Originally Posted by aceshigh
What if that desert variant you suggested blends just a little better than the standard desert camo? Should it then be free too?
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Perception is reality. The advantage between Bright Yellow & Blue vs a desert camo pattern is obvious. The advantage between two different desert camo patterns that use the exact same color pallet (natural vs digital camo, for example) is next to impossible to decern. "Why would someone buy it, then?" you might ask. Perhaps it looks like the camo they actually wore in the service. I can see that being a powerful motivator for someone to purchase a particular camo pattern.
Originally Posted by aceshigh
I do agree that it is buying an advantage, I stated it in a few posts above your own. Even if it doesn't blend that much, it still may be enough to make you hesitate and lose the jump. But if they just limited that to the camos, I would be ok with it. What are we talking, $3-$5?
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Keep in mind that ANY money may be too much money for some - I'm talking about the 12-18 age range here. While us adults may cringle at the idea of children on the vox, the reality of monotizing a f2p game is that the free playing children of today are the paying adults of tomorrow - if they stay that long. They have to love the game, and one real fast way to kill that love is to make it feel like they are being punished for not having a credit card. And no one, I mean NO ONE, has a more sensitive perception of injustice than adolecents. Don't ask me why, it's something to do with neurological development.
The object, the overriding goal for SOE, should always be to avoid any wiff of impropriety. Even the slightest perception of p2w will kill this game in a heart beat.