Yerli: “We’ll figure out” how to make free-to-play AAA work

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jlrx said:

wfz said:

Slimebeast said:

Three huge poblems with F2P:

1. Bad game design. Rather than making a good game on its own merits the game will instead be designed so that the player will spend more money while playing it.

2. Pay to win is never good. It makes the low spending players feel unfairly treated and it makes the high spending players feel like they cheat. And neither will feel satisfied.

3. F2P increases the risk that people with disposition for addiction will become addicted and spend insane amounts of their hard earned money (called "whales" in the world of F2P).

Cevat Yerli you lier, F2P is not better for the gamer, it's only better for the publisher.

You bring up some excellent points of how publishers take severe advantage of the F2P model, but none of those are inherint problems of the F2P model as your post would suggest.

I'd add another problem to F2P, lets say you are interested in a game, you enjoy it, you play it, you invest in it, a year later, as happens, maybe longer, but after some time the revenue for the game slows and drys up, the developers now shut the game down, you have nothing, you lost your invested money, and there is nothing left.  Take that same approach, you dropped your $50 or $60 on a game, but it sells poorly, or the developer goes out of business, you still have the game, its yours.

This is an inherint problem with multiplayer online games in general. I agree in the sense that it's unlikely the F2P business model will go into single-player games, it's not really a problem with F2P as it is with the entire style of online multiplayer gaming. So.. subscription games would fall into this issue as well.

 

Try again! I am having fun with this.. :P