for, because I already owned everything I could possibly buy.
But there was one Game where this was never the case, Borderlands 2.
All because of a simple, diabolic device. The Slot Machine.
At one point in the Game you simply think that this 0.02% or 0.15% chance for an orange or purple item is worth all your money. Or maybe you just wanted to beat that stupid grenade throwing piece of metal.
So I was thinking, a Slot Machine in an MMO. But that alone would not have any use. I mean why playing it when you already have anything the machine could possibly drop. And even if it’s just about beating the machine, after winning the top price there is no reason to continue playing.
But then I though, why not put something in as the top price that nearly every MMO player wants, something that he normally can’t get in an MMO because it is against the basic rules.
Something unique, something that only exists one single time.
Yet is completely worthless in a Gameplay point of view.
Let’s say the very first player who ever gets the top price in the Slot Machine gets a costume, a tonic, a Blaster, anything that shows “you are the first winner, congratulation”
the second who ever wins the top price gets the same thing, but for him/her it says “you are the second…”
and so on, it wouldn’t have a limit,
one day it would be “you are the 29746581 winner, congratulation”
But that’s not all, let’s say every winner is also listed somewhere in the Internet, on the Guild Wars 2 Homepage for example, and as it’s the nature of the system, you could stand on this list more than once.
Now what to do with that list, there could be a real life lottery between all the names on the list, like a plushy or a t-shirt, or something the Anet staff has signed or whatever.
And being on this list more then once increases your winning chance.
Though there should be a limitation depending on the length of the list, like you can’t be in it more then 10 times when there are not even 10000 on the list at all.
The whole point of that, a huge money sink, or a sink for anything you name as costs for pulling at the machine.
Though that is all just a really rough Idea, and I would like to hear some thought on it.