Ah, WoW-Cash shop would be like purgatory for mount,pet, or collection whores. Some games barely thrive because of cash-shops, I'd be pretty sick to see how effective WoW could do it.
Speaking of D3, it was joked on the SA boards that Blizzard would give whoever maxes out their achievements in Cata two free months of D3 as a gesture to reel them into a new vicious cycle.
Ah, WoW-Cash shop would be like purgatory for mount,pet, or collection whores. Some games barely thrive because of cash-shops, I'd be pretty sick to see how effective WoW could do it.
Cash-Shops allow people who have the disposable income, but not disposable time to be able to play with the people who have the Time but not Money.
Microtransactions aren't going anywhere, so get used to it. EQ added EXP Potions, Im honestly surprised WoW hasn't added a "graphic" to weapons for a few bucks or be able to change the look of certain armor.
Free to Play but earning money though Micro-transactions IS the future business model (League of Legends, DOTA, Facebook games, Mobile Gaming amongst others use this business model) and it will thrive.
People don't want to pay 15-20 bucks a month for a game they may or may not play. It also forces companies to focus on gameplay and replay value instead of pandering to the whining-kiddies like WoW has done over the years, just to keep them paying the 16 a month.
My bad, I made a typo. I meant to say it'd be pretty sick to see how effective WoW would do it. For example Ragnarok Online converted from a p2p to a f2p formula, as such I've seen the mentality there and in other games continue to spend the original subscription amount through the extra goodies in the cash-shop if not more and people would spend as much as $600 nearly monthly when Limited Time items roll around in the form of Goodie Boxes which contain a set of random items. Assuming that WoW did follow the f2p-model, such as adding gimmicky mounts or pets to lure impulse buyers to buy them instead of farming in-game time to grind mobs or gold to fulfill achievements (hence purgatory for mount or pet collection whores) and what not in addition to whatever else they could pull, much better than the rest of the f2p MMO-Market.
The only downside is when servers go f2p is the quality of service drops in some unless they are the only dedicated server, such as bots become rampant and other crap. Regardless most of what you said is pretty much what I was going with. I don't particularly care about the f2p-model in the least bit, and like I said some games barely thrive because of it. Games I wouldn't pay a subscription fee I would revisit, so it's not a negative so long as your not much of an impulse buyer.
You guys are forgetting the fact that blizz already added some limited mounts and pets to the store that are redeemable ingame. So if ppl are buying those pets and mounts and paying a subscription whats the point of even going to a F2P System for them at this point or even several years from now. If there still making money on both.
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I can really only respond to this one way. No matter how close we get to perfectly balancing classes against all of the variables of talents, consumables, crafted items, trinkets, gear, and combat situations, the biggest imbalance the game will ever see will always exist in player skill.
ahh =( was gonna poke people for realID names so I can harass them ingame easily. I just had shroom come outta nowhere and poke me on MSN, all the old TW people just keep popping up x_x
I can really only respond to this one way. No matter how close we get to perfectly balancing classes against all of the variables of talents, consumables, crafted items, trinkets, gear, and combat situations, the biggest imbalance the game will ever see will always exist in player skill.
No I Quit playing wow 2 months ago and bin playing Warhammer, Aion, and Lineage 2. Amongst all my console games and work.
People still play Aion, holy shit?! I tried to do that a couple months ago, and the server we were on was completely dead when I tried going through the elite quests. But yeah, console games along with game fly to catch me up on some titles I missed this past half year.
Was contemplating on getting the pre-order collection edition for FF14, if nothing else I could probably resell it higher in the future on e-bay. Help Me. (it doesn't help I had a alpha key that I didn't realize until it expired )
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