Currency Imbalance: Time vs Money vs Greed
The market and ingame currency here is totally whack. 1200 minerals for a skin, which would be fine if we actually earned minerals at a reasonable rate or awarded them at a reasonable rate when we do...
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Except it the main source of income to feed thier children. How do you think free to play games are made? Magic? Here is how it works, generally speaking.
- A game studio will pitch an idea to an investor.
- The studio will then make a game using the investor's money.
- In order to repay the investor, the game studio needs to have some kind of plan to earn money from the game.
They either
- Charge people to Download the game
- Free to play and include micro transactions.
Now you might be confusing the "scam" with "pay to win" but we are talking about making weapons/skins look different, which is NOT pay to win and NOT a scam.
@stratiSphere wrote:Except it the main source of income to feed thier children. How do you think free to play games are made? Magic? Here is how it works, generally speaking.
- A game studio will pitch an idea to an investor.
- The studio will then make a game using the investor's money.
- In order to repay the investor, the game studio needs to have some kind of plan to earn money from the game.
They either
- Charge people to Download the game
- Free to play and include micro transactions.
Now you might be confusing the "scam" with "pay to win" but we are talking about making weapons/skins look different, which is NOT pay to win and NOT a scam.
Why are you using the term "scam". People aren't calling it a scam, they're calling it "greedy" "stingy" and perhaps "immoral". It is not a scam because you know what your'e buying before you buy it (basically the same as buying a lottery scratch card). It is however borderline immoral as they're using proven RNG gambling methods to sell off items from the store. Of course a lot of companies are doing the same. But there are F2P games doing well for many years by not using loot boxes. Ie Warframe and Path of Exile to name a few.
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