Thread: 4.25 and beyond

Originally Posted by Canopia

Those leather seats you've wallowed all over will never feel like brand new leather. You will never get that new car smell from an old car no matter what you do, and no matter how much tweaking you do to it.

This is pretty much false equivalence: you can absolutely get the feeling of brand new leather in an old car. It's called re-upholstering, which is exactly what the patches to this game are supposed to be doing. People pay subscription fees for MMOs with the explicit assumption that the continued stream of income will allow developers to produce new content. We're not paying to play the game--we're playing to grow the game. (If we were okay with paying just to play, there'd be no point to expansions after all...)

To use your car analogy, the situation is much more like this: Imagine you take your car to a detailer who tells you that, for a monthly fee, he will make improvements and additions to your car every three or so months. However, after a while, you start to notice that the improvements and additions are feeling... very familiar. You'd have your racing stripes repainted five times. Your rear spoiler has changed heights three times. The tint on your windows gets progressively darker. But huh, you're right: you've never gotten those reupholstered leather seats. You're still rocking the same rims you've had for five years. Your detailer is clearly stuck in a rut--or, despite your consistent payments--unable to shell out the cash needed to make those more meaningful changes.

Expecting new things from an MMO isn't unrealistic. No one is demanding that there be 15 brand new things to do in every patch. But we should probably get more than one "new" thing a year; otherwise, you're right: cars without upgrades are paid off by five years--so why should anyone keep paying for this one?