Why do you consider F2P a badge of honor?

Stony

I have no ill will towards free to play. But I hate the disdain they have (more so on FB than the forums) to people who spend money. I loathe the term "wallet warrior".

I'm not a whale by any means, I've spent about $80. With the exception of one heroic 10 pack when I was a n00b, and one black WXF to get him to 5 pre-nerf (RIP), all my HP has gone to roster spots and shields.

I look at the money spent as payment for entertainment. When you go to the theater to see a movie, do you get a DVD to keep and watch later? Go to a concert, do you get a free CD of the show (that'd be awesome though)?

This game has provided me countless hours of entertainment. It was not free to make. It is not free to keep the devs working on it, or the servers to run. There are NO ADS which most freemium games make their money on. I feel like I should pay for something I use often.

GMadMan040

aesthetocyst wrote:

Druss wrote:

I can see where F2P would be a badge of honour - consider these 2 scenarios:

Scenario 1: Player a) has a fully built roster by playing daily over a period of 18 months or so, compared with player b) who downloaded the game 2 weeks ago , threw $10,000 at it & has a similar roster.

IMO player a) should feel more a sense of achievement than player b) despite both arriving at the same place.

I'm also not sure that it is particularly possible to achieve the player a) scenario given the (imo) necessary outlay of HP for roster slots early on. However I personally was happy to do this as a way of "paying for the experience I was enjoying at the time".

A sense of achievement in regards to MPQ alone perhaps.

How did player B get his $10,000?

100% this...hahaha...sometimes the best observations are the most obvious ones. I'll take the player B route all day, every day.

Dauthi

As they say, time is money. You can put your time into the game and gain progress, or you can pay for it. How much money are you making comparatively by playing MPQ? Who knows, but if you have a good job it would be more efficient to dump money into the game, while if you have more personal time or a cruddy job F2P is the way to go.

Gigas Breaker

I've thrown a few bucks from Google surveys into this game. That's it though. No way am I going to spend real cash on hero points or iso.

OneLastGambit

GMadMan040 wrote:

aesthetocyst wrote:

Druss wrote:

I can see where F2P would be a badge of honour - consider these 2 scenarios:

Scenario 1: Player a) has a fully built roster by playing daily over a period of 18 months or so, compared with player b) who downloaded the game 2 weeks ago , threw $10,000 at it & has a similar roster.

IMO player a) should feel more a sense of achievement than player b) despite both arriving at the same place.

I'm also not sure that it is particularly possible to achieve the player a) scenario given the (imo) necessary outlay of HP for roster slots early on. However I personally was happy to do this as a way of "paying for the experience I was enjoying at the time".

A sense of achievement in regards to MPQ alone perhaps.

How did player B get his $10,000?

100% this...hahaha...sometimes the best observations are the most obvious ones. I'll take the player B route all day, every day.

Perhaps a job in the field of male entertainment services beckons for you...I hear the money (along with other things) comes thick and fast