Cash Shop Sales Lacking?

Praxalis - Archosaur wrote: »

There hasn't been the usual big bang OMPH in CS sales of more useful items that I expected during this holiday season. I'm not normally a big CSer myself, but I would like to see something other than random pigments go on sale. (But the crafting masteries on sale was

a step in the right direction) Here's to hoping you put actually good stuff on sale for New Years like Rank or Refinement/Refinement Transfer. b:shutup So I can put my PWI pre-paid cards I got

Of course, inb4 the usual CS QQing and moaning and trolling.

To the CS QQrs:
Insatead of complaining about the CSrs, you should THANK them.
THEY are the ones that allow YOU to play for FREE.

UnboundFury - Dreamweaver wrote: »

To the CS QQrs:
Insatead of complaining about the CSrs, you should THANK them.
THEY are the ones that allow YOU to play for FREE.

Nah not really because at day one it was stated free to play,but they knew idiots would go overboard in paying for fictitious junk.

Playing free to play is a choise and thats why i try to accept the situation as it is in this game:

Paying customers are all that matter, can do what they want, get all the advantages that prove to make them pay more. Non paying customers are cannon fodder to entertain the paying customers and they try to just make it just not bad enough for the free player that they will all leave.

However, it does worry me about where gaming in general is going.

I have been gaming since the time we had monchrome screens. Games were simple and single player however, we played them for a challenge and the feeling of achievement. even though there was no widespread internet, we would play games single player and compare with other players our scores, times or whatever. Or youd play a game like supaplex and youd feel mighty damn good if you even manage to finish all the way without cheats.

Then came internet and multiplayer and gaming got to a new level. Now it was much easier to compete and to compare yourself with other players. It became mainstream and winning or losing, or being better or worse than other was like it is in sports. Real competition, real money to be won even with top games like starcraft b:dirty Pro matches on TV just like soccer and the top players being national heros (at least in korea). Just imagine now that we change the olympicss to PTW. Doping is forbidden, unless the player pays the match organisator and if you pay a real lot, the finish line is also bit closer in your lane. Be happy, someone got to pay for the stadiums !

Free to play started out rather innocent. Simple games with relatively low maintenance cost would try to make everyone pay a few dollars without **** over competition. Youd get things like a more convenient user interface, a build que in games like these so you dont have to wake up etc. All limited and aimed to make a little money from a large amount of players. Unfortunately the game makers quickly learned that there are a small number of people who dont have any honor in competition and are willing to pay idiotic amounts of money to get advantages over others. To cheat basically. So thats is what PWI and other F2P games are catering to nowadays.

I find this very unfortunate. And therefore out of priciple and because we can only vote with our wallet, i do not pay for these pay to win games. Of course i should actually not play them at all, but my gaming buddy happens to want to play for free. Until there comes a game who strongly stands for the principles to avoid all pay to win factor and goes back to getting small sums from large amounts of players, i dont think i will ever play a free to play game again. What really worries me is that free to play seems to have grown so big that i fear for the future subscription play.