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ben_panced
post May 26 2011, 09:36 PM

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QUOTE(Cheesenium @ May 25 2011, 05:54 PM)
I think CyberSundayz's concern is that free games that have microtransaction are typically unbalance for those who wanted to play for free.

If you dont want to buy the items, you will be owned by those who actually put money into the game. In the end, it actually become a race of who is actually putting more money into the game to get the best weapon,perks, cars or whatever.

I am fine with paying for it, as the developers still need money to develop and support it. However, with past experience from BF: Heroes and other F2P games, they tend to love to rent the item, than sell it to you. So, you get this cool gun for 3 days, after that, please buy again. It is annoying, and in the end, you probably end up spending more to play the game than buying a boxed game in the first place.

Those facebook game on the other hand, people are actually pouring money into them to the point that people are spending 10k USD on some stupid virtual farm to 100k USD from some middle eastern guy. Not all of us can do that, and i rather spend my 10k USD in investment on real farms than a stupid virtual farm.
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that is their source of income..
basically they have poured their money into software development and will continue pouring money into it for patches.. servers.. server maintenance.. staff salary and many other overheads..
so it is fair to them to charge for small stuffs while giving the core game for free..
unless we are talking about an open source mmo game which the software development is being done by a dedicated group of hardcore programmers who do it just for fun and not money
ben_panced
post May 26 2011, 11:20 PM

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Those games are not even as expensive as a typical big budget game like Call of Duty or GTA. They generally cost very little like 150k USD for a Facebook game.

It is not like other big budget games do not have to do patches, server maintenance, staff salary and so on.
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nope.. look at the graphics.. those kind of games needs a lot of programmers, graphic artist and so on..
and dont forget the running cost of servers and such.. that's the killer part

 

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