You are responsible for your own actions, but does this give game publishers the right to promote their games as free?
Yes. Playing the game is free. Winning is not.
It seems free-to-play is a pretty accurate description.
Winning and all the other things sold in cash shops are integral to the playing experience. You can't say a movie is free to watch then try to charge people for audio since you technically said "watch", or people should rightfully question your honesty. If you want examples with the word "play", noone would call it Barcelona "playing" Real Madrid if the referees were known to favor Real Madrid, or if Real Madrid players had special shoes that made then twice as fast.
There is no playing for free in these games, you are just laboring to make the game more appealing to spenders.
Having a video card, and a monitor, and a chair to sit in, and a keyboard and mouse is "integral" to playing. Should they have to provide that for you as well?
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
Winning and all the other things sold in cash shops are integral to the playing experience. You can't say a movie is free to watch then try to charge people for audio since you technically said "watch", or people should rightfully question your honesty. If you want examples with the word "play", noone would call it Barcelona "playing" Real Madrid if the referees were known to favor Real Madrid, or if Real Madrid players had special shoes that made then twice as fast.
There is no playing for free in these games, you are just laboring to make the game more appealing to spenders.
This has not been my experience. Cash shops typically involve things like XP boosts, unique mounts, crafting materials, etc. None of which are "integral". I rarely buy things in cash shops but I still play all aspects of the game.
Winning and all the other things sold in cash shops are integral to the playing experience. You can't say a movie is free to watch then try to charge people for audio since you technically said "watch", or people should rightfully question your honesty. If you want examples with the word "play", noone would call it Barcelona "playing" Real Madrid if the referees were known to favor Real Madrid, or if Real Madrid players had special shoes that made then twice as fast.
There is no playing for free in these games, you are just laboring to make the game more appealing to spenders.
This has not been my experience. Cash shops typically involve things like XP boosts, unique mounts, crafting materials, etc. None of which are "integral". I rarely buy things in cash shops but I still play all aspects of the game.
Then you don't know what "playing" means.
LOL, I've been "playing" MMOs since they were first conceived. I've played every style and genre, countless betas, and I'm now creating my own with a team of world class developers. Pretty sure I know what "playing" means.
You want to play for free? Fine. The fact that you might have to shell out a couple bucks to get a different mount does not mean the developers are taking advantage of you. Use one of the many other mounts that are free. And I'm terribly sorry that the guy who dropped a fiver gets 3 hours of bonus XP, while you're stuck "not playing" the game to earn the same amount.
Winning and all the other things sold in cash shops are integral to the playing experience.
hmm .. how do you win if you are playing solo?
So things are integral to the playing experiences? If I can enjoy the game without buying, then whatever in the cash shop is not "integral" to anything.
What you enjoy doesn't change the definition of playing a video game. If
they really want they can call it "free potentially enjoyable
experience" followed by "even more potentially devastating experience" in
small letters.
So i play ... enjoy .. and pay nothing. Isn't that play for free? No one says i need to play the whole game to "play".
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Having a video card, and a monitor, and a chair to sit in, and a keyboard and mouse is "integral" to playing. Should they have to provide that for you as well?
"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
You want to play for free? Fine. The fact that you might have to shell out a couple bucks to get a different mount does not mean the developers are taking advantage of you. Use one of the many other mounts that are free. And I'm terribly sorry that the guy who dropped a fiver gets 3 hours of bonus XP, while you're stuck "not playing" the game to earn the same amount.
I don't think you know what "integral" means.
But *my* playing exists whenever I decide to "play" in my own definition, right? How YOU play is pretty much irrelevant to me.
Please do not respond to me, even if I ask you a question, its rhetorical.
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