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 Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
it's that they lied to me, and the motivator can be directly seen as trying to get me to pay more into their shtick
It's only seen that way by you and your vocal faction of digital crusaders. I've presented potential alternate motivations multiple times in this thread. I'll repeat of them in case you missed it....
The XP throttling only affected players attempting to maximize their personal gains, while minimizing game play. Specifically re-playing the same events in succession, or only playing for short sessions resulted in less rewards than someone who indulges in the full variety of the gameplay for longer periods of time. In other words, the company gave preferential treatment to its better customers.
The only way the throttling would impact you, is if you're actively trying to exploit the XP system for maximum gains (ie farming the shortest and easiest tasks). I can totally see why the developers would frown upon that since it's a lot better for their gaming community if you participate in other stuff.
Maybe they did it cause it made the game BETTER for everyone except the people who were only trying to be dicks in the first place.
If you like being lied to just to get you to pay more into something, go ahead.
Again, you don't know the motivation. And not everyone was lied to. The only people who were lied to, were the people playing like ass-holes.
I will never support such underhanded business practices;
So you don't buy milk?
This one example marks one of the first times that a AAA game has outright lied to its customer base.
Wasn't one of the first lines in the video you linked about how Mr. Jimquisition is all pissy about the constant "bullshit" in games? How is this a "first" then?
And the one thing they lied about ties directly to their monetization strategy of that particular game. It's as clear cut as can be
It's also tied to the social enjoyability of everyone else in the game. If you've actually played it....that fact would be more clear cut to you.
Mine was fleeced, as in "getting fleeced", which dictionary.com says is "to deprive of money or belongings by fraud, hoax, or the like; swindle". And that is exactly what they did.
Hmmm, not exactly.
Because it's all a ruse in order to get you to buy stuff ingame in a game you already bought. It is larger than Destiny.
I assume this refers to the DLC "lockout" problem? Again....WHO CARES? And I don't mean that rhetorically. I want you to actually find a person, or at least describe a plausible type of person who would be negatively impacted by this? The only thing that was pulled back from the original game were a handful of extremely high-level REPLAYS that yielded cosmetic rewards. So what? That only impacts you if...
1) You enjoy the game enough to delve deeply into it's post game content.
2) You enjoy the game enough to seek out every single achievement and loot reward available
3) You enjoy the game enough to care about rewards whose benefits are solely cosmetic.
4) However, you DON'T enjoy the game enough to spend an extra $20 for an expansion pack that offers a FUCKTON more of the things you love in #1-#3.
5) And you were late to the party and haven't yet had enough time to exhaust this game before the pinnacle end-game content was locked out.
If you're that person. You are fucked. You have a right to be disappointed. However, for anyone who fails to meet even one of the above criteria....you're fine.
Now, the game systematically slows down your xp gain but doesn't tell you it's doing so.
Only if you play like a douchebag
It's a more customer-friendly way of saying "don't be a douchebag"
Stories like this are becoming far too common Now
Dude....this is the most tragically ironic thing you've EVER posted. Here you are, shedding a tear for the reckless youth that squandered their paper route money and stole dad's credit card to fund an online obsession. Here you are shaking your head at the all too common story of and exploited young mind.
Here you are, saying these things, on a site dedicated to online poker.
If a person could be killed by irony...I'd be stone cold dead right now.
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