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ArcheAge Unchained Gifting Disabled After Player Concern
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ArcheAge Unchained Gifting Disabled After Player Concern
ArcheAge Unchained fans have a thing or two to say about "pay-to-win confirmed" in the dev team's latest live stream, according to Massively OP.
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So yeah, disabling it altogether is the only way to prevent the unofficial but tolerated sale of gold through gifting.
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Now, where did Mr. "Hi, I am delivery." go?
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Let's party like it is 1863!
This is a sincere question....if the only items to buy are cosmetic, etc. even if someone 'bought' gold how does that give an advantage over other players gameplay wise? Like I will win all the PVP because I was able to afford this cool 'Premium' Bridal Gown costume to fight in? What am I missing calling this PTW, cash grab?
It's no different than what WoW does with the WoW Token or how you can exchange gems for gold in GW2, except the actual exchange isn't built into a trading system so one person would have to 'trust' the other.
But, they've stopped it which puts it as better than some of the more popular MMOs in terms of P2W.
Thanks for the reply! I get real money is exchanged for gold. However I am still confused as to how that gives someone an advantage over another player. PTW = Pay to Win correct? So what 'Win' am I paying for that makes my character stronger than every other character?
“Microtransactions? In a single player role-playing game? Are you nuts?”
― CD PROJEKT RED
Ahh so the BOE items in the auction house....that makes sense. I thought you were referring to in game cash shop of cosmetic items being PTW. Thanks for the clarification, sorry I was a little slow on that one...:D
You can see my sci-fi/WW2 book recommendations.
Hey we all make mistakes in life,yes i sometimes call myself a dumbass for some of my mistakes however i HOPE to always learn,that is how life works,we learn from the past.
Cash shop gaming and deception has been going on long enough,10 years or so or more,time for people to wake up.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
You know I find people like you really stupid sometimes it really bothers me.
You say you want to play an MMORPG and yet you expect support in the game.
You understand that when you play an MMORPG, this isn't your game, its the game of the developers who are allowing you to play through a client you buy into their abridged world (server).
They have to have people EMPLOYED meaning they have to make money somehow to have those people employed to keep working to help YOU to play the game you want to play.
Nothing is for free indefinitely. Businesses have to JUSTIFY their existence, meaning they better be turning a profit to keep that MMORPG alive or it would literally be STUPID for the company to keep running it.
You really should be glad as hell that they are going with a buy2play model and disallowing anything P2W at least for awhile. Unless YOU think you can bankroll the company to keep it that way.
Only a little CHILD like yourself do not understand these real world concepts.
Lahnmir
Kyleran on yours sincerely
'But there are many. You can play them entirely solo, and even offline. Also, you are wrong by default.'
Ikcin in response to yours sincerely debating whether or not single-player offline MMOs exist...
'This does not apply just to ED but SC or any other game. What they will get is Rebirth/X4, likely prettier but equally underwhelming and pointless.
It is incredibly difficult to design some meaningfull leg content that would fit a space ship game - simply because it is not a leg game.
It is just huge resource waste....'
Gdemami absolutely not being an armchair developer
The goal posts are always being moved to further bad practice; we started of saying that buying anything that was not cosmetic is bad, then this changed to game altering (so a health potion was OK a super damage sword was not), now we are saying gambling in games is bad. The bad practice does not go away more just keeps coming along.
When developers start talking about skin economies and have video tutorials from the team on what that means (maybe somebody will remember which MMO that was), you know this will never end. There is always going to be a new ploy to milk cash in a way that is detrimental to gameplay.
They have cancelled this system for now (not all items though?) so that does show good faith, but it raises the spectre of bringing back such changes after launch.
I realise people desperately want a non-P2W AA and I get that but I think they are deluded to think that after the reviews are out and the income starts to dip that the P2W line won't be crossed as the game is not even out yet and they have tried to encroach on it. Just look at BDO as a prime example of this.
They are not going to rewrite the same store code that they use for 2 different clients when they can just change a single variable to turn it off instead. Gifting will still be available on the Legacy ArcheAge that uses the same store software. They have like 3 days until launch as well, flipping the switch is the only sane option to get it sorted immediately.