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Originally Posted by Lemiddar
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After spending a few years on MMORPG's site I really feel like gamers are what hinders community building, aside from quality of games of course. The norm appears to be moving between games with every new release, and never playing anything longer than a couple months. At least for those people who actually post on those toxic boards.
I hate cash shops too, probably half the reason I haven't found a real home since I left original EQ.
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I disagree. I dont really think that its what players want. Its what companies want. They dont care about building communities, especially SOE. Of course any player that wants to play a game wants to gain power, which is why they seem to always put items in their cash shops that assist gameplay. They are banking on their own fans addictive behavior nothing more. There is no more earning of anything in these games. Complete a simple linear dungeon? have a small cookie! Complete 5 seemingly irrelevant things? Heres another cookie! OMG did you just combine 4 tradeskills?!?! DAMN SON U GOOD HERES A COOKIE! so then time goes and you arent getting any cookies that day, YOU CRAVE THE FUCKING COOKIE!!! GIMME DAT SHIT! so you buy the fucking cookie.
thats the pathology they bank on when they make their games free to play, keep in mind this isnt every f2p game, but it is in all of sonys games.
IMO f2p only works when a game can be competative, and its developers and the company that owns it, like Dota or something. They got millions playing it and didnt get anything in return initially. Then it turned into an E sport, and now im sure they make substantial profits from it because of its popularity. They banked on their game being good and promoted a competative community that exists and flourishes.
SOE makes games that offer none of that. They cant even promote their games because it seems that they know that they would be considered the laughing stock of the mmo and gaming community if they tried. Lets face it, SOE doesnt do things the right way because they have already found ways to bastardize their own customers without even having to acknowledge it. SOE is sonys dirty little secret.