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

[Slimebeast]

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.

Perhaps in theory they're not inherent problems but theory is irrelevant in this context. In reality they are inherent problems to F2P since the temptation to make money is so too great for the publisher and therefore in almost all F2P games we see the same problems - game designed to make the player pay & stay, pay to win and victims of addiction.