Mobius Wyvern
Night Theifs
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2016.06.20 14:50:00 -
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EVE: Valkyrie is still in early Alpha, and might even be Pre-Alpha or whatever. If the micro-transactions are received negatively at this early stage, it won't require much effort to drop them.
As far as I know, the in-game paint jobs seem to be available for in-game currency only. I'm kind of mystified as to their aversion to monetizing cosmetics given that seems to work for pretty much every other game.
As for EVE Online, I think part of their push for micro-transactions is an intent to eventually reduce the subscription fee, given how most new gamers are used to all the free-to-play or one-time-purchase games on the market and the subscription based MMO has pretty much disappeared with the exception of EVE Online and World of Warcraft.
CCP did in the past make a pretty ironclad pact with the community that they would never attempt to go fully free-to-play with EVE Online, and part of that is that they'd have to rewrite many mechanics of playing the game in order to further push as many micro-transactions as possible to act as a stable income source, like with most other MMOs that have gone F2P.
However, if they were to set up MTs that supplemented their income enough to allow them to drop the monthly rate to $10 or maybe even lower than that, that'd make playing the game a lot more attractive to more people, especially if they reduced PLEX prices by the same percentage. Doing that would mean that the in-game cost of Pilot License Extensions would be reduced so they were more affordable by more players, and more people could play EVE for free without having to make giant Alt armies or grind menial tasks for days every month.
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Mobius Wyvern
Night Theifs
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
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Posted - 2016.06.21 00:28:00 -
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Scheneighnay McBob wrote:There's also the factor on how goddamn expensive VR is to begin with.
You're paying hundreds of dollars in order to have access to a handful of games, all for a gimmick. Granted it's a good gimmick, but a gimmick nonetheless.
The way I see it, the VR market is going to die in no time unless it gets significantly cheaper.
Part of why Razer and that other company are pushing the OSVR initiative, and have a $400 headset on the market.
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