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Trion and their new ways
Junglecharly
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I thought i would try this new moba coming out. Steam said it is free to play, gameranx on youtube said it's f2p. I join and then i realise i cannot buy a character with ingame currency if i don't buy the whole pack of characters which costs 20 bucks (minimum version).
I think to myself that i must be missing something, i go on steam and someone had already posted that this was a demo, not an f2p moba.
The dev answered this :
"Steam doesn't really have a well defined place for our unique business model to be. Free Mode is like a demo, but not quite, It's like a trial, but not quite. The closest thing they would fit us into was Free To Play. We're ahead of our time, and they are catching up
"
Well, not quite this and not quite that. It's basically a trap with no prior information given to potential players. The funny thing is someone there compared it to Smite's business model. Anyway, enough with my rant, i thought it could be an interesting conversation.
I think to myself that i must be missing something, i go on steam and someone had already posted that this was a demo, not an f2p moba.
The dev answered this :
"Steam doesn't really have a well defined place for our unique business model to be. Free Mode is like a demo, but not quite, It's like a trial, but not quite. The closest thing they would fit us into was Free To Play. We're ahead of our time, and they are catching up
"Well, not quite this and not quite that. It's basically a trap with no prior information given to potential players. The funny thing is someone there compared it to Smite's business model. Anyway, enough with my rant, i thought it could be an interesting conversation.
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"You want to try our game (AR)? You're free to do so.
You want to get full experience from it? You can buy our game from Steam page.
You want to play our ENTIRE CONTENT of our game without spend any dime? Just bugger off mate, my company ain't charity foundation!"
...aaand no, it couldn't.
Plain and simple.
When you don't want the truth, you will make up your own truth.
The company doesn't trust its game to make money in the f2p arena without forcing their potential customers to buy everything from the get go, i don't trust the game to have a community after the first month.
Plain and simple if that's how we discuss things here.
Also Sedryn glad he likes it, i played it for a bit, i won't have sleepless nights over it but it's a good game.
Let's party like it is 1863!
This should be done for all games, demo, ftp, b2p, etc and let games be games again.
it is free.
if you want to unlock champions so you can play whichever one whenever you want, it becomes a pay for game. if you want access to the ranked ladder, you pay.
if you just want to play nonranked, you can play on the free champions for as long as you want.
It IS FREE...
hey, why don't you do exactly zero research and then talk about something? oh wait you already did.
that is exactly what they are doing, except its $30
You're a liar is the problem. The reason it's not a demo or a trial is because it is FREE MODE, you can play for free forever. Explain how it is a trap? They have page explaining exactly what free mode is. I'm not a smart man and when I logged in I could see right away how it works. You can play as much as you want for free on the rotated champions, just like league of legends. If you want to unlock champions permanently, that's when you start paying.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe there is any rotation. That's basically the reason for contention- MOBAs generally do a rotation so even if you want to play for free or just buy a few heroes, you get some variety.
As for the game, it's OK. I like that they're trying something different. Not worth a buy imo, and without the rotation, not worth playing as a free player.
Still not going to pay $30 for it, though. Maybe $10 or $20 if I get really into it.
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