Frostbite3789 said:
BloatedGuppy said:
I never get tired of linking this particular cartoon, because it's always so relevant to this discussion.
"Free to Play" always, ALWAYS, means "Grease up your cornhole, here come the microtransactions". I find it hilarious that people continue to indulge in this fantasy that games going FTP have somehow failed to make the cut as subscription based titles. They're going "FTP" because there are buckets of money to be made.
What's funny is how that doesn't apply here really at all. In LoL the only things you can buy with real money are skins for characters, or characters. Characters can also buy bought with IP, the stuff you have to earn by playing the game. All the stat boosting stuff (runes/masteries) either come free by levelling, or you buy them...again with IP. The in game only currency.
LoL nailed the F2P model on the head, and has made a ton of money, while not being pay2win.
Damn, ninja'd.
as I was gonna say anyway though, this comic is absolutely irrelevant to the thread, LoL is a F2P model done correctly, people pay for things from the game because they -want- to, not because they -have- to. case in point, I currently have three heroes that I cycle through depending on my mood. Sivir, Tristana, and Annie, and how much have I spent on the game, not a damn penny.
Now however, back on topic, I noticed above someone mentioned Maple Story, which is made by Nexon, a company that makes exclusively F2P games, and I disagree with how they handle their micro transactions. In order to buy weapons in their game Combat Arms (And anyone who plays it, feel free to correct me if this is changed, when I played, it was still in Beta) you had to 'rent' them with money you earned from kills, now for basic weapons, this wasn't too bad, but it quickly became obvious that to support my chosen playstyle, I was either going to have to play 60 hours a week to keep up the income needed to repurchase all my equipment, or start shelling out real money, and -still- not get permanent access to the items. so I gave up and went back to WoW.