I convinced a friend of mine to try CoX
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Aett_Thorn,
Posted on: 2011-10-20 02:10 in Suggestions and Ideas
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Then they can't afford a computer to play the game on nor the price of internet service. I've been managing to keep my account active by carefully budgeting the $8 grand a year which is my annual income. If I can do it while supporting 2 senior citizens so can they.|
Originally Posted by Screwed38
Some people genuinely cant afford that even if it is a small amount
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Edit: And seriously if their budget is so tight that they can't come up with $5 dollars to spend on a game just once then this really isn't the game for them.
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| Ok, so 2 hours daily downtime necessary or not, |
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| Rude and uncooperative players (i have come up against a fair few) not to mention the people that care more about proving people wrong in broadcast/help |
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| and forums after doing their own research without a care for the condescension and or insults the answers/arguments contain, don't get me wrong there are a whole bunch of nice and friendly people the play this game but you wont find them here |
If you seriously cannot afford a ONE TIME payment of $5, you should not be playing a game. You should be getting another job because you are clearly destitute and impoverished.
The only people I can think of who, realistically, couldn't afford a one time payment of $5 are:
the homeless (where'd you get a computer and net connection then anyway?!)
And really that's it.
Plus, the friend can clearly afford a premium subscription to World of Tanks, so there's that. It's opportunity cost. Quit moaning.
In order to afford the $5 you could:
Skip the Starbucks one day a week for a month.
Bag your lunch for work instead of buying it.....once.
If you smoke, buy one less pack of cigarettes and make them last longer, once.
If you drink, buy cheaper beer when you get it. (If you already drink cheap beer, skip it this week)
There are literally hundreds of other ways you could come up with $5. It really is not a lot of money to pay to have access to more of the game forever. It's not even like you have to pay $5 every month. It's $5 ONE TIME.
The RMT spam really IS that big of a deal. And before you go saying "But I don't see any RMT spam, you're full of it Claws!", stop and think about why you don't see it.
Because the devs' efforts to curb their impact on the game actually worked.
Yeah, it sucks for the free players, and they have my sympathy. But I'd rather some free players get pissed off and quit than have to deal with "BUY STUFF FROM RMTSITE.COM" being spammed into my chat window every 30 freaking seconds, and the same thing being spammed into broadcast to the point that using the channel to communicate is virtually impossible.
And if the free players had to deal with that crap too, do you think they would stick around? Doubtful, they'd start thinking the game is nothing but people trying to sell them crap and bail, making all the attempts to make communication easier for them ultimately futile.
And yes, it really WAS that bad for a while. I was here, on one of the smaller servers, and had broadcast removed from my chat window for almost a year because of the sheer number of spammers in it. I was also permanently hidden from searches for the same length of time, but hiding does not good when the spammer is looking right at you.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
I hope Black_Light's friend learns to enjoy CoX.