Resources for New Players and Super Stash Sale

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gibbousmoon wrote:

What a bizarre argument.

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alhazred70 wrote:

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gibbousmoon wrote:

What a bizarre argument.

Not really its very simple, people like yourself have erroded the meaning of "P2W" down to the point of intellectual dishonesty at best and complete meaninglessness at worst.

"Pay to win" and "incentive to pay" have become unnecessary synonyms because of people who can't understand how the world functions, how they can't have free things at the same time that the creator of those things makes no money from them and goes homeless for his unpaid work. You would ask that they include ZERO INCENTIVE to ever pay for anything, this has never stopped from the first F2P game on, no matter how much the Developer avoids "pay 2 win" there are still people who aren't satisfied and so they move the goal posts to some other intellectually dishonest unreachable ideal. I've seen this argument play out in so many game forums, I've watched you people move the goal posts at every turn at some point you ABSOLUTELY will be making the argument that MTX can't look too good or its "Pay to win" because if some other player feels better about how his character looks well then that player "wins" by virtue of feeling slightly better.

It is NOT REASONABLE. You guys argue your points with your pseudo rational justifications while in the real world, Men have rent to pay and Children to feed and lives to live. Expecting them to not SO MUCH AS give incentive to someone to spend money on a great product is naivety bordering on mental deficiency.

The expectation of even MORE "freeness" than simply being able to play the entire game with 4 tabs and using Acquisition to trade, can only be the mindset of someone who's never had to pay rent or have a job. Being angry at a company that pays (probably) upwards of $50,000 dollars a month just for office space, and then 100+ Salaries averaging (last I looked) a game industry average of $80,000 per year.

But you go on thinking the ten bucks or so they want you to pay them for some added convenience is "pay to win" that the incentives of easier trade without needing Acquisition and easier item keeping without wanting to Mule items while they let you play the product of MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WORTH OF MAN HOURS FOR NO COST is "pay to win" I would expect nothing less. It is the incessant bellwether of a small contingent of players on every F2P modeled game in the industry and they all share one unavoidably obvious trait: they are people who don't understand how the real world works, it is the only way they could take the minutia of incentivized purchases and blow them up into a dishonest narrative about the game where only people who pay get to play.