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WiiStation360 on 22 August 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:

Here's the question...

Say it takes you 3 hours of playing to get 10 levels. It could be longer or it could be shorter but 3 hours is not an unreasonable amount of time.

Say it takes you 1 hour to earn $15 by working at a job.

If 10 levels cost $3 then by working in real life, you could get enough money to buy 50 levels. Thus you gain 5 times as many levels in 1/3 of the time.

And of course, you can always get more money, but you can NEVER get that time of your life you spent grinding for levels back.

Maybe they will just sell you DLC that completes the game for you.  If we assume that the game is 30 hours long, that is $450 worth of your time that you do not have to spend playing the game!

 



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Words Of Wisdom on 22 August 2008
WiiStation360 said:
Words Of Wisdom said:

Here's the question...

Say it takes you 3 hours of playing to get 10 levels. It could be longer or it could be shorter but 3 hours is not an unreasonable amount of time.

Say it takes you 1 hour to earn $15 by working at a job.

If 10 levels cost $3 then by working in real life, you could get enough money to buy 50 levels. Thus you gain 5 times as many levels in 1/3 of the time.

And of course, you can always get more money, but you can NEVER get that time of your life you spent grinding for levels back.

Maybe they will just sell you DLC that completes the game for you.  If we assume that the game is 30 hours long, that is $450 worth of your time that you do not have to spend playing the game!

 

Despite bolding what I wrote, it's clear you didn't read it very carefully. 

Let me highlight the relevant part in red which you seem to have missed.

 



ClaudeLv250 on 22 August 2008

This is silly more than anything. Buying levels is a little absurd but the outcryfrom destructoid just makes it funny. Hardly anyone is going to do this, and there's little reason to anyway. Tales games are not exceptionally hard (on normal difficulty).



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WiiStation360 on 22 August 2008
Words Of Wisdom said:
WiiStation360 said:
Words Of Wisdom said:

Here's the question...

Say it takes you 3 hours of playing to get 10 levels. It could be longer or it could be shorter but 3 hours is not an unreasonable amount of time.

Say it takes you 1 hour to earn $15 by working at a job.

If 10 levels cost $3 then by working in real life, you could get enough money to buy 50 levels. Thus you gain 5 times as many levels in 1/3 of the time.

And of course, you can always get more money, but you can NEVER get that time of your life you spent grinding for levels back.

Maybe they will just sell you DLC that completes the game for you.  If we assume that the game is 30 hours long, that is $450 worth of your time that you do not have to spend playing the game!

 

Despite bolding what I wrote, it's clear you didn't read it very carefully. 

Let me highlight the relevant part in red which you seem to have missed.

 

Sorry, i should have added a /sarcasm or a to my post.

The point  is that if a game is not fun, you just should not play it.  If you do not enjoy leveling up you characters in a JRPG, play a different game.

 



SHMUPGurus on 22 August 2008

Seriously, I'm not surprised considering a bunch of gamers nowadays can't even play a game 10 minutes until they find a stupid complaint! This one would be the difficulty level, which is fricking rare in a RPG as far as I know...

Fable 2's Pub Games is almost as worse as this IMO. I seriously encourage people to complete the game without using any sort of cheats for AT LEAST the first play through. It's just much more satisfying in the end anyway! But yeah, the worse part is that some people will actually buy this DLC stuff...



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Words Of Wisdom on 22 August 2008
WiiStation360 said:

Sorry, i should have added a /sarcasm or a to my post.

The point  is that if a game is not fun, you just should not play it.  If you do not enjoy leveling up you characters in a JRPG, play a different game.

I agree.  ^_^

However I do recognize that some parts are more fun than others for different people.



Kasz216 on 22 August 2008

I like this better then incomplete games for downloadble content. Cause it don't effect me.



One on 22 August 2008

I don't see why anyone would buy levels in a game, if you don't like grinding, don't purchase a game that causes you to grind.



Squilliam on 22 August 2008
One said:
I don't see why anyone would buy levels in a game, if you don't like grinding, don't purchase a game that causes you to grind.

If people don't want paint drips, they should watch the paint dry.

 



Tease.

ZenfoldorVGI on 22 August 2008
Onyxmeth said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:

 I want to know WHY this is a bad thing. Tell me. Explain as if I were a 2 year old.

Oh widdle Zenfoldie. Ok now sit down widdle guy and wisten to a big guy talk. Scwamco they don't do nice things. They make pee pull like Onyx a big guy pay wots of money. That makes Onyx sad. You undoostand now widdle Zenny?

Now if I were talking to a Zen that isn't a 2 year old. Frankly this game doesn't matter. I'm more upset with Namco's general attitude towards DLC, which is nickle and diming customers for everything. Ace Combat 6 and it's $100 of DLC just irks me. This is not very bad at all, but it's hard to seperate this DLC from the other nickle and diming they do which probably should be either cheaper, free, or on the disc. If SCIV has DLC from day one that could have fit on the disc, like music and clothing, then it probably should have been on the disc in the first place. Namco sacrifices game features they could have included on the disc fo the benefit of getting a few dollars here and there out of customers.

 

 

I said a 2 year old, not a dog.

lol, anyway, what you're talking about is something entirely different than buying levels and gold in a rpg. You're talking about buying crap that should have been in the game, which yes, sucks. However, this particular thing isn't bad. It's actually good, and other games should impliment it.

As long as they're not selling crap that should have been on the disc, it's nothing but positive, and allows people to play the game like they want to. If someone doesn't feel like grinding and just wants to enjoy the story, then boom, they don't have to. Great, great thing, and excellent idea.

 

Odin Sphere would have been a game that I woulda paid 5 bucks a character to max my hp, just so I wouldn't have to feed myself the little grapes and crap. It woulda made the game better. I have plenty cash. What I don't have, is patience.



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