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Originally Posted by Byrjun
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It's basically $20 for an extra race, better mount, and exp bonus. That's essentially what we call a cash shop.
Box price + subscription fee + cash shop = shady fucking cashgrab. All these new WoW clones are the same - they care more about siphoning as much $ from you than they do about creating a quality game.
This is like a huge red flag. Anyone who felt like they made a quality game wouldn't tarnish it with these kinds of awful business practices.
This shit will be free to play within a year.
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This is a modern day digital collectors edition, if you haven't been playing MMO's since 2004, I understand, so I will lay it down for you with a few recent examples.
Rift:
http://biobreak.wordpress.com/2011/0...tion-worth-it/
This is before it went Free to Play.
SWTOR:
http://techland.time.com/2011/12/20/...-old-republic/
This is before it went FTP, the digital deluxe version had all the in game goodies without the cool stuff in the box.
TERA:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/212753/?cc=nl
This shit is still available and was on day one. This is the same edition from before it went FTP.
The idea I'm trying to get across to you is that this is the normal thing now. Almost every game launches with a digital add-on package of mounts and such that you can buy. Most of these games did not start with a cash shop, in fact none of them did. Yes they found the FTP model more lucrative in the long run but that's just how things have evolved.
Mounts and vanity pets are in almost every digital collectors edition for an MMO out there. This time it included a race, but it's no more shady than any of the other games offering incentives for paying a little extra for a slightly easier experience.
Believe what you want however.