"Chagoth;c-1348829" wrote:
"SpadeFreeman;c-1348729" wrote:
"Chagoth;c-1348662" wrote:
"Dok;c-1348105" wrote:
"Chagoth;c-1347969" wrote:
Personally, I think it's immoral to pay nothing for a game you enjoy (or even a game you don't enjoy for that matter). You're just riding on the back of all the whales (I'm not a whale--more like a baby dolphin--but at least I contribute). It makes me wonder how many players have truly spent nothing on the game.
Firstly, nobody mentioned money. Bringing it up just to talk bad about ftp is unnecessary.
Secondly, ftp don't "ride on the back of all the whales". Without ftp - a vast majority of the playerbase - there wouldn't be anyone to whale against, and no game. I've spent a fair amount of money on the game myself, and I think it's immoral that you think people have to spend money on a free game. If this was an independently developed/published game, I'd be more inclined to agree with you. But this is EA. They don't need to bleed everyone dry to make their mountains of cash.
You do realize that the casual spenders are being outpriced (ie crystal booster going away) solely because of the whales' willingness to drop loads of cash, right? There were a lot of people that only bought the booster and don't spend at all now. The whales have nobody to blame but themselves. Well, EA gets some blame too.
Of course it's immoral to use a service for free. This is like "duh" 101. Good lord.
That's gotta be up there with the dumbest things I've seen all year. Using free things is immoral? When the people who made the thing, made it free?
That doesn't make even a tiny amount of sense.
It's not dumb at all (but you had to go there, didn't you? Any opinion different than your own is "dumb" . . . I see how it is.), it's just common sense: if you enjoy a service, the right thing to do is reward those providing that service. It's really not a difficult concept to grasp.
I had played the game for months without purchasing anything. It bothered me because I like the game so much. So every so often I buy a few crystals as a thank you to EA. But I guess that's dumb.
Yeah, most opinions other than mine I consider to be dumb, because I don't take dumb positions in arguments (in my own opinion). So if it's a two-sided argument, the other side is always going to be dumb.
And also, just because you enjoy something, doesn't mean you owe the creator of that thing anything. I occasionally enjoy this game, but the business practices it uses are so disgusting that I absolutely refuse to give them any money. Add that on top of the fact that I'm just not giving EA any money for anything they do right now, because they are a terrible company who don't deserve to get my money.
On the other hand, another free game that I play often (League of Legends) has taken plenty of my money, because Riot Games have overall good business practices and are a very good developer.
