Quite frankly the Freemium games get on my nerves for the following reasons:
#1 Most people just want to play a game, but they have to keep making these 'microtransactions' for some sort of virtual currency that speeds up development or certain items in the game can only be bought with virtual currency that is really hard to earn for free. If it was easier to earn the virtual currency it would not be so bad, but most games make it next to impossible to earn virtual currency to buy these items.
#2 The really wealthy will just buy their way to the top players in any Freemium game with little to no talent or game knowledge. The really poor will be battered and taken advantage of by the really wealthy in the freemium game just like in real life.
#3 Most of these games you level up by gaining experience points. In most freemium games I played I leveled up and then hit a wall, and the freemium developers didn't add in new levels but instead focused on adding new items to keep selling new items with virtual currency and most of the new items were just dupes of existing items with the color changed or reversed.
#4 Most freemium games copy each other so much that if you play one freemium game, you've basically played most of them already.
#5 I'd rather pay $30 to $60 for a video game and then not have to deal with freemium stuff that requires me to pay thousands of dollars just to compete with the wealthy players. I get tired of Freemium for example and find myself playing Civilization V instead that has free mods and other stuff for it. Sure I had to buy DLC, but over all it is cheaper when Steam has them on sale and I don't have to keep making microtransactions to keep up with the wealthy players.
I'm the same. Given a choice between two comparable apps I'll choose the one that has a single, one-time price every time. I am not averse to paying for increased functionality at some point down the line, but I will not pay just to make a game "better".
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 11.9 ms ] thread#1 Most people just want to play a game, but they have to keep making these 'microtransactions' for some sort of virtual currency that speeds up development or certain items in the game can only be bought with virtual currency that is really hard to earn for free. If it was easier to earn the virtual currency it would not be so bad, but most games make it next to impossible to earn virtual currency to buy these items.
#2 The really wealthy will just buy their way to the top players in any Freemium game with little to no talent or game knowledge. The really poor will be battered and taken advantage of by the really wealthy in the freemium game just like in real life.
#3 Most of these games you level up by gaining experience points. In most freemium games I played I leveled up and then hit a wall, and the freemium developers didn't add in new levels but instead focused on adding new items to keep selling new items with virtual currency and most of the new items were just dupes of existing items with the color changed or reversed.
#4 Most freemium games copy each other so much that if you play one freemium game, you've basically played most of them already.
#5 I'd rather pay $30 to $60 for a video game and then not have to deal with freemium stuff that requires me to pay thousands of dollars just to compete with the wealthy players. I get tired of Freemium for example and find myself playing Civilization V instead that has free mods and other stuff for it. Sure I had to buy DLC, but over all it is cheaper when Steam has them on sale and I don't have to keep making microtransactions to keep up with the wealthy players.