MadFrenchie said:
MisterZebub said:
MadFrenchie said:
Wraithone said:
Richard Ross... Anyone looking into his back ground, and contacts, will understand what is at play here. I can't say I'm surprised, given t…
Something about this game rubs me the wrong way, on one hand it reminds me of the political corruption and the massacre in Waco Texas involving the "branch davidians", as well as the charged nature of labeling anything a cult, especially when its li…
Grendizer73 said:
This game is the king of fraud...
Definitely not "fraud". More "Unique development approach" for a real product in development than "fraud". If the goal is to pocket more money, you don't go around hiring expensi…
From my observation, weaker is also the conclusion. By weaker I generally refer to a mixture of social cohesion and general attitudes via online multiplayer gaming... at least in so far as mmorpgs are concerned.
I would argue that part of this has…
Alka_Setzer said:
Bought into Firefall founders at the highest level, not making the same mistake twice.
Edit: And to be clear, you have no idea how much I WANT this project to succeed. I freaking love sci fi themed anything, I loved all the s…
BillMurphy said:
DMKano said:
use f.lux and turn down the temp of your display to around 4800 or less - it does 99.9% of the same thing as these glasses
it's 100% free and super tiny footprint
https://en.wikipedia.o…
Ungood said:
The F2P model is actually very conductive to good game design, as it forces MMO developers to make a game that is first and foremost, attractive to the player base to build retention, before they can get to the point of making mo…
MadFrenchie said:
The alternative is the status quo, which is an evolution towards more and more predatory monetization schemes.
Which is pretty much a cancer to good game design, often publisher injected without care for what the dev…
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The review also shows the biggest flaw of these headphones, which is the direct USB connection for audio from PC, there are more cons than pros that go along with this design choice.
For starters, you can't attach a mic to it vi…
DMKano said:
Consumer base has 2 choices
purchase the product
don't purchase the product
Video game companies can choose:
Monetize the game in accordance to laws however they want
The video game company has no right to force players to buy, …
MadFrenchie said:
DMKano said:
Can we just remember one thing here....
Pantheon is a PvE game.
Even if there is a cash shop - it's a PvE game - other players being more powerful than you won't mean a thing.
....snip...
But how the…
Mendel said:
@DMKano already refuted this, all those games have Cash Shops now.
To further support his statement, UO/EQ/WoW were created in an era where movie tickets averaged $5.40 each and newspapers weren't in deep financial troubles. …
dream402 said:
the problem with buy to play and subs are that kids in school wont be able to play parents see mmorpgs as just games and wont spend or give much cash to spend on them
Translating that was quite interesting... periods and co…
DMKano said:
DataDay said:
lol That would probably be an argument I could agree with. Sad too, when I saw them at E3 long ago, showing off Rift with a booth that was probably one of the most expensive on the floor... they made a good showi…
Torval said:
It's fairly apparent subscription locked mmos didn't work either. So you're not telling the whole story, or rather you're telling the bits of the story that make your point sound right. So if you're and insider like you're implyi…
DMKano said:
People here who think that all games can survive without a cash shop are simply misinformed because they have never seen the internal financials for MMOs.
In majority of cases today - MMOs absolutely *need* cash shop revenue to co…
Mars_Orbital said:
imho, cash shop is expected in any game, sub or f2p. Games must have alternating revenue sources.
Woah there tiger, from which rulebook are you getting this "games must have alternating revenue sources"? It sounds a b…
Even if I was Bruce Wayne, I would never feel inclined to spend money via a cash shop as it relates to gaming. However, if its presented as a service (subscription), a one time purchase for the game itself or in the form of an expansion pack... then…
Vorthanion said:
GW2 cities are the only ones that feel to scale like a real city would be. The rest feel more like instanced lobbies and hamlets with few npc's and even fewer PC's.
Black Desert online set the bar on that front, though …