Originally posted by Muke Good to see the Cashshop developing quite well,so when is the actual launch of the game?
The "Cashshop" as you call it is a community financed crowdfunding campaign.
Surely they're making enough from ship sales to do away with the cash shop. This post and it sums up the situation quite well.
It does not matter that CIG is still in a funding phase. They are already at 3x the asking budget of the game with all the same features minus a few miniscule additions over the further stretch goals.
The point is, we are in a game that is 2 years still away from release, that is still not in a true alpha (i.e. PU is still not here) yet CIG have made every aspect of the game a micro-transaction. It does not matter that there is no "earn-able" in-game currency currently. CIG should be giving the backers things such as the weapons to test for free. Why would they be charging people real life money to test something? We are now 6-7 months since AC release and CIG has been charging for weapons for well over a year now. Look how CIG is able to give people "test drive a ship" week yet they can't give people free weapons to test and balance the game with? Yeah right. The bottom line, to CIG it's about the money.
The funny thing here is that the entire community of gaming has been jaded for a long time about DLCS, micro-transactions, buying items for real life etc in fully released games. Yet here we are now, in a game that is supposed to be "publisher" independent and gone away from those models, a game that is not even in it's alpha state, is turning out to be 10x worse than any of those other publishers could have imagined and done to us the gaming community. CIG has made micro-transactions of every single aspect of the game development so far, its despicable.
What is even more despicable? That CIG is considering to sell ships post game "because there is a community demand". Yeah right, the very same LTI demand where CIG had a huge end of LTI sale and sold ships under those pretenses, shut down threads for months on the topic and put people on bans/probation on the topic only to return the very same model back, why? Because LTI sells ships.
Originally posted by Muke Good to see the Cashshop developing quite well,so when is the actual launch of the game?
The "Cashshop" as you call it is a community financed crowdfunding campaign.
Surely they're making enough from ship sales to do away with the cash shop. This post and it sums up the situation quite well.
It does not matter that CIG is still in a funding phase. They are already at 3x the asking budget of the game with all the same features minus a few miniscule additions over the further stretch goals.
The point is, we are in a game that is 2 years still away from release, that is still not in a true alpha (i.e. PU is still not here) yet CIG have made every aspect of the game a micro-transaction. It does not matter that there is no "earn-able" in-game currency currently. CIG should be giving the backers things such as the weapons to test for free. Why would they be charging people real life money to test something? We are now 6-7 months since AC release and CIG has been charging for weapons for well over a year now. Look how CIG is able to give people "test drive a ship" week yet they can't give people free weapons to test and balance the game with? Yeah right. The bottom line, to CIG it's about the money.
The funny thing here is that the entire community of gaming has been jaded for a long time about DLCS, micro-transactions, buying items for real life etc in fully released games. Yet here we are now, in a game that is supposed to be "publisher" independent and gone away from those models, a game that is not even in it's alpha state, is turning out to be 10x worse than any of those other publishers could have imagined and done to us the gaming community. CIG has made micro-transactions of every single aspect of the game development so far, its despicable.
What is even more despicable? That CIG is considering to sell ships post game "because there is a community demand". Yeah right, the very same LTI demand where CIG had a huge end of LTI sale and sold ships under those pretenses, shut down threads for months on the topic and put people on bans/probation on the topic only to return the very same model back, why? Because LTI sells ships.
Come on .. tell the whole story , not only parts of it:
1) CIG has considered ship sales post launch due to requests from a few players .... and rejected the idea. Because the vast majority of players is against it.
2) CIG will soon hand out Arena Commander cash, which can be used to buy weapons. No real world cash needed.
3) CIG has handed out 15.000 UEC for free to backers to buy e.g. weapons and test them. Again .. no real world cash was needed.
4) CIG often has "Test this ship" weeks .... so you can try out ships in Arena Commander that you did not pledge for. Or they even offer a whole series of ships like the whole range of Origin 300X variants.
5) You won't find any LTI ship package in the current pledge store
So ... who would have guessed ... those "money grabbing greedy bastards at CIG" are giving their backers things to test beyond their pledge packages every month ... no real world cash needed besides a 30 $ starter pledge (was as low as 20 $ in the past).
And once again ... a crowdfunding campaign is NOT the same as an EA or Ubisoft cash shop. Maybe you google the wikipedia entry for crowdfunding sometime.
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Surely they're making enough from ship sales to do away with the cash shop. This post and it sums up the situation quite well.
It does not matter that CIG is still in a funding phase. They are already at 3x the asking budget of the game with all the same features minus a few miniscule additions over the further stretch goals.
The point is, we are in a game that is 2 years still away from release, that is still not in a true alpha (i.e. PU is still not here) yet CIG have made every aspect of the game a micro-transaction. It does not matter that there is no "earn-able" in-game currency currently. CIG should be giving the backers things such as the weapons to test for free. Why would they be charging people real life money to test something? We are now 6-7 months since AC release and CIG has been charging for weapons for well over a year now. Look how CIG is able to give people "test drive a ship" week yet they can't give people free weapons to test and balance the game with? Yeah right. The bottom line, to CIG it's about the money.
The funny thing here is that the entire community of gaming has been jaded for a long time about DLCS, micro-transactions, buying items for real life etc in fully released games. Yet here we are now, in a game that is supposed to be "publisher" independent and gone away from those models, a game that is not even in it's alpha state, is turning out to be 10x worse than any of those other publishers could have imagined and done to us the gaming community. CIG has made micro-transactions of every single aspect of the game development so far, its despicable.
What is even more despicable? That CIG is considering to sell ships post game "because there is a community demand". Yeah right, the very same LTI demand where CIG had a huge end of LTI sale and sold ships under those pretenses, shut down threads for months on the topic and put people on bans/probation on the topic only to return the very same model back, why? Because LTI sells ships.
Come on .. tell the whole story , not only parts of it:
1) CIG has considered ship sales post launch due to requests from a few players .... and rejected the idea. Because the vast majority of players is against it.
2) CIG will soon hand out Arena Commander cash, which can be used to buy weapons. No real world cash needed.
3) CIG has handed out 15.000 UEC for free to backers to buy e.g. weapons and test them. Again .. no real world cash was needed.
4) CIG often has "Test this ship" weeks .... so you can try out ships in Arena Commander that you did not pledge for. Or they even offer a whole series of ships like the whole range of Origin 300X variants.
5) You won't find any LTI ship package in the current pledge store
So ... who would have guessed ... those "money grabbing greedy bastards at CIG" are giving their backers things to test beyond their pledge packages every month ... no real world cash needed besides a 30 $ starter pledge (was as low as 20 $ in the past).
And once again ... a crowdfunding campaign is NOT the same as an EA or Ubisoft cash shop. Maybe you google the wikipedia entry for crowdfunding sometime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding
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