Microtransactions: Selling in-game content for real money

[ArcherofAiur]

I thought it was making great games that made Blizzard. You know, the same thing that made Valve, Konami, Nintendo, Bioware, and a dozen other great game developers. All of them provide high quality to price.

Exactly. Long term profit over short term.

[DemolitionSquid]

On Star Trek, writers dictate every thought and desire of every character as well as every event that happens in the universe. Also, on Star Trek the people don't live because they are never really real. (I really prefer existence)

Non-sequitur much?

[Shadow Archon]

With that attitude, yes.

Its your fault we don't live like they do Star Trek.

I hope your mother is proud of you.

Your blaming me because Im human?

Humans are greedy and selfish. We will never have a society like that. Its the one true flaw of Socialism. If it worked as it does paper, I probably would be for it, but it doesn't.

[DemolitionSquid]

Your blaming me because Im human?

Humans are greedy and selfish. We will never have a society like that. Its the one true flaw of Socialism. If it worked as it does paper, I probably would be for it, but it doesn't.

Humans are only greedy and selfish because we let them be.

[Shadow Archon]

Humans are only greedy and selfish because we let them be.

So, you are saying that only nature of money makes people selfish and greedy?

Is that what you are implying? I believe as long as there is something one man has and the other doesn't, there will be greed. A wife, a position of government, a job, a possession of some type, if other people's lives can all be the factors that create greed. In a sense, we will never get rid of it.

[DemolitionSquid]

So, you are saying that only nature of money makes people selfish and greedy?

Is that what you are implying? I believe as long as there is something one man has and the other doesn't, there will be greed. A wife, a position of government, a job, a possession of some type, if other people's lives can all be the factors that create greed. In a sense, we will never get rid of it.

It won't go away. But there needs to be better control of it.

Anyway I'm not in the mood for this discussion. Everyone thinks I'm crazy enough already.

[pure.Wasted]

It won't go away. But there needs to be better control of it.

Anyway I'm not in the mood for this discussion. Everyone thinks I'm crazy enough already.

No, I'm completely behind every thing you've said in this thread.

I just don't see why this thread is still allowed to be here, instead of Off-Topic, where I said it should be back on page 1!

[Gradius]

Moved to off-topic.

As for the OP, I would rather have the option than not have the option, as long as it doesn't mess with the core experience of the game and remains purely an option, not something that you're forced into buying.

[newcomplex]

See, I still don't see where you answered my question: "Who says that it SHOULD be free?" Blizzard once thought these things should be free, but they are free to change their minds in the future. And the only recourse you have is to stop giving them money.

Obviously, a pet will not make me not buy SC2. That would be ludicrous. It's not "dont implement micro transactions or I'll pirate/not play at all your games", it just goes down to the kind of service I receive for my 100+ purchase of WoF ce edition. If it lives up to the kind of continual quality updates and free stuff I have recieved from diablo, starcraft, warcraft, and to some extent, wow (though i do have to pay 15$ a month for that).

I'm just against micro transactions, because to me, it seems like a pathway that would prevent the kind of service I expect from blizzard.

Um, the game that did that didn't cost $50. It costs $14.95 per month. So I don't see how you draw that conclusion.

Right. Because of the operating costs. If I thought they were unjustified, I'd play on a private server. But obviously the cost is necessary, because private servers, which are free, are also shit.

If you don't want to pay for games, don't play them. You don't get to steal them just because you feel like they're overpriced.

Of course not. First of all, if your going to equate it to another crime, equate it to counterfeiting. Your diminishing a products value by making unauthorized copies. You are not stealing, because stealing requires a loss of goods on their end. Of course, that is obviously false in piracy.

That being said, counterfeiting is still illegal, and a crime. So is piracy. Maybe some ethical conscience part of my brain is defunct, but I simply do not care. This isn't me justifying piracy, which is in the end, is just illegal, and I am just a criminal when it comes to pirating games, this is me not caring because their are very little social ramifications on it. My chances of being caught are non-existent. The only reason why I would actually buy a game is to show support for the company. If a company is doing something highly admirable, I will not pirate the game. As to provide support to continue doing what they do.

Which is apparently why you think stealing games is just fine.

Its a crime, I just don't care. Because I simply do not care to show my support for companies like IW-ward, and my chances of being caught for the crime is completely abysmal (even if they were to somehow choose to scapegoat me, which is one in a million, I live in a dorm so any case would be moot)

People are better than you think they are. Despite so many forces in society that tells us to be selfish jerks, most people remain as they were born: kind and compassionate.

You know what they say about dogs? That every dog is just two meals away from becoming a wolf. Similar idea.

second, my idea isn't that all people are selfish. It is that humans are physically incapable of enjoying 90% of the things we enjoy without relative comparison to another human being.

btw squid 10/10. even I bit.