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DarknessJak said :
but I think if the prices were drastically reduced we would be less inclined to hate microtransactions so much
Jagex has sweetened the TH rewards, not reduced them.
Jagex has also copy-pasted a lot of stuff like putting another farming patch in another "expansion" in their games too. Why can't they copy-paste TH content? TV stations re-run old programs like Star Trek and classic movies too? Tell us why they can't do that but it won't matter anyway since all of them have been doing the same thing.
Long term profits? Since the start of Sequel of Fortune in Feb 2012, then to TH, Jagex profits in that "loot box" category has been skyrocketing and even reached the status of the most profitable one among all Jagex's monetisation efforts. It has been an extremely profitable and ever growing 7 years for Jagex with loot boxes. That's not long term? It must be a joke.
DarknessJak said :
but I think if the prices were drastically reduced we would be less inclined to hate microtransactions so much
It's not about the price of keys, since Jagex could just nerf how much a single key rewards you to balance out the reduced price of keys anyway; it's about how MTX affects the game design and development process of the game. I mean you said it yourself: we get very minimal content nowadays, and that's precisely due to Jagex being so obsessed with MTX.
Back when Jagex only sold membership, in order for them to stay profitable, they had to put effort and money into making new content frequently, whereas compared to the MTX monetization, Jagex can just copy-paste a lot of stuff to sell them again and again to the same player, which requires a lot less effort and money. And when a company only cares about short term profits rather than making a good product that brings long term profits, it's going to take the easier way out and be discouraged from putting in real effort.
Back when Jagex only sold membership, in order for them to stay profitable, they had to put effort and money into making new content frequently, whereas compared to the MTX monetization, Jagex can just copy-paste a lot of stuff to sell them again and again to the same player, which requires a lot less effort and money. And when a company only cares about short term profits rather than making a good product that brings long term profits, it's going to take the easier way out and be discouraged from putting in real effort.
Jagex has sweetened the TH rewards, not reduced them.
Jagex has also copy-pasted a lot of stuff like putting another farming patch in another "expansion" in their games too. Why can't they copy-paste TH content? TV stations re-run old programs like Star Trek and classic movies too? Tell us why they can't do that but it won't matter anyway since all of them have been doing the same thing.
Long term profits? Since the start of Sequel of Fortune in Feb 2012, then to TH, Jagex profits in that "loot box" category has been skyrocketing and even reached the status of the most profitable one among all Jagex's monetisation efforts. It has been an extremely profitable and ever growing 7 years for Jagex with loot boxes. That's not long term? It must be a joke.
27-Feb-2019 16:11:46
You are extremely naive if you still think gp, xp/levels are the only meaningful things in video games NOWADAYS.
There can be numerous forms of in game currencies, not just gp.
There can be numerous forms of achievements, not just xp/levels.
There are no limits for in game currencies. Game developers can always add more game currencies. There are no limits for "xp/levels" since the game developers can always add more game modes.
Who care about increasing gp in the game by the day if gp is not the only meaningful currency? Who care about "maxed" xp/levels if there are a lot of better things to do in the game than just wasting somebody's 50 year of real life blindly and aimlessly mining rocks or fishing?
Only "players" living under the rock for the last 10+ years don't grasp this new school idea of game development. If they think they have too much gp or have "maxed" everything already then they can just keep crying under the rock for 100 more years. But it won't matter to the real living and breathing world where players continue to enjoy the more and more new game currencies and ways to play the new school games.
Jagex can actually add more game currencies on top of gp, TH keys, bonds, runecoins, etc. They can just add new content where the new currencies matter, and not just matter but matter a lot more than gp.
There can be numerous forms of in game currencies, not just gp.
There can be numerous forms of achievements, not just xp/levels.
There are no limits for in game currencies. Game developers can always add more game currencies. There are no limits for "xp/levels" since the game developers can always add more game modes.
Who care about increasing gp in the game by the day if gp is not the only meaningful currency? Who care about "maxed" xp/levels if there are a lot of better things to do in the game than just wasting somebody's 50 year of real life blindly and aimlessly mining rocks or fishing?
Only "players" living under the rock for the last 10+ years don't grasp this new school idea of game development. If they think they have too much gp or have "maxed" everything already then they can just keep crying under the rock for 100 more years. But it won't matter to the real living and breathing world where players continue to enjoy the more and more new game currencies and ways to play the new school games.
Jagex can actually add more game currencies on top of gp, TH keys, bonds, runecoins, etc. They can just add new content where the new currencies matter, and not just matter but matter a lot more than gp.
02-Mar-2019 16:26:39 - Last edited on 02-Mar-2019 16:27:48 by Dilbert2001
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