Many live service games are just an MMO subscription "hidden inside of a neat 'optional' package", argue Guild Wars 3 devs in a post about the new game's monetisation

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• Zulu@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  There won’t be any battle passes in Guild Wars 3. There will be paid expansions, paid cosmetics, paid account services, and paid “time-saving convenience items”. A less generous interpretation of Johanson’s post would be that some of these things are manifestations of the “hidden” subscription mentality he’s knocking.

  So we dont like live service crap because they just shifted the monthly sub to other things. Anyway, buy the cosmetics/services/‘time saving items’ from us! Def not the same live service bullshit those other guys are doing lmao.

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  • edgemaster72@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    time-saving convenience items

    “We made this problem so you can buy the solution”

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  • ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Not only that, but in GW2 they ended up doing shady stuff like locking additional equipment slots behind latest xpacs and making latest xpacs builds the best so, unless you’re super-uber casual and never play group content, you’re de-facto forced to buy everything they release.

    Now, an MMO is very expensive to maintain so it’s fine to pay for it, but the article is the most hypocritical statement I’ve ever seen.

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would rather a monthly subscription over micro transaction crap tbh.

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    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I mean one is literally required to play the game, the other does not.

      So depending on what micro transactions are available, it seems worse to require a monthly sub then have truly optional/cosmetic mtx

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• realcaseyrollins@hilariouschaos.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Except half these games aren’t even massive smh

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