When I live stream I will often browse the steam store to see what's new and what's on sale and there is one phrase I repeat constantly when I do this "free to play is too expensive" I parted ways with my blizzard Launcher after they erased a game I had paid for without compensating me for my purchase that being Overwatch which was a game I had bought at launch that they abruptly ended while it was still very popular and I do not consider the free to play Overwatch 2 as a replacement because it had a different business model and matches were reduced by 2 players. I used to be a huge WoW fan from Warcraft 1 all the way through the to Cataclysm but the core game was being buried under so many different systems and daily content that it felt like you always had to stay logged in doing something which was of course the goal. I tried Dragonflight but I was completely checked out at that point and WoW wasn't even recognizable as World of Warcraft anymore other than the fact that they resurrect their villains more than the entire run of Dragon Ball Z because they never ever have the forethought to set up the characters and story for future expansions so I guess we're just fighting Gul'dan again... yay. I was also a huge Diablo fan but Diablo 3 was a huge disappointment because of the Real Money Auction House and how it affected item drops and game mechanics and when they fixed the game by removing the RMAH they also made the decision to drop support of the game and only releasing the Bounties update because it had already been made and there was a major internal push to get it out to the players because the Reaper of Souls expansion had sold so poorly due to player loss because of the RMAH which had destroyed player interest in the game so they released the update they had already made and the game existed in limbo from that point as it was essentially a dead game. I have refused to download Diablo 4 because Diablo Immortal exists and I know Diablo 4 is going to continually shift towards the monetization practices in Immortal because it was so profitable for them.... well that and they can't balance a game to save their lives anymore. I predicted Diablo 4 would launch unbalanced and with either no endgame content or half-assed endgame content and I believe that prediction is still accurate to this day but I can't tell you for certain because I won't be playing the game to confirm it. There are very very few live service games I respect with Pinball FX/M being one of them and I outright refused to even play Pinball FX when it first entered early access because the pinball coin was the only way to buy the tables and you could not just buy DLC with dollars or Deutchmarks you had to buy the alternate currency like Xbox Live points to buy the tables. That pinball Coin is being totally removed from at least the PC version of the games and I honestly believe even it's existence was hurting Pinball FX because it meant there was a chance they would try to find other ways to get you to buy it, the potential was there for FX to become just like ever other live service and there is absolutely no need to do engage in that behavior since there is $500 in DLC you can buy from anywhere from $1 a table to $15 depending on sales, More DLC content released at a reasonable pace of roughly 1 new table every 1 to 2 months (but usually released 3 at a time), 2 million players and rising, and it's a game I actually enjoy playing and that's all they really need to be successful. This is already a wall of text but I strongly dislike live service games and I have a lot of opinions on how they are ruining the gaming landscape and I only need to point to Sony and Warner Bros for examples of huge money pits they dug by making live games that were too expensive to exist because of the insane amount of money they needed to generate just to stay alive let alone be profitable.
When Pinball FX was only on the Epic store I only bought packs and not used the points which they used before. Also they gave me all the tables on Steam when they released on Steam which was fair. I think their business model makes sense now and I do not really consider them as a Live Servicve model since offering new tables when they work on them on one platform makes sense. But I would rather buy each table seperate without being forced to buy packs. Bundles are great, but i remember that at the beginning I was only interested in a few tables and did not want to buy whole packs. I tried Dragonflight and the leveling was good. But the excitement for the endgame did not hold for long. I have not tried the newest expansion. I was thinking about playing through the Warcraft series again, but I would rather see something new. There are so many games I have not seen yet which I want to play. Overwatch was fun in the first year. I tried 2 but it did not last very long. Wasn't hooked at all.
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When I live stream I will often browse the steam store to see what's new and what's on sale and there is one phrase I repeat constantly when I do this "free to play is too expensive"
I parted ways with my blizzard Launcher after they erased a game I had paid for without compensating me for my purchase that being Overwatch which was a game I had bought at launch that they abruptly ended while it was still very popular and I do not consider the free to play Overwatch 2 as a replacement because it had a different business model and matches were reduced by 2 players.
I used to be a huge WoW fan from Warcraft 1 all the way through the to Cataclysm but the core game was being buried under so many different systems and daily content that it felt like you always had to stay logged in doing something which was of course the goal. I tried Dragonflight but I was completely checked out at that point and WoW wasn't even recognizable as World of Warcraft anymore other than the fact that they resurrect their villains more than the entire run of Dragon Ball Z because they never ever have the forethought to set up the characters and story for future expansions so I guess we're just fighting Gul'dan again... yay. I was also a huge Diablo fan but Diablo 3 was a huge disappointment because of the Real Money Auction House and how it affected item drops and game mechanics and when they fixed the game by removing the RMAH they also made the decision to drop support of the game and only releasing the Bounties update because it had already been made and there was a major internal push to get it out to the players because the Reaper of Souls expansion had sold so poorly due to player loss because of the RMAH which had destroyed player interest in the game so they released the update they had already made and the game existed in limbo from that point as it was essentially a dead game. I have refused to download Diablo 4 because Diablo Immortal exists and I know Diablo 4 is going to continually shift towards the monetization practices in Immortal because it was so profitable for them.... well that and they can't balance a game to save their lives anymore. I predicted Diablo 4 would launch unbalanced and with either no endgame content or half-assed endgame content and I believe that prediction is still accurate to this day but I can't tell you for certain because I won't be playing the game to confirm it.
There are very very few live service games I respect with Pinball FX/M being one of them and I outright refused to even play Pinball FX when it first entered early access because the pinball coin was the only way to buy the tables and you could not just buy DLC with dollars or Deutchmarks you had to buy the alternate currency like Xbox Live points to buy the tables. That pinball Coin is being totally removed from at least the PC version of the games and I honestly believe even it's existence was hurting Pinball FX because it meant there was a chance they would try to find other ways to get you to buy it, the potential was there for FX to become just like ever other live service and there is absolutely no need to do engage in that behavior since there is $500 in DLC you can buy from anywhere from $1 a table to $15 depending on sales, More DLC content released at a reasonable pace of roughly 1 new table every 1 to 2 months (but usually released 3 at a time), 2 million players and rising, and it's a game I actually enjoy playing and that's all they really need to be successful.
This is already a wall of text but I strongly dislike live service games and I have a lot of opinions on how they are ruining the gaming landscape and I only need to point to Sony and Warner Bros for examples of huge money pits they dug by making live games that were too expensive to exist because of the insane amount of money they needed to generate just to stay alive let alone be profitable.
When Pinball FX was only on the Epic store I only bought packs and not used the points which they used before. Also they gave me all the tables on Steam when they released on Steam which was fair. I think their business model makes sense now and I do not really consider them as a Live Servicve model since offering new tables when they work on them on one platform makes sense. But I would rather buy each table seperate without being forced to buy packs. Bundles are great, but i remember that at the beginning I was only interested in a few tables and did not want to buy whole packs.
I tried Dragonflight and the leveling was good. But the excitement for the endgame did not hold for long. I have not tried the newest expansion. I was thinking about playing through the Warcraft series again, but I would rather see something new. There are so many games I have not seen yet which I want to play.
Overwatch was fun in the first year. I tried 2 but it did not last very long. Wasn't hooked at all.