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Don't be sad Hakks! You'll get all you want one day soon!
I'm an injured ex-Navy recruit who has been denied unemployment and my dad likes to tell me to move out all the time (Even though he begged me to not move out at one point).
but I know things will get better! And they will for you too!
You literally buy power
Nah all F2P games have their issues related to the inherent contradictions of needing to make money off a free to play game and what that does to the availability of resources, cosmetic stuff, game changing items, etc, over time. Planetside 2, League of Legends and Team Fortress 2 are the better examples, but none of them is the best because even they have issues.
PS2 for example has a pretty reasonable setup for cosmetics and exp gains, but the game itself has a never ending stream of balance issues, server stability, bugs and repetitive gameplay that make a lot of that pretty pointless after the initial rush of playing in a massive laser battle wears off. It needs to shore up it's core strengths with better moment to moment experiences, specifically by spicing up what you actually do base capping and defense wise, adding more mission types and objectives for you and your empire to complete, as well as more variety in weapons, vehicles, aircraft, etc, to make the money you put in more valuable long term. Stuff SOE is doing but slowly.
MEH I want to put in money and receive a scope, instead of playing the game without the proper equipment on my damn gun. Also the upgrade for the thing so people can spawn and give me XP.
still i'd tip well after ordering something like that.
i need to order one at a legit cocktail bar
hate it so much
Mostly that his observations about the gun packs aren't substantiated by his article (I haven't played the game, so it might be true) because most games that I'm aware off, those guns tend to be different, not straight-up more powerful.
He even mentioned having something like that earlier in the article as a good thing.
Then there's this part:
Is only true if people play less than 5 months assuming everything else stays the same, which it probably won't but he didn't provide numbers, so I don't understand his conclusion.
http://battlelog.battlefield.com/bf3/user/Mort-ZA/
@MortNZ
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I already have enough depressing examples as is in the comic industry!
8D
this is the face of person on the edge of insanity
Egg whites 6 other ingredients, vigorously shaken and then stirred?
Pitb
#FreeScheck
#FreeSKFM
Well yes, but I hate it even more in FPS games
One reason I really loved Nodame Cantabile (besides all the classical music) was sex was almost completely removed from their growing relationship/romance.
Which granted the two characters in that series are both very odd and even the other characters in the story are all sorts of confused about exactly what's going on between them. But I like stories about relationships between people that aren't cookie-cutter standard romantic leads, otherwise there's not really much point in reading it!
Eventually they start having sex, and the reader only finds out about it long after the fact, and it's pretty much a non-factor in their actual romantic partnership.
This is the opposite of true.
All of the guns are side-grades (at least overtly, some of them are side-grades you'd seldom ever be in a situation where you'd want the alternative, but thems the breaks), and there is absolutely nothing you can't get with certs that you can only get with SC that isn't straight cosmetic.
BUT NO NOW WE HAVE TO LEVEL UP AND UNLOCK SHIT FUCK YOU AMERICA
Both of these cost baby certs to get! (30 certs and 50 certs, respectively)
For reference, play during an alert, every alert I've gotten at least 350 certs over the course of it. (they're 2 hours)
i am very suspicious of the concept of "side-grades"
very suspicious indeed
But I want them immediately because the game sucks without them.
So I can start the game and compete in dogfights with pilots who have bought all the things on their jetplanecopter?
Not really. I mean you can, but you can also earn it.
Doesn't make it different from BF3 or CODs unlock system.
The only thing you can buy with only money is cosmetic.
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@MortNZ
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Actually, if your NC, you buy slow blue nailguns, if your TR, you buy red SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM BULLETS YES, and if your Vanu, you buy more scopes to add to your already BS aim.
Not actual power, because you still need to be able to shoot, but not exactly Counter Strike.
that's like in WoW where you basically didn't get your defining class power until level 10
like wtf
that's some mr miyagi "go scrub my deck before I teach you how 2 karate" bullshit right there
Because, I asked myself, "Self? What do you want to do tomorrow?" and the answer that came back was, "Shit!"
you don't get your class defining power until level 5
gee thanks for the extended tutorial
I can tell you that it's absolutely the truth when it comes to the infantry guns.
With the vehicle guns it's not quite as true. In the sense that, the default vehicle guns all blow, but all the ones you can buy are completely equivalent in power.
On the other hand at least in the comics industry you've also got 5 million examples of dudes you're way cooler than
Or the face of a person who is in the 8th dimension and has their 8 dimensional ass waving in the wind in front of God. He doesn't even know what the fuck.
Note the bolded.
He is showing a disparity between the popular wisdom (that F2P brings in more money per user than a subscription) and the numbers this company is posting.
But the important part about War Inc in on the next page. They are implementing their F2P model badly and, more importantly, their UI is difficult to use and gives a bad impression about the game. With UI improvements and some tweaks to their model they could make more money.
i believe it was level 10 in the first game
so
they got less dumb?
Well I disagree, the amount of bullshit slogging you have to do in ps2 is ridiculous with your shit gun with shit scope to get one gun on one vehicle that's locked to one character
I don't believe that side-grades exist.
Even if the different guns are equivalent in power, having multiple options at your disposal is itself an advantage, as well as being able to use slightly rarer options that people are less practiced against.
This is, like, not even true.
Objectively, the game sucks without a good team. Everything else isn't as important.