@Mothanos You can have your biases, but to say Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and all other console-exclusive franchises suck? That's just ignorant, and you clearly haven't played them.
Planetside 2 will feature up to 2,000-player battles (not 6,000). Still an impressive number, but seeing is believing. There's no way I will believe any machine rendering that many players without some serious lag.
@quantumtheo I can complain when I wanted a great game that I pay for. If free-to-play is the future, then, in theory, all free-to-play games become crap unless you pay for DLC/upgrades/etc. Why should I have to bust out the credit card when I want to play more game?
@Diablo-B @JimmeyBurrows So you answer your own question of "How is this a bad thing." With the answer of "Gaming is a business". Yes, it is.
You can't give the consumer a discount and still increase your profits. It's impossible.It may seem like you're spending less money, but what happens is you may end up spending the $60 the game might have cost anyway, but only received a portion of what the full game might have been.
@Diablo-B Because some people want to pay one price, up front, and not pay any more. Never mind the fact that the title becomes deceptive. The truly free F2P version would be a watered down joke compared to the full game. As @jimmeyburrows points out, the truly full game costs more than the game would be otherwise.Man, the $60 price point has worked since Nintendo 64. The only reason F2P has become popular is because it makes more money for publishers.
Free-to-play will not become dominant. The games people want to play cost more to make—and people are willing to pay for them.I'd be glad to watch EA's profits plummet by offering games for free, however. Please do that. Then go away.
@Rocthepanther89 Well, let me know when you become the Hero of Gamespot, weeding out all the bad journalists. I'm sure someone's hard at work to prepare this guys pink slip, just because your opinion carries that much weight.
@Rocthepanther89 You don't understand the journalism business. Or any business apparently. It's all about the bottom line.
What puts digits in the bottom line for web-based publications? Pageviews. What did you give by reading the article? A pageview. Plus every pageview when you come to post a comment. And every pageview of the folks like me who respond to the comment. That brings revenue. Revenue brings success.
If you told someone about how terrible this article is, they might come read it themselves to see just how awful. More pageviews. More comments. More revenue.
It got you talking which, in turn, has me here responding. That is success in journalism my friend. You know not of what you speak.
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