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Million on 04 June 2009
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heruamon said:
Jordahn said:
heruamon said:
nightsurge said:
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Xen said:
Free to play on PS3? aw fuck yeah! that takes care of a big obstacle for me.

F2P equals micro transactions. Want new armor? That'll be $.99. Want a new sword? $2.99 please. Want to buy a mount? $4.99 please.

Either way an MMO is costly, and in this scenario it can get even more costly because the amounts you pay are smaller, but add up quickly and you can lose track of how much you spent.

Also, this is kind of like Home. Free to get in, but customizing anything costs money.


better watchout...darth will report you as a troll for pointing out little facts like these...

Not when there are facts that back up an opinion.  There is NOTHING factual about your original post that backs up you personal accessment that F2P will be a detremental route for FFXIV...

"ROFLMAO...yeah, it definitely going to be exclusive then...Sony likes to lose money, so I see another failure in the works. F2P doesn't work...even with micro-transactions. Sony keeps ponying up more requirements on it's servers, and believe me...like I saw when they were giving away ps3 in early 2007...this is going to get them in a hole that they can't dig out of."

Any facts to back up your statemnet that cannot be counter argued by the actual facts that have already been presented?

If F2P works so well...why has SOE moved all of it's game onto that model?  And Blizzard reported the cost model for WoW...using that, with Sony trying to maintian...how many F2P projects now...Home, Free Realms, FF 14???  my question is simple...HOW WILL YOU PAY FOR IT?

 

F2P won't neccaserily work in all gaming enviorments , some are more suited to the payment system than others. On consoles where gamers are generaly used to not paying monthly subscriptions to play a particular game(well PS3 & Wii owners at least) it would seem more appropriate to have a F2P system funded through microtransactions and advertising.


Just because the most succesful MMORPG uses a subscription based payment system it doesn't mean that an MMORPG can't make a healthy profit using another payment system. Please dude FFS use your brain "F2P" does not mean that there is no money being generated from the players, all F2P means is that there is no obligatory cost involved in playing the game , the player might still have to pay for superior , clothing , services etc (we call this microtransactions) this is where the bulk of the gmas revenue will be generated from , yes "REVENUE" .

REVENUE(Microtransactions/Advertisements) - SERVER COSTS/MAINTANENCE/UPDATES = PROFIT . If you don't understand that then it is clearly a waste of time discussing this with you.