First off I'd like to say as a "Free" game goes MWO by far my favorite, I have WoT, Star Conflict, War Thunder and a few others and I'd much rather play MWO. I have all of the original MW's and I played the crap out of them, MW Mercenaries was by far my favorite with Black Knight second. MWO is coming along(if albeit slowly) with every patch it looks a little better, some things are improved others not so much, so as a free game I really like MWO and there in lies the problem, as a potential paying customer PGI is a long way away from getting me to spend money on MWO. Put aside the bugs, connection issues, Buff/Nerf experiments etc, etc, PGI has so far not added anything that costs real world dollars that I would buy. I did purchase the YLW and was very disappointed, lets face it, if I spend 20, 30, 40 dollars or more on some thing in a F2P game it needs to do some thing more than earn in game credits faster and have a fancy paint job.
So this is the part of the post that's going to polarize people, I believe that if MWO is going to be successful it's going to have to be more like WoT, I would spend money on armor piercing ammo, upgraded weapons, a mech that has more crit spaces, can add more armor, flap it's freaking arms and fly, I think you get the idea. Yes this is what some people call P2W (I take issue with that term, as purchasing those items does not guarantee you a win, a slight edge yes but not an over whelming advantage) my experience with WoT has showed me that an average player is still average no matter how much they spend. I am an average player, I do not expect to be turned into a "Rock Star" if I purchased items like that, I would buy them because I liked and wanted them, they are vanity items and after all this is just a game. Instead of taking my wife out for dinner I'll buy that UAC/20 for my flying arm flapping Atlas and be King of the World. Come on PGI, make me want to spend money on MWO.
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Come On Pgi, Give Me A Reason To Spend Money On Mwo
Started by 8CH Trooper, May 25 2013 02:08 PM
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Posted 25 May 2013 - 04:18 PM
If you're content with MW:O as a F2P, I'm not sure where the desire for PGI to implement P2W systems is coming from. You're getting a game that (you said so yourself) is enjoyable and one of the better F2P games out there. Let's not tarnish that by trying to emulate other F2P/P2W games.
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Posted 25 May 2013 - 06:15 PM
Rabid Dutchman, on 25 May 2013 - 04:18 PM, said:
If you're content with MW:O as a F2P, I'm not sure where the desire for PGI to implement P2W systems is coming from. You're getting a game that (you said so yourself) is enjoyable and one of the better F2P games out there. Let's not tarnish that by trying to emulate other F2P/P2W games.
Unfortunately PGI is not a charity and will need to show a profit at some point(likely sooner than later), without a steady revenue stream game development will slowly grind to a halt and as much as I would like to see MWO succeed I am not going to pay for some thing I don't see as having value to it. If PGI were say that today they are going to start charging a monthly subscription to play I would not pay as the game is nowhere near that point yet. If they were to offer some of the things I suggested I would likely buy some even at this point in the games development as I would deem them to have some value. In the future, if and when MWO becomes the game I think we are all hoping for I would certainly consider paying for the privilege of playing, until then they will have to be more creative in their efforts to separate me from my hard earned money.
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