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Poll: Which format have you spent the most money on?
Theocritus
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This isn't which do you think is best, but literally which have you spent the most money on?
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F2P is fairly new to me so I would have to say P2P. However, I think I spend more often on F2P games and given the same time with F2P as I have had with P2P I think F2P will take a bit more from me. I am not disgruntled though, I enjoy supporting games that I think are making it worth while. Lately that has been Path of Exile, APB: Reloaded, and I sunk a little into Lord of the Rings Online a few months ago.
It has probably been a year and a half of F2P games for me and everything before that was P2P. I enjoy F2P more than I do P2P because I feel like I have more of a say about what goes into the game. F2P games, in my experience, react quickly to their consumers.
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I am going to have to say, none and all of the above at the same time.
I would like to call it beta-format. I have dropped the most money on games before they come out hoping they are going to be awesome. Then I get into beta and they are fun until I realize they are exactly like the last 10 games I played with just a different skin, or theme, or what not.
P2P and I'm glad it's dying.
I haven't paid since 2010 and will never pay again unless they make an MMO with godlike open world PvP.
edit: To be more precise:
Since I started playing MMOs 12 years ago: P2P
in the last 5 years: B2P
DAoC - Excalibur & Camlann
I knew someone in college who kept their WoW subscription on for a year while not playing and it was monthly. This was the same guy who borrowed money from me a few times inbetween checks. I have always wandered how many subscriptions for WoW are inactive players.
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This poll is kind of pointless. It's sqewed toward one buisness model. FTP is just as sucessful a billing model as P2P or B2P. But in FTP, your average gamer pays little to nothing, and then 10% of the people gaming pay insane ammounts of money. This is why many FTP games are P2win. Because those 10% of the people are in actuallity paying for the rest of the free players to play at all.
Where as P2P, everyone pays a flat fee per month. But you don't get that 10% of the player base paying hunderds of dollars a month that support the other players. This is why most P2P games are not condusive to P2Win mechanics.
I played WoW up until WotLK, played RoM for 2 years and now Rift.
I am F2P player. I support games when I feel they deserve my money and I want the items enough.
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That isn't how f2p is desinged to work. f2p is supost to bring in way more players who will spend small amounts. They make more money because as a sub game the population would be way smaller. Small pop games also run the risk of losing people because there are so few people. When people decide a game is dead fun or not they leave.
f2p is all about volume.
P2P, no doubt about it... I think the only time I spent money on F2P was planetside 2, spent like $20.
I don't even want to think about how much money I've spent on P2P, gotta be a few grand... been playing 'em since about 1999.
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F2P has had the most of my cash. Probably the equivalent to 1 year and 2 months of sub, but it was shared between various f2p games that i played couple years ago.
Right now the only sub based mmo that in my opinion gives the most bang for the monthly buck is WoW... and im not subbed because i dont like to be commited to a sub unless im playing that game 30 days a month which i wont do. I have too many games i enjoy playing to have to stick to only 1 just because of the sub.
Lately the only cash shop that has been fortunate of tasting my wallet is GW2´s but hey dont have enough cool stuff so i just got 3 bank slots, 2 character slots, couple of keys and the Quaggan backpack.
Swtor got like 20 bucks from me. Not giving them any more money to them because even if i buy tons of cartel coins i still cant be competitive (cant wear high tier gear unless i sub, which i wont) so no matter how much money i give them, ill always suck. No money for you EAware, learn from EnMasse´s model if you want to earn the money and the respect of your players.
P2P. The price of the box itself raises the amount I've spent on P2P MMOs significantly enough, so there's no surprise there.
However the amount I've spent on F2P is catching up, slowly but it's catching up. Haven't played for a P2P title since 2010 so, there's that.
Subbed to WoW for 5 years, plus boxes (CEs).
LTS to STO before F2P conversion, plus box (CE).
CE for LotrO before coversion, no sub.
2 months sub to TOR, plus box (CE).
CE for WAR, no sub.
9 months sub to DCUO, plus box (CE).
60$ on STO since F2P.
~200$ on Atlantica Online. (got kinda crazy with this one, but I had a ton of fun)
30$ on DCUO since F2P.
Winner(?): P2P
Preference: F2P
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P2P. Since DAoC I ALWAYS got new and progressive content updates. And I always got a really good community which shares my playtype. P2P just binds me to the game like I want and those games often had pretty difficult systems and formulas - which were pretty cool because you keep yourself busy with the game and your character.
F2P and B2P - both - were pretty cheap ... But I got really disappointened by the community and the repetetive content. Forthermore those are more for casualplayers - Even the class and skill-systems in GuildWars 2 are really, really easy. Its often about "login, have instant fun without preperations, you are free to logout after 30mins"
I play pretty often and long with a guild. I need challange to keep my occupied. I was pretty happy with P2P mmorpgs.
I wasted the most money on lifetime subscriptions. I'm not strapped for cash, but wish I could have seen the future before investing as much in the games.
Some to mention: Hellgate London, AoC, TSW (Funcom twice... I know)
Now I'm wishing I had spent the money on LOTRO's lifetime option when they had it. That game just happens to be the one which fits my interests right now.