(05-15-2014, 04:47 PM)Naunet Wrote:(05-15-2014, 04:40 PM)Ignacius Wrote: To whit, on planet Earth, for every human on the planet, there are a million ants. Â I defeated their dominance in our office with a bi-annual chemical spray.
And yet you will never be able to eliminate even a tiny fraction of all ants. You're powerless before their combined might.
Ants don't dominate the planet, though, they just annoy us by feeding on the scraps of food we drop.
I just think that free-to-play sounds like a better concept than it actually is logically. Â Games are made specifically so that companies can make money and to operate an MMORPG does take some upkeep per player. Â So they have to go where the money is. Â Subscription games, as a business model, are rewarded by keeping people playing the game and paying for it month to month. Â Free to play tends to focus on selling stuff to us.
What aggravates me is that subscription games are ALSO doing microtransaction stuff now. Â That's one of the things that REALLY pisses me off about Blizzard. Â I pay a subscription to a game company so that I get content they develop continually and at a high level, ostensibly. Â Instead, they like to advertise content that we should buy as a microtransaction. Â It doesn't matter if that stuff is optional, just pets and mounts. Â I'm like, "I PAID YOU TO DEVELOP THAT! Â DON'T MAKE ME PAY FOR THAT!"
CCP, for its part, at least doesn't make you pay for the expansions they develop the way Blizz does in addition to their subscription... but that's because they're doing that "I'll buy game time for real money and sell it on an auction house so I can P2W." Â Carbine already pissed me off by saying they're copying that model, no matter how much less important money is in that game.
I mean... it's a subscription game! Â That was the point behind paying a subscription, so that I don't have to deal with F2P and P2W bullshit and instead I get a steady stream of development.
I think every developer should pick which they're doing. Â Are you making people pay for the game without a sub so you just throw a slew of expansions at us, making people pay for other crap so that people with money can chew on fourteen year olds who don't have the money for a sub, or make us pay a sub. Â Don't mix and match.
