DJINN leukoplast
Hellstorm Inc
League of Infamy
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Posted - 2012.12.19 04:59:00 -
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Bottom line is, it was free to use before and now we have to pay real money for it. NOBODY should be defending this.
Seriously, you like having to pay money where you did not before? There is no gain here, it's 100% loss.
As for the reasoning about this supporting CCP, I seriously doubt this was even remotely necessary, there is so many other Aurum items on the market that people spend tons of cash on. All this does it give CCP a tiny bit more money and hurt the corps, because not everybody will be able to buy the UVT on a regular basis, or at all.
I for one will likely refuse to ever buy Aurum again because of this. It's a cheap move, plain and simple. Next they are going to start charging AUR to adjust the settings for my controller... or to change the brightness/audio options. Or, how about this, you will have to pay a monthly Aurum fee to use weapons above standard grade. Hey it's still f2p, you just need to use real cash to advance further than standard gear.
Give them an inch, and they WILL take a mile. The more people support this kind of thing, the more CCP will be able to screw us over and get away with it. |
DJINN leukoplast
Hellstorm Inc
League of Infamy
288
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Posted - 2012.12.19 06:16:00 -
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Garrett Blacknova wrote:
If you were getting free cable because of a mix-up, and it got fixed, would you complain and demand free cable because you had it before? Same thing here.
It's the principle of the thing that makes this so bad. From what I know, the corp voice has been free since the betas release. Interesting it took them so long to fix something that was likely an easy fix.
Saying it was a glitch/bug is just an escape clause. So when, and if, they do charge for it they can say "Hey look, we said it was a glitch!"
But that doesn't mean they should have gone through with it. As it shows sleazy business practice on their end.
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Have you even looked into the full details of that side of the argument? It doesn't sound like you have. AUR items are the game's profit, NOT cost-covering tools for the voice chat service which CCP have to pay for. In-game voice, where you're talking to other DUST players in the same battle as you, can be run directly via PSN, and those costs are part of the agreement between Sony and CCP. The corporation chat handles EVE/DUST interaction, which requires it to run via the voice service CCP use for EVE, which they pay for through a third party. That costs money, and the UVT is meant to offset/cover the cost of that service.
Cost is cost. Whether I buy Aurum for weapons purchases or for the UVT, it all goes to the same place and then gets spent on what needs to be paid out.
And seriously, it's a f2p game, everything they are doing is costing them money. The game engine, any agreements they have with Sony and the PSN, their own ISP and net costs, running and maintaining servers, paying the devs, paying the electric bills etc etc.
But is everything in the game done by micro Aurum purchases to cover all these costs? Is their a subscription fee? Is the game going to cost $60 up-front on release? No.
It is being paid by the Aurum people purchase for weapons, boosters, merc packs, etc etc. It was not necessary in the least to charge for corp voice, as those costs were already being taken care of elsewhere. And is a slap in the face to their players.
You ever wonder why the UVT price for the 1 day, 7 day and 30 day were all the same? You think it was a unintentional glitch? Possibly, but I figure they were testing the players and whether or not people would foolishly buy the 1 day UVT for the same price as the 30 day UVT. They were likely testing the players and their gullibility to fork over the same amount of money for a lesser product. I feel this is not much different, as they are probably seeing if the player base accepts this or not after getting it for free for so long. And if we do accept it, then they know they can do it for other things and get away with it. |