05-29-2013, 11:42 AM
Personally, I think that GGG has found a winning combination on the F2P model without going P2W. It's very easy to spend cash on POE, and for someone like myself, and I'm sure Frag is probably included with this, we are more inclined to spend money, and keep spending money on PoE because what I'm paying for is not P2W. If POE goes P2W, I'm out, like my former self in dodgeball. I don't mind buying cool looking skill animations, or pets, or gear glows, and I don't mind paying for more space. And that's the key. It's really easy to buy more space. If you get into saving items for the recipes, it's REALLY easy to run out of vault / stash space.
A lot of people are talking the Demise of POE. POE has a few things going for it, that I don't think people are counting on.
1.) They have a very small team of people. This isn't Blizzard we are talking about.
2.) they have embraced some of the mediums that they need to make sure that people are playing.
3.) People have been using web statistics to count the number of players in game. If there is one thing that I have learned from Blizzard, it's that the majority of the playerbase does not visit the site. They aren't active in the forums. They are quiet. Web Stats is a terrible way to even begin to quantify the playerbase.
Don't be surprised if more games start to follow the ideology of the F2P without P2W, and using the RMT system for things that will get the playerbase's attention, without degrading the quality of gameplay.
A lot of people are talking the Demise of POE. POE has a few things going for it, that I don't think people are counting on.
1.) They have a very small team of people. This isn't Blizzard we are talking about.
2.) they have embraced some of the mediums that they need to make sure that people are playing.
3.) People have been using web statistics to count the number of players in game. If there is one thing that I have learned from Blizzard, it's that the majority of the playerbase does not visit the site. They aren't active in the forums. They are quiet. Web Stats is a terrible way to even begin to quantify the playerbase.
Don't be surprised if more games start to follow the ideology of the F2P without P2W, and using the RMT system for things that will get the playerbase's attention, without degrading the quality of gameplay.
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