Rattazustra, on 26 June 2013 - 09:46 AM, said:
This whole affair is simply disgusting beyond belief.
First they get the whole thing going with the help of the founders and now they screw the whole thing over.
Over the past months progress has been a total joke. PGI has done shoot-nuthin to make this game significantly better and the addition of new content to spice things up has been a sad trickle. But don't worry, if you are a founder you can become a founder again now. And if you are no founder yet, you get a second chance. In exchange you get... Well, not much really. Sure, some math wizards will try to convince you otherwise. Wow. Mechbays worth X and Hero Mechs worth Y, plus more mechs worths Z and premium time worth... Oh, wait. There is an error in that calculation. It uses the word "worth". See, a Hero Mech is NOT actually worth what PGI charges for it. In fact the current prizing of the in-game items is simply vulgar and completely perverted and on top of that things are increasingly including pay2win items, like superior coolant shots and more.
This game is not free2play. It is increasingly divided into two groups of players. Those who pay absurd amounts of money and those who provide the cannon fodder for them. Sure, for some of us these sums do not cut a hole into our wallets. That is not the point in evaluating prizing, though. If a tomato would cost 25$ we could all still afford to eat one every once in a while. But we would not be making any tomato salad, unless we were rich. This is what the gaming industry is doing more and more these days, blowing up the cost of one game so that it costs as much as 2-3 full price titles used to cost, while at the same time not delivering a corresponding increase in quality and content.
On top of all that, all this is for a game that simply seizes to exist the very second that PGI goes belly up.
I expected PGI to do exactly this when they add the Clans and I still do, but I was surprised that they did it just now. Eventually, there will be three money grabs and each one will become more and more absurd. The pricing in this game is already way off and so far they have done nothing at all to adjust that. Not even once. And they don't need to, because enough sheople roll with it.
"Shut up and take my money" has to be the most mindless, most self-debasing statement that could ever come from a consumer's mouth.
I don't know if I will buy this. Right now I think I won't, but if I did, I already know that I will not be happy about it. There is a sense of disgust and abomination that will not wash away.
It is a truly impresive feat for you to force so much nonsense into one post.
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