Matt Brobmerg interview on free-to-play

We should not get angry about misunderstandings in communication between developers and consumers.

Different interpretations of the same sentence. Too much outrage in the world comes from misunderstandings. Unless we have clarity that a particular objective was not upheld, I believe we should avoid being accusatory or angry. Again I mention, there are other things that Bioware has been slow to deliver, such as TFB in August or the long wait on Nim Denova. These are valid points which we can and should bring up to let the developers know that we won't sit around and accept whatever things are given to us. We can and should hold the developers accountable for content that has been long promised (SGRAs, Chat bubbles, etc.). We should not get angry about misunderstandings in communication between developers and consumers. This only serves to discourage more communication from the developers, and serves no real purpose in ensuring accountability.

then good game bioware. they tricked us with your word play. instead of talking to us like human beings and giving us respect, instead they use vague phrases that give the impression of one thing, yet mean something entirely different

you know my parents used to do this to me when I was growing up. it's nice to think Bioware is treating their customers like kids and not like adults who are paying for a product

There was no "misinterpretations" from the players. They know what was said. And it was not a statement which was subject to interpretation, but one which was simple..to the point and clear. If anyone is not understanding it, it is you. The players are not at fault here.

So players are defined solely as the ones who use your interpretation? Lovely argument that. I'm not the only one to have the interpretation that I used. I'll even dig through a couple days of threads to find that person and quote them to you if you call me a liar on this.

Let's be honest here, nobody on this forum has the data needed to make ANY interpretations as to what/why with any degree of accuracy.

That leaves you, once again, with opinion, presented as fact. Which, puts you on equal footing with the entire forum membership, myself included. The difference in our posts being, some of us enjoy the game and don't share your need for what is IMO an ongoing series of non-constructive (and sometimes hyperbolic) criticsims of the game and the game producer.

Besides, this entire thread is largely a rehash of a developer bash fest from last week, isn't it?

I can compare to "that game we should not name" and say it still has 9 mil folks paying a sub. Or about 5 in the West only, according to mmodata.net. Those players believe, somehow, that the game is worth 15 a month.

So, no, I don`t believe anyone that says "I can`t play SWTOR because of the sub". 2.4 mils were more than willing to pay it, from which 1.7 actually did. And it`s really hilarious that BW does.

I can believe, however, the ones that say this "isn`t worth one", for ANY reason... but every single of those reasons lies in Bioware`s backyard - because, ultimately, they developed the game.

There was no "misinterpretations" from the players. They know what was said. And it was not a statement which was subject to interpretation, but one which was simple..to the point and clear. If anyone is not understanding it, it is you. The players are not at fault here.

It doesn't necessarily make sense to us since we're probably somewhat more rational about our purchases, but there's a huge new market of gamers out there who won't pay for subscriptions but will spend huge amounts in cash shops. Farmville is one of the most popular games in the world and people spend stupid amounts of money in their cash shop. League of Legends subsists entirely on their cash shop. A game in the same genre, MMOs, called GW2 just released within the last week that intends to make lots of money off the cash shop, all the while not having a subscription.

Does their daily spending practice in video games make sense to me? No, so I can understand why you find the survey answers hard to believe. That doesn't change that these extreme impulse buyers are the new generation of gamers, the Facebook generation of gamers as it were.