eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 24, 2012, 14:13:
Did you not, like.. read the topic you replied to?

All the important equipment features are locked at the beginning

eRe4s3r wrote on Feb 23, 2012, 10:59:
If it hadn't been F2P I'd have bought it though Because then it'd be a proper Tribes game, and not this abomination it is now.

If the game weren't F2P, Hi-Rez most likely wouldn't have made the changes they did.

Frankly Ironclad, you should be ashamed of yourselves. If this is how you reward players for buying Sins of A Solar Empire, then as far as I'm concerned you can burn in Hell with Zynga and all the other scam merchants. You people are scum.

elefunk wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 15:25:
You've insulted a lot of people and a lot of games in this thread, yet you've never once played a single one of the games you're viciously attacking, and it seems like you won't listen to anything that any of the people you're viciously attacking have said, no matter how well-reasoned.

You're even directly attacking the *gameplay* of these games you haven't played.


The mind boggles at how one can be so cynical and hateful, while remaining deliberately ignorant. I guess that explains the Republican party!

elefunk wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 10:15:
Oh. OK. So you haven't played any F2P games but you're the expert.

Got it, thanks!

Wraith wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 12:58:
Right, so basically you're a fan-boy with a hard-on for one particular game and you're defending the whole "Free To Play" scam because the game which gives you wood uses a "Free To Play" model.

Kid, go back to XBox Live and stick to calling everyone a fag. That's more your speed. Operant conditioning and game theory are way above your head.

elefunk wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 10:15:

Oh. OK. So you haven't played any F2P games but you're the expert.

Got it, thanks!

Wraith wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 03:48:

elefunk wrote on Feb 22, 2012, 02:32:
What F2P games have you played?

What paid games have you played?

The question is irrelevant. I don't play Free To Play because I despise the model and the poor gameplay such games offer. I also tend not to support always-on DRM which is effectively what such games have.

Basically the words "Free To Play" are an instant turn-off. Nobody is going to pay for incentives which aren't tied to game-play. Well, there are always the idiots who'll pay for a fucking hat, but those people don't shell out enough to build a business model on.

Basically, Free To Play artificially restricts the availability of content and tries to assign value to gameplay objects which have none. The representation is fundamentally dishonest and relies on disconnecting the player from reality.

The only value a game delivers to its players is the experience. It is not the digital objects which occupy the game space. Those objects have no value whatsoever. In order to make Free To Play work, the game developer imposes an artificial restriction upon the player then forces that player to pay real money for access to an object which has no intrinsic value.

Greedy game developers see the Free To Play model as a ticket to riches. It's not. It's an ethically bankrupt practice which should be called out for what it is.

Tribes Ascend is an example of a great Free to Play model game

Blair Fraser wrote on Feb 21, 2012, 21:57:
Slashman, our data shows that the majority of $ is made in aesthetics (even for strategy games). People purchase the other type of content to trade money for time in order to access alternate experiences even though they are perfectly balanced in power.