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That would be awesome.
Even if you prefer your gaming from MS, with Sony and Nintendo supporting the Free to Play model, they have to surely start allowing it.
Even if you prefer your gaming from MS, with Sony and Nintendo supporting the Free to Play model, they have to surely start allowing it.
Animal Crossing Free-to-play? It seems like it could work if they sold items, clothes, etc for real money (as long as you could also get them in game).
I would not call guildwars 2 free2play at all, sure the server costs are covered in the purchasing price and the price of the expansions later on but that does not make it free2play at all.
I wonder if this will be another one of those "Wii-U supports it, just not at launch" things (trololol)
LoL has staggered it's XP/Ip gain over the years, and they charge 20-30$ for "ultimate" skins. They have an ass backwards way of micro transactions.
I still think Nintendo is missing a potential gold mine by not supporting the NFC tech in the Wii U Gamepad. Maybe they will down the line but right now it just seems like it's there for the sake of being there.
I love the idea of physical DLC that I can still play 15+ years down the road if I want. If Nintendo released Mario figures for New Super Mario Bros. U that would give me extra worlds and other things I'd love it, and seeing as Skylanders has been pretty successful for Activision, I can only imagine how well Nintendo would do with some of their franchises.
I love the idea of physical DLC that I can still play 15+ years down the road if I want. If Nintendo released Mario figures for New Super Mario Bros. U that would give me extra worlds and other things I'd love it, and seeing as Skylanders has been pretty successful for Activision, I can only imagine how well Nintendo would do with some of their franchises.
Valve is the only company that i think does a good job of F2P. For example, in Dota 2 you get every single hero for free and only pay for cosmetics, where in League of Legends you'll either have to play for 1000's of hours or pay hundreds of dollars at this point to unlock all the heroes in the game. So besides Valve, F2P games have been leaving a bad taste in my mouth and I can't say I'm a fan of the way a lot of them do things.
Why is it so hard for me to imagine a customer-, not profit-focused f2p from Nintendo? Harvest Moon made into farmville. Pokemon mmo but with huge in-game fees for items or the option to use money for $.10 pokeballs.
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@arttemis I really don't get why people like tribes ascend so much, the old tribes vengeance was more fun imo and arena shooters should not have classes imo.
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Seriously, I am going to be stubborn, and refuse to play free-to-play games. If I can't buy your game outright, I don't want it. I don't care how "free" it is (it never is), I don't want it.
Seriously, I am going to be stubborn, and refuse to play free-to-play games. If I can't buy your game outright, I don't want it. I don't care how "free" it is (it never is), I don't want it.
Eww. And GW2 is Buy-To-Play by the way, it's just that it'll have a cash shop in addition to that.
F2P is only good if:
*The items on offer are cosmetic in nature
*Not prohibitively expensive ($12 for a costume in Rusty Hearts? Fuck that, how about $3?)
*The base-game is free and you pay for additional questing-zones and other expansions (a la D&D Online)
If it isn't one of the above, it's wasting my time. Just like Diablo 3 is wasting my time even though it isn't F2P. The game is so obviously balanced in favor of using the (real money) Auction House it's ridiculous.
F2P is only good if:
*The items on offer are cosmetic in nature
*Not prohibitively expensive ($12 for a costume in Rusty Hearts? Fuck that, how about $3?)
*The base-game is free and you pay for additional questing-zones and other expansions (a la D&D Online)
If it isn't one of the above, it's wasting my time. Just like Diablo 3 is wasting my time even though it isn't F2P. The game is so obviously balanced in favor of using the (real money) Auction House it's ridiculous.
"Guild Wars 2 (while there's an entry fee), is paving the way for a new generation of free to play games"
Well, for people whove never played GW1 maybe ;)
I think its mostly Microsoft who gave DLC a bad rep, since they have fits whenever a developer wants to give content away for free or at a reasonable price. But knowing Nintendo theyre probably just going to make the DLC situation worse some how.
Well, for people whove never played GW1 maybe ;)
I think its mostly Microsoft who gave DLC a bad rep, since they have fits whenever a developer wants to give content away for free or at a reasonable price. But knowing Nintendo theyre probably just going to make the DLC situation worse some how.
Yeah, the Wii U can support F2P, but I doubt many if any will put their F2P games on the system. There's a ton of red-tape and waiting approvals and crap that I'm sure many won't want to deal with. Even more so, it is Nintendo, probably the most notorious for getting your games on their system. They'd probably want you to pay for 20k licenses or something, even if its F2P, so they can make money out of it.
If League of Legends is the new free-to-play model, then fuck videogames. That is one of the worst distribution game designs ever. You're essentially locked out of the real version of the game unless you spend over 40-50 hours just to hit level 20.
Want to learn to jungle at level 10? Too bad, you don't haven enough armor defense runes/masteries for it to be viable. Want to play with level 30 friends if you happen to be at a low level? Too bad you'll probably be faced off with people that will have an automatic statistical advantage over you, because they have more runes and masteries. Want to have a diverse selection of characters? Grind more, because you need more money for a more diverse rune set. And by the way, you'll need to grind more get more than 2 rune pages. Thanks Riot.
I'm geek raging because the entire concept behind LoL is simply GRIND MORE. It's hideously egregious, because they're FORCING you to grind at the expense of learning/understanding game mechanics. And Riot is incessantly pushing the game as "competitive," but anyone who wants to play the game at a competitive level is hobbled by 50 hours of grinding. It's the equivalent of removing the ability to magic box mutas in SC2 until you reach Platinum level. Or the equivalent of parrying being locked away in Street Fighter 3rd Strike until you play 30 hours of gameplay. It's just ridiculous on every level imaginable.
If Riot would just let me spend $50 to buy the entire game with characters, enough rune pages, and runes, and 30/30/30 masteries, then I wouldn't mind. But for some inexplicable reason, I can't do that. So I'm forced to play 50 hours of gameplay just to unlock elements of the game that are necessary at a high level.
What stupidity. I earnestly hope that no other game ever goes down this path of development.
Want to learn to jungle at level 10? Too bad, you don't haven enough armor defense runes/masteries for it to be viable. Want to play with level 30 friends if you happen to be at a low level? Too bad you'll probably be faced off with people that will have an automatic statistical advantage over you, because they have more runes and masteries. Want to have a diverse selection of characters? Grind more, because you need more money for a more diverse rune set. And by the way, you'll need to grind more get more than 2 rune pages. Thanks Riot.
I'm geek raging because the entire concept behind LoL is simply GRIND MORE. It's hideously egregious, because they're FORCING you to grind at the expense of learning/understanding game mechanics. And Riot is incessantly pushing the game as "competitive," but anyone who wants to play the game at a competitive level is hobbled by 50 hours of grinding. It's the equivalent of removing the ability to magic box mutas in SC2 until you reach Platinum level. Or the equivalent of parrying being locked away in Street Fighter 3rd Strike until you play 30 hours of gameplay. It's just ridiculous on every level imaginable.
If Riot would just let me spend $50 to buy the entire game with characters, enough rune pages, and runes, and 30/30/30 masteries, then I wouldn't mind. But for some inexplicable reason, I can't do that. So I'm forced to play 50 hours of gameplay just to unlock elements of the game that are necessary at a high level.
What stupidity. I earnestly hope that no other game ever goes down this path of development.
This sounds awesome and promising, I'd have to agree with "Max-", I think Nintendo would really benefit from a Pokemon MMO, or a 3D open world Pokemon game, since the Wii U is going to have some crazy good graphics, it could happen.
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