Nethergoat

all is explained!

Your confusion knows no bounds, sis.

I say "yeah some people are on the fringe and might have a problem", you say "I AM ON THE FRINGE AND HAVE A PROBLEM!111" like I hadn't already addressed the existence of a small minority

Yeah, there are a few people who, due to whatever odd circumstances, manage to play a video game with a recurring monthly cost while otherwise barely scraping by.

Hooray, it's nice to have you aboard!

You're not the audience for booster packs.
Ten bucks still isn't a meaningful sum to the vast majority of players.
Oh well!


No I'm not.
I'm saying YOU'RE NOT THE AUDIENCE FOR THIS PRODUCT.
And also that ten bucks DOESN'T mean a lot to the people who are the audience, i/e the bulk of the playerbase.

Am I castigating you for your situation? No. I place the same moral value on cash or the lack thereof IRL as I do in game, which is to say none at all.

The reality for the vast majority of people who play this game is that ten bucks is a minor expense quickly forgotten. And we're the audience for these boosters.

And I don't need to.
I can generalize, which I have- "a minority can't afford boosters easily- they are not the audience for the product".
that covers as much of your "story" as necessary for the sake of the argument. I don't need an encyclopedic knowledge of your history to make a broad point, I'm not your biographer,

You're very confused and defensive and have some issues with reading comprehension, but that doesn't qualify for my /ignore HOF. Only the true giants gain access to that exclusive club.
=)

It's been nice actually paying attention to how much inf I make again.

I'm keeping a few billion on hand for markteering and kitting out lowbies, but whatever I make above that gets gleemailed to the 88'ers.

I'm around 10b burned so far, with no end in sight. =D

I've been recruited into teams by total strangers while checking my marketeers on virtue, freedom, triumph AND guardian.

*shrug*

Currently "everyone" blows three power picks on stamina.
After I19 "everyone" will get it for free.

Either way, everyone has it- I'm not seeing your point.

I've been pounding on it every 20m with all of my characters since I bought the pack and didn't even *know* about the monkey thing until this thread. =P


Kinda bummed I found out, it would've been a hilarious surprise....


IMHO the buffs are good enough that one minute of monkeyfication every couple of days is a small price to pay.

hey don't look at me, I'm going from the info provided by the undies in a wad crowd proclaiming it as a badge celebrating gendercide (or whatever they're on about).

If it doesn't have anything to do with witches their position is even sillier than I thought.

Amazing, you quote my post but seemingly failed to read it.

here, maybe this rings a bell?


There will always be outliers. The reality is the vast bulk of the playerbase wouldn't miss ten bucks if it fell out of their wallet at the bar (or the mall, for our younger players =P).

same here, and I have vivid memories of just how freakin' far off my radar computer games of any sort were at the time. =P

1: you can afford a gaming computer
2: you can afford a broadband internet connection
3: you can afford $15 a month for an MMO subscription.


I don't need to see your pay stub to draw some conclusions.

yes, there will always be some edge cases who play on someone else's tab or who are dealing with a fixed income that features exactly $14.95 worth of discretionary expenses per month

But the act of playing an MMO strongly implies a certain level of disposable income.

'The Playerbase' isn't squatting in a hut on the outskirts of Manila selling plastic shoelaces to buy rice, it's kicking back in front of a fairly decent computer in first world housing and blowing twenty odd bucks a week on junk food and soda.

in the context of a population that can afford to play a video game with a monthly sub fee, ten bucks ain't squat.

Buy it or don't, but stop pretending ten bucks is Bill Gates money.

It's hilarious that you think it's some kind of princely sum.

If you'd rather spend ten bones on something else, like a couple of comics or a movie, hey that's your call. But ten bucks as an arbitrary price tag on a chunk of consumer entertainment isn't much.

I've never done either due to wildly unpredictable play schedule.
I realize this is an edge case, but I'm obviously going to prefer a solution that favors my game habits.

and there are plenty of unlockables that take full on grinding.

I don't see a problem with cosmetic, QOL stuff being purchasable.
I wouldn't mind it being an either/or situation where you could buy it outright or grind for it in game, but since the game is a business it makes sense that they stick some stuff behind a paywall.

Some content gated stuff is unavailable to players who lack the time or inclination to 'play through' to it, some $$$ gated stuff is unavailable to players who lack the inclination to 'pay through' for it.
Seems equitable to me.

The mutant stuff doesn't look that appealing from the trailer (auras seem similar to ones we already have), but the stuff for the other origins ranges from cool to genuinely inspired.

The capes have less interest for me than the auras, but I'm sure I'll use both and I look forward to seeing what the really accomplished costume designers do with the capes.

My game time is valuable to me. I prefer not to spend it grinding content I don't enjoy, not to mention the stuff that is gated behind content I am largely excluded from due to the erratic play schedule imposed by family responsibilities.

One of the great strengths of this game is that by and large you can get 'the best' rewards with a limited play schedule. I have several characters sporting l337 IO builds thanks to the market, which allows time restricted but motivated players to generate metric tons of inf with which to buy 'the good stuff'.

Game time and cash both represent energy expended. When we're talking about junk that is overwhelmingly cosmetic in nature, cash makes a handy substitute for the grind.

Not seeing how the largely cosmetic offerings in the booster packs have any effect on how 'well you do' in the game, unless they help you win costume contests or something.

Happily, it's irrelevant.
As the old saying goes, the dogs bark but the caravan rolls on.
They like my money, I like their boosters....it's win-win.

=)

which is different from any schlep with a few hours to burn grinding mobs or TFs or whatever how, exactly?