Would you pay for proper content? or Sulphite-be-gone: how to

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LMTR14 wrote:

many people here (esp. the fanboys) pay (=donate) for cosmetic mtx which have no game play effect, and in fact poe's entire business model is based on that baffling concept - which is as we can see with delve league affecting development cycles HARD and leads to a slew of problems, missed opportunities and bugs.

so, would you pay instead for proper content?

how about a business model where

a)
permanent modes have the core gameplay and regular events like flashback stuff and challenges, competitions etc that use existing assets but keep things fresh (some of these things might as well start you off on a new char in a new "economy" if that's your thing)

and

b)
premium paid temp leagues that feature expansion-sized new assets (size must be at least equal to masters combined with vaal) some or all components of which go to core later (that part doesn't change). things like that were called an "add-on" in the good old days of gaming.

the advantage of that model is that the massive income from the paid expansion leagues 1) allows for proper conception, implementation and testing and proper content expanding the depth of the gameplay by adding new layers of complexity instead of recycling the same old dumb "different buff over the monsters' heads" shtick and 2) takes away the pressure of ggg having to resort to cheap tactics like slowing the (casual and new) players down with limiters like sulphite in order to frustrate them with a lack of progress and make them start new characters in order to sell more skill mtx and stash tabs. a paid delve would not have any need for sulphite but could indeed for once put the focus on enjoyable gameplay instead of frustrating grind.

in my view, paid leagues would put the entire game on a new level if implemented properly.

tldr: people complain about lack of testing and the implementation or even existence of sulphite. this is how to satisfy them.

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LMTR14 wrote:

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Laskinaama wrote:

Sounds stupid and harmfull. Adding paid content to free to play game? Seriously? Sounds like it could be extremely harmfull to the game and its playerbase.

you pay to get it earlier. that is a very common business model. but yeah, this is the poe community, what was I thinking, of course what I said is "stupid"

and there's a whole world of difference between TRYING to make a working game without bugs and limiting factors like sulphite and map sustaining and what ggg does right now. and great game to cherry-pick some random detail to complain and outright ignore the general idea

but this thread has really done it, last time I made a constructive suggestion of any sort in this toxic place. keep playing your brainless bullshit, for me this is the last char I'll ever make as with people like you ggg couldn't improve the game even if they wanted to

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DTD_Hiro wrote:

I'd pay for a game that didn't hide massive amounts of content behind RNG.

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MarloStanfield wrote:

Yeah great idea because games with paid for content never have bugs in...