Joseph Ridgeson
WarRavens
Imperium Eden
4519
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Posted - 2016.06.18 23:03:00 -
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Dear old dad just got his commercial rift, so I stole his DK2. He is out of town so, hell, I'mma play his Valkyrie.
Something that I want to point out:
The game is 60 dollars in the Oculus store. The game will, probably, be 60 dollars as well in the Steam store when it comes out on the Vive.
And the game has got micro-transactions in it.
Big ones.
Big, hairy chested sumo wrestlers with inverted nipples type of micro-transactions.
The game uses an XP system in order to upgrade your ships. Want to move faster? 750 XP. Want to more shields? Same thing (note: this seems to be at odds with what I heard at EVE Vegas: 2015. Alright, player progression. Seems like a cool idea. Make your ships better and the like, give us a reason other than "the game is fun" to play.
Annd you can buy 30 day boosters for 50% additional XP. That, to me, is a big concern. A paid game that has micro-transactions beyond hats, skins, and other 100% cosmetic things that do not affect gameplay is a hell of a scary thing. I spent... too much money in DUST. I bought boosters and the like because, yup, I wanted day SP faster and more, more!
I also didn't spend 60 dollars on the game to begin with though.
In a Free to Play game, it is kind of accepted at face value that there is going to be the kind of things that test your patience. DUST certainly had 'em, though the change from 192k to 750k a week helped that quite a bit. But, still, it was going to take you between 2-3 months of play without a booster to get reach role up to prototype; about 4-8 million additional SP depending on how big of a change it was. It is the nature of Free to Play games.
The problem with having that in a 60 dollar game, micro-transactions that give a tangible difference in gameplay, is that it becomes too tempting to purposefully fool with how fast you get XP in order to make those Boosters more enticing. The game is using a Free to Play tactic after already taking 60 dollars from you.
Just something I wanted to point out.
To the mods: sorry if this is in the wrong spot; just wanted to be sure some of my fellow mercs could see this.
"This is B.S! This is B.S! I paid money! Cash money, dollars money, cash money!"
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