Shion Typhon
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Posted - 2013.06.09 05:54:00 -
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People won't even pay subscription fees for top of the line AAA MMOs these days, even EVE is in a minority clique in this day and age.
Heck I don't even think I'd pay a subscription for TF2 which is like, the best FPS ever made, let alone Dust.
For me to pay subscription for Dust it would need to be MMO+FPS Jesus fully linked into my EVE account with massive persistent battles and .... and ... well the rest. Basically it would have to be an FPS I would play over all others in the market ... +10 |
Shion Typhon
Intara Direct Action
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Posted - 2013.06.09 06:32:00 -
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Ludvig Enraga wrote:Shion Typhon wrote:People won't even pay subscription fees for top of the line AAA MMOs these days, even EVE is in a minority clique in this day and age.
Heck I don't even think I'd pay a subscription for TF2 which is like, the best FPS ever made, let alone Dust.
For me to pay subscription for Dust it would need to be MMO+FPS Jesus fully linked into my EVE account with massive persistent battles and .... and ... well the rest. Basically it would have to be an FPS I would play over all others in the market ... +10 Ok but I just can't grasp why everyone hates subscription so much. Just about everyone who poasted in my thread said: NNNNOOO! A reasonable fee subscription is 5 bucks a month. that's 60 a year. How many titles a year do you or anyone in this thread buys per year? 3-4 is the average right? How long do you play any one of those games? 1-2 months tops. So why does subscription seem so terrible - if you don't like the game you just quit paying after the first month ( you wasted only 5 bucks); if you do - you keep rewarding the developer and they will keep cranking out good content for you.?
Because subscription fees are like Kickstarter, you are being asked for a faith-based tithe to a start-up religion. The dev is taking your money but may or may not come to the table with his/her promises and/or practical delivery of those promises.
Then flip that around and look at something like Guild Wars 2. I can choose to look at each cash shop item AND expansion before I buy it, I can consider the product in its finished form and say "yes I'll buy that for a dollar". No faith, no promises, just a straight business transaction, even if the same amount of money is involved.
Heck, I've put more real $s into Planetside 2's store than I ever would if it was P2P but I don't mind because I was in complete control of the $s-for-benefits decision.
I admit, in EVE, CCP have been much much better than most dev houses, they've pony'd up on their end of the faith a good 75%+ of the time, however, we can't see that here in Dust, the game is in such a shambles there's no evidence of them being able to keep that faith based agreement, other than buying time off their reputation from another game (EVE). |