F2P Discussion and Buying Value

[Dagron]

Originally Posted by Otleaz

Abso-fucking-lutely

The game would be off my hard drive before you could even fucking blink.

Same here.

Originally Posted by Sifer2

Because in the end if other stuff in the shop are not selling that's what they will do.

There are two reasons i can think of why the stuff in the shop wouldn't be selling: either they overpriced everything or people felt they shouldn't spend 50¢ in a texture because "textures don't take any effort". One is the company's fault, the other is the customer's.

- If they overpriced it, i'd feel the company was taking advantage of our will to support them and i'd leave, excessive greed shouldn't be encouraged.
- If i'm one of the customers who spent money on the shop because their prices were fair, i'd feel betrayed by the community and would also leave, a rotten community deserves empty servers (i'm sure they wouldn't really get empty, and i'd still rather not play with them, but i'm just being a little dramatic).


Edit: apparently in the video posted earlier, what forced those guys to sell power in the end was the sencond reason, people were too cheap to support the game by buying stuff that didn't give them an advantage. I guess most people have that self centered feeling of "yeah they gave me the game for free, but i wouldn't buy that 10kb texture just because it's awesome, it only took 15 min of effort!", so we end up having to buy double barreled ninja-raptor-rocket launchers just to get by (i did see the end of the video when they say the power difference was barely significant, i'm just being dramatic again).