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2011-06-25 00:43:17
(This post was last modified: 2011-06-25 00:57:12 by PixelTwist.)
AwzmSauze Wrote:People should Subscribe to Members because they want to enjoy the rest of the game, not be obliged to get it or you miss out.
Nah, that's my bad, I didn't fully read that before I posted that. It should say:
AwzmSauze Wrote:People should Subscribe to Members because they want to enjoy the rest of the game and the skills, not be obliged to get it or you miss out on items that have their own individual equipment slot.
It's not exactly that they are trying to make more money that I'm against. It's the way they are going about marketing it.
Look at Dungeoneering for example. They release the Skill and then talk about how they would like to give something to non-members so they don't feel left out. Then bam they release items back-to-back which (I guess will be seen my F2P players via the Equipment slot but won't be usable) they can't use.
They market them as 'extras' which you get for Subscribing to the game however they are leaning towards the fact that the 'game' is the F2P and the 'extras' are when you pay for membership and then even after that you get get this other cool stuff! ... Extra extras anyone?
(2011-06-25 00:21:53)Evaluate Wrote: What makes this so much different than any other bit of member's content? It's not like this stuff is going to only be here a limited time. Subscribing to membership to enjoy the "rest of the game" would automatically gain them points to get access to this content, so they're not really missing out.
It's not different to members content. Thats what is annoying for me. It's the fact that they've made it look like something extra special when it really isn't, it's just another way to make money and advertise the price tag on membership (and is sure as hell just another 'average update'), which imo has been blown out into something massive.
Sure, if they released a whole new area/continent/awesome thing into the game and bumped up the membership fee - or had to pay for it separately, sure. It's just the fact that they could have quite simply rolled this into a regular update rather than really pretending it to be more than it actually is.
Thanks for the post though ^^
Just thought i'd add that I think it looks as though they are trying to lean towards an online shop kinda thing and I really don't think that will do anything but make it worse for this game, especially with how people go about things they don't like. (Crazy flame spam/riots etc...) Lots of PC games are going for this type of business and it looks as though they are just sheeping around and following what others are doing without thinking about it.