"Never pay-to-win" Dishonest Marketing by GGG?
" Not sure how that's dishonest marketing when it's neither marketed (product details on a purchase page is not marketing), and specifically indicates the timespan of point purchases that the offer is valid for. Random people on the Internet giving wrong information is also not dishonest marketing since Grinding Gear Games have no control over what some random person says. Dernière édition par Nuro#1041, le 27 août 2016 à 11:53:42
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" Next thing he'll tell you is that coupons with use by dates are dishonest marketing. It will convert your forum titles into decorative square badges that use the space next to your forum posts more economically so that you can show off an unlimited number of them at any one time. - GGG, 2018 (https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3573673)
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" What? By that logic I should get the minotaur pack free since I already paid $50 for the ascendant pack. That's not a good way to run a business. |
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"He's not talking about supporter packs getting upgraded. He's talking about generic points packs getting upgraded. His conclusion that it's greed driven though is just his speculation. Maybe the more logical explanation is that the 13 week development cycle corresponds with the business quarters and counting income in a quarter that you have to uncount in another quarter because the person wanted to use those points toward a future supporter pack is a tax and bookkeeping nightmare. But nah, greed is the only possible explanation. Guild Leader The Amazon Basin <BASIN> Play Nice and Show Some Class www.theamazonbasin.com Dernière édition par mark1030#3643, le 27 août 2016 à 12:06:37
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"[Removed by Support] i never mentioned previous Supporter packs purchase, im talking about the 5-10-20$ packs  ,the ones you usually buy in hope of one day buying a supporter pack Prophecy had only 1 Supporter pack so once you had it bought... there was nothing else to go for as a supporter pack. So the support was directly in form of 5-10-20$ packs. This punishing people that want to support, it doesnt make sense ZiggyD is the Labyrinth of streamers, some like it, some dont, but GGG will make sure to push it down ur throat to make you like it Dernière édition par Nichelle_GGG#0000, le 27 août 2016 à 14:23:53
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" Emphasis mine. Kinda ironic isn't it?
Spoiler
But I guess we all already knew who the school dropout was
Dernière édition par Nichelle_GGG#0000, le 27 août 2016 à 14:24:37
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" Oh right, I had forgotten those can be upgraded too. I moved to just buying supporter packs a couple iterations ago since the generic packs weren't enough for my ever-growing need of stash tabs to hoard stuff in. I wonder if I have enough tabs for the prophecy merge... Might even need a second currency tab soon. |
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" Lol, I'm sure you have some good items in there too! I do think the premium stash tabs are a pay-to-win feature. That doesn't mean they are game changing or even impactful at all for every player in the game. But I think there was a philosophy Chris articulated when the game first came out in terms of microtransactions and game balance. It this type of ARPG, the positive feelings of players are "substantially reduced" if other players can "buy advantage" to have the convenience to obtain currency for "less effort" and the overall "integrity of the game" is diminished: We don’t want to sell anything that affects the game economy or provides a competitive advantage for one player over another. We try to completely divorce our microtransactions from the game balance. Selling items that affect a player’s stats, or can be traded, or provide some type of gameplay boost are examples of things that we feel would be pay-to-win. We’ve designed Path of Exile as the game that we want to play, and we don’t want to play a game where players can buy advantage. In an Action RPG, it’s very important that players can only acquire levels and items as a direct result of their hard work so that the integrity of the game is kept intact. Players play for the feeling of finding and having an amazing item, and that feeling is substantially reduced if other players can get it for less effort. |
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" You keep posting this as your only argument, and it's not a good one. " " Straight on the 'Buy Packs' page, my friend. Same page the small point packs are on. "You go on pretending that you own the universe,
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