Pogo should make it to where the higher your rank would be then the higher the amount of tokens you would get off the game..see then people would play the games longer to reach that higher level for more tokies ;D
they do kind of do that all ready higher level played = more tokens
I think one of the areas they need to improve is the jackpot spinner. In some games you get very few tokens. :'(
Yes i agree john, i dont think the spinner should ever go below 100.
I hate the spinner sometimes. When it gives out 30 tokens, thats like a waste of 10 seconds. I lose more than that runnin for da bus. Do you really think pogo really gives out the 5000 jackpots? The winning names could be names created by pogo! There's always a conspiracy! BTW I think your ranking idea is good element( :-[apology ;))
Personally, no I don't think they give out the jp's. I was referring to the token payout. As you mention in some games you only get 30 points on a jp spin. ;) I think the lowest I have seen is 25. :'(
HA! i have that beat Homer i have got 0 a few times on the spin in Its outta here2 lmao imagine that.
You get the booby prize. ??? Never seen 0 before. ;)
Quote from: yz250rider on April 18, 2004, 10:02:11 AM
Do you really think pogo really gives out the 5000 jackpots? The winning names could be names created by pogo!
I guess you could start creating a log of winners/winner pics and see if any match....there are times i see a winners picture and swear I've seen it before. but with a different name
I dont know about how pogo does this token/rank thing but i got this idea off "word whomp wackdown" and see what im saying is, you know how the big carrot changes into cellery and all that when you play it so many times but when it changes they should make its token count go up 5 tokens so that way you would get 25 tokens everytimes you get the gofher to eat it, and then when you go up to the next rank then the tokens would go up 5. ;D
I hear what your saying but I'm guessing they would say that's why they have the difficulty levels. The higher the difficulty level the more tokens you get. ;)
well yea but not everyone can beat those higher difficulty levels. It still would be a good idea though if pogo wanted their customers to play longer :-\ :P
I don't think they care how long you play. I think all they care about is if you paid $$$ ;)
lol i knew someone was going to say that. its still a perk to buy the club though just as the ranks themselves are...
Quote from: Homer on April 18, 2004, 10:40:45 AM
I don't think they care how long you play. I think all they care about is if you paid $$$ ;)
I wonder how much $$ pogo pulls in each month
The best way to find out is to go to pogo and when you see they have like 250 thousand people logged in count up all the members playing the games and times that by whatever it is people pay for club lol :P
Quote from: Transponder7 on April 18, 2004, 10:18:41 AM
HA! i have that beat Homer i have got 0 a few times on the spin in Its outta here2 lmao imagine that.
I have gotten 0 token in a spin in dominos quite a few times. :'(
dang....that sucks..intil now i havent ever heard of anyone getting 0 ???
In backgammon if you play against yourself and let the timer run out to win, when you get the bonus spin it always gives you zero tokens, atleast this is the way it has been for me. Also easiest way to win challenges with this game and some others!
That is why i like cash break the spinner there does not go below 20,000 and pop up don't go below 250.
they do give out the jp's....i put that person on my friends list and was talking to them about it
EA.com, including pogo, is about 1% of EA
The best way to verify this is to look at last year's financial statements. They are a matter of public record.
It would be foolish for a $2.5 billion company to get cheap on the jackpots they offer to get people to use their site. The company makes six million dollars a day and pays out a hundred thousand a month. That's chump change for them.
They do not make their money on Pogo. They make their money on the video games people buy. That's explained in their annual report too.
Quote from: bob@pogopal on April 19, 2004, 12:53:09 PM
It would be foolish for a $2.5 billion company to get cheap on the jackpots they offer to get people to use their site. The company makes six million dollars a day and pays out a hundred thousand a month. That's chump change for them.
A penny saved is a penny gained ;) Yes it would be foolish for them to cheap out on the JP's but i wouldnt doubt it for a minute...Besides how do you explain people cashing in millions of tokies and getting nothing...And as DJ said, why would they continue to talk about this Carl guy if other people continually win just as much as he did... I dont kare how much their worth i still and always will think they rig the JP's :-\
Multiplication and Division. A million people cashing in a million tokens is a trillion tokens, and a million tokens is only a millionth of that.
No matter how many tokens get cashed in, the probability of winning is not going to be any better than the number of prizes divided by the number of people cashing in for a chance to win. I once worked for a man who originally came from Italy, and he wryly observed at the time that everyone in Italy was a millionaire. The lira traded at something like 10,000 to the dollar.
I have heard of corporate stupidity, but cheating on the prize payouts would be astronomical stupidity in this case. My guess is the prizes cost EA a fraction of what supporting the game servers costs them.
a million millionares...if pogo had that many muillionares i would think there would be more people online at a time than only 250k (at the peak)
i think pogo rigs their JP's because of how easy it would be...to come up with a name in 5 seconds to give a $5,000 JP to... seems simple enough to me, $5,000 = 5 secs an easy way to cut their costs. I see your point to where a company with so much money tryin to cut their costs with something so little as a JP spin..but you never know what people would go to what measures :-\
I was once in a room when they annouce USER A won the $$$ jackpot. well they wasn't in my room but I'd assume the message was shown in all the same game chatrooms. To bad I didn't put them in freinds list to follow up and ask them Questions
They announce the winner in all the chat rooms for that game. ;)
ive only seen someone win (in another room) twice and that was because they gave out two JP's within maybe 30 mins.
I saw the recent winner of Fortune Bingo win her jp of 520$- she was in the same room as myself. What sucks about it was, after checking out her profile- she had been a member of pogo only a week, and club pogo 2 days! Talk about beginners luck! I have talked to her several times since then and she says that she believes everything is legitamate because she had to fill out a few different forms to claim it.