"There is a pervasive myth that making content hard will induce players to rise to the occasion. We find the opposite. " -- Ghostcrawler
"The bit about hardcore players not always caring about the long term interests of the game is spot on." -- Ghostcrawler
"Do you want a game with no casuals so about 500 players?"
Actually I did that A guildie payed my sub for 100k gold/month. Still I think Blizzard has disgusting, greedy business practices. When I buy a game from EA I get a game.. just like from any other company. If I dont like the game, Im not gonna bother with DLC.. but if I do, at least I get additional content! Unlike Blizzard that just sells crap like mounts, pets and character rerolls.. thats not content!
yeah directly saying "i want to trade you my gold for gametime" is against tos.
However gifting someone gametime and taking a donation of gold for no real reason isn't. Loopholes man, loopholes.
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100k gold a month? i hope that was 1 to many zeros lol.
Also, I don't know what you play wow for, but WoWs version of DLC is technically free. And usually includes a new raid tier and several other perks.
your guildy scammed the hell out of you lol. you can get 2 months just about anywhere for less than 40k. Which is surprising because it seems odd to me that someone who would pay 100k gold for a month of gametime would feel scammed by a company who isn't requiring you to buy anything other than game.
Well, that's a knock on those games for me then, not that I'm saying I wouldn't play them, but buying subs with gold is not something I want in my game. Gold sellers would love that one. It's funny because we went from those guys suck for having a store, to let's have more stuff in the store.
I've been subbed for 8 years, only unsubbed once. I don't think I deserve free game time. I don't think anyone does. Would I like a few ingame perks? Sure, I'm a loyal customer, I deserve it. But the thing is, free game time is not the answer. When the free week email went out a few days ago I went straight to my account to check my old accounts (I have 4 total, only subbed on one), and not one of them had the free week, and I felt relieved. Yes relieved! Why? I don't like the idea of the game being flooded with people back for one week, when they really don't want to be there. If they really wanted to be there, they would pay, because it really is a tiny amount, the same price as a movie.
Last edited by finskee; 2014-06-23 at 05:58 PM.