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[Media] General: Immersion

SBFordSBFord Former Associate EditorMember LegendaryPosts: 33,129

In this weekly comic, artist Blaz Klaric brings us his irreverent look into the foibles of the MMO worlds we love, and love to hate. Check out today's entry, "Immersion".


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  • nolic1nolic1 Member UncommonPosts: 716
    lol 

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  • DauzqulDauzqul Member RarePosts: 1,982
    Immersion has been dead since SWG.
  • uidCausticuidCaustic Member Posts: 128
    I've always enjoyed how cash shops irritate poor people.
  • NildenNilden Member EpicPosts: 3,916
    I'd rather pay box + subscription than have a cash shop.

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  • ScotScot Member LegendaryPosts: 22,955
    Nice one!
  • SamhaelSamhael Member RarePosts: 1,498
    Originally posted by nilden
    I'd rather pay box + subscription than have a cash shop.

    /signed

  • AnirethAnireth Member UncommonPosts: 940
    So it doesn't matter what they do with the game as long as it's subscription based? What if you can choose neon colors right away, instead of having to buy them? After all, subscription based games should offer more choices, more freedom, unless they just line their pockets.

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  • LoktofeitLoktofeit Member RarePosts: 14,247

    I like how it got all dark and serious with the helpless woman with a baby. I was like "Whoa! Where's this headed?"

    Neat comic. image

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  • FusionFusion Member UncommonPosts: 1,398

    You forgot 20$ glitter ponys and unicorns.

    The comic is more of a real life documentary, than a comic :D

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  • Whiskey_SamWhiskey_Sam Member UncommonPosts: 323
    love it!  dead on

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  • KonfessKonfess Member RarePosts: 1,667

    [delete]

    Pardon any spelling errors
    Konfess your cyns and some maybe forgiven
    Boy: Why can't I talk to Him?
    Mom: We don't talk to Priests.
    As if it could exist, without being payed for.
    F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
    Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
    It costs money to play.  Therefore P2W.

  • KonfessKonfess Member RarePosts: 1,667

    [delete]  The edit function at the bottom of the comic is not working properly.

    Pardon any spelling errors
    Konfess your cyns and some maybe forgiven
    Boy: Why can't I talk to Him?
    Mom: We don't talk to Priests.
    As if it could exist, without being payed for.
    F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
    Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
    It costs money to play.  Therefore P2W.

  • KonfessKonfess Member RarePosts: 1,667
    You know what is immersion breaking?  When you cat jumps on the keyboard, that is immersion breaking.  But when you are playing in an artificial world, nothing there should be immersion breaking.  The player next to you has a pair of “Kinky Boots”, glitter, and neon hair?  So what, that is the nature of the game.

    Pardon any spelling errors
    Konfess your cyns and some maybe forgiven
    Boy: Why can't I talk to Him?
    Mom: We don't talk to Priests.
    As if it could exist, without being payed for.
    F2P means you get what you paid for. Pay nothing, get nothing.
    Even telemarketers wouldn't think that.
    It costs money to play.  Therefore P2W.

  • crack_foxcrack_fox Member UncommonPosts: 399
    Spot on :)
  • AkumawraithAkumawraith Member UncommonPosts: 370
    [Delete]

    Played: UO, LotR, WoW, SWG, DDO, AoC, EVE, Warhammer, TF2, EQ2, SWTOR, TSW, CSS, KF, L4D, AoW, WoT

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  • AkumawraithAkumawraith Member UncommonPosts: 370
    Originally posted by Akumawraith
    Originally posted by uidCaustic
    I've always enjoyed how cash shops irritate poor people.

    Ive always loved those people that think  the poor are the ones complaining about cash shops.

     

    Pure idiots.

     

    Just because someone complains about a cash shop doesn't mean they are poor. 90% of the time its lack of credible content, cheesy content,,, or just plain Greed ... case in point a Transmog helm from the Blizzard store costs 15 bucks.. has no stats and honestly doesn't even look kewl... ah well i know a few idiots who bought it.... sigh....

     

    !5 bucks for a digital item.. thats a month subscription to the game... screams greed on an epic scale.  again no stats, nothing special about it.. other than you can transmog it.. for those not familiar it means you can make any helm you can wear look like it.

     

    Its crap like this that causes players to sit back and say WTF. Corporate Greed has destroyed the F2P genre.. sure when it started games like Eden Eternal and others had vanity items you could get for a few bucks.. they were cute little items. However as tie progressed the Corporations (EA, Activision, and others) decided hell why not rob the players blind?

     

    Hell even World of Tanks has a rip off report level cash shop.. some of their tanks sell for nearly what it costs to have premium for a year and thats 99 bucks for double xp... whoopdee fraggin doo. Piracy at its finest and the fools keep coming.

     

    Its idiot players that support the over priced cash shops that encourage these corporate butt chewers to keep creating cheesy Cash shop games.

     

    Then theres the P2W or Pay to Win cash shop games.. those are gimmick games  that suffer low player bases and short life spans due to thier nature. They cant build up huge populations like WoW or Everquest. They struggle at best with even half that population due to the imbalance the cash shop P2W environment creates.

     

     

    Played: UO, LotR, WoW, SWG, DDO, AoC, EVE, Warhammer, TF2, EQ2, SWTOR, TSW, CSS, KF, L4D, AoW, WoT

    Playing: The Secret World until Citadel of Sorcery goes into Alpha testing.

    Tired of: Linear quest games, dailies, and dumbed down games

    Anticipating:Citadel of Sorcery

  • AkumawraithAkumawraith Member UncommonPosts: 370
    i see the edit function is working true to form.....

    Played: UO, LotR, WoW, SWG, DDO, AoC, EVE, Warhammer, TF2, EQ2, SWTOR, TSW, CSS, KF, L4D, AoW, WoT

    Playing: The Secret World until Citadel of Sorcery goes into Alpha testing.

    Tired of: Linear quest games, dailies, and dumbed down games

    Anticipating:Citadel of Sorcery

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