the monetizing being tied to ingame ability to perform. there are plenty of sustainable and profitable ways to do that even in f2p. This may sound hostile at parts, I dont really mean it that way. What they do like is being able to try it first, then deciding how much to put into it.įirst- thanks for explainig GAAS but lets not employ that as a strawman here please. People don’t like spending 60$ on a phone app before they try it. Homeless people have smartphones with Wi-Fi being as easy to access as being near a McDonald’s or coffee shop. That change catering to the fact far more people play video games on their phone than anywhere else. Now you have mobile games bringing in a second wave of change. So you introduce micro transactions to alleviate those costs and services. So with that also brings patches, updates, balancing let alone the costs of running servers and the staff of people that requires.Īll of that eats into the margins of profit the game has, and the older a game is the more expensive that becomes. For one, piracy makes it far easier to distribute games that have no online component, but more importantly most games do because people like playing games with other people. With online gaming that simply isn’t the case anymore. ![]() It used to be you would buy a game after the disc went gold and that was that. No, it makes total sense that that things are going this way for online services and products. Maybe they don’t like spending 60$ on an app they never tried before. Maybe it’s because people LIKE having games be free to download before they put money into it for mobile gaming, which is what this is. ![]() Why do you think mobile games are a bigger market than all other types of video gaming combined? You are in the very small minority that doesn’t. And when I say people I mean the vast majority of people. I think there are far more important things to protest in life than a video game you can easily choose to not play. You want to turn this into an argument about morality or change the way things work. There is no argument there which is why Whataboutism, which is used to deflect or excuse isn’t applicable. ![]() You don’t seem to understand that I agree with you here that Blizzard is doing shady shit.
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