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All this fuss over 15$ / month. A sub here is probably the least expensive thing people got going. If it's that much of a problem, something needs to be sorted out in their life.
Then I would be forced to decide which content to do first and I don't like having to decide that. There is certain content that is more fun on the first day when nobody knows what to do and if you have to choose what to do on the first day, you miss out on that experience. We would have bigger gaps of nothing new.
In other news, there is no technical debt from 1.0.
"We don't have ... a technological issue that was carried over from 1.0, because ARR was meant to kind of discard what we had from 1.0 and rebuild it from the engine."
https://youtu.be/ge32wNPaJKk?t=560
This is true. You can never please everyone. Imo the patch so far (since we haven't got all yet) seems pretty solid.
Even a lower discount? lol
Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years ago
MMOs give you content in a way to keep you playing all year around and always subbed/logging (yes, mmos without a sub do the same, they even have login rewards to keep you logging every single day). If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.
Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years agoYoshiP begs to differ.If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.
Yoshida "It's alright not to play it everyday. Since it's just a game, you can stop forcing yourself if it's hard on you to keep that up. Rather, it'll just pile up unnecessary stress if you limit yourself into playing just that one game since there are so many other games out there. So, do come back and play it to your heart's content when the major patch kicks in, then stop it to play other games before you got burnt out, and then come back for another major patch. This will actually make me happier, and in the end, I think this is the best solution I can answer for keeping your motivation up for the game."
if your MMO is WoW this might hold true with all the dailies and weeklies. in this game it's pretty casual and you could probably do play in periods and still not really fall behind that much to nolifers.Oh so the whole argumenet boils down to "I wanna play an MMO only 1 month a year" which....
1- is not how MMOs work
2- if everybody was like you they'd have failed financially 9 years ago
MMOs give you content in a way to keep you playing all year around and always subbed/logging (yes, mmos without a sub do the same, they even have login rewards to keep you logging every single day). If you wanna burn huge amounts of content all at once and then leave, maybe offline games are more your thing.
I remember when stuff came out on time instead of being delayed to the .x5 patches. Got to love those unnecessary adjustment to the MSQ
You can sub once per major patch like Yoshi-P suggests even though some things are released in 6.25. Just do it in 6.3, it's side content anyways. They are not going to design things to be as convenient as possible for people who only sub for 3 months out of a year.
Oh of course, people keep bringing up that quote for whatever
Yoshi-P never said:we're only gonna do an update a year, with all the content dumped at once, so you only need to play once a year. Content patches are made so to keep people engaged and spread the content out. Housing timers also make it so that people stay subbed.
Otherwise they could just sell expansions, put the whole expansion there without doing any other patch, and make people only play 1 month every few years and done. Lovely, eh?
Taking breaks is very different from asking the game to drop all content at once instead of requiring you to be subbed for more thna one month at a time.
You completely missed the point.
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