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OMFG this just made my week. I've been waiting for what seems like an eternity for this game. Much thanks, Jordan.
Wow, a beta for this game, I saw a trailer that looked awesome a few weeks ago!
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Free to play? Pass.
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Free to play? Pass.
God I love how people hate free to play. They're giving you something for nothing and apparently this is enough for you to not bother at all.
@Blake no such thing as a free lunch. FTP monetization models are disgusting as fuck and I won't be a party to them.
Charge me honestly upfront, don't design a game to be a gradual money wringer, or worse a pay-to-be-competitive clusterfuck. FTP dictates game design choices that emphasize you opening your wallet over you having fun.
Charge me honestly upfront, don't design a game to be a gradual money wringer, or worse a pay-to-be-competitive clusterfuck. FTP dictates game design choices that emphasize you opening your wallet over you having fun.
So you can't play the game at all for free?
Also I like that you already know their complete business model despite them not announcing anything.
Also I like that you already know their complete business model despite them not announcing anything.
It is very expensive to make a well produced game, if they aren't charging up front, they need to make that money back through freeminum microtransactions - they can't just hope a few people open their wallets, they need to design the gameplay loops and systems to compel players to put money into their game.
If you can't think how this will effect player/game interaction though yourself, I won't waste my time explaining it.
If you can't think how this will effect player/game interaction though yourself, I won't waste my time explaining it.
I've been playing the new F2p blacklight and that game offers pretty much everything you need to be competitive for no cost.The only things you can pay for is extra things like emotes and shit I don't want. f2p games can be fun
If they handled their FTP model like Team Fortress 2 it would be great, but I doubt anybody but Valve is willing to do that.
@Silver You're in the minority of players who stick with that game then.
@Jibberwocky You mean by selling the game like normal for years to hundreds of thousands of people, and then making it FTP when it is 4 years old and had already had a successful retail run? That works ;)
If you want to bring Farmville monetization to real games, keep uncritically embracing FTP games.
If you're curious, this article went around last year and underlines alot of the problems
http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/
@Jibberwocky You mean by selling the game like normal for years to hundreds of thousands of people, and then making it FTP when it is 4 years old and had already had a successful retail run? That works ;)
If you want to bring Farmville monetization to real games, keep uncritically embracing FTP games.
If you're curious, this article went around last year and underlines alot of the problems
http://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-ghost-story/
@Stahlbrand
If you're obsessed with things like leaderboard and k/d rankings, then yes, I can see this being a(personal)issue. However, if you're just looking for some occasional fun, what's the problem with not having "the best" gear? For all we know, the paid content could be purely cosmetic.
Save judgment for when we actually know something about it.
If you're obsessed with things like leaderboard and k/d rankings, then yes, I can see this being a(personal)issue. However, if you're just looking for some occasional fun, what's the problem with not having "the best" gear? For all we know, the paid content could be purely cosmetic.
Save judgment for when we actually know something about it.
Its been a long time since ive heard anything on this.
Back then there was talk of it going to consoles but I guess they ditched that idea and went for FTP. Damn shame really... this was the most promising game at E3 and I would have gladly payed 60 for it even without a silly single player mode shoehorned in.
Back then there was talk of it going to consoles but I guess they ditched that idea and went for FTP. Damn shame really... this was the most promising game at E3 and I would have gladly payed 60 for it even without a silly single player mode shoehorned in.
Don't get all the F2P whiners at all. It's not a problem when done well. Play ten minutes of LoL or Tribes : Ascend beta and tell me you think they're wringing money out of you. As long as the monopoly dollars are there only to provide a shortcut for something you should be enjoying anyways, it's no probalo.
I think the free-to-play maneuver is a risky one, but I KNOW that it has the efficient potential to be the future of many games. After playing the Tribes: Ascent beta for some time, I can easily say that if more games (Hawken especially) adopt that model we have a bright f2p future.
EFF YES HAWKEN
EFF YES HAWKEN
My brain practically had a seizure when I read this news post, couldn't sign up fast enough. Omg how I can not wait for this games release, years and years and years of Mech Warrior type games being so few and far between its a god damn crime!
I hope the market saturates and the whole FTP business model bombs. They should at least give you the option of buying the game outright if you prefer.
And as someone else mentioned, the business model necessarily alters the game's design, which I really don't like. Never mind how you are supposed to keep any sense of balance when people can simply buy superior equipment and such.
And as someone else mentioned, the business model necessarily alters the game's design, which I really don't like. Never mind how you are supposed to keep any sense of balance when people can simply buy superior equipment and such.
You cannot make an indie online only game as anything other than FTP. Seriously, I'm not kidding. Go try and find a community for any of the others that have tried. Go ask how Lead and Gold did, or Shattered Horizon, or Section 8. For any single person that thinks the game is ass because of ftp, there will be 100 more that will try it for the same reason. Multiplayer games are nothing without players. If you don't have that, you don't have a game. So you MUST ensure there will be players to have any chance.
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