Why 14,99 $?

[Linadae]

My personal aversion to F2P comes from personal experience. Once a game goes free it almost immediate drops in quality as resources are poured into the cash shop. Expansions become smaller while still costing the same amount ( that is if they bother with expansions) they often drop those things that make them unique such as the fully separate and voiced class stories from swtor because they claim it's to expensive to produce. Even though voice actors are on contract for several years and the scripts for those years have already been written (information from swtor's former lead writer).

Also with P2P companies actually have a budget for a month ahead because they know just how many people are playing and can project next month's sub money with far more accuracy, meaning they can now budget for future production/improvements.

Free games don't have this option they don't know how much money they will receive each month as players either buy nothing from the store or perhaps the next month many players suddenly spend several hundred each. Meanwhile those that are avoiding the store are sucking up resources and not playing for the usage. This causes the company to abandon content or lower quality of the content while putting things on the store to lure in more money. This cycle repeats until people stop buying then they put the game in "maintenance mode" so they can throw out the next piece of F2P cr@p.

[Feilina]

As a child I could buy a sausage with mustard and a roll for like 10-20ct. Today I have to pay around 3 Euro.
I quite accept the price and feel lucky that it hadn't increased too much.

[Nysneirdre]

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SWTOR is a good point on that and I came from there to this game. They crashed and burned so bad with their first year. The game has nothing to look forward to now besides cash shop additions and new gambling boxes. I really wish I had an insight to what happen behind the lines in Bioware after the crash. I know they kicked most of their senior develops to the curb, they forced out the owners and the game almost went under before the first year was out. Now if we could get these current age MMOs to stop catering to dumbed down casuals we would be set.

[Nici]

My personal aversion to F2P comes from personal experience. Once a game goes free it almost immediate drops in quality as resources are poured into the cash shop.

I agree with pretty much everything you said, the only f2p game that still surprises me with its content is The Secret World, that game has some great quest storylines, the only reason i'm not playing that game still is because ARR has pretty much all my attention at the moment, i may get back to it at some point.