All The Doom Threads Are Strange To Me

[Grizzlpaw]

The question really is, would you and everyone else on the forums who agree, get tired of repeating your frustrations eventually, unsub, and will you all be enough to hurt SE's bottom line?

Voting with your wallet isn't the only option customers have. And many times it's not even the best option. The reality is that the video game industry has changed. We no longer live in an era where a game's success is measured in units sold. We live in an age of horse armor. Of shiny overpriced mounts. We live in an age of cash shops.

In today's gaming industry, it doesn't matter if you're in the majority. Because unlike in the past where 1 person typically bought 1 copy of a game (1 person. 1 vote). Today a person can continue to pump money into their favorite game of choice by purchasing microtransactions. And each time they do that they are voting with their wallet.

In today's gaming industry, people with bigger wallets have more votes.
The unfortunate result of that is that most game companies take the safe (and profitable) path of releasing the minimum viable product that they need to in order to sell these microtransactions to people with large wallets who will continue to vote loud and clear that this is what they want.

Frankly, I don't know what the solution is, but what I do know is that if you want to get anything done these days, you might want to get other people on board. And it just so happens that the forums are a convenient place where people can share their gripes and ideas with other players, AND share those feelings with the devs at the same time. It's not perfect, but it might carry more weight than silently unsubbing.

[Supersnow845]

Voting with your wallet isn't the only option customers have. And many times it's not even the best option. The reality is that the video game industry has changed. We no longer live in an era where a game's success is measured in units sold. We live in an age of horse armor. Of shiny overpriced mounts. We live in an age of cash shops.

In today's gaming industry, it doesn't matter if you're in the majority. Because unlike in the past where 1 person typically bought 1 copy of a game (1 person. 1 vote). Today a person can continue to pump money into their favorite game of choice by purchasing microtransactions. And each time they do that they are voting with their wallet.

In today's gaming industry, people with bigger wallets have more votes.
The unfortunate result of that is that most game companies take the safe (and profitable) path of releasing the minimum viable product that they need to in order to sell these microtransactions to people with large wallets who will continue to vote loud and clear that this is what they want.

Frankly, I don't know what the solution is, but what I do know is that if you want to get anything done these days, you might want to get other people on board. And it just so happens that the forums are a convenient place where people can share their gripes and ideas with other players, AND share those feelings with the devs at the same time. It's not perfect, but it might carry more weight than silently unsubbing.

Someone on one of the reddit subs did a calculation and found that square made 30 million dollars off the squall bike alone, what does my measly 20 dollars per month matter to them when they have a cash shop retention like that

It’s obvious me walking away won’t change anything, so I’d rather come on here and ask for what I want considering leaving isn’t going to benefit anyone