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How much money does RIOT have to spend to only slightly curb the toxicity of their community?


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First, I told you not to read my post if you can't handle people exposing your F2P and DLC scams. DLC, in its current state, has not been around since the 90s. Not even close. Right now, DLC is features that are pulled out before the game is even done, and then released later on as a "new" thing. Before, DLC would be something added onto the game AFTER the development phase was done. Shame on companies for lying to people and conning them into paying more money for what they should already have. Yes, I can't say F2P is a bad thing, but you're free to go about making me out to be a monster, and that DLC and F2P is the Godsend of gaming, and that gaming as an industry could never have survived without enabling people to be lazy little asses who throw money at everything and couldn't be bothered to lift a finger and earn what they want.

You know, all those articles are written for a reason. Modern society is just, in a word, awful. Many people like I've described play video games, but the VAST majority is the second definition of a casual - just a swarm of locusts, eating and killing the crops that are video games wherever they go - forcing developers to go F2P or go out of business. The indie thing has been booming because a lot of gamers are getting fed up with the wallet-humping parasites that inhabit most of the big-name companies, and they set out to make a game true to their vision, though they usually have to go and become just like the people they never wanted to be, because "gamers" won't play anything that takes effort to be good at anymore. Read above about DLC. Expansions were content made and developed after the original game, not content pulled from the game and released later for more money.

Yes, Wildstar will likely make a lot more money than they do now, but will it be the same Wildstar we have now? When the focus shifts to milking people for every cent they have, then it's a totally new game at that point. Retention and quality of content just aren't as important as making more stuff for people to throw money at. Pride has nothing to do with it. Imagine you had a hobby you loved, and it was wonderful for many years, and then all of a sudden a swarm of people who never so much as touched your hobby suddenly want in -- but only if they change this, remove that, and change all this. So now, your hobby that you loved is some abomination of a thing that's hardly a shell of its former self. That thing you loved so much was forcefully ripped away from you by the power of *cupcake*ing money. That's why so many people get upset about F2P, DLC and all the horrible side effects that had on gaming. You get so upset, but you didn't read my entire post, or the followup post. Go figure.

And again, you clearly didn't read the entire post - you just skimmed through and pulled out keywords to get mad at. I'd suggest going back and reading the whole thing. F2P is never a good payment model. If I pay for a game (well, I guess I won't be anymore), I want access to everything in it, not just the barebones. F2P and DLC takes that away, and forces you to pay for extra things that, really, should be in the game from the start.


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Cosmetic items means ALOT to alot of players regardless of the game they play. What keeps ppl playing APB..a third person shooter?...Costumization is a big part of it. Ppl want to look cool no matter what they do and no matter what game they play. IF they get the option to do so! The fantastic thing about F2P games IS that you can buy your "coolness" for real money. Then you play the game for gear stats and beating challenging content. I dont mind sexy outfits or bouncing boobs either in any game (I can play a game only because it has p**n in it tbo)...but I'm pretty vulgar by nature, but I understand that many ppl are not..(like my mother is not and I still love her:))


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sylqt, not calling you a whale, but if you are, the video game term, not a female degatory term, I dont want to offend ;), want to sell some stuff from the store?


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