Doing Free to Play Wrong

grimal

I think think this video is worth checking out, considering the amount of back and forth about the business model.

Doing Free to Play Wrong - How Bad Monetization Harms F2P Games - Extra Credits

 

tolke

I don't like cash shops. I would like cash shops more if I could pay with real money, but you pay with some kind of crystals. I guess there might not be a way around it, or they would choose to let you pay with money because they would sell more if it was more convenient to buy.

What happens when I want to buy something, is that I go to the web site to buy crystals. They come in packs, the more crystals you buy, the less you pay per crystals. Also I can't buy the exact number of crystals that I need. These two reasons make me buy more crystals than I need. The leftover crystals just sitting there is what makes me resent my buying at all, which makes me hate cash shops.