This game Need FreePlayers in order to suceed stop to trying to limite them to much !

[Cuross]

This is the kind of thread that keeps getting bumped all the time, Stew.

The argument here is "Do some things need to be paid for to be used or should everything be free?" I'm going to try to take away all the erroneous facts and play with the issue at hand.

First! Stew, stop spouting out percentages. You might think it makes you look smart, but without proper evidence to support your claims (and the fact that statistics can be used to tell great lies), it really just makes you look arrogant and have no concern for other people's argument.

Second! It seems highly unlikely that outfits will become a paid service anyway! The argument goes both ways. On the one hand, outfits are usually more about the players who want to be more involved in the game than just the regular guilds of other games. BUT they are such a core part of the game that it would be unreasonable to keep that option apart from everyone else. With that aside, chances are we will only see the cash shop to purchase more slots for outfits, not to create an outfit itself.

Third! Higby, with his mighty hair, and his band of miscreants have already stated countless times that you will NOT be able to pay to win. I think it has been mentioned that pretty much everything you can buy on the cash shop you can purchase through Auraxium. Will it take a year longer? Maybe. Will it be totally worth waiting? Most likely. Will you feel compelled to spend five dollars to get it sooner? Definitely. The cash shop isn't alienating free players from paying players, it's just giving some people an option that they can afford.

Fourth! There will definitely be a need for cash shop exclusive items. This is the kind of incentive that the few paying players will have to continue purchasing to support the game ad free. Again as has been mentioned on numerous occasions, you can not pay to win. You just pay for AT MOST a slight, mediocre, almost negligible, mostly unnoticeable advantage. Am I saying that there will be those kinds of items in the cash shop? Absolutely not. I'm foreseeing that all weapons, implants, and sidegrades can be purchased by free to players.

Fifth! And most importantly, no one wants to get rid of the free to players. How many vets will be playing for free? Most of them. How many casuals will be paying for stuff? Many of them. We can not identify any group getting an advantage or disadvantage for anything that will be bought via subscription or Auraxium. There are legitimate reasons for someone to believe that something should be subscription purchase only, or available only to cash shop, so don't blow up in someone's face thinking that it's a totally unreasonable idea or claim. I think that with all the f2p models that everyone has brought up (That includes you, Stew), the PS2 Devs have a great idea of how to get it right.

So please, oh please, let's stop feeding this thread and trust in the Devs to do what's right and not let a bunch of our emotions get in their way. Let's talk about other things in the discussion forum like T-Ray not giving Higby a gun that shoots velociraptors.