Suppa7 wrote on Jan 23, 2014, 08:55:jdreyer wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 16:09:Suppa7 wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:31:Krovven wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 04:51:
I find it incredible how gamers are so quick and easy to judge others for games they like and how childish their insults are.
Uhm giving money for imaginary stuff in a game you never own and which can disappear at any time is stupid.
While I never spend money on microtransactions, I don't think it's any different than spending money on chips, chocolate, pot, beer, etc. You're spending a few dollars for a few minutes or hours of satisfaction either way.
No. Because they take away your ability to modify the game ,make skins, etc. It's totally authoritarian. Games are USED and products, F2P takes away peoples right to use the shit they paid for by constantly having to pay a tax to the fuedal lord (game company).
jdreyer wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 16:09:Suppa7 wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:31:Krovven wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 04:51:
I find it incredible how gamers are so quick and easy to judge others for games they like and how childish their insults are.
Uhm giving money for imaginary stuff in a game you never own and which can disappear at any time is stupid.
While I never spend money on microtransactions, I don't think it's any different than spending money on chips, chocolate, pot, beer, etc. You're spending a few dollars for a few minutes or hours of satisfaction either way.
Suppa7 wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:31:Krovven wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 04:51:
I find it incredible how gamers are so quick and easy to judge others for games they like and how childish their insults are.
Uhm giving money for imaginary stuff in a game you never own and which can disappear at any time is stupid.
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 11:00:BitWraith wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:40:
They kept Star Wars Galaxies around for a long time. They still say it was the greatest MMO of all time.
MMO's get a lot better word of mouth wise once they have a expiration date put on them. MMO's get great once they are completely gone. I think all this works the same like artists who die young as well. We love mind fucking ourselves.
BitWraith wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:40:
They kept Star Wars Galaxies around for a long time. They still say it was the greatest MMO of all time.
Suppa7 wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 08:31:Krovven wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 04:51:
I find it incredible how gamers are so quick and easy to judge others for games they like and how childish their insults are.
Uhm giving money for imaginary stuff in a game you never own and which can disappear at any time is stupid.
OldTimber wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 03:11:
139mil for ToR? god dam star wars fans are a bunch of noload idiots keeping that thing around. Ahh who am I kidding they have wedding ceremonies dressed up in gear so they really are stupid without a grasp on reality.
Krovven wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 04:51:
I find it incredible how gamers are so quick and easy to judge others for games they like and how childish their insults are.
OldTimber wrote on Jan 21, 2014, 03:11:
139mil for ToR? god dam star wars fans are a bunch of noload idiots keeping that thing around. Ahh who am I kidding they have wedding ceremonies dressed up in gear so they really are stupid without a grasp on reality.
Mashiki Amiketo wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 22:56:Axis wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 16:42:Asking a few friends that I game with over in S.Korea(they're born, raised and live west side--and all that) on it, it seems that it's more of a thing with netcafe kids, and highschoolers than anyone else. Though there is a following among the salerymen(30-45) group as well. I guess someone found a market, exploited it, and made an assload of money.
Apparently desktops don't exist anymore and Crossfire is the only game that plays worth a shit on laptops?
Or... it's South Korea.
Axis wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 16:42:Asking a few friends that I game with over in S.Korea(they're born, raised and live west side--and all that) on it, it seems that it's more of a thing with netcafe kids, and highschoolers than anyone else. Though there is a following among the salerymen(30-45) group as well. I guess someone found a market, exploited it, and made an assload of money.
Apparently desktops don't exist anymore and Crossfire is the only game that plays worth a shit on laptops?
Or... it's South Korea.
Suppa7 wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 10:09:Truth. Dumb people/rich kids are going to be the death of this industry since they're easier to wrangle money from.
God damn people are stupid. All the tech illiterate kids world wide feeding.
InBlack wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 10:15:On the contrary. I'm surprised TF2 is that high in the list. If you're paying for TF2, you're doing it wrong.
Yeah I guess I was under the same rock, never heard of No1. Suprised that TF2 is that low on the list, but then again its been around for ages...
HorrorScope wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 13:47:Jerykk wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 12:28:
You don't have to pay for new characters. You can buy them using the in-game currency which you get every time you play a match. And if you play LoL on a regular basis, you'll always have enough in-game currency to buy new characters.
The only part of LoL that could qualify as P2W are the XP boosters. Your runes, masteries and summoner spells are all locked behind levels so a level 1 player has an inherent disadvantage against a level 30 player (though the matchmaking would never put them in the same match). You also have to pay for more rune pages, which is stupid.
Right most FTP's PTW or not have ways to get items through playing but obviously a lot of people are buying a lot of things, including things you could earn from free. See my 22 year old, at least a couple years back, put many hundreds getting the new toons as they came out. Looking for an edge anywhere.
jdreyer wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 17:58:
I wonder why, with that kind of cash, they haven't tried to break into the North American market.
Fantaz wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 16:47:Axis wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 16:42:
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My bet is people play it on their smartwatch vpn'd to their tablet remotely connected to their linux laptop running the game via wine where the blow up doll sits wearing google glass and has a live twitchtv feed that plays 24/7...
uhhm, my bet is 99% of the ppl playing this have no idea on how to set up the remote play how you described.
and also most of the ppl playing haven't even heard of Counter-Strike. apparently already 2 years ago this was considered the "World's Largest First-Person Online Shooter Game" with 4.2 million concurrent users (probably a lot more now), which just shows how disconnected North American gamers are to the international markets to not know about this game.
Kosumo wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 15:22:
Star Citizen bets then all thought. $35+ million and its gameplay is just walking around a hangar. With peoples buying internet ships for hundreds of dollars just to have in their hangar. Totally the future of gaming!
Axis wrote on Jan 20, 2014, 16:42:
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My bet is people play it on their smartwatch vpn'd to their tablet remotely connected to their linux laptop running the game via wine where the blow up doll sits wearing google glass and has a live twitchtv feed that plays 24/7...