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Legends of Aria Drops Free to Play Version and Plans Only a 'Play and Earn' Model | MMORPG.com
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Legends of Aria Drops Free to Play Version and Plans Only a 'Play and Earn' Model | MMORPG.com
Free to play is no longer planned for Legends of Aria, which dropped plans to have both web3 and F2P versions, but will now have a single-shard 'play and earn' model.
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and it is always crappy games to start with...then they tack that on too to make it even worse.
Logic, my dear, merely enables one to be wrong with great authority.
"Yea, your game is a lot of fun, but I play games to make money, so unless you're willing to pay me, I'll just play something else that will."
Oh wait- that's how streamers and "influencers" work already.
It is not about "your games". It is about a current gaming industry trend.
It not "shoved down your throat". It is a presentation of a P2E "game".
And again, I am not interested to play LoA or any P2E game. But since I don't play them, I am still curious about them and their players.
Therefore, let's not exaggerate and go a little bit beyond the belly button approach.
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Cute that they also got gaming sites to say "web3" as if the term was anything other than a trendy meaningless term cryptobros like to throw around so they don't have to use the C word.
Mmorpg.com is so on the leading edge of gaming trends and leading us all to that metaverse in the sky... amiright?
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That why most people dont play this kind of game when p2p turn into f2p
No. Amplifying it.. giving it a reach far beyond their small fanbase... that's far worse.
History has shown this time and time again with these things. A fire with no oxygen will die. But one well fed with air and fuel... well it can become all consuming.
It's isn't CENSORSHIP to not act as the PR for this stuff. Nobody is saying that folks should be banned for talking about it.... but giving it visibility and free promotion? Hell no.
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About the only thing that needs to be said about Web3 and this type of crap.
I used to play for a few months, the IP had so much potential, dev had to ruin it
So What Now?
Censorship prevents one from the public expression of views or actions. Not being covered, or honestly even being banned from a specific site, does *not* prevent one from expressing or practicing their views publicly. As such, it falls short of censorship in the common use sense imo.
Even if we specify censorship to mean moderation on this specific site, Slap is right that advocating the site staff not highlight something is still not the same as censoring the topic from discussion.
Pay for a box, in this case you NFT avatar and play. Craft/mint NFT items and toss them on the auction house just as you would in any other mmorpg.
Done with the game, sell your avatar, and items.
Developers discouraged such for "reasons", most selfish of course, but some for the good of the game.
This is not the improvement you claim it to be.
Here's an example. One challenge games have is to provide enough money sinks to prevent game economies from imploding due to runaway mudflation.
In EVE (and I imagine many MMORPGS) do you know what one of, if not the biggest money drain is? Players leaving the game, either temporarily or permanently.
When I left EVE over 5 years ago I basically took 80B ISK out of circulation.
Imagine the negative impact had I been able to sell my ISK for crypto on my way out. Amplify that by a hundredfold if some of the players whose weath actually is in the trillions did the same.
There are so many other ways selling items of power could destroy the gameplay. Imagine if the in game stations in null sec could be sold for crypto.
No need to fight a war taking over a star system or region, just offer enough crypto to buy it all outright to seal the deal.
Incoming attack by rampaging Pandemic Legion forces? No worries, hop on the Crypto market and beef up your alliance fleet with as many dreadnoughts and supers as you can afford to repel the assault.
PL force, sensing such a move might decide to try and buy up all of the available stock beforehand, pushing the market place prices way up and now everyone is playing an entirely different sort of "meta" game.
Now, perhaps if such exchanges were limited to only NFT based cosmetics then not nearly such a big deal except in games where cool cosmetics can be crafted and sold by players.
Except I think that ship sailed long ago when cash shops became the rage, most games these days sell the best cosmetics in their stores leaving player made choices far fewer than in days of yore.
Even that game you always tout, when you leave that great character you built should be retired, not sold to someone else so they can continue it's legacy without having to do the work it took you to get it there.
It's one big reason I've never sold any character I've created in any game, it just doesn't seem "right" to do so.
Others with "different" moral standards don't feel the same of course, but that's OK, Madonna taught me we all live in a "material" world.
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agree, BLESS UNLEASHED doing same damn thing. They should have let it die the first round.
I just think it's dangerous to act as a PR arm for these companies by basically taking their own releases which go to a tiny audience and shooting them out to a huge audience. With little to no pushback or questioning.
But if the staff of this game want to come have a discussion.. heck yeah. Come on down!
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Isk would have to be more than what it is. It would have to the currency of EVE. There has to be real in game demand from real use.
Aaaan would it be a bad thing if someone offered 1,000,000, to the guild owning a sector? Js
"History has shown this time and time again with these things. A fire with no oxygen will die. But one well fed with air and fuel... well it can become all consuming."
I think it is already too late for this to happen... at least in the near future. Millions are already invested and P2E games are pumping out like crazy.
You are very naive if you think that just stopping talking about it will stop this heavy machine.
For it to die now, it will need at least a decade if it dies at all.