Easy come easy goes - F2P

Volla

Worst decision ever made in mmo's short lived history of games is the f2p model and now comes yet another but with a twist that they gonna earn short lived money on some sales on Xbox,Ps4. Once they buy there is no more money going in and there for the customer support and the development of the game will be suffering in the end and then the game will die. It's unavoidable.

Who ever made this decision is the greedy investors that don't see this anything other than a money cow they can milk as long it drops, as soon it ends they leave with all the cash.

technohic

Revenue is not an issue when going free to play. This is actually going buy to play though and you techically can still sub and they seem to be providing plenty of perks to do so.

That said; here is data on the whole revenue question



http://www.superdataresearch.com/market-data/mmo-market/

The only real concern is if it would be pay to win and it doesn't sound like they are doing anything that looks like that to me yet.

Volla

Lord of the Rings, Conan, SWOTR, just named a few that failed miserably with F2P systems. that shart don't say anything of what the players want or what community will be after.

just lets hope its not P2W

technohic

SWTOR is still going strong despite issues that have nothing to do with their cash shop. It has more to do with stale content and just copying WoW as it only source of creativity, and their bastardized version of the Hero engine limiting what they can do.

That said; there are things there that I hope they don't do here. One good sign is you cannot sell your cash shop items to someone else for gold. That creates inflation so I'm glad thats not going to be the case here. I also hope the don't do anything to the champion system the way SWTOR did the legacy system where it requires gold or can be unlocked via the cash shop. That starts bordering on pay to win.

Cosmetics, pets and mounts (which are also cosmetic so long as they don't have better stats) are fine by me. I'm just wondering if they will maintain as high of revenue as SWTOR did because I think a lot of SWTORs is due to the RNG packs they sell with just a small chance to get rare items.

asteldian

P2W or not is the least of my issues with F2P/B2P the big issues are the cutting of a dev team, a dev team that wastes its time designing *** vanity items, and of course some of the crowds that come with F2P.
My favourite line in the various announcements is 'In Celebration of these announcements'. F**k you.
I am running out of MMOs worth playing, I fear my time in the MMO world is fading with this obsession of F2P

Aoife32001

asteldian wrote: »

I am running out of MMOs worth playing, I fear my time in the MMO world is fading with this obsession of F2P

I've been playing games for a long time, first on consoles and then PC. Consoles started going down hill after what was arguably the glory days of the SNES/PS2/PS3/etc. PC games continued to provide a complexity and depth that increasingly-pop console games started lacking, with the additional benefit of dedicated modding communities. MMOs had smaller, dedicated communities that drew me in, while off-line games had depth, complexity, and great modding potential.

Now MMOs are sucking up to a more-profitable but infinitely less challenging and shallow F2P mass market and off-line PC games are going the way of the mass-marketed/broad-appeal console games.

I can't blame corporations for going where the greater profit is. That said, everything is being reduced to the lowest common denominator to appeal to the broadest (and shallowest) market possible. When that happens, we end up with nothing but Kitsch.

It's like going from The Brothers Karamazov to Fifty Shades of Grey....

Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon, but I fear the glory days of classic PC gaming are going the same way of the consoles.