You May Spend $199 To Unlock Everything In Marvel Heroes Before The Game Even Launches

10 responses to “You May Spend $199 To Unlock Everything In Marvel Heroes Before The Game Even Launches”

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   ashley

   January 10, 2013 at 10:38 pm

   This is exactly why the concept of “free to play” is utter bullshit.

   I know, I know. You don’t have to pay, so it is free in theory. Don’t buy any “additional content”, however, and you’ll probably end up with a sub-par character, sub-par stats, sub-par weapons, a sub-par inventory, etc. Which in turn will most likely lead to a sub-par in-game experience and constant domination by those who do sink large sums of money into the so-called free product.

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   1. 

      fryiee

      January 10, 2013 at 11:10 pm

      Except that’s not the case. All heroes are unlockable, and the vanity items are just that – for looks.

      Even if that’s not the case, how do you expect them to fund development, servers etc? With fairy dust? It’s a product. It has to be monetised. It is. You get the base product free. I still fail to see how people can be so against this.

      Keep in mind, I’m distinguishing from monetised F2P games, and Pay to Win games, where what you described goes on. But for the life of me, bar War Z (which actually made you pay for it), I can’t remember the last blatantly Pay2Win game.

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      1. 

         ashley

         January 10, 2013 at 11:28 pm

         I can’t remember the last blatantly Pay2Win game.

         Battlefield Play4Free.
         Wolfteam.
         Warrock.
         Rumble Fighter.
         Runes of Magic.
         Drakensang Online.
         Runescape.
         Battlefield Heroes.
         Brawl Busters.
         Microvolts.
         Need for Speed World.
         Age of Empires Online.
         City of Heroes.

         …the list goes on and on and on… and on.

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         1. 

            yourname

            January 11, 2013 at 12:19 am

            i dont remember runescape being pay to win as you cant use members weapons in f2p worlds

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         2. 

            fryiee

            January 11, 2013 at 12:37 am

            I’ve never heard of most of them.

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         3. 

            Jake

            January 11, 2013 at 1:31 am

            I don’t see how you can say City of Heroes was “Play to Win”. I had a sub to that game prior to it going F2P and then afterwards, never paid a dime for it. I had multiple max level characters with all the good enhancements.

            In fact, the only time I ever spent any money on that game after it went F2P was to buy some silly hats. I think it cost me 3 dollars.

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         4. 

            bluntbows

            January 11, 2013 at 1:55 am

            I agree with yourname.
            Free to play worlds have free content and free content only.
            If a member comes from their world wielding members items, they are unusable and offer no stat bonuses whatsoever.

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         5. 

            mikeockertz

            January 11, 2013 at 11:13 am

            World of Tanks was notoriously ptw for a long time. It’s apparently been cleaned up quite a bit since the introduction of the British tanks, but the MASSIVE amounts of grinding as well as the ‘silver bullet’ tank ammunition you had to pay for is what killed it for me. Then there was the absolute arty-whoring.

            Star Trek Online’s become much the same, though ptw is less of an issue to the shyte products for sale. Massive price increases on bog-standard gear, limiting item drops to ‘encourage’ players to buy gear to help them complete storyling tasks (required if you don’t want to grind for many hours at a time on some stupid missions!), releasing the same boring starship designs for the different vastly different classes (so much for the right ship for the right role!) and charging something like $40 a piece for them! Screw that. It’s just an exercise in gouging the player for crap products. And I have no problem with spending money on content, but make the content appealing to justify the stupidly excessive prices for them!

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2. 

   vanit

   January 10, 2013 at 10:46 pm

   When you compare it to the $25 mounts on the Blizzard store, it doesn’t seem so bad I guess. At the founding cost anyway =/

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3. 

   karachiking

   January 10, 2013 at 11:39 pm

   “deliver a bunch of in-game content for free”

   How did that make it into the article?

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