Fuck no. An arcade charges money because it is a physical retail space that costs money to own and maintain, and they have a limited amount of customers that can come in and play per day due to physical constraints.
A company like EA or Activision does not have those physical constraints on their income stream, and the only real estate they need is for their office and their server farms. No arcade in the world could compete with that, and it shows. Even without lootboxes and other microtransactions, they still blow arcades out of the water.
The whole reason why I never got into World of Warcraft back when it was big was because I couldn't fathom paying a subscription to play a single game. I barely tolerated Xbox Live back when I still played Xbox, and I'm pretty close to cancelling PS Plus once I finish playing the free games in my library that they offer. Now that I have a good PC, there's no reason to do something silly like that.
okay, so you'd rather pay the up front cost of the game, plus deal with the pay-to-win schemes, the lootcrates, etc?
sorry, i'm not trying to antagonize, i'm just trying to drill down on this one which is preferable. Obviously, we'd rather go back to pay for the game and that's the last money you spend on the game.
Fuck no. An arcade charges money because it is a physical retail space that costs money to own and maintain, and they have a limited amount of customers that can come in and play per day due to physical constraints.
Fair, but EA/Activision does pay to maintain the servers, update the game to fix glitches, security flaws, etc, add new content, etc.
I'm not trying to make a rebuttal. I'm genuinely trying to figure out which would be preferable. I know what I prefer, but I'm clearly the odd man out.
okay, so you'd rather pay the up front cost of the game, plus deal with the pay-to-win schemes, the lootcrates, etc?
Where have you been living the past decade? Realistically, game companies will just add "pay per match" on top of the pile of other MTX already existing. You think it's either get A or get B, but we will just get both.
Fair, but EA/Activision does pay to maintain the servers
No one actually asked them to do so. Community servers existed since the dawn of online gaming, and people will gladly make their own servers for the game they love. On top of that, they generally have mods and admins looking at the game and banning cheaters on the fly, way more effective than any other automated anti-cheat.
Fuck no. An arcade charges money because it is a physical retail space that costs money to own and maintain, and they have a limited amount of customers that can come in and play per day due to physical constraints.
A company like EA or Activision does not have those physical constraints on their income stream, and the only real estate they need is for their office and their server farms. No arcade in the world could compete with that, and it shows. Even without lootboxes and other microtransactions, they still blow arcades out of the water.
The whole reason why I never got into World of Warcraft back when it was big was because I couldn't fathom paying a subscription to play a single game. I barely tolerated Xbox Live back when I still played Xbox, and I'm pretty close to cancelling PS Plus once I finish playing the free games in my library that they offer. Now that I have a good PC, there's no reason to do something silly like that.
okay, so you'd rather pay the up front cost of the game, plus deal with the pay-to-win schemes, the lootcrates, etc?
sorry, i'm not trying to antagonize, i'm just trying to drill down on this one which is preferable. Obviously, we'd rather go back to pay for the game and that's the last money you spend on the game.
Fair, but EA/Activision does pay to maintain the servers, update the game to fix glitches, security flaws, etc, add new content, etc.
Why do you keep offering this false dichotomy as if it were a legitimate rebuttal?
I'm not trying to make a rebuttal. I'm genuinely trying to figure out which would be preferable. I know what I prefer, but I'm clearly the odd man out.
The answer is neither. Both are bad, I reject the idea that there are only two choices.
Where have you been living the past decade? Realistically, game companies will just add "pay per match" on top of the pile of other MTX already existing. You think it's either get A or get B, but we will just get both.
No one actually asked them to do so. Community servers existed since the dawn of online gaming, and people will gladly make their own servers for the game they love. On top of that, they generally have mods and admins looking at the game and banning cheaters on the fly, way more effective than any other automated anti-cheat.
fair