Does anyone want to place bets of when this MMO goes free-to-play?mysecondlife said:
I think the Escapist should have a clock thing that starts when the game launches and stops when the game goes f2p, what do you guys think?
Elder Scrolls Online's First Microtransaction Is a Horse
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I think the Escapist should have a clock thing that starts when the game launches and stops when the game goes f2p, what do you guys think?
Actually that's Richard Garriot's thing. His entire upcoming MMO is largely a real estate grab. He sells you not only houses but also plots of land to put them on. The thing is though that once you pay real money for a land plot, you need to keep grinding in-game money to pay rent on it or it reverts back to "the bank" to be purchased by another player, and you have to pay real money again to get another plot of land. He also intends to have limited amounts of land in game in hopes that this will make the market more competitive. Now granted, you do not lose your house (which you paid for seperatly) but it and anything in it revert to a deed in your inventory if you wind up losing your land in game.Caramel Frappe said:... Zenimax ...
First, you e-mailed me a pass to play your beta... only to never respond after when I signed up. Then, you made it where people have to pay a subscriptions fee to play online every month. Now, you're making people have to pay with real money for horses. Horses?
I'm done. I'm sorry, but until you act more civil towards your community- I won't bother looking into The Elder Scrolls online anymore. Sure, you could work very hard in-game to earn your horse but... it's a horse. In Skyrim, all I had to do was pay an easy 1,000 gold or so to obtain one easily. Heck, on PC I could use MODS to get everything I want, including a pet mudcrab.
For free.
So yeah i'm not happy about this. I shouldn't feel as upset as I do now but, I am mad. This isn't right Zenimax and Bethesda! You of all companies shouldn't be supporting this. I admit, I am unsure as to how you're doing business or if you're in control at all- but don't allow stunts like this to go on. It's going to drive your customers away and what will happen then?
So yeah, please stop Zenimax. Next thing you'll do is charge people real money to purchase homes. HOMES. Let me repeat that.
Purchase homes for your character to live in, as a resting place. A simple add-on that people will have to purchase to stay in despite if they don't have a home, they're character is homeless and probably cannot store their items anywhere.
Although to be fair, I could be wrong with how items are stored. But still. This isn't justified at all.
The point here being that this is coming, but it's not going to be Bethesda's doing. If the idea works though, I expect a lot of imitators.
Microtransactions on top of a subscription model? They're just keep making the money barrier higher and higher. The consumer pays to be allowed the privilege of being able to pay more. How do they not understand that by alienating their player base, they take away the most vital aspect of an MMO?
It takes less than a weekend to earn enough cash for a mount, and when I say weekend I mean to four-ish hours a day for three days that I put into ESO last beta.Schadrach said:
