F2P hurts & limits POE's potential..

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Heartbound a écrit :

EDIT: Sorry guys I accidentally submitted when not ready.. There is a lot more things I was gonna put & a lot of typos to fix & proof reading to do.. This is heavily WIP.
But I'd like to know what you guys think & if you think in the long run F2P is worse for POE than B2P/P2P?

When I first came across POE in BETA I thought wow! This game is free 2 play & offers more complex & unique things than diablo 3 does. This is the game Diablo 3 should have been! And the fact that it's F2P is even more amazing. But the longer I played I realized just how much F2p actually hurts GGG's potential. I'll explain below.

1: Microtransactions - There is nothing pay to win at all in POE & I respect GGG so much for that. BUT with microtransactions this means all the cool things you see aren't earned through hard work/skill. It's just using you or your parents hard earned money. I know guys, I know.. "THEN DON'T BUY ANYTHING, NOBODY IS FORCING YOU!" I understand this. But just because noone is forcing you doesn't mean it's still not disappointing that all the cool stuff isn't earned through doing certain achievements in the game but instead just spending real money. Imagine those bad ass Tentacle wings is actually earned from slaying a very hard/rare unique boss & it has the chance of dropping those badass wings. Wouldn't you be waaay more hyped if you just got those awesome rare wings through actually playing the game & feeling rewarded instead of just spending real money on them? You see that guy with those wings on & you think damn that's awesome he defeated "name here"! Instead of oh that's cool, he bought the tentacle wings from the cash shop. They look nice. And of course this wouldn't just be for the wings. More awesome unique looking weapons, armour, weapon skins, ways to actually earn the pets, ETC.

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Are you even playing this game?

They just gave you the possibility to earn two full armor set MTX by just playing the game and reaching 4 goals...FOR FREE

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Xavderion a écrit :

I'd be perfectly fine if PoE used a sub model like WoW. I'd pay 10 bucks a month no problem.

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Aim_Deep a écrit :

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Xavderion a écrit :

I'd be perfectly fine if PoE used a sub model like WoW. I'd pay 10 bucks a month no problem.

not me. never touched wow. some months i dont play at all.

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Cosma a écrit :

Are you even playing this game?

They just gave you the possibility to earn two full armor set MTX by just playing the game and reaching 4 goals...FOR FREE

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goetzjam a écrit :

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Aim_Deep a écrit :

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Xavderion a écrit :

I'd be perfectly fine if PoE used a sub model like WoW. I'd pay 10 bucks a month no problem.

not me. never touched wow. some months i dont play at all.

I wouldn't be playing PoE if it had a subscription price like WoW, I never played it and couldn't fathom spending money every month on a sub fee. That being said GGG has made more money then what they would have from a sub fee from me and this applies to many people as well.

F2P is the way of great games now.

PoE (F2P)
Dota 2 (F2P)
TF2 (F2P)

CS GO is $15 (which IMO is almost F2P)

GGG won't change now OP, its F2P and will remain so forever, it doesn't seem to be limiting them now, so I am not sure exactly what point you are trying to make.