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[Greyfyl]

Fenix0742, on 23 January 2013 - 10:33 AM, said:

No. As this is a Free to Play game, they've already budgeted for free players, and the only resource you'd be consuming would be bandwidth, something they have enough of to cover peak load times. By playing, you're actually providing them with a resource: a warm body to fill out a team for paying customers looking for matches; in fact this is partly why F2P is so successful.

I understand what you are saying, but on the other hand, I'm their target customer. I've played MW3 and MW4 for ages. I have BT books scattered around my house. I have money just waiting to be spent on gaming.

Yet I'm not giving them any money at this point for a half-broken game that is charging first class product prices. If I'm not willing to spend money on it, how in the world can they be expecting any decent percent of new, non-BT players to part with their cash for this?

Edited by Greyfyl, 23 January 2013 - 10:48 AM.

[Joseph Mallan]

Greyfyl, on 23 January 2013 - 10:47 AM, said:

Yet I'm not giving them any money at this point for a half-broken finished game that is charging first class product prices. If I'm not willing to spend money on it, how in the world can they be expecting any decent percent of new, non-BT players to part with their cash for this?

the game is not broken, its not completed. How do you make a game that supposedly takes 50+mill to make if you don;t have the money to make it? I spend/donate $15 a week.

[BerryChunks]

Fenix0742, on 23 January 2013 - 10:33 AM, said:

No. As this is a Free to Play game, they've already budgeted for free players, and the only resource you'd be consuming would be bandwidth, something they have enough of to cover peak load times. By playing, you're actually providing them with a resource: a warm body to fill out a team for paying customers looking for matches; in fact this is partly why F2P is so successful.

so lets assume 80% of the players stop or dont pay, and just consume bandwidth (AND server load. more servers = more money).

Greyfyl, on 23 January 2013 - 10:47 AM, said:

I understand what you are saying, but on the other hand, I'm their target customer. I've played MW3 and MW4 for ages. I have BT books scattered around my house. I have money just waiting to be spent on gaming.

Yet I'm not giving them any money at this point for a half-broken game that is charging first class product prices. If I'm not willing to spend money on it, how in the world can they be expecting any decent percent of new, non-BT players to part with their cash for this?

exactly