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Originally Posted by Grimfan
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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. |
And all those games were complete shit. They found the FTP model "more lucrative" because their shitty cashgrab MMOs failed and they didn't have a playerbase to get subscription $ through anymore.
Thanks for proving my point though.
Can TSO even last through the summer before crashing and burning and going FTP?