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SoE accused of secretly adjusting droprates in their MMO to promote cash shop
Kiyoris
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Gaming blog In An Age is tracking the recent saga of PlanetSide 2's implant system, noting that the team quietly nerfed the drop rate of free implants and downwardly adjusted the power of tier 1 through 3 implants in order to push sales for the new tier 4 implants. Implants offer temporary buffs or abilities for characters and require an energy cost to activate.
SOE President John Smedley defended the move on Twitter: "Sorry, but we are actually trying to make money. I don't consider it a money grab." In a later tweet, he clarified that the team "made the drop rate [for implants] too high a while ago."
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Honestly can you trust any company not to end up compromising anything when they put it in the cash shop to make a profit?
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personally I don't get people defending this, luckily I don't have to deal with this kind of stuff in FFXIV
If by shocking you mean NOT SHOCKING AT ALL then yes it is very shocking.
"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/Somehow I think his sarcasm was lost on you.
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"classification of games into MMOs is not by rational reasoning" - nariusseldon
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Try a MUD today at http://www.mudconnect.com/You mean this "running a business and trying to make money" thing?
As compared to what? There is far far worse out there than what SOE does.
don't know who you are quoting, wasn't me
feel the same
Quotation marks can be used for more than just quoting direct sentences or speech. They can also be used to express irony and are placed around names of books. It's a thing. Try it.
Does this truly surprise anyone? In any of these companies let alone $oE...? We in Murica live in a corporate-fascism not a Democracy, this kind of thing shouldn't surprise anyone. If it surprises you I pity you as a naive fool. As for people defending it, well people have been propagandized to believe that corporates are people and have human rights, in such a environment of at best willful ignorance I'm not surprised.
I don't think I'm the only one surprised that SoE secretly adjust droprates to promote cash shop items. Just the only one willing to admit it.
If everyone knew it, the article wouldn't exist.
A lottery doing this would be shut down and placed under investigation. Real money is being transacted in SoE games daily.
Rigging the system is not something that is done very often.
- ah but corporates are guided by the ineffably holy-hand of G@D-the-market and are thus infallible, sublime! Holy +, Holy +, Holy +
So, before now, in a F2P game where items can be obtained through in-game drops or bought from the cash shop, what did you believe the drop rates were based on for these types of items? Did you believe the drop rates were established with no thought to how this would effect purchases of that item from the cash shop?
"Accused", "Secretly" ? of course they are, and so does every other f2p game monetized with a cash shop. What is this bull with game devs being greedy ? their business is to make money and with a f2p model, that is how you make money - Did you really believe games were "Free to play" ? wake up. As a gamer, I dislike and distrust most f2p models, and it only makes games worse, but that is besides the point. Greed is simply not a concept that makes sense in business, and a game is business.
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During creation, droprates are calculated, just like a lottery calculates their chances, just like a casino knows their chances.
But adjusting droprate in secret after the fact, to pull more revenue, no, I had no idea SoE was doing that.
I can only see someone being surprised or outraged by this if they actually believe that the F in F2P really does mean free. This is not even an example of some of the more questionable practices in F2P games. It's just fine tuning their revenue.
P2P games do a very similar thing by just adding "end-game" content or slowing down leveling. If you want to be a cynic about it, you can say they're just doing it to get another month's sub from you.
Playing MMOs will cost you money... except maybe for one notorious poster in these forums who claims to never pay a dime.
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