"Well could the same not be said for people buying membership? Not everyone *can* buy membership. Yet members have access the hundreds of additional ways to enhance their gameplay, and advance faster than those who play the free game."
There are two reasons this is not the same:
1. Members can never, ever, ever, use a single benefit from membership against a player who has always been free to play. People who buy SoF spins can make use of their bought xp and gp and lucky divines against people who haven't paid for spins whenever they feel like it. The exception was agility run energy, but that was a bug that eventually got corrected. I suppose members can train f2p skills faster than f2p people can, but it's not nearly as big a difference as just buying your xp through the wheel, and there are no items that members can use in f2p worlds but f2p people can't.
2. Jagex did not spend 10 years telling everyone "We promise we will never, ever introduce a membership fee, everything will always be available to free players." We knew from the start there was membership, and that members could access additional things in member worlds (but not in free worlds).
If Jagex want to make their new game Transformers Universe based on microtransactions from the start, then fair enough, as long as they're up front about it, we can make our own decision if we want to play a game and dedicate years to it when rich people can buy their way to success. (Personally I think this game will be as successful as 8Realms and Stellar Dawn with that model, but if people want to play TU, good luck to them).
But 10 years of promises turned into lies is just disgusting.
18-Jul-2012 11:50:49
